Pastoral Resources

Good designers can create normalcy out of chaos; they can clearly communicate ideas through the organizing and manipulating of words and pictures.

The universal principle of etymology in all languages: words are carried over from bodies and from the properties of bodies to express the things of the mind and spirit. The order of ideas must follow the order of things.

The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.

We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was good, which is really frightening.

One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

Words fashioned with somewhat over precise diction are like shapes turned out by a cookie cutter.

When a film is created, it is created in a language, which is not only about words, but also the way that very language encodes our perception of the world, our understanding of it.

The supply of words in the world market is plentiful but the demand is falling. Let deeds follow words now.

I must tell you that the supply of words on the world market is plentiful, but the demand is falling.

Acting has to do with saying it as if you meant it, so for me the words are always very important. It's very important for me to know my lines, know them so well that I don't have to think about them.

My grandmothers are full of memories, smelling of soap and onions and wet clay, with veins rolling roughly over quick hands, they have many clean words to say, my grandmothers were strong.

To say that mind is a product or function of protoplasm, or of its molecular changes, is to use words to which we can attach no clear conception.

Many words are not wanting to show that the particular view of each court occasioned the dangers which affected the public tranquillity; yet the whole is charged to my account. Nor is this sufficient.

Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.

We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys.

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.