Pastoral Resources

There are rhythmic ideas which sometimes only work up to a point. In writing there are moments when it just comes off the page, it's not just a collection of notes.

Airline travel is hours of boredom interrupted by moments of stark terror.

It's understanding the intention of a composer that allows a producer and an arranger to make those moments speak.

All of us have moments in out lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.

I was literally the black sheep of the family, and there were definitely moments of discomfort while my grandmother was working through her racism.

It's very difficult to judge relationships from the outside. You never know what happens in intimate moments with two people to know why they really support and love each other.

I am sensible of the velocity of the moments, and entering that part of my head alert to the motion of the world I am aware that life was never perfect, never absolute. This bestows contentment, even a fearlessness.

There are moments when you feel free, moments when you have energy, moments when you have hope, but you can't rely on any of these things to see you through. Circumstances do that.

Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.

Great moments are born from great oppurtunities.

Everybody favours free speech in the slack moments when no axes are being ground.

That's the only way to do it. Just like an actor. You can get a great performance if you do a bunch of takes and edit it. You find the moments and string them together.

One of my proudest moments is I didn't sell my soul for the sake of popularity.

I'm not geeky but I have my geeky, corky moments, and then I've got some aspects of cool in me, I guess.

My best moment? I have a lot of good moments but the one I prefer is when I kicked the hooligan.

But when you hear the complete album, it gets dark, really straight-up rock, with some really intimate moments with just me and the piano. It's not completely me because there are parts of me that aren't on that song, that are on the album.

All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.

I am always living very good moments.

When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had left them. When it has left a place where we have always found it, it is like shipwreck; we drop from security into something malevolent and bottomless.

I believe, however, that such abnormal moments can be found in everyone, and it is all the more fortunate when they occur in individuals with creative talent or with clairvoyant powers.