Rita Mae Brown Quotes

We tend to look through language and not realize how much power language has.

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.

Words are magical in the way they affect the minds of those who use them.

Words are so awesome. Words are containers for power. They carry either creative power or destructive power.

To me, words are like stickpins. I can throw a word at you and it will bounce right off your body. But if I take that little stickpin and wire it to the back of an iron bar called human emotion, I can put that thing right through your heart.

I believe that words can help us move or keep us paralyzed, and that our choices of language and verbal tone have something - a great deal - to do with how we live our lives.

A word after a word after a word is power.

There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.

I'm a firm believer that language and how we use language determines how we act, and how we act then determines our lives and other people's lives.

Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power.

I have been a believer in the magic of language since, at a very early age, I discovered that some words got me into trouble and others got me out.

Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble.

There's no doubt in my mind that 'Slam' is going to be huge. It's a film about the power of language. People are going to see this and get blown away.

Words, for all they were flimsy and invisible, had great strength. They could be fortified as a castle wall and sharp as a foil. They could bite, slap, shock, wound. But unlike deeds, words couldn't really help you. No promise ever rescued a person; it was the carrying-through of it that brought about salvation.

The pen is mightier than the sword, but the tongue is mightier than them both put together.

Words are sacred. If you get the right ones in the right order you can nudge the world a little.

I am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity.

The power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to.

Language is power... Language can be used as a means of changing reality.

So powerful is the charm of words, which for us reduces to manageable entities all the passions that would otherwise madden and destroy us.

One must know and recognize not merely the direct but the secret power of the word.

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.

There's a power in words. There's a power in being able to explain and describe and articulate what you know and feel and believe about the world, and about yourself.

Be careful with words, they're dangerous. Be wary of them. They begat either demons or angels. It's up to you to give life to one or the other. Be careful, I tell you, nothing is as dangerous as giving free rein to words

Our words set the direction for our lives.