Pastoral Resources

For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.

I think I make better use of language and imagery than when I started out.

Even if you didn't see the movie, you'd see two words you'd never seen put together before - comedy and Muslim. Comedy is friendly - it's the least offensive word in our language.

Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.

Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.

Like, What is the least often heard sentence in the English language? That would be: Say, isn't that the banjo player's Porsche parked outside?

To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language.

An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language.

Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated.

Body language is a very powerful tool. We had body language before we had speech, and apparently, 80% of what you understand in a conversation is read through the body, not the words.

Our purpose is simply to ask how theological principles can be shown to have usable secular analogues that throw light upon the nature of language.

And I have to work so hard at talking positively to myself. If I don't, it's just real hard to get through the day, and I'll get really down, and just want to cry. My whole body language changes. I get more slumped over.

Language is a virus from outer space.

We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans.

My least favorite phrase in the English language is 'I don't care."

Nor do I think that any other nation than this of Wales, nor any other language, whatever may hereafter come to pass, shall on the day of severe examination before the Supreme Judge, answer for this corner of the earth.

There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth.

'I am' is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that 'I do' is the longest sentence?

By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.

Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.