393 Quotes About Power-of-words

The power that each of us has over complete strangers to make them feel terrible and and frightened and weak is amazing.

This is my time, I don't own anyone but every one wants to get owned by me

You can't hammer in a nail with words...""No, but you can start a war with them.

To take a thought, to gingerly package it in a handful of words, and then to deliver it to a person for whom both the thought and the words within which it came are life-saving is writing at its best. Anything else is scribbling at its worst.

The sound of music, makes me dance.

Books bear the dreary whisper of an author's memory, a phantom of dreams and mares woven from lessons. Read and explore a life beyond your own, one where forgotten names triumph and fall, and where love and hate crumble the hardest hearts. There is power in words. It can alter the living, immortalize the dead, and forge Gods.

When music hits you, you dance.

It is never my custom to use words lightly. If twenty-seven years in prison have done anything to us, it was to use the silence of solitude to make us understand how precious words are and how real speech is in its impact on the way people live and die.

The pen had been mightier than the sword but then the the tongue took over.