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My books and other works are my legacy, and it's a great comfort to know that mine is a legacy of pleasure for other people. — Colleen McCullough

The day is always (hers or) his, who works in it with serenity and great aims. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Bronx are great. I have a lot of respect for those guys, they know more about music and how that world works than most of the players out there. — Coeur De Pirate

Go is no Erlang, Smalltalk or Scheme, nothing pure. But it works great and is fun! — Frank Muller

Great wine works wonders and is itself one — Edward Steinberg

The works of the great poets have never yet been read by mankind, for only great poets can read the. — Henry David Thoreau

To swipe the immortal lines uttered by Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon, a great mystery should take the lid off life and let [you] look at the works. — Dashiell Hammett

Great works are often quiet works. — James Martin

I think it's always hard for people to get their head around the fact that populist, commercial films can also actually be great works of art. — Helen Mirren

Good works lean on each other.
Great works lean on Faith and Hope.
Lasting works lean on Love. — Jackson Badgenoone

The great works are produced in such an ecstasy of love that they must always be unworthy of it, however great their worth otherwise. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I've been doing a lot of yoga to help with my running, recovery, and mental clarity. It works great for me. — Angie Martinez

Great writers leave us not just their works, but a way of looking at things. — Elizabeth Janeway

An acquaintance with the great works of art and thought is the only real insurance against the barbarism of the time. — Edmund Wilson

When I think of Tokyo Story, yeah, it is like a novella. That doesn't mean it's not great. Some of my favorite Tolstoy works are his novellas. — Paul Auster

A lot of great authors are published before their time. That's not wrong; it's just the way it works. — Jonathan Galassi

Reading poetry and reading the great works of the canon that we were reading in the '60s and the '70s and '80s was mind altering. — Anne Lamott

The only thing that makes advice great is when you apply it and it works so try, try try. — Rob Liano

It (Dr.DucksAxWax) works great ... I love it ... — Lowell Levinger

Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher. — Ty Cobb

Here I find a puzzle of great beauty: Canada works well in practice, but just doesn't work out in theory. — B.W. Powe

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works. — John N. Mitchell

We were called, male and female, to do great works with separate approaches and separate assignments. — James E. Faust

I hate performers who debase great works of art; I long for their annihilation. — George Bernard Shaw

All great works of art are trophies of victorious struggle. — Julius Meier-Graefe

The great works belong to no one nation, no one cultural tradition even. They are universal. — George Brandis

Management works in the system; leadership works on the system. — Stephen Covey

I want to say that, in general, when it works, open adoption is great. — Jennifer Gilmore

Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men. — Gerald R. Ford

I think that China has many outstanding authors, and their great works should also be recognised by the world. — Mo Yan

I think we all want to know where we came from and how we fit into the world, but some of us need to know how it all works in great detail. — George Smoot

When you do great things, Expect greater things. None of your works are done in vain. You will achieve what you set forth to accomplish! — Amaka Imani Nkosazana

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door. — Albert Camus

All the great things we know have come to us from neurotics. It is they who have founded religions and created great works of art. — Marcel Proust

I am a great foe of favoritism in public life, in private life, and even in the delicate relationship of an author to his works. — Joseph Conrad

Better is the man of humble standing that works for himself than one who plays the great man but lacks bread. — Solomon

Wouldn't it be great if you could put all the published works online? The Internet Archive is trying to become useful as a modern-day digital library. — Brewster Kahle

Would you like to know the great drama of my life? It is that I have put my genius into my life ... I have put only my talent into my works. — Oscar Wilde

To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act. — Anatole France

Reading great works of literature, discovering poetry, and listening to the best composers are all ways that we learn to love the Creator more. — Jennifer A. Marshall

Technology is great...when it works. — Bobby Darnell

Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them. — Joseph Joubert

I just want to put some positive stuff out there. If it works, great. If it doesn't, no problem. — Kevin James

The Bassbone works great in the studio or on the live stage. Throw it in your gig bag and take it wherever you go. — Victor Wooten

When I hear of the destruction of a species, I feel just as if all the works of some great writer have perished. — Theodore Roosevelt

Everyone would like to be on Broadway, cause if a show works, you make a great deal of money and it allows you to write other shows. — Stephen Sondheim

Great team can accomplish great works. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance. — Samuel Johnson

And earth was given back to earth, to mingle with the rest of the stuff the great workman works withal. — George MacDonald

By being impatient, matters are damaged and great works cannot be done — Yamamoto Tsunetomo

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives. — Louise L. Hay

Everyone works because everyone is important." To me this sounded like a great way to spin forced labor. — Demitria Lunetta

