Top 414 Works Quotes

Everything vanishes around me, and works are born as if out of the void. Ripe, graphic fruits fall off. My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will.
Paul Klee
I don’t have to worry No matter what they do to it, it works.
Virgil Thomson
There are lots of Linux users who don’t care how the kernel works, but only want to use it. That is a tribute to how good Linux is.
Linus Torvalds
The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
P. J. O’Rourke
To make a film like ‘The Grandmaster,’ I know I’m not going to make just a standard kung-fu film; it’s not going to be just tricks or like wire works. So I spent seven years on the road interviewing different schools and a lot of real grandmasters from Chinese martial arts.
Wong Kar-wai
He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.
John Ruskin
The ‘Tron’ fans have a real passion. They know their stuff and what works and why it works. It is more than a movie: it is a philosophy.
Cindy Morgan
The proud make every man their adversary by pitting the

The proud make every man their adversary by pitting their intellects, opinions, works, wealth, talents, or any other worldly measuring device against others.
Ezra Taft Benson
I don’t think most of Congress understands how economics works.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.
Aldous Huxley
The taxpayer – that’s someone who works for the federal government but doesn’t have to take the civil service examination.
Ronald Reagan
The single best machine to measure trust is a human being. We haven’t figured out a metric that works better than our own sort of, like, ‘There’s something fishy about you.’
Simon Sinek
Owners of valuable works of art don’t give to institutions that don’t provide good air conditioning and have good shows.
Stanley Marcus
The attention of a traveller, should be particularly turned, in the first place, to the various works of Nature, to mark the distinctions of the climates he may explore, and to offer such useful observations on the different productions as may occur.
William Bartram
I don’t care if you marry someone who works at the grocery store or someone who is a director of a company; everyone should have their own identity.
Khloe Kardashian
No other terms than unconditional and immediate surrender. I propose to move immediately upon your works.
Ulysses S. Grant
It sounds super cliche, but staying true to yourself and what you are works.
Shane Dawson
My autobiography would be ‘Loves music, loves art, works hard, writes music, tours the world, makes records.’
Steven Wilson
I’ve had a little plastic surgery. I’ve had a little lipo. I’ve had a little Botox. And you know what? None of it works. None of it.
Jamie Lee Curtis
These works brought all these people here. Something should be done to get them at work again.
Edward VIII
That’s the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it.
Alberto Giacometti
The dynamic with social is you tend not to have products with 30% market share. It’s all or nothing. Email works because we have open standards that let you communicate across any email client.
Aaron Levie
Cricket needs brightening up a bit. My solution is to let the players drink at the beginning of the game, not after. It always works in our picnic matches.
Paul Hogan
The hospital industry to this day works its tail off to do the right thing.
Rick Scott
Napster works because people who love music share and participate.
Shawn Fanning
That’s my only goal. Surround myself with funny people, and make sure everyone has a good time and works hard.
Joe Rogan
Laziness works. And the simple way to incorporate its health benefits into your life is simply to take a nap.
Tom Hodgkinson
My roommate at Yale University introduced me to the auteur theory of filmmaking. I soon became a big fan of the works of John Ford, Kenji Mizoguchi, Ernst Lubitsch, and Stan Brakhage. I then decided to make my own films!
Lloyd Kaufman
Nature works with five polymers. Only five polymers. In the natural world, life builds from the bottom up, and it builds in resilience and multiple uses.
Janine Benyus
Someday I suspect, when Jesus has definitely got me for a sunbeam, my works may be adequately assessed.
Noel Coward
I do not want my new works to be generated in a market or audience of any kind.
Vincent Gallo
Some Google employees have their self-driving vehicles take them to work. These car robots don’t look like something from ‘The Jetsons’; the driverless features on these cars are a bunch of sensors, wires, and software. This technology ‘works.’
Tyler Cowen
The fact is I’m an opportunist. I’ll take materials around me, materials on my table, and work with them as I’m searching for an idea that works.
Frank Gehry
My mom is a public school teacher and works with third grade students.
Jane McGonigal
Straight girls like me. They flirt with me to get whatever they want. Of course it works.
Lea DeLaria
I eat healthy when I can; I eat a burger when I want, and I work out. You have to live with the routine that keeps your body the healthiest, and that’s what I do – I don’t change it for a swimsuit shoot. You have to figure out what works with your body the best.
Gigi Hadid
At the end of the day, you can have all the talent in the world. But if you don’t put in the work, nothing works. The engine doesn’t start going. It’s a car without gas.
Ryan Garcia
You want there to be some magical answer that will just make everything clear and easy to understand, and that’s just not the way love works.
Chris Harrison
Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote le

Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don’t they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.
Will Rogers
NASA works very well with different election organizations because we’re all voting from different counties.
Shannon Walker
My fear in converting it to 3-D is that people will say, ‘Oh, it’s the 3-D ‘Clash of the Titans.’ No, it’s ‘Clash of the Titans,’ the movie, and then, on top of that, you have the 3-D conversion. The 2-D movie works as well as the 3-D movie. I want to make sure that people like the 2-D version.
Louis Leterrier
One must never forget that life is unfair. But sometimes, with a bit of luck, this works in your favour.
Peter Mayle
It isn’t generally the case that liberals dominate entire hierarchies. That isn’t generally how it works, because the hierarchies are usually set up so that conservatives fill up the hierarchies; it’s in the nature of hierarchy.
Jordan Peterson
Of course, every artist has ‘minor works’ that they do, but I don’t think I have any ‘minor disciplines.’ Each discipline I approach as a major undertaking that I put my whole self into.
Patti Smith
I have a lot of respect for people who are great at ad-libbing and for writers and directors who are able to create a scene in which that works. Judd Apatow is fantastic at it. But as an audience member, I like the sound of something that’s been written – I like it to sound written.
Aaron Sorkin
I, therefore, O Caesar, do not publish this work, merely prefixing my name to a treatise which of right belongs to others, nor think of acquiring reputation by finding fault with the works of any one.
Vitruvius
More books, more racing and more foolishness with cars and motorcycles are in the works.
Brock Yates
People think Selena and The Weeknd are dating for publicity, and that’s not how things works. These are real human beings. They don’t just date to get more famous. They’re already the most famous artists!
Madison Beer
I’m a capitalist. I believe in capitalism. But capitalism only works if you have safety nets to deal with people who are naturally left behind and brutalized by it.
Thomas Friedman
It was 1975. I had spent the year at the Boston Museum School doing some very bizarre performance works. The last one included going to the North Magnetic Pole and spending all of my money.
Alex Grey
You know, there are artists who are 35 and up that still make rap and that still works for them. I don’t know if I want to be that guy.
Drake
There is a myth that Rahman sir only works at night. He works through the day and night, so it depends what time slot you end up working with him. Besides nights, I have sung for him in the morning and at noon, too. I think he’s the first composer to work at night, and that’s why it’s spoken about so much.
Chinmayi
Looking good is a commitment to yourself and to others. Wigs, killer heels, Pilates, even fillers – whatever works for you, honey.
Iman
A building is hard to judge. It takes many years to find out whether it works. It’s not as simple as asking the people in the office whether they like it.
Helmut Jahn
Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
Louise L. Hay
The best part about being in your thirties is you know what works for you.
Sunil Chhetri
When you really break it down to the way the world works, we’re all little humans floating on a gas ball in the middle of space. That’s the reality of our situation. And we’ve created these concepts and constructs that move us away from that.
Lauren Jauregui
The major reason why Instagram works is that you can follow anyone out there and start following their photos immediately.
Kevin Systrom
If I have to jump six feet to get the same thing that you have to jump two feet for – that’s how racism works.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
My parents have a ridiculous work ethic; my dad just works, works, works, works, works. I think it would be hard to find a guy who’s logged more hours than that guy.
Bill Burr
I think what actually works best is local-level individual targeting of key leadership nodes.
John Abizaid
Management by objective works – if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don’t.
Peter Drucker