Pastoral Resources

There are times over different projects when I've asked the writers why people are swearing for no good reason. I tell them that it would be funnier if there weren't these swear words.

The Cross is the approbation of our existence, not in words, but in an act so completely radical that it caused God to become flesh and pierced this flesh to the quick; that, to God, it was worth the death of his incarnate Son.

Good words cool more than cold water.

Not a day passes over the earth, but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noble sorrows.

The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.

We live in a time when the words impossible and unsolvable are no longer part of the scientific community's vocabulary. Each day we move closer to trials that will not just minimize the symptoms of disease and injury but eliminate them.

So, not for lack of love of language, but because I feel our language is in an enormous state of humiliation, I decided to make films without words.

There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.

I'm a charming coward; I fight with words.

Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins.

Words are the small change of thought.

In the 'Hurt Locker' there's a lot of me in there, a sense of humor, a man of few words and a lot of action.

Words should be employed as the means, not the end; language is the instrument, conviction is the work.

I enjoy looking at words on paper and visualizing how to make them come to life. As a director, the creative process is really amazing.

If a commodity were in no way useful, - in other words, if it could in no way contribute to our gratification, - it would be destitute of exchangeable value, however scarce it might be, or whatever quantity of labour might be necessary to procure it.

I loved words. I love to sing them and speak them and even now, I must admit, I have fallen into the joy of writing them.

Lying is done with words and also with silence.

In music, the punctuation is absolutely strict, the bars and rests are absolutely defined. But our punctuation cannot be quite strict, because we have to relate it to the audience. In other words we are continually changing the score.

Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.

The little words in the Republic of Letters, like the little folks in a nation, are the most useful and significant.