Works Quotes - page 4

Astronomers have a common ground for discussion with musicians in the harmony of the stars and musical concords in tetrads and triads of the fourth and the fifth, and with geometricians in the subject of vision; and in all other sciences many points, perhaps all, are common so far as the discussion of them is concerned. But the actual undertaking of works which are brought to perfection by the hand and its manipulation is the function of those who have been specially trained to deal with a single art. (Vitruvius)
In the vaunted works of Art, The master-stroke is Nature's part. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives. View quote
Louise L. Hay
The creative person should have no other biography than his works. View quote
B. Traven
If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands? View quote
Milton Berle
How pleasant it is to respect people! When I see books, I am not concerned with how the authors loved or played cards; I see only their marvelous works. View quote
Anton Chekhov
The desire to sacrifice an entire lifetime to the noblest of ideals serves no purpose if one works alone. View quote
Che Guevara
Many myths and fairy tales tell of a prince, who has been turned into an animal or a monster by sorcery, being saved by a woman. This is a symbolic representation of the development of the animus toward consciousness. Often the heroine may ask no questions of her mysterious lover, or she is only allowed to meet him in darkness. She is to save him through her blind faith and love, but this never works. She always breaks her promise and is only able to find her beloved again after a long quest. View quote
Marie-Louise von Franz
The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit. View quote
Ansel Adams
To know the mighty works of God to comprehend His wisdom and majesty and power to appreciate, in degree, the wonderful working of His laws, surely all this must be a pleasing and acceptable mode of worship to the Most High to whom ignorance can not be more grateful than knowledge. View quote
Nicolaus Copernicus
When works of art are presented like rare butterflies on the walls, they're decontextualized. We admire their beauty, and I have nothing against that, per se. But there is more to art than that. (Hans Haacke)
A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist. View quote
Louis Nizer
The study of Euler's works will remain the best school for the different fields of mathematics and nothing else can replace it. View quote
Carl Friedrich Gauss
The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works. View quote
James Joyce
We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground. View quote
Mark Twain
Sorcery works against Nature, magic works with it. View quote
Avram Davidson
I don't really deeply feel that anyone needs an airtight reason for quoting from the works of writers he loves, but it's always nice, I'll grant you, if he has one. View quote
J. D. Salinger
Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, But beautiful old people are works of art. View quote
Eleanor Roosevelt
If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing. View quote
Marc Chagall
I was guilty of judging capitalism by its operations and socialism by its hopes and aspirations; capitalism by its works and socialism by its literature. View quote
Sidney Hook
Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying. (Ronald Reagan)
We need to kind of refresh our fear in order to refresh our understanding of how a safe place works. View quote
Andrew Pyper
I believe in broken, fractured, complicated narratives, but I believe in narratives as a vehicle for truth, not simply as a form of entertainment, though I love entertainment, but also a way of conveying what needs to be conveyed about the works that I care about. View quote
Stephen Greenblatt
Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also. View quote
Charles Cooley
I can draw pencil lines to show something is moving, but if I'm writing, I struggle with how to write it. The boy ran down the hallway? The boy ran quickly down the hallway? The boy ran down the marble hallway? I agonize over the words. So my editor works very hard. I'm lucky to have her. View quote
Brian Selznick