Top 100 Quotes About It Works
#1. Your culture has become sophisticated, like a computer, or a drug that you take for a headache. You can use it, but you cannot explain how it works. Certainly not to girls who stack up their firewood against the side of the house.
Chris Cleave
#2. If political cartoonists continue to rely on newspapers, we may be in serious trouble. It's a very transferable form of journalism, though - it works great on Web sites.
David Horsey
#4. Every year I try to pitch a show, and I try to do something outside of YouTube, and sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't.
Shane Dawson
#5. The last thing we'll hear is some scientist saying 'It works!'
Jon Stewart
#6. If you repeat something enough times, you will learn it. That's how it works!
Deyth Banger
#7. I am not against being pragmatic, because it is pragmatic to make a good pass, not a bad one. If I have the ball, what do I do with it? Could anybody argue that a bad solution like just kicking it away is pragmatic just because, sometimes, it works by accident?
Arsene Wenger
#8. My approach has been that a player with determination and a willingness to work harder than anyone else can accomplish anything. It's a simple formula. I've found it works.
Steve Nash
#9. That's the way it happens - some characters you set out to use, some are happy accidents. As long as it works, it doesn't really matter how you got them.
Kurt Busiek
#10. That saying, about how you always kill the thing you love, well, it works both ways.
Chuck Palahniuk
#11. I don't specifically sit down to write a Motley Crue song, so for me, that's how it works. The things that sound like they might be Crue, I put aside on my hard drive and keep them in that pile.
Tommy Lee
#12. I'm on the mirror diet. You eat all your food in front of a mirror in the nude. It works pretty good, though some of the fancier restaurants don't go for it.
Roseanne Barr
#13. First, if you love the Kindle and it works for you, it isn't problematic, and you should ignore all my criticisms and read the way you want to read.
Nicholson Baker
#14. But then we have to leave, have to. It's always been that way, and it will always be that way, Jane. That's just.. how it works
James Patterson
#15. Writing is flying in dreams. When you remember. When you can. When it works. It's that easy.
Neil Gaiman
#16. You can close your mind to things if something is important enough. It works very well. You make yourself very small, shut your eyes tight and say a big word over and over again until you're save.
Tove Jansson
#17. We need to learn to treat our own brain better - understanding how it works will help us do that.
Richard Bandler
#18. As for the (Ballon d'Or) criteria, I'm not really sure how it works. Sometimes it's a World Cup year, sometimes it isn't. Let them vote. For me, there is no doubt as to who is the best, year after year.
David Villa
#19. Adult Swim's philosophy is, 'Put it on the air and if it works, great. If it doesn't, take it down and try again.' It's a refreshing way to do TV, I think.
Eric Wareheim
#20. If I were straight and I were trying to seduce a woman, I could do it just by standing up at the table when she came back from the bathroom. It works. Every time I do that, all the straight men are sitting at the table and their wives are kicking them. "Look at that!" "You never do that for me!"
Tom Ford
#21. Sometimes that happens. Children can be your heartache. But that doesn't matter, you have to go on and have them," she said. "It works out.
Barbara Kingsolver
#22. There is no reason why anyone should understand how it works ... and of course no reason why anyone should care ... unless you are curious, in which case I love you, for curiosity about the world and all its corners is a beautiful thing.
Stephen Fry
#23. I felt more like a scientist exploring nature, and Windows was my environment. You don't pass judgment on nature; you just explain how it works.
Charles Petzold
#24. As you love yourself, life loves you back. I don't think it has a choice either. I can't explain how it works, but I know it to be true.
Kamal Ravikant
#25. I've been fascinated over the years by the way refrains work. Think, say, of the refrains in Yeats' ballads. Ideally, each time the refrain comes back in a poem, it is both the same and different. It works by counterpoint and reiteration. It accrues meaning.
Edward Hirsch
#27. Nobody knows much about women, not even Freud, not even women themselves.
But it's like electricity: you don't need to know how it works to get a shock on the fingers.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#28. He's safe as long as he can laugh, he thinks, and it works pretty fair.
Ken Kesey
#29. Most injuries require chiropractic care. It works better for me than anything else.
Jerry Rice
#30. Love's pure free joy when it works, but when it goes bad you pay for the good hours at loan-shark prices.
David Mitchell
#31. Almost every comedy you see is about people making all wrong choices and making all the errors of judgement possible. Good comedy is when it works on this scale. Because it is psychologically very real.
Colin Firth
#32. I've noticed it a lot. I'm not someone who revises. It's always the first movement, it's that. It's an instinct. Either it works straight away, or it won't ever work.
Amelie Nothomb
#33. The model of Coca-Cola is local, whether it's investing, partnering, sourcing, producing, or selling. We market and distribute locally; we pay taxes locally. And it works.
Muhtar Kent
#34. I don't see anything wrong with a cell phone. That's great. You have a flat tire in the middle of the night; it works better than digging in your pocket for a quarter and looking for a payphone eight miles down the road.
