Family, like arsenic, works best in small doses. . . unless you prefer to die.
Oh, I have now a mania for shortness. Whatever I read - my own or other people's works - it all seems to me not short enough.
Sometimes you do absolutely know there's something there. You feel it in your bones. I actually literally feel it on my skin sometimes. I do get goosebumps. There are times when you go oh God, that works that moment! But you find you take it apart again.
I never drink coffee, can you believe that? Works in morning television, doesn't drink coffee.
We are but the instruments or assistants, by whom God works.
For a young cartoonist, they have to get going on the web, because that's where everybody goes for their information. And it really works.
There are no fascinating people, only their works are fascinating.
Man hurries, God does not. That is why man's works are uncertain and maimed, while God's are flawless and sure. My eyes welling with tears, I vowed never to transgress this eternal law again. Like a tree I would be blasted by wind, struck by sun and rain, and would wait with confidence; the long-desired hour of flowering and fruit would come.
The climax of absurdity to which art may be carried when led away from nature by fashion, may be best seen in the works of Boucher.
In my profession more generally, it's not an exaggeration to say that masculinity is viewed as the root of all evil. If you were to take a literary theory course, you might think it would be about literature, but it's really not. It's about all the various forms of oppression on earth and how we can see them playing out in literary works. And behind all these forms of oppression is a guy.
God works through people. It’s not me.
Most of TV works this way: You try to get something up and running, and once you do, you just try to keep it going, because there's a lot of money involved.
Because a man can write great works he is none the less a man.
Fascination is one step beyond interest. Interested people want to know if it works. Fascinated people want to learn how it works.
Еach song is like starting over. Because somehow, no song's formula works for another. And that's the beauty of it all. Each song's destiny is embedded in its DNA. And our job is to reveal it.
Well, don't tell Steve Niles but I just don't think horror works in comics.
The law demands good works and uses its terror--rejection, shame, fear of punishment, unanswered prayer, personal tragedy, etc. --as motivation. Here performance is a necessity to secure the blessings and avoid the curses. Grace, on the other hand, allows us to serve on a different basis--not from fear but on the basis of love and gratitude, from appreciation and gladness for blessings freely given and freely received.
All publicity works upon anxiety.
The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.
Everybody works the same, but the preparation very often may be different. You cannot work differently. You have to say the words that were written on the page, and you have to make your marks. That's the work.