Pastoral Resources

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

The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend would die for you, so when you start trying to count them on one hand, you don't need any fingers.

No, but I've always felt that with true talent, and a commitment to hard work, it is possible to achieve an enduring respect and appreciation. In other words, I don't take my fans for granted.

For success, the author must make the reader care about the destiny of the principals, and sustain this anxiety, or suspense, for about 100,000 words.

We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.

The word courage - God, I love that word. Words are so important to me.

And I'm a slow writer: five, six hundred words is a good day. That's the reason it took me 20 years to write those million and a half words of the Civil War.

The material came bubbling up inside like a geyser or an oil gusher. It streamed up of its own accord, down my arm and out of my fountain pen in a torrent of six thousand words a day.

If there is on earth a house with many mansions, it is the house of words.

We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.

We came up with three core touchy feely words.

You do your work as a photographer and everything becomes past. Words are more like thoughts; the photographer's picture is always surrounded by a kind of romantic glamor - no matter what you do, and how you twist it.

I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.

How true Daddy's words were when he said: all children must look after their own upbringing. Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

It seems to me that politicians ought to use the same words as other people.

All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which laws are made, out of which the Constitution was written. Everything depends on our understanding of them.

Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

Why does everyone have to pretend to be stupid and not know long words?

You can put anything into words, except your own life.