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
Words matter. Especially ones with four letters.
He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.
The pen is mightier than the sword, but the tongue is mightier than them both put together.
Language is power... Language can be used as a means of changing reality.
The more articulate one is, the more dangerous words become.
The best word shakers were the ones who understood the true power of words. They were the ones who could climb the highest. One such word shaker was a small, skinny girl. She was renowned as the best word shaker of her region because she knew how powerless a person could be WITHOUT words.
Words are the source of all power. And names are more than just a collection of letters.
Was it really so far-fetched to think that words had a way of shaping a person's whole life?
But words are more powerful than anything.
The best word shakers were the ones who understood the true power of words. They were the ones who could climb the highest.
I can feel the power of the words doing the work. Must trust language more.
One must know and recognize not merely the direct but the secret power of the word.
...words are not only meaning but music and magic and power.
Language is inexorably tied to power and understanding. And power and understanding are the roots of magic. Just the act of writing something down is a magical act.
The only thing I'd rather own than Windows is English. Then I'd be able to charge you an upgrade fee every time I add new letters like N and T.
To write does not mean to convert the real into words but to make the power of the word real.
In our language rhyme is a barrel. A barrel of dynamite. The line is a fuse. The line smoulders to the end and explodes; and the town is blown sky-high in a stanza.
of all the weapons of destruction that man could invent, the most terrible-and the most powerful-was the word. Daggers and spears left traces of blood; arrows could be seen at a distance. Poisons were detected in the end and avoided. But the word managed to destroy without leaving clues.
Language was not given to man: he seized it.
Words can be turned into spears. They can be turned into prayers. It's a strange world that you are in. But you deal with words.
Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
Sometimes words drew blood, they cut your tongue, they made you know things you couldn't unknow.
When you are writing laws you are testing words to find their utmost power. Like spells, they have to make things happen in the real world, and like spells, they only work if people believe in them.
I am fascinated by language in daily life: the way it can evoke an emotion, a visual image, a complex idea, or a simple truth.
