Pastoral Resources

When I last went to Italy, over two years ago, I had a lot more trouble understanding the language than I used to when I lived there for a year. I used to speak very little but I could understand very well.

Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.

I sat staring, staring, staring - half lost, learning a new language or rather the same language in a different dialect. So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have been born.

Fools, most linguists. Damn all to say in one language, so they learn another and say damn all in that.

Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.

Faith is more basic than language or theology.

It probably helps that my background is in the sciences and I can speak the scientists' language.

A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.

The language you are about to hear... is disturbing.

To have another language is to possess a second soul.

Our language is the reflection of ourselves. A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers.

I am calling attention just to the main points of these tremendously important matters, which can be understood better by pious meditation than explained by human language.

The radio was my big influence. Comedy came from the instinctual feel I had for language.

So women are at the beginning of building a language, and not all women are conscious of it.

The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.

If our language, our programs, our creations are not strongly present in the new media, the young generation of our country will be economically and culturally marginalized.

Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.

Subversive language, however, must be constantly reinvented, because it is continually being co-opted by the powerful.

You need to find somebody who will speak the same language. We understand that we couldn't have any kind of discussion without permission, without a legal framework behind it.