Bryan Ferry Quotes

I don't believe in the power of words.

Words have a lot of power.

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

A word after a word after a word is power.

Words are powerful.

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.

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

Words are slippery and thoughts are vicious.

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.

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

Words are not pebbles in alien juxtaposition.

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.

Words can have the same kind of magic as riffs can.

Message matters. Message matters almost as much as actions.

Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble.

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

Accent [emphasis] is the soul of speech; it gives it feeling and truth.

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

Words are powerful. The tongue is powerful. And when you write it down, and record it, and press it up, it's 100 million times more powerful. It's important to utilize our tongue to help people.

Words are important. They do matter.

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

Language is powerful. Words matter.

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

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