Pastoral Resources

Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be universal.

I threw myself into this artform because photography had given me a new sense of mission and identity.

And this is one way to do technology forecasting; get a sense of where technology is, and then anticipate the next upturn.

I don't get a sense of American pride. I just get a sense that everyone is here, battling the same thing - that around the world everybody's after the same thing, just some minor piece of happiness each day.

I think in a sense this is a house that was built on a bad foundation. And the foundation was the Americans coming here and allowing the sacking, burning and plunder of Baghdad, for whatever reason.

In a certain sense, this guy - who is one of the most evil people in the book - he's not really that bad at running the show, because he knows what he's doing, he's smart and he's got the big picture in mind. He's like the Godfather.

I wanted the feel in these books to be like an epic fantasy, with kings, queens, dukes and court politics, but of course like what I was explaining before, about making the science make sense, you have to make the politics make sense, too.

What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning.

I was in the studio so much, it was about the search for air in a metaphoric sense, and the breathing has more to do with travel for me, about the search musically for open air.

I'd heard he was good, and what the hell sense does it make not to hire somebody because of their color?

All things make sense; you just have to fathom how they make sense.

I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet.

The quest for riches darkens the sense of right and wrong.

All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag of tricks.

The sense of national catastrophe is inevitably heightened in a television age, when the whole country participates in it.

Our sense of worth, of well-being, even our sanity depends upon our remembering. But, alas, our sense of worth, our well-being, our sanity also depend upon our forgetting.

One of the reasons to do documentaries is that. There's more sense of creating something, more sense of my own soul in the documentaries than in movies, because I don't write the movies I do.

Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.

There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses.

Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense?