The best Quotes and Sayings about Words

Too easily, words of war become acts of war.

Long before blades and sorcery are needed, words... can save a soul.

The written word endures, the spoken word disappears.

Words have a lot of power.

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

I loved words. I love to sing them and speak them and even now, I must admit, I have fallen into the joy of writing them.

Words are, in my not so humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic, capable of both inflicting injury and remedying it.

No armies, no war, no oppression - but words have the ability to change the course of things.

You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.

Trying to write about love is ultimately like trying to have a dictionary represent life. No matter how many words there are, there will never be enough.

I grew up in a household where reading was encouraged. My mother believed in the power of words, and my father obviously did too.

Sometimes words are harder than blows.

No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.

Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.

No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world.

My father told and taught me that 'the word can hit harder than the fist.'

Complete sentences - now there's something that's hard to come by these days.

After all, only so much we can say,
words can lose their meaning, once you walk away.

Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.

Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

Love is a word you gave it a name.

All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

Where words are scarse, they are seldome spent in vaine.

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'

The difference between the almost right word and the right word is the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.