Pastoral Resources

Once I grew from 6'1' to about 6'6', by that time I was going into 12th grade, and that's when I started wanting to play basketball, because, pretty much basketball players always got the girl.

The newspapers loved pinup pictures of pretty young swimmers, and as a national champion, I got more than my share of space in the sports pages.

I was pretty much grown-up by the time I attended school in Britain - or as grown-up as I'll ever get.

We have a president for whom English is a second language. He's like 'We have to get rid of dictators,' but he's pretty much one himself.

I was a pretty good imitator of Roy Acuff, but then I found out they already had a Roy Acuff, so I started singin' like myself.

I like to think I can keep a pretty level head.

I don't believe that recordings should sound radically better than the artist, I think that's dishonest. For example, I'm not a great singer but if I spent enough time tweaking my vocals, I could sound like one. But I don't, what you hear is pretty much what I sing.

Pretty much anybody who's ever worked can relate to our show.

It's a character I've created. Actually, that's pretty much the opposite of me, off a farm in the Midwest.

Charm is the ability to make someone else think that both of you are pretty wonderful.

I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.

It was like in Samoa when they'd put up a movie screen on the beach and show movies and the locals would run behind the sheet to see where the people went. It was pretty grim.

The fact that the same symbolic programming primitives work for those as work for math kinds of things, I think, really validates the idea of symbolic programming being something pretty general.

I've always been that way. I'm not very good at reading music but I'm pretty quick at picking things up.

I thought my Beatles LPs sounded pretty good on a record player, but that was before I had heard a CD.

I'm a pretty quiet guy, but if people want to think of me as a lady killer, I guess that's good.

Jeane Dixon tells us that May and June are going to be pretty bad. June may be worse than May. But everything will turn out to be fine and to be of stout heart and all that.

All this time I lived with my parents, and wrought on the plantation; and having had schooling pretty well for a planter, I used to improve myself in winter evenings, and other leisure times.

This house better get cleaned up in six months. The swamp is going to have to be drained pretty quickly.

The other are the strategic, so-called strategic stocks that the United States and the other Western industrial countries have, which could put in as much as four million barrels a day of oil into the market pretty quickly.