Quotes with works

Quotes 81 till 100 of 259.

  • Aaron Copland I hope my recordings of my own works won't inhibit other people's performances. The brutal fact is that one doesn't always get the exact tempo one wants, although one improves with experience.
    Classic Essays on Twentieth-Century Music
    Aaron Copland
    American composer and writer (1900 - 1990)
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  • James Thomson I know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosophical reflection, and the moral sentiment than the works of nature. Where can we meet such variety, such beauty, such magnificence?
    James Thomson
    Scottish poet (1700 - 1748)
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  • Sir James Matthew Barrie I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.
    Sir James Matthew Barrie
    British playwright (1860 - 1937)
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  • Arthur Miller I know that my works are a credit to this nation and I dare say they will endure longer than the McCarran Act.
    Arthur Miller
    American Dramatist (1915 - 2005)
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  • Anna Held I let my personal feelings take care of themselves. I find that works better.
    Anna Held
    Polish-born stage performer and singer (1872 - 1918)
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  • Ann Beattie I like a lot of Margaret Atwood, I like much of Alice Munro. Again, if you were to ask me about male writers, there's often a novel I admire, but not all of their works.
    Ann Beattie
    American novelist (1947 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Bruce Bueno de Mesquita I think almost all strategic problems could at least be improved upon if people would do more careful game-theoretic analysis. The reason game theory works in predicting is because people intuit how to behave game-theoretically.
    Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
    American political scientist (1946 - )
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  • Atom Egoyan I think the situation in Toronto is such that there are funding organizations which make it easy for a film to raise more money than it needs and very often that works against a film.
    Atom Egoyan
    Armenian-Canadian stage and film director and writer (1960 - )
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard I want to be a good example for my son. That's the best way to parent - to be the example of what you want to see in them. That's definitely how my parents parented and how my grandparents parented. And it works.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works. An assault upon a town is a bad thing; but starving it is still worse.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Henrik Ibsen I'm afraid for all those who'll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!
    Henrik Ibsen
    Norwegian dramatist (1828 - 1906)
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  • Alan Alda I'm an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger. What works for me is working out when it's useful to use that anger.
    Alan Alda
    American actor, director, screenwriter, and author. (1936 - )
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  • Barbara Kruger I'm an artist who works with pictures and words. Sometimes that stuff ends up in different kinds of sites and contexts which determine what it means and looks like.
    Barbara Kruger
    American artist (1945 - )
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  • Sylvester Stallone I'm not handsome in the classical sense. The eyes droop, the mouth is crooked, the teeth aren't straight, the voice sounds like a Mafioso pallbearer, but somehow it all works.
    Sylvester Stallone
    American actor and filmmaker (1946 - )
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  • Bert Lance I've always believed that if you had a fellow who works 150 percent of the time, he's going to beat a fellow who works something less than that.
    Bert Lance
    American businessman (1931 - 2013)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe If each one does their duty as an individual and if each one works in their own proper vocation, it will be right with the whole.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Hannah More If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part.
    Hannah More
    British Writer, Reformer, Philanthropist (1745 - 1833)
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  • George Bernard Shaw If in the library of your house you do not have the works of the ancient Greek writers, then you live in a house with no light.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Louise Lynn Hay If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.
    Louise Lynn Hay
    American writer of books on personal growth (1926 - 2017)
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