Pastoral Resources

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

The words of truth are always paradoxical.

Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.

Lord, give us the wisdom to utter words that are gentle and tender, for tomorrow we may have to eat them.

Sure, women sportswriters look when they're in the clubhouse. Read their stories. How else do you explain a capital letter in the middle of a word?

Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find.

I worked for half a cent a word. I'm not a fast writer to begin with, so for the first few years I had do other things.

I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet.

Use of the word; the word itself was not printed.

Good designers can create normalcy out of chaos; they can clearly communicate ideas through the organizing and manipulating of words and pictures.

I don't like balance. Balance is not a word you can use in Versace fashion.

The universal principle of etymology in all languages: words are carried over from bodies and from the properties of bodies to express the things of the mind and spirit. The order of ideas must follow the order of things.

The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.

I don't understand the word hunk.

When I was writing, I genuinely believed each word was my own.

We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

In one word, this ideal is that you are divine.