Billy Bob Thornton
#35. Music is made up out of these building blocks. Studying how these blocks go together and what they consist of and the math of how it works - it's all the same stuff; it's just different aesthetics that we're talking about.
Flea
#36. Memory is always in art, even when it works involuntarily.
Harold Bloom
#37. 'Baskets' isn't a CBS show. Nothing against that, but this is an off-kilter show on cable that the channel lets you do interesting things. Look, if it works, it works. And if it doesn't, it's just a miniseries.
Zach Galifianakis
#38. I think it's often assumed that the role of poetry is to comfort, but for me, poetry is the great unsettler. It questions the established order of the mind. It is radical, by which I don't mean that it is either leftwing or rightwing, but that it works at the roots of thinking.
Alice Oswald
#39. It is fundamentally crazy to build wind farms out at sea. But it works!
Tulsi Tanti
#40. It's an old trick now, God knows, but it works every time. At the very moment women start to expand their place in the world, scientific studies deliver compelling reasons for them to stay home.
Mary Kay Blakely
#41. Divide in yourself the mechanical from the conscious, see how little there is of the conscious, how seldom it works, and how strong is the mechanical - mechanical attitudes, mechanical intentions, mechanical thoughts, mechanical desires.
P.D. Ouspensky
#43. I want to say that, in general, when it works, open adoption is great.
Jennifer Gilmore
#44. If it works, it works,' Kat told him.
'And if it doesn't?' he asked.
She looked at him. 'If it doesn't, then I've heard Monaco has the nicest prisons in all of Europe.'
'It does,' both Hamish and Angus said in unison.
And with that, it was decided.
Ally Carter
#45. I don't know how it works, but God, in His love, is able to take our messes and make them clean.
Gary Chapman
#46. I've never meditated for a moment in my life. I don't know how it works. But one of the things you have to do to put yourself in the meditating mode is stop narrating yourself to yourself.
Aleksandar Hemon
#47. The cloud computing model may be a wonderful system when it works, but it's a nightmare when it fails. And the more people who come to depend upon it, the bigger the nightmare.
Jamais Cascio
#48. As far as single payer, it works in Canada. It works incredibly well in Scotland.
Donald Trump
#49. I use minimal software to make my music - a wav editor and a calculator for my beats to make sure everything falls on mathematical precision. If you were just mapping this out visually, it works by math. I guess it's slightly engineering influenced.
Girl Talk
#50. In Latin you say: "Repetita iuvant - to repeat is beneficial". The fewer changes made in a country, the more often I repeat my messages. And it works.
Mario Draghi
#51. I use mainly products by Dermalogica. They have specialized formulas to target specific skin needs, which I like. It works well for my sensitive skin.
Joanne Froggatt
#52. Human excellence means nothing Unless it works with the consent of God.
Euripides
#53. As an entrepreneur in India put it: 'Indians have learned from painful experience that the state does not work on behalf of the people. More often than not, it works on behalf of itself.
Thomas Sowell
#54. Enforcement isn't about big government or small government. It's about whether government works and who it works for.
Elizabeth Warren
#55. I have very little experience with dating websites. My feeling toward dating websites is what most people's is: If it works, great. If you're serious and legitimate about it and know what you're looking for, then from what I hear, it's definitely effective.
Nev Schulman
#56. I'm interested in the structure of art and how it works. And the content is also interesting, but I don't want to keep the same structure and just plug in new content every week.
David Rees
#57. This drink has a magical power. It strengthens the weak, and revives those who have fainted. Those tired after work and physical activity can return their life forces by this drink much sooner than by nourishment ... It works as a diuretic, an appetizer, an antitoxin.
Carl Linnaeus
#58. My theory on politics is no one really knows how it works, so I choose not to comment on stuff too outside of my league.
Kyle Kinane
#59. See yourself living in abundance and you will attract it. It always works, it works every time with every person
Bob Proctor
#60. In fact, it works the other way: A government as big and bossy as this one is maintained on the backs of the middle class and those who hope to join it.
Mitch Daniels
#61. Don't ever call a guy first. The thing they want the most is whatever they can't have. It sounds really juvenile, but it works.
Taylor Swift
#62. My family has been in politics a long time in Los Angeles. We very much believe we are elected to represent the people. I mean, I am to give voice to, you know, the over half a million people I represent in my congressional district. I mean, that's the way it works.
Janice Hahn
#64. Sri Lanka is a part of my background: it's not where I live, but it's what I want to explore. And I find it works very well to explore through fiction.
Romesh Gunesekera
#65. The more purely God's word is preached, the more deeply it pierces and the more kindly it works.
William Gouge
#66. For me, emotion comes first. If I have to change a scene, invent a scene, change dialogue, or put Graff by the lake in order to feel that dynamic, and the end results feels like 'Ender's Game,' then hopefully it works.
