Pastoral Resources

He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

Another woman approached me while I was having lunch at the Russian Tea Room in New York and told me that the reason she had become a lawyer was because she had read 'Rage of Angels'. To me, that kind of feedback has more meaning than any sales figures.

You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.

Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true or not is irrelevant.

It shows the truth - that the real meaning of a word is only as powerful or harmless as the emotion behind it.

Without consciousness and intelligence, the universe would lack meaning.

The committee's work is not about whether or how we should pay reparations. That was never the intent nor will the payment of reparations be the outcome. This is an effort designed to involve the campus community in a discovery of the meaning of our past.

It is important that the audience should understand every syllable of every word, for only then can they grasp the meaning of the song.

In nearly all ballads, the words set the mood and meaning, while the music intensifies or enhances them.

It's just that a lot of songs that are popular right now, they don't have any meaning.

This, it may be said, is no more than a hypothesis... only of that force of precedent which in all times has been so strong to keep alive religious forms of which the original meaning is lost.

Banal words function as a feeble phenomena that fall into their own mental bogs of meaning.

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audience's imagination and create a suspension of disbelief, by which I mean there's no fourth wall.

Everything has a sort of double meaning for me, there's the ordinary everyday meaning of things, and the imaginary meaning about it all, and I wanted to bring these things together, and in this first big Resurrection of mine you have a good example of this sort of thing.

Our perception of songs that we've written... the meaning changes from day to day... to whatever stage we're at in our life and careers.

A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have.

I'm not really quiet or shy. Ask any of my friends! But I always ground my poetry in life itself. Poetry is an art of language, though, so I am always aware of every word's meaning, or multiple meanings.

Historians still often see the end of the war as meaning nothing more for Germany than lost territories, lost participation in colonization, and lost assets for the state and individuals. They frequently overlook the most serious loss that Germany suffered.

Composition gives proper meaning to the natural streams of sound that penetrate the world.