Pastoral Resources

If you're offered something, you're not really sure exactly what is that they saw in you that they think is the character so it's a little scary, I feel.

There is nothing in this game of golf that can't be improved upon if you practice.

With time, many of the facts I learned were forgotten but I never lost the excitement of discovery.

The man who spends all his time looking up to heaven is not always the best; in fact, he is usually the worst.

The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.

Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.

The fact is, my parents loved me, and I wanted to be worthy of their love. I wanted to make them proud.

I cannot understand for the life of me why DOE is going forward with this licensing procedure when we do not know whether or not the scientific documentation upon which you are basing your decisions is, in fact, flawed.

Hunger and sex still dominate the primitive mammalian side of human existence, but at the present time it looks as if humanity were within sight of their satisfaction. Permanent plenty, no longer a Utopian dream, awaits the arrival of permanent peace.

A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes.

Our job is to bring the dead facts to life.

There are few performers who would have had the audacity to even bring up the fact that they had been poorly reviewed.

I have often been asked why I am so fond of playing male parts. As a matter of fact, it is not male parts, but male brains that I prefer.

Once the curtain is raised, the actor is ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character, to his author, to his public. He must do the impossible to identify himself with the first, not to betray the second, and not to disappoint the third.

In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.

It is very hard to separate one's self from a character. Sometimes the people closest to me have to be very understanding.

Yeah, it's fun to be somebody you're not, to bring a character to life.

So the result was that as one approached a political convention for most of the 19th century and for most of the 20th century until the 1960's, part of the drama was the fact that you didn't know ultimately who was going to be the nominee at the end of that convention week.

I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right.

The true worth of a race must be measured by the character of its womanhood.