Emily Dickinson Quotes

The words we use have weight. Whether it's in a conversation with a friend or something said publicly on stage or broadcast. And as performers, we know that because that's why we choose the words we use - that's the whole point of comedy.

It is very hard to trace the effect of words on a life.

Words are a commodity in which there is never any slump.

It shows the truth - that the real meaning of a word is only as powerful or harmless as the emotion behind it.

Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.

He who wants to persuade should put his trust, not in the right argument, but in the right word.

Those of us in public life have to realize that our words reach the contented and the demented.

I love the English language. Words have power.

Don't tell me words don't matter.

Words have incredible power. They can make people's hearts soar, or they can make people's hearts sore.

Words are not simple things: they take unto themselves, as they have through time, power and meaning.

Your words are containers for power, and by the words you speak you frame your world!

The turn of a sentence has decided the fate of many a friendship, and, for aught that we know, the fate of many a kingdom.

Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts. There are seven words that will make a person love you. There are ten words that will break a strong man's will. But a word is nothing but a painting of a fire. A name is the fire itself.

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

Language creates reality. Words have power. Speak always to create joy.

Words, as you well know, can be powerful. - Digger

What you say is what matters.

A word is worth a thousand pictures.

Be respectful of words. They mean something.

Of all the words in all languages I know, the greatest concentration is in the English word I.

Some people study a text very deeply. The people are my text. I study their words and what their words sound like, over and over again. When I was a kid, my grandfather said that "if you say a word often enough, it becomes you." Thinking of that later in life gave me this idea that I could try to become America by learning the words of people from many aspects of the country. It doesn't matter how educated they are. By living in the world and living their experiences, they bring extraordinary truths. I try to do those truths justice.

What so wild as words are?

I believe that words can help us move or keep us paralyzed, and that our choices of language and verbal tone have something - a great deal - to do with how we live our lives.