Works may refer to:
- An author's or artist's body of work of art
- Engineering structures, projects, and so on, including:
- Earthworks (engineering), created through moving soil or unformed rock
- Public works, engineering projects carried out by the state on behalf of the community
- Waterworks, another name for a water supply system
- In motorsports, works are cars sponsored and tuned by automobile manufacturers; see factory-backed
- In religion, works, deeds or actions in contrast to faith
- Good works in Christianity
- Karma, literally "deeds", in Hinduism
Famous quotes containing the word works:
“They commonly celebrate those beaches only which have a hotel on them, not those which have a humane house alone. But I wished to see that seashore where man’s works are wrecks; to put up at the true Atlantic House, where the ocean is land-lord as well as sea-lord, and comes ashore without a wharf for the landing; where the crumbling land is the only invalid, or at best is but dry land, and that is all you can say of it.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Most works of art are effectively treated as commodities and most artists, even when they justly claim quite other intentions, are effectively treated as a category of independent craftsmen or skilled workers producing a certain kind of marginal commodity.”
—Raymond Williams (1921–1988)
“Most young black females learn to be suspicious and critical of feminist thinking long before they have any clear understanding of its theory and politics.... Without rigorously engaging feminist thought, they insist that racial separatism works best. This attitude is dangerous. It not only erases the reality of common female experience as a basis for academic study; it also constructs a framework in which differences cannot be examined comparatively.”
—bell hooks (b. c. 1955)