Pastoral Resources

The only reason I went to college was to play basketball. I injured my knee and couldn't play.

I seem to keep returning to my father in poems because his personality was so extreme, so driven. He did everything to excess.

As for sacred polyphony, there is no reason to be afraid of it.

Blake said that the body was the soul's prison unless the five senses are fully developed and open. He considered the senses the 'windows of the soul.' When sex involves all the senses intensely, it can be like a mystical experence.

If the presence of electricity can be made visible in any part of the circuit, I see no reason why intelligence may not be transmitted instantaneously by electricity.

Like most people I can be lazy, so it's nice to have a goal or deadline or reason to work out. I feel better when I get to exercise, or when I'm outdoors. I like to hike, swim and run, and I love to play soccer.

There is curiously little art concerning the efficacy of reason - perhaps simply because reason is not noticeably efficacious.

Actors do like watching girls parade down the runway for some reason.

My energy to sing, I get it from my singing. Singing was not a reason to make a living. This is the only thing I wanted to do.

I came from Mechanicsville, Virginia, where you have four seasons.

Surrender to life itself and you'll just be rewarded with so many things. And I've been rewarded so many times, in so many mysterious ways. So I have no reason to be disappointed with anything.

I suppose for whatever reason I actively welcome being put down, something which perhaps goes back to my upbringing - that accusation of not being worthy which could be laid at one's door.

For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry.

The first reason for starting to do the symphony concerts was to play this new piece of mine.

I'm really starting to think everything happens for a reason.

The number one reason I write is to come to schools and see my readers. I would do it for free.

We would be false to our trust if we allowed the time it takes to give effect to constitutional rights to be used as the very reason for taking away those rights.

The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces.

When I speak to students and they ask how much money you can make in art, as if that is a reason to persue it, I tell them to do something else.

I do not feel any artist can produce great art without putting great personality into it. It is always a piece of you that goes on the screen or the canvass.