Power Of Words Quotes
Writing has nothing to do with meaning. It has to do with landsurveying and cartography, including the mapping of countries yet to come.
Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.
Owing to the vibratory power of words, whatever man voices, he begins to attract.
Khomeini has offered us the opportunity to regain our frail religion ... faith in the power of words.
My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel--it is, before all, to make you see.
If you believe in the power of words, you can bring about physical changes in the universe.
I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.
There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can't be said.
The best word shakers were the ones who understood the true power of words. They were the ones who could climb the highest.
We do not believe in the educative power of words and commands alone, but seek cautiously, and almost without the child's knowing it, to guide his natural activity.
A short story is the ultimate close-up magic trick -- a couple of thousand words to take you around the universe or break your heart.
Words used carelessly, as if they did not matter in any serious way, often allowed otherwise well-guarded truths to seep through.
Prove to the world that you are alive, let your words breathe life into the nostrils of the universe.
Everyone knows the power of a song and it takes you back to that place. Just that power of words can heal.
The rise of Islam offers perhaps the most impressive example in world history of the power of words to alter human behavior in sudden, surprising ways.
Words are not in the power of men; men are in the power of words. Every time we open our mouths, a thousand dead men speak through us.
I write poems for myself and I write poetry that gets torn apart and becomes songs. I have a lot of respect for words, the power of words.
Do not be afraid to talk about food. Food which is worth eating is worth discussing. And there is the occult power of words which somehow will develop its qualities.
Philosophers, for example, often fail to recognize that their remarks about the universe apply also to themselves and their remarks. If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so.
It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.
The power of words is immense. A well-chosen word has often sufficed to stop a flying army, to change defeat into victory and to save an empire.
I grew up in a household where reading was encouraged. My mother believed in the power of words, and my father obviously did too.
I think at a certain age I became conscious of the power of words. And it was fairly late. I was kind of a goofball - but I was always subconsciously thinking about issues.
As children we hoard and gloat over words. Words give ownership: we name our world and we claim it...Children trust the power of words.
If it's one thing we learned from the first book, it's that you don't have to be a prizefighter, or a world-renowned architect, or a concert violinist to have been affected by the power of words.
