Olly Alexander Quotes

Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.

Words are not trivial. They matter because they raise consciousness.

A word after a word after a word is power.

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.

It has not been for nothing that the word has remained man's principal toy and tool: without the meanings and values it sustains, all man's other tools would be worthless.

Words make a world of difference. Over time, they become charged with inference and allusion and, deployed effectively, they have the power to change the very fabric of our civilisation.

Language is powerful. Words matter.

All big changes of the world come from words.

Words can be very powerful. I find them very difficult.

I have been a believer in the magic of language since, at a very early age, I discovered that some words got me into trouble and others got me out.

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

I don't believe in the power of words.

Unless one understands the power of words, he will never understand men.

Words, which are the dress of thoughts, deserve surely more care than clothes, which are only the dress of the person.

I believe words mean something. I really do.

Words have a lot of power.

Words are powerful.

One word is worth a thousand pictures. If it's the right word.

Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.

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?

There are words and words and none mean anything. And then one sentence means everything.

Words have the power to change us.

Words must surely be counted among the most powerful drugs man ever invented.

A lot of people understand what not saying anything means, so, in effect, not saying anything is really saying a lot.

My use of language is part and parcel of my message.