If the work jells a little bit in terms of being placed in…

Nonviolence is fine as long as it works.

— Malcolm X

You can get away with anything as long as it works.

— Darryl Pinckney

You can do anything you want, as long as it works.

— Eugene Mirman

In the form of the oeuvre, the actual circumstances are placed in another dimension where the given reality shows itself as that which it…

— Herbert Marcuse

To be full of joy when looking at an oeuvre is not a little thing.

— Hans Arp

In alchemical treatises, the formula L'Oeuvre au Noir ... designates what is said to be the most difficult phase of the alchemist's process, the…

— Marguerite Yourcenar

Some books are like an hors d'oeuvre - light, tasty and leaving you longing for the main course which is never going to come…

— Ann Widdecombe

“Long works are too often like long sermons which end in fatigue.”

— Francis Grierson

“That's how it is with people - nobody cares how it works as long as it works.”

— Councillor Hamann

People haven't got the interest in long long works these days. A lack of interest which I share.

— Norman MacCaig

I don't care who you are or what you have gone through - everyone has something they are fighting for.

— Cara Castronuova

There is nothing about myself that I wouldn't reveal or write about. I don't care how horrendous or ridiculous I may appear in person…

— Augusten Burroughs

I don't care if you make a print on a bath mat, just as long as it is a good print.

— Edward Weston

You feed yourself. Make sure you have all the information, whether it's aesthetic, scientific, mathematical, I don't care what it is. Then you walk…

— Ray Bradbury

I think, here's what I've realized from interviewing people, and I've been very open about my Catholicism and my love of Christ and I…

— Jay Mohr