Power-of-words Quotes

...he walked up and down through life.

Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know more.

Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between differ...

Words used carelessly, as if they did not matter in any serious way, often allowed otherwise well-gu...

There is music in words, and it can be heard you know, by thinking.

When you don't cover up the world with words and labels, a sense of the miraculous returns to your l...

If you spend a hundred bucks, or more, to go to the theatre, something should happen to you. Maybe s...

If you spend a hundred bucks, or more, to go to the theatre, something should happen to you. Maybe s...

If you could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint.

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is poetry. If I...

The words seemed to bite physically into Gatsby.

The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.

The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.

The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.

The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

Writing has nothing to do with meaning. It has to do with landsurveying and cartography, including t...

A man with a scant vocabulary will almost certainly be a weak thinker. The richer and more copious o...

That was originally what I had loved him for: that at a period when our native land was nude and cru...

I wasn’t reading poetry because my aim was to work my way through English Literature in Prose A–Z.Bu...

I wasn’t reading poetry because my aim was to work my way through English Literature in Prose A–Z.Bu...

Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinc...

A man who writes a story is forced to put into it the best of his knowledge and the best of his feel...

My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to mak...

The limits of my language means the limits of my world.

Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely e...

Words and love together can more often achieve what magic cannot.

A short story is the ultimate close-up magic trick -- a couple of thousand words to take you around ...

When will you learn that there isn't a word for everything?

If words can be lethal weapons, I must provide them with an arsenal.

Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fi...

of all the weapons of destruction that man could invent, the most terrible-and the most powerful-was...

What is life? Thoughts and feelings arise, with or without our will, and we employ words to express ...

There exists, for everyone, a sentence - a series of words - that has the power to destroy you. Anot...

In the dim, wavering light, a page hung open and it was like a snowy feather, the words delicately p...

Now let's take up the minorities in our civilisation, shall we? Bigger the population, the more mino...

Never assume that the person you are dealing with is weaker or less important than you are. Some peo...

...But the human tongue is a beast that few can master. It strains constantly to break out of its ca...

Never assume that the person you are dealing with is weaker or less important than you are. Some peo...

...But the human tongue is a beast that few can master. It strains constantly to break out of its ca...

Never assume that the person you are dealing with is weaker or less important than you are. Some peo...

...But the human tongue is a beast that few can master. It strains constantly to break out of its ca...

Never assume that the person you are dealing with is weaker or less important than you are. Some peo...

...But the human tongue is a beast that few can master. It strains constantly to break out of its ca...

What avail is honour or a sword against a pen?

The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.

To see evil and call it good, mocks God. Worse, it makes goodness meaningless. A word without meanin...

Words... They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, ...

And not only narrativity but the quality of the writing is of the first importance to me. Rightly or...

There seems to be a firewall in my mind against ideas expressed in numbers and graphs rather than wo...

It can be difficult to speak truth to power. Circumstances, however, have made doing so increasingly...

We may feel bitterly how little our poems can do in the face of seemingly out of control technologic...

We may feel bitterly how little our poems can do in the face of seemingly out of control technologic...

The two words expressed volumes.

Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk...

The pressure disappeared with the first word he put on paper. He thought--while his hand moved rapid...