Pastoral Resources

Words are not too old, only people are too old if they use the same words too frequently.

Rehearsals and this band are two words that don't really go together, kinda like Military Intelligence.

Everything that Traffic ever did, I'd give Steve a complete lyric, titled, written out with the verse, the bridge, the shape and rhyme and then Steve had to figure out how the meter of the words would fit musically.

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.

Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.

Let's put it this way: if you are a novelist, I think you start out with a 20 word idea, and you work at it and you wind up with a 200,000 word novel. We, picture-book people, or at least I, start out with 200,000 words and I reduce it to 20.

Silence is more eloquent than words.

Be not a slave of words.

So, in other words, how you respond to a sculpture, how a viewer sees the sculpture, is vital.

I should like these few words to be read over the grave when my body is placed in the earth; for though it is possible I may be present and conscious of what is going on, I shall not be able to communicate.

I considered Nat King Cole to be a friend and, in many ways, a mentor. He always had words of profound advice.

You must realize that I was suffering from love and I knew him as intimately as I knew my own image in a mirror. In other words, I knew him only in relation to myself.

I enjoy those small chats you have when people come up and talk to you about your work. It only involves a few seconds of effort to be nice to those people, and I am very grateful for the kind words that people have taken the trouble to express to me in person.

But if our sex would but well consider and rationally ponder, they will perceive and find that it is neither words nor place that can advance them, but worth and merit.

The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.

Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is 'elephant'.

It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

I find it difficult to believe that words have no meaning in themselves, hard as I try. Habits of a lifetime are not lightly thrown aside.

Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us.

I can think of a lot of words to describe Senator Kerry's position on Iraq; 'consistent' is not one of them.