Pastoral Resources

The economic piece is still missing, since it's so hard to attract industry to reservations, but spiritually and educationally, they're doing just fine. Each tribe has a community college now, and they teach the language, they teach the traditions.

Richard Hugo taught me that anyone with a desire to write, an ear for language and a bit of imagination could become a writer. He also, in a way, gave me permission to write about northern Montana.

I wanted to capture the excitement of house music, almost like a four-four beat, and the best way to do that was to use a language that was rhythmic and performative.

On the contrary a film can promote the idea of change without any political message whatsoever but in its form and language can tell people that they can change their lives and contribute to progressive changes in the world.

Certain things were deemed to be offensive. It was usually bad language.

Numbers constitute the only universal language.

I have my own language and it's high time I put a little of it out there.

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.

Make it, not make it? What's the difference? Music is a language, it's a dance of life, and it can be a part of your life without being something that earns.

The Court is most vulnerable and comes nearest to illegitimacy when it deals with judge-made constitutional law having little or no cognizable roots in the language or design of the Constitution.

Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.

Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.

Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.

Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it.

At the same time, new concepts and abstractions flow into the picture, taking up the task of describing the universe without reference to such time or space - abstractions for which our language lacks adequate terms.

We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language.

The simplicities of natural laws arise through the complexities of the language we use for their expression.

The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way.

As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise.

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.