Pastoral Resources

It was enough just to sit there without words.

Words are the children of reason and, therefore, can't explain it. They really can't translate feeling because they're not part of it. That's why it bugs me when people try to analyze jazz as an intellectual theorem. It's not. It's feeling.

Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still.

I don't know if there are words to describe my motivation.

The British have slang words, as we do, but it was fun.

I don't know if I have a technique. I'm just trying to remember the words.

However, those who have used those words use half the sentence to fit their purpose, which, of course, I believe is to discredit me and the new Nation of Islam that has come up around me.

You use words like 'introvert' and 'extrovert,' various traits of a personality. A lot of that stuff, we used in drama school, and that was kind of interesting, to realize my teachers sort of ripped off a lot of Jung. And how much of it is part of our society now, these phrases, introvert and extrovert, where it actually came from.

Some of the substance of English words, I just don't understand at all because the culture's so strange to me.

I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.

I would say that music is the easiest means in which to express, but since words are my talent, I must try to express clumsily in words what the pure music would have done better.

If, however, the success of a politician is to be measured by the degree in which he is able personally to influence the course of politics, and attach to himself a school of political thought, then Mr. Mill, in the best meaning of the words, has succeeded.

If the United Nations is a country unto itself, then the commodity it exports most is words.

Never settle with words what you can accomplish with a flamethrower.

As an actor, you're pretty much a hired gun. You are reading other people's words off of a page and doing what they want you to do.

Genuine good taste consists in saying much in few words, in choosing among our thoughts, in having order and arrangement in what we say, and in speaking with composure.

Nothing is more despicable than a professional talker who uses his words as a quack uses his remedies.

I was a brat. It was crazy, I was very picky. In other words, I didn't take advantage of what was happening.

The quality of the writing, really. Simple as that. Beautiful words. It's very nice as a singer to do great songs, which have wonderful lyrics and strong feelings underneath the song.

But when you get music and words together, that can be a very powerful thing.