Works Quotes - page 2

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works. (Oscar Wilde)
The leader works in the open and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
We all sing about the things we're thinking; musicals are about expressing those emotions that you can't talk about. It works a real treat. View quote
Anthony Stewart Head
It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards. View quote
Lewis Carroll
Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works. View quote
Carl Sagan
Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon. View quote
Terry Pratchett
Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence. View quote
Louis Pasteur
Logic works, metaphysics contemplates. View quote
Joseph Joubert
I have always tried to hide my efforts and wished my works to have a light joyousness of springtime which never lets anyone suspect the labors it has cost me. View quote
Henri Matisse
To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still. (Georg Christoph Lichtenberg)
The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.' View quote
Barack Obama
Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain. View quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Focused, hard work is the real key to success. Keep your eyes on the goal, and just keep taking the next step towards completing it. If you aren't sure which way to do something, do it both ways and see which works better. View quote
John D. Carmack
One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day. View quote
Jean-Paul Sartre
The greatest works of admiration, And all the fair examples of renown. Out of distress and misery are grown. View quote
Samuel Daniel
The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
On the molecular scale, you find it's reasonable to have a machine that does a million steps per second, a mechanical system that works at computer speeds. View quote
K. Eric Drexler
I like looking at the characters. Seeing them always brings up some voice or attitude. I am much more visual, and that works so much better than having someone tell me what the character is all about. View quote
Frank Welker
In the deepest heart of all of us there is a corner in which the ultimate mystery of things works sadly. (William James)
Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them. View quote
Blaise Pascal
... vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave. View quote
Edward Gibbon
In doing good, we are generally cold, and languid, and sluggish and of all things afraid of being too much in the right. But the works of malice and injustice are quite in another style. They are finished with a bold, masterly hand touched as they are with the spirit of those vehement passions that call forth all our energies, whenever we oppress and persecute. View quote
Edmund Burke
I believe that we form our own lives, that we create our own reality, and that everything works out for the best. View quote
Jim Henson