Pastoral Resources

I can't just say the words, do a lot of one-liners. I love each person I play; I have to be that person. I have to do him true.

I would rather have one article a day of this sort; and these ten or twenty lines might readily represent a whole day's hard work in the way of concentrated, intense thinking and revision, polish of style, weighing of words.

Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few.

Silence is better than unmeaning words.

The oldest, shortest words - 'yes' and 'no' - are those which require the most thought.

It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.

Because my love for you is beyond words, I decided to shut up.

The Resistance is a moral certainty, not a poetic one. The true poet never uses words in order to punish someone. His judgment belongs to a creative order; it is not formulated as a prophetic scripture.

Bobby Knight told me this: 'There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.' In other words a good offense wins.

When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.

I will never understand people who think that the way to show their righteous opposition to sexual freedom is to write letters full of filthy words.

Uncritical semantics is the myth of a museum in which the exhibits are meanings and the words are labels. To switch languages is to change the labels.

Now, Marlon and I - for some reason, even today - even today, we can't say two words to each other. We really can't talk to each other. You know, I say to him - Marlon can't talk. I mean, he'd talk to you. But he can't talk.

It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.

Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.

What Christ gives us is quite explicit if his own words are interpreted according to their Aramaic meaning. The expression 'This is my Body' means this is myself.

Emphasis on the common emotive or affective origins of music and words in the first cries of humankind undermines words.

If words don't have vibration behind them, and a real feeling behind them, then they're just words.

Providing, meaning to a mass of unrelated needs, ideas, words and pictures - it is the designer's job to select and fit this material together and make it interesting.

Now between the meanings of words and their sounds there is ordinarily no discoverable relation except one of accident; and it is therefore miraculous, to the mystic, when words which make sense can also make a uniform objective structure of accents and rhymes.