Pastoral Resources

Outside speech, the association that is made in the memory between words having something in common creates different groups, series, families, within which very diverse relations obtain but belonging to a single category: these are associative relations.

Within speech, words are subject to a kind of relation that is independent of the first and based on their linkage: these are syntagmatic relations, of which I have spoken.

Be able to describe anything visual, such as a street scene, in words that convey your meaning.

Be able to correctly pronounce the words you would like to speak and have excellent spoken grammar.

If you travel to the States... they have a lot of different words than like what we use. For instance: they say 'elevator', we say 'lift'; they say 'drapes', we say 'curtains'; they say 'president', we say 'seriously deranged git.'

There's a whole lot of songs that men just can't do. The words are from another time and represent too much of an emotional commitment, whereas women can say that because of who they are.

The living Church of the redeemed is his book. He founded a religion of the living spirit, not of a written code, like the Mosaic law. Yet his words and deeds are recorded by as honest and reliable witnesses as ever put pen to paper.

The decision came from the publisher. It certainly was cleared by Chicago. And then they come out with these fine sounding words about relation to readers and their obligation. It has nothing to do with that.

In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.

The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages.

We are not going to achieve a new world order without paying for it in blood as well as in words and money.

I never was very capable of expressing my feelings or emotions in words. I don't know whether this is the cause why I did it in music and also why I did it in painting. Or vice versa: That I had this way as an outlet. I could renounce expressing something in words.

The aim of the poet, or other artist, is first to make something; and it's impossible to make something out of words and not communicate.

I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to talk because for years I had been giving myself out in words.

In other words, musicians know that going back to the Spoonful, what we were doing was not copying.

Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth.

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

There are hurts so deep that one cannot reach them or heal them with words.

Be sure your wisest words are those you do not say.

Words may be false and full of art; Sighs are the natural language of the heart.