Gavin Hood
#67. Power is a fickle mistress, easy to seduce, but even easier to lose. That's how it works. One moment she is your closest confidant, whispering the secrets of the universe into your ear; the next, she is your vilest oppressor - and once her ears close to your plights you are well and truly screwed.
Nenia Campbell
#68. Ah. Alicia, see? Didn't I tell you that's what she needed to begin with? Maybe a little schtupping and it would make the cancer go away. It works with pimples.'
'Nana!
Wendy Wunder
#69. I live in California, the worst place in the world for fat people. There are three of us. They have us on eight-hour shifts, so it works out.
Louie Anderson
#70. If you don't know how it works, find out. If you're not sure if it will work, try it. If it doesn't make sense, play with it until it does. If it's not broken, break it. If it might not be true, find out.
Seth Godin
#71. I laugh at people who say things like 'I'm a good person, I just do bad things.' No, that's not how it works. What you do IS who you are.
Tucker Max
#72. No marriage is one person's failure any more than it's one person's success, so it works best to see a marriage that has ended simply as something that didn't work out.
Merle Shain
#73. Warren Buffett once wrote that value investing is like an inoculation
it either takes or it doesn't
and when you explain to somebody what it is and how it works and why it works and show them the returns, either they get it or they don't.
Seth Klarman
#74. The greatest force in the world today is the power of God as it works through man.
Thomas S. Monson
#75. I've dealt with life the only way I know how. It works for me, and I don't need you or anyone else to try and figure me out or fix me. I am who I am and I've accepted that.
Colleen Hoover
#76. Take some time to learn first aid and CPR. It saves lives, and it works.
Bobby Sherman
#77. A band is like a marriage - you don't know why it works, but when it does, everything feels right.
Nuno Bettencourt
#78. There always has to be someone to take the punches. That's how it works. It isn't fair, it isn't right, but that kid licking slop off the floor over there means that we get to eat in peace.
Alexander Gordon Smith
#79. You can laugh at Christianity; you can mock and ridicule it. But it works. It changes lives. If you trust Christ, start watching your attitudes and actions, because Jesus Christ is in the business of changing lives.
Josh McDowell
#80. We all sing about the things we're thinking; musicals are about expressing those emotions that you can't talk about. It works a real treat.
Anthony Head
#81. Popular as Keynesian fiscal policy may be, many economists are skeptical that it works. They argue that fine-tuning the economy is a virtually impossible task, and that fiscal-stimulus programs are usually too small, and arrive too late, to make a difference.
James Surowiecki
#82. She was a good person. She didn't deserve to die."
"I don't think it works that way.
Beth Revis
#83. I know, it's an unusual mix, punk and cupcakes, but it works for me.
L. H. Cosway
#84. Your mind is like a parachute, It works best open..
Jim Marrs
#85. It is often very useful for others to think you less intelligent than you are, "Benedict said, his tone amused. "It works particularly well against those who aren't as intelligent as you in the first place.
Jim Butcher
#86. I'll be there for you, as long as it works for me. I play a game, its called insincerity.
Trent Reznor
#87. I'm not sure why people go to the beach in groups only to ignore each other, but it works for me.
Tracey Martin
#88. I've seen music and songs used in stories, and while sometimes it works really well, often it doesn't.
Ann Leckie
#89. Evolution is a tinkerer, an ad-hocker, and a jury-rigger. It works with what it has on hand, not with what it has in mind. Some of its inventions prove elegant, while in others you can see the seams and dried glue.
Natalie Angier
#90. Words are a big deal to me. I'm verbal and visual and I'm always struggling to find a way to smash those two parts of my cerebral cortex together. Sometimes it works, sometimes it feels mentally disjunctive.
Arthur Jones
#91. Surely we should love the cross, and, instead of shrinking from it, count it very dear, when it works out for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#92. Giving in to terrorism will yield more terrorism, because it works.
David Silverman
#93. Nowadays even presidents, vice-presidents, and heads of big agencies are opening their minds to accept psychic phenomena, because they know it works.
Uri Geller
#94. We have a training period; we have certain guidelines and structure. You can't hire talented people and stifle them. That's not the way it works anymore.
Todd English
#95. The thought of death leaves me in perfect peace, for I have a firm conviction that our spirit is a being of indestructible nature; it works on from eternity to eternity, it is like the sun, which though it seems to set to our mortal eyes, does not really set, but shines on perpetually.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#96. If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a nonworking cat.
Douglas Adams
#97. You win any which way you can. You do what you have to do to get by. That's the way it works in any job.
Greg Rusedski
#98. I've been doing a lot of yoga to help with my running, recovery, and mental clarity. It works great for me.
Angie Martinez
#99. Chefs think about what it's like to make food. Being a scientist in the kitchen is about asking why something works, and how it works.
Nathan Myhrvold
#100. Open adoption, when it works, is fabulous. But when it goes wrong, it's so traumatizing for everybody.
Caroline Leavitt
