Pastoral Resources

Words can be very powerful. I find them very difficult.

An author who sets about to depict events of the past that have run their course is suspected of wishing to avoid the problems of the present day, of being, in other words, a reactionary.

There is a wonder in reading Braille that the sighted will never know: to touch words and have them touch you back.

A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.

The words of kindness are more healing to a drooping heart than balm or honey.

No thesaurus can give you those words, no rhyming dictionary. They must happen out of you.

Words are also seeds, and when dropped into the invisible spiritual substance, they grow and bring forth after their kind.

What you compose with is neither here nor there, you compose with words, or you compose with stone plants and trees, or you compose with events; the Sheriff's officer, or whatever.

They're my favorite two words these days: Oscar reject.

Whenever ideas fail, men invent words.

I hope that by going to visit the pope I have enabled everybody to see that the words Catholic and Protestant, as ordinarily used, are completely out of date. They are almost always used now purely for propaganda purposes. That is why so much trouble is caused by them.

I think it's like music for the sake of music, and a lot of the words stem from liking music a lot, wanting to be a good band and having a good sense of humour, and living in a situation where we're free to pretty much do what we want.

You can stroke people with words.

However, no two people see the external world in exactly the same way. To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is - in other words, not a thing, but a think.

Words began to appear in English and to make some kind of equivalent. For what satisfaction it is hard to say, except that something seems unusually piercing, living, handsome, in another language, and since English is yours, you wish it to be there too.

Actually I like the idea of being a Renaissance hack. If tombstones were still in style, I would want to have the two words chiseled right under my name.

Style is as much under the words as in the words. It is as much the soul as it is the flesh of a work.

Cook ingredients that you are used to cooking by other techniques, such as fish, chicken, or hamburgers. In other words be comfortable with the ingredients you are using.

Deed, not words shall speak me.

They call it golf because all the other four-letter words were taken.