I've got Flossie dog, and she is great. She and I are still in love, 14 years. That's a relationship that works. — Drew Barrymore

Embrace the moment, your life will be whatever you want to make of it. Be inspired to do great works. You aren't finished yet. Go for your goals! — Sereda Aleta Dailey

Great works of the imagination are not produced quickly nor do they take quick effect on the popular mind. — John Dos Passos

Until one expands his imagination, abilities and capacity to do and receive, he will always have the crumbs from those who dare to do great works — Bernard Kelvin Clive

But can they [great works] get rid of the worm that lies gnawing at the roots of my heart? No, never. — Edvard Munch

The great thing about capitalism is that it's a system that works. — Danny Meyer

My unusual beauty tip is that I often use Vaseline to take my make up off. It works great and is good for sensitive skin. — Rachel Bilson

If you go out with a girl and they say she has a great personality, she's ugly. If they tell you a guy works hard, he can't play a lick. Same thing. — Charles Barkley

even the Pyramids and other "great works" were as ephemeral as a castle of sand on the beach at Brighton. — Dan Simmons

At times I come across works of mine which are soundly done and really in my style, and at such moments I find great solace. — Camille Pissarro

On the path of actions, great heart is the chief recommendation; on that works, a great head. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men. — Mahatma Gandhi

The reader's feedback is the muse for great written works of art. — Sarah Scott

The works of great poets have never been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them. — Henry David Thoreau

I desire to leave to the men that come after me a remembrance of me in good works. — Alfred The Great

Love works not for profit nor reward; yet God has ordained that great gain shall be the certain result of every labor of love. — Ellen G. White

Being a superhero is great. Everyone should try it. — Kate Bishop

We want to do sweaters for dogs and call it 'Bark Jacobs.' If it works, great. If it doesn't, we'll drop it and do something different. — Marc Jacobs

I think USA has a great handle on programming and content. They know their viewers and they know what works ... Character driven programming! — Tim DeKay

I have heard that nothing gives an Author so great Pleasure, as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors. — Benjamin Franklin

All great works of literature either dissolve a genre or invent one. — Charles J. Shields

To great writers, finished works weigh lighter than those fragments on which they labor their entire lives. — Walter Benjamin

Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry. — Eugenio Montale

I think capital punishment works great. Every killer you kill never kills again. — Bill Maher

Every great soul had great mentors. — Lailah Gifty Akita

All of the great Disney works took works that were in the public domain and remixed them. — Lawrence Lessig

A great product isn't just a collection of features. It's how it all works together. — Tim Cook

The great familiar musical works are always greeted by the audiences as ever welcome and beloved friends. — Ignacy Jan Paderewski

The proof of love is in the works. Where love exists, it works great things. But when it ceases to act, it ceases to exist. — Pope Gregory I

Less disappointing than life, great works of art do not begin by giving us all their best. — Marcel Proust

Sometimes great, banned works defy the censor's description and impose themselves on the world - 'Ulysses,' 'Lolita,' the 'Arabian Nights.' — Salman Rushdie

Many writers lay very great stress upon some definite moral purpose, at which they profess to aim their works. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

I never pretended to have a great voice. It works and I can carry a tune. If you have a good song, that's about all that's required. — Willie Nelson

All great literary works influence us as writers, not their stories as much as their storytelling ability. — Michael Scott

If the show is great, it doesn't matter who wrote it. It doesn't matter who takes charge when you're filming it. It just matters if it works or not. — Chris Jericho

The mightiest works have been accomplished by men who have somehow kept their ability to dream great dreams. — Walter Russell Bowie

Great works are done when one is not calculating and thinking. — D.T. Suzuki

Few of the great works of ancient Greek literature are easy reading. — Gilbert Murray

The Christian life doesn't work because we are such great followers. It works because Christ is such a great Leader. — David McGee

I can't go into Oklahoma without thinking about Larry Clark's photography book 'Tulsa.' It's a great book about how life works. — Buzz Osborne

Our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends more upon the depth of our sympathy than upon our understanding. — Helen Keller

When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created. — Billy Joel

You think you have this great idea that everyone's going to come join, but that's not how it works. — Sam Altman

The way Hollywood works, you're never sure if their first thought is to make a great film and honor the material or just another business property. — Paul Dano

Take advantage of this great opportunity in your life to live it well, to be good, to have good works, and to influence other people for good. — David B. Haight

All great works start with mistake. Ain't no exception in this fact. — Sandra Newman

Great men don't strive for greatness, they
simply do great works. — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

You have a great passion for great works. — Lailah Gifty Akita