Pastoral Resources

Too many ads that try not to go over the reader's head end up beneath his notice.

In most films music is brought in at the end, after the picture is more or less locked, to amplify the emotions the filmmaker wants you to feel.

Like a layer on a pearl, you can't specifically identify the irritant, the moment of the irritant, but at the end of the day, you know you have a pearl.

The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible.

With my own memoirs, they are truthful, and I write everything fully expecting to some day end up televised on Court TV, and I'm fully prepared to be challenged legally on it.

I think you know what you're up against when you take on a piece that you know is going to involve dragging up a lot emotions - you can end up being deeply immersed in gloom.

I'm one of those people who is actually inspired by a deadline. I might not sleep for many days on end, it may not be good for my health, but it definitely helps.

Big Sur is at the end of the continent. It attracts really crazy people.

Change is the end result of all true learning.

I think all comics borrow from each other. Only a few have an original voice, and I wasn't one of them. In the end, I couldn't figure out who to steal from, so I stopped doing it.

States should have the right to enact laws... particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live.

I was lucky. My family is wonderful. And it's funny, because most of my best friends come from very large families. So it always felt as if I had lots of siblings, though in the end I had to leave them and go home. I kind of got the best of both worlds as a kid.

This was the man, this Balaam, I say, was the man, who desired to die the death of the righteous, and that his last end might be like his; and this was the state of his mind when he pronounced these words.

Life has all sorts of hills and valleys, and sometimes you don't end up doing what you had your heart set out on, but sometimes that's even better!

I get a script and it's really interesting with scripts, because you never really know. It's paper and it could be great or awful. Even scripts that are good could end up not working.

That jam was so much fun that by the end of the tour, we just jammed on all of the songs.

Prolonged endurance tames the bold.

The Cardinal is at his wit's end - it is true that he had not far to go.

In the end, the work shows if you're good.

And at the end of the day, if the movie's no good, I'll live to fight another day.