"Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours."

Idle, Eric | Words | 4 bookmarks

"The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words."

Dick, Philip K. | Words | 1 bookmarks

"The written word can be erased -- not so with the spoken word."

Unknown, Source | Words | 2 bookmarks

"I am a dreamer of words, of written words. I think I am reading; a word stops me. I leave the page. The syllables of the word begin to move around. Stressed accents begin to invert. The word abandons its meaning like an overload which is too heavy and prevents dreaming. Then words take on other meanings as if they had the right to be young. And the words wander away, looking in the nooks and crannies of vocabulary for new company, bad company."

Bachelard, Gaston | Words | 1 bookmarks

"Gentle words, quiet words, are after all the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more compelling, more prevailing."

Gladden, W. | Words | 2 bookmarks

"A word after a word after a word is power."

Atwood, Margaret | Power | 5 bookmarks

"Don't use that foreign word ideals. We have that excellent native word lies."

Ibsen, Henrik | Ideals and Idealism | 1 bookmarks

"Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it."

Gide, Andre | Truth | 6 bookmarks

"What we do upon some great occasion will probably depend on what we already are. What we are will be the result of previous years of self-discipline."

Liddon, Henry Parry | Discipline | 3 bookmarks

"The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom."

Mencken, H. L. | Age and Aging | 1 bookmarks