Pastoral Resources

Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.

Brotherhood is not just a Bible word. Out of comradeship can come and will come the happy life for all.

'Realistic' is a loaded word for me. Anyone who uses the word 'realistic' is all bad.

Recipe writers hate to write about heat. They despise it. Because there aren't proper words for communicating what should be done with it.

We are always going to be influenced by America... I watched the word 'bum' go out and 'butt' come in. And part of me says, oh that's a shame, but Aussie boys are still Aussie boys.

The worst moment was when I was performing and I was about to sing, but I choked. I had a tickle in my throat and I started coughing, and I couldn't get the words out. It lasted for like thirty seconds, but I got over it, and luckily the crowd didn't seem to care.

I've tried word processors, but I think I'm too old a dog to use one.

Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.

I write about five thousand words a day, when working on a book, about three thousand a day if I'm writing a short story. I take long periods off between projects, when I read a lot, garden, and think about the next book or stories.

Well, jazz is to me, a complete lifestyle. It's bigger than a word. It's a much bigger force than just something that you can say. It's something that you have to feel. It's something that you have to live.

A ghost is someone who hasn't made it - in other words, who died, and they don't know they're dead. So they keep walking around and thinking that you're inhabiting their - let's say, their domain. So they're aggravated with you.

Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds?

Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words.

'Programming' is a four-letter word.

The Imperial German Government will not expect the Government of the United States to omit any word or any act necessary to the performance of its sacred duty of maintaining the rights of the United States and its citizens and of safeguarding their free exercise and enjoyment.

Say what you have to say in the fewest possible words.

Sovereignty is a word that is used often but it has really no specific meaning. Sovereignty today is nominal. Any number of countries that are sovereign are sovereign only nominally and relatively.

The best prayers have often more groans than words.

Your words smell of corpses.

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.