Works Quotes - page 5

Gossip. The more you talk about why people do things, the more ideas you have about how the world works. (Jane Smiley)
Young children seem to be learning who to share this toy with and figure out how it works, while adolescents seem to be exploring some very deep and profound questions: 'How should this society work? How should relationships among people work?' The exploration is: 'Who am I, what am I doing?' View quote
Alison Gopnik
The forgotten man... He works, he votes, generally he prays, but his chief business in life is to pay. View quote
William Graham Sumner
At the White House, everybody works for the same person. They're all part of the same company. But on Capitol Hill, they're all independent contractors. They all work for themselves. That's a formula for getting news. View quote
Bob Schieffer
Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility. View quote
Adam Clarke
Take some time to learn first aid and CPR. It saves lives, and it works. View quote
Bobby Sherman
For example, UNICEF works with governments to change legislation such as in India where a law was passed raising the age of compulsory school completion to keep children in school and away from the workplace for longer. View quote
Carol Bellamy
Every Teen Challenge ministry is responsible for raising its own finances, but we assist these works with finances, prayer and counseling, especially overseas in areas such as Siberia, Africa, South America. View quote
David Wilkerson
But also, it's a wonderful thing for children to see the birthing of puppies, to see nature at its best when it works and to have the experience of the puppies. View quote
Erika Slezak
There's an institution here called the National Sound Archive, and there's a character who works there, Paul Wilson. He takes a very special interest in the history of the music and advised Martin Davidson of the existence of these tapes. View quote
Evan Parker
And currently, there are four to five new works in the pipeline for upcoming celebrations such as the Sydney 2000 Olympics, Australian Federation, my 50th Birthday, and Sydney Dance Company's 25th Anniversary. (Graeme Murphy)
As I had collaborated with visual artists before whether on installations, on performance pieces, in the context of theatre works and as I had taught for a time in art colleges the idea of writing music in response to painting was not alien. View quote
Gavin Bryars
When people go through something rough in life, they say, 'I'm taking it one day at a time.' Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works. View quote
Hannibal Buress
There's a statistical theory that if you gave a million monkeys typewriters and set them to work, they'd eventually come up with the complete works of Shakespeare. Thanks to the Internet, we now know this isn't true. View quote
Ian Hart
You find the most important thing that really grabs you, and put it right up top. Don't bury the lead. Put it at the top. Best thing to do. Never go wrong that way. It's an immutable law of journalism. It just always works. View quote
Kurt Loder
I love directing. It's where my heart is, and it's the way my mind works. View quote
Melissa Joan Hart
So what really works? Treatments in jail do some good, but it's mostly too late: finding a family and a job or just growing older make most prisoners eventually give up crime. View quote
Polly Toynbee
I would advise my young colleagues, the composers of symphonies, to drop in sometimes at the kindergarten, too. It is there that it is decided whether there will be anybody to understand their works in twenty years' time. View quote
Zoltan Kodaly
The western nations of Europe, who now so immeasurably surpass their former savage progenitors, and stand at the summit of civilization, owe little or none of their superiority to direct inheritance from the old Greeks, though they owe much to the written works of that wonderful people. View quote
Charles Darwin
I don't discuss works in progress... View quote
Tom Clancy
When one read's Kierkegaard's profound analyses of anxiety and despair or Nietzsche's amazingly acute insights into the dynamics of resentment and the guilt and hostility which accompany repressed emotional powers, one might pinch oneself to realize that one is reading works written in the last century and not some new contemporary psychological analysis. (Rollo May)
Reason works better when emotions are present; the person sees sharper and more accurately when his emotions are engaged. View quote
Rollo May
Man is a special being, and if left to himself, in an isolated condition, would be one of the weakest creatures; but associated with his kind, he works wonders. View quote
Daniel Webster
If we would succeed in works of the imagination, we must offer a mild morality in the midst of rigid manners; but where the manners are corrupt, we must consistently hold up to view an austere morality. View quote
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
The greatest works of art speak to us without knowing us. View quote
Alain de Botton