Pastoral Resources

Words, which are the dress of thoughts, deserve surely more care than clothes, which are only the dress of the person.

We have as many planes of speech as does a painting planes of perspective which create perspective in a phrase. The most important word stands out most vividly defined in the very foreground of the sound plane. Less important words create a series of deeper planes.

Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.

There are so many exceptions to free speech: child pornography, cross burning, libel, fighting words.

There's a certain arrogance to an actor who will look at a script and feel like, because the words are simple, maybe they can paraphrase it and make it better.

These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new.

Words that are saturated with lies or atrocity, do not easily resume life.

If atheism is to be used to express the state of mind in which God is identified with the unknowable, and theology is pronounced to be a collection of meaningless words about unintelligible chimeras, then I have no doubt, and I think few people doubt.

In other words, if a teacher only teaches in one way, then they conclude that the kids who can't learn well that way don't have the ability, when, in fact, it may be that the way the teacher's teaching is not a particularly good match to the way those kids learn.

In other words, unlike some people with new theories, we will go out, we'll go into a school and we get products and the products are evaluated, whether it's by teachers or others. The scores are quantified and then we compare performances.

In other words, the better they did on the IQ test, the worse they did on the practical test and the better they did on the practical tests, the worse they did on the IQ test.

The words of the songs speak for themselves.

Because I don't play guitar any more, African harmonies and rhythms have been an inspiration to me. I love the raw origin of the sound. It complements my voice and words naturally.

In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.

In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.

Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.

Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.

I don't like poetry that just slaps violent words on a canvas, as it were.

The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

I told him that my own opinion was that the time now and the method now to deal with Russia was to keep our mouths shut and let our actions speak for words.