Pastoral Resources

He has so often told me he is madly in love with me, but what does that mean when I haven't had a good word from him in three months?

I sat with him for three hours and we did not exchange a single word. At the end he handed me, as he had done before, an envelope with money in it. It would have been much nicer if he had enclosed a greeting or a loving word. I would have been so pleased if he had.

I have now reached the happy age of 23. No, happy is not quite the right word. At this particular moment I am certainly not happy.

I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution.

The word music is a convenient way to talk about what I'm interested in, but actually, in some ways, it's a limitation.

I object to you using words like squander and pork. What is pork in one part of the country is an essential project in another part.

We look to the history of the time of framing and to the intervening history of interpretation. But the ultimate question must be, what do the words of the text mean in our time.

The most ordinary word, when put into place, suddenly acquires brilliance. That is the brilliance with which your images must shine.

Words make love with one another.

I discipline churchgoers with godly lessons and sharp words if they do not change their ways. My goal is to open their hearts so that they seek forgiveness.

While the spoken word can travel faster, you can't take it home in your hand. Only the written word can be absorbed wholly at the convenience of the reader.

Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.

In other words, New York has gone all suburban and bourgeois on us.

When we say that Philosophy tries to clear up the meanings of concepts we do not mean that it is simply concerned to substitute some long phrase for some familiar word.

If you like to read, sometimes it's interesting just to go and see what the reality is, of the word, of the seedy or not so seedy fiction writer, the drunk or sober poet... Sometimes you can go looking for illumination.

David Brinkley was an icon of modern broadcast journalism, a brilliant writer who could say in a few words what the country needed to hear during times of crisis, tragedy and triumph.

Who has words at the right moment?

A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.

Even if you didn't see the movie, you'd see two words you'd never seen put together before - comedy and Muslim. Comedy is friendly - it's the least offensive word in our language.

When I die, if the word 'thong' appears in the first or second sentence of my obituary, I've screwed up.