Pastoral Resources

Put a bridle on thy tongue; set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy thy peace... on much speaking cometh repentance, but in silence is safety.

If you be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed the deeper they burn.

Words are but pictures of our thoughts.

It's really the sound of the voices, the sound of the words, the sound of the sound that we're interested in.

Let us lose none of their humble words, let us note their slightest gestures, and tell me, tell me that we will think of them together, now and later, when we realise the misery of the times and the magnitude of their sacrifice.

Actors take risks all the time. We put ourselves on the line. It is creative to be able to interpret someone's words and breathe life into them.

All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.

I used to want the words 'She tried' on my tombstone. Now I want 'She did it."

Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of how words sound, both aloud and inside the head of the reader. You learn the weight of words and how they sound to the ear.

Poets go through a very tough apprenticeship in the use of words.

I have been a believer in the magic of language since, at a very early age, I discovered that some words got me into trouble and others got me out.

But friends invited me to a private screening of Emmanuelle and said I'd learn a few things. But I know all the swear words. I just don't use them. So I declined.

Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of day.

Music is only love looking for words.

When death has you by the throat, you don't mince words.

I say there're no depressed words just depressed minds.

In other words, I think that if an audience listens to something as an experience of how in tune it is or something of that kind, that the whole point is somehow being missed, and the music has failed.

Words derive their power from the original word.

Leaders do not sway with the polls. Instead, they sway the polls through their own words and actions.

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.