Pastoral Resources

I married him because he told me it was the only way he could protect me. If we were just manager and client, my family could do whatever they wanted to get me back, but if I was his wife, they couldn't.

Our marriage is strictly in name only. It has never been consummated.

The greatest manager has a knack for making ballplayers think they are better than they think they are.

I never was a person who wanted a handout. I was a cafeteria worker. I'm not too proud to ask the Best Western manager to give me a job. I have cleaned homes.

And I'm the kind of manager that doesn't believe that you micro-manage professionals. They should understand their responsibility and carry out those responsibility.

Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.

One man with courage makes a majority.

I have eighteen titles in the German language. I had a number one song in 1965.

I remember walking the dog one day, I saw a car full of teenage girls, and one of them rolled down the window and yelled, 'Marc Jacobs!' in a French accent.

I find it disturbing that the media keeps referring to my marriage, since I got divorced in 1979. But the media never wants to let me forget.

Howard Dean has been successful because he was clear in his opposition to the war. People appreciate a politician with the courage to say, I oppose this war.

In poetic language, in which the sign as such takes on an autonomous value, this sound symbolism becomes an actual factor and creates a sort of accompaniment to the signified.

Semantics, or the study of meaning, remained undeveloped, while phonetics made rapid progress and even came to occupy the central place in the scientific study of language.

Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language.

Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.

Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.

Language is memory and metaphor.

If you go into a bar in most places in America and even say the word poetry, you'll probably get beaten up. But poetry is a really strong, beautiful form to me, and a lot of innovation in language comes from poetry.

Poets are always ahead of things in a certain way, their sense of language and their vision.

We know the threats - from global terrorist networks to the spread of deadly weapons. Yet we also know that embedded in this time of danger is the promise of a new day, if we have the courage and commitment to work together.