Pastoral Resources

While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

There's a saying, 'It's easy to write songs, but very difficult to write great songs.' I'm going through that right now.

Up until about 12 years ago we never, ever, wore flak jacket or helmets but now the nastiness has got worse.

Now children as young as nine carry AK47s which can kill 30 people in seconds.

It wasn't glamorous in my day. In the regions, reporters were seen as such low life that they didn't merit their name in the Radio Times. Now people are interested in being famous. I never gave it a thought.

Up to now I've done everything I've wanted to do the way I wanted to do myself.

It's great to be able to get up there now and do an hour or 75 minutes of songs they're familiar with.

Because thought has by now been perverted into the solving of assigned problems, even what is not assigned is processed like a problem.

Some say that now that 50 years have passed, we would like another 50 more years to celebrate once again; that means it will be 100 years. After one hundred years, I will be 118 years old.

I remember back when I was a kid there was a comic strip called Plastic Man. His body was elastic and he could make his extremities as long as he wanted. As a youngster I didn't fully appreciate. But I'm now thinking Plastic Man was probably pretty popular with the ladies.

I think one of the greatest joys I have now in my career and in my profession is to be playing at an age where I can appreciate it more than I used to... It's a whole different lens you look through the older you get.

Don't pity me now, don't pity me never; I'm going to do nothing for ever and ever.

We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the time that I lived there so successfully disguised to myself as a child.

Now between '45 and '48, things would change enormously, 'cos we'd had credit in United States, credit from the Bank of America, credit from the Import-Export Bank and people had started working again.

Right now I'm pretty single... My career is my boyfriend.

Now Heaven and Earth are older than the temples, and older than the Scriptures.

I was on TV for almost sixteen weeks during American Idol. It's at the point now where it's old.

Music I heard with you was more than music, and bread I broke with you was more than bread. Now that I am without you, all is desolate; all that was once so beautiful is dead.

All lovely things will have an ending, All lovely things will fade and die; And youth, that's now so bravely spending, Will beg a penny by and by.