Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.
Willa Cather

I think maybe chance works better in a situation like music because music exists over a period of time, and you don't maintain constantly the you can't refer back from one area to another area.
Robert Rauschenberg

They decided to establish a museum of modern art where works by contemporary artists would be shown. Mother was viewed as a very progressive person, and not everybody liked the paintings she bought.
David Rockefeller

The conventional notions of art have changed, and a lot of things done today are considered works of art that would have been rejected in the past.
David Rockefeller

A museum has to renew its collection to be alive, but that does not mean we give on important old works.
David Rockefeller

I love sneakers on a girl. I don't know why, but I guess it's because I'm still a young. I really like just like a girl who has style - a girl who does her own thing, is unique in what she's wearing and works what she's got.
Chris Brown

They thought that I did conceive there was a difference between them and Mr. Cotton... I might say they might preach a covenant of works as did the apostles, but to preach a covenant of works and to be under a covenant of works is another business.
Anne Hutchinson

One may preach a covenant of grace more clearly than another... But when they preach a covenant of works for salvation, that is not truth.
Anne Hutchinson

The experience of ages has shown that a man who works on the land is purer, nobler, higher, and more moral... Agriculture should be at the basis of everything. That's my idea.
Nikolai Gogol

I don't think it works to just be mad at them - Maxine Waters out ranting and kicking down the doors. It would be so easy to dismiss you and marginalize you.
Maxine Waters

I get extra time to take the test because of my ADD. Everybody's brains works differently and I just need longer for things to register.
Mary-Kate Olsen

Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking.
Ludwig von Mises

I don't think about the styles. I write whatever comes out and I use whatever kind of instrumentation works for those songs.
Lenny Kravitz

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

One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages.
Naguib Mahfouz

My countrymen have the right to shake my hand and talk to me if they so wish. Don't forget that their support and their reading of my works is what brought me the Nobel prize.
Naguib Mahfouz

In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
Naguib Mahfouz

But the shortest works are always the best.
Jean de La Fontaine

Black Books adheres to a more old fashioned, traditional sitcom format, which I think works, because in its own way, it's quite theatrical.
Dylan Moran

Our works, whatever they may be, derive from our incapacity to kill or to kill ourselves.
Emile M. Cioran