Nikolai Gogol Quotes

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

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

Words outlive people, institutions, civilizations. Words spur images, associations, memories, inspirations and synapse pulsations. Words send off physical resonations of thought into the nethersphere. Words hurt, soothe, inspire, demean, demand, incite, pacify, teach, romance, pervert, unite, divide. Words be powerful.

When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.

The pen and the written word hold a great deal of power.

Words are more powerful than some noises. Noises won't last long. Lyrics are so important, and people don't realise that.

My words are my sword.

If it's one thing we learned from the first book, it's that you don't have to be a prizefighter, or a world-renowned architect, or a concert violinist to have been affected by the power of words.

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

Preaching and writing - it's the same. Whether I'm writing to speak or writing to be read in a book, it's the same thing.

The spoken word is nothing. It hardly lives longer than an insect! Only the written word is eternal. - Balbulus

Get what you can with words, because words are free, but the words of an armed man ring that much sweeter.

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

For when all else is done, on­ly words re­main. Words en­dure.

The written word endures, the spoken word disappears

Art, its completeness, its formedness, its finishedness, had no power to console. Words on the other hand, were a lifeline. They left their hushed rhythm behind, a counter to the slow in and out of Emmeline's breathing.

I'd come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.

Words are often things also, and very precious, especially on the gravest occasions. Without "words," and the truth of things that is in them, what were we?

The beginning is the word and the end is silence. And in between are all the stories.

I put a lot of stock in the written word, and the power of it. That's what I love about acting and reading scripts. Words are really powerful. I don't believe that axiom at all - words can absolutely hurt you. Words can wound. They can do a lot of damage. I think they can do way more damage than sticks and stones. I'll take sticks and stones.

You move just a finger, say the slightest word, something's bound to linger-be heard.

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.

Throughout human history, our greatest leaders and thinkers have used the power of words to transform our emotions, to enlist us in their causes, and to shape the course of destiny. Words can not only create emotions, they create actions. And from our actions flow the results of our lives.

Writing is a weapon and it’s more powerful than a fist could ever be.