Pastoral Resources

I always worried I'd forget my lines or say the wrong words or the audience would laugh in the wrong places.

I hate the whole race. There is no believing a word they say, your professional poets, I mean there never existed a more worthless set than Byron and his friends for example.

Actions lie louder than words.

The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive 'policies' and 'Plans' of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word 'socialism', but what else can one call it?

Never separate the life you live from the words you speak.

I try to gauge whether a girl likes me before I make a move. I would write a page-long note to a girl.If she wrote a whole page back, I knew she liked me, too. If she wrote back like two words, then I figured I'd move on.

I'm reluctant to use the word class so much.

A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.

Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection; the past then lives in your words and you are free.

I'm a woman of very few words, but lots of action.

Ever since the Greeks, we have been drunk with language! We have made a cage with words and shoved our God inside!

I mean I think children love the idea that there are different viewpoints and different words for things and different worlds. And the more that they pretend to be other people, the harder it is for them to hate them and misunderstand them when they grow up.

The hack songwriter will write the absolute truth every single word, whether it makes a great song or not.

I start with the story, almost in the old campfire sense, and the story leads to both the characters, which actors should best be cast in this story, and the language. The choice of words, more than anything else, creates the feeling that the story gives off.

You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.

For one, the Qur'an is considered by Muslims to consist entirely of words spoken by Allah himself.

The words of the Bible, and the Bible alone, should be heard from the pulpit.

It is hardly fair to accuse us of ignorance when it was made a crime under the former order of things to learn enough about letters to even read the Word of God.

As a boy, I believed freedom for America meant freedom for me. There was a time I believed every word spoken.

You see, my brethren, my heart is full; I could almost say it is too big to speak, and yet too big to be silent, without dropping a word to you.