Impact of Language Quotes

As long as a word remains unspoken, you are its master; once you utter it, you are its slave.

Words are also actions.

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

The tongue is more to be feared than the sword.

Words kill, words give life; they're either poison or fruit--- YOU choose.

A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.

Because even the smallest of words can be the ones to hurt you, or save you.

Though the pen is mightier than the sword, the sword speaks louder and stronger at any given moment.

A cannon fires only once but words detonate across centuries

We know that words cannot move mountains, but they can move the multitude; and men are more ready to fight and die for a word than for anything else. Words shape thought, stir feeling, and beget action; they kill and revive, corrupt and cure. The "men-of-words"- priests, prophets, intellectuals- have played a more decisive role in history than military leaders, statesmen, and businessmen.

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.

Oh words, what crimes are committed in your name? ~Jack or The Submission

Howard Stern gave me the best advice about Twitter and the N word. He said maybe onstage people get the intention behind the joke, but a tweet is 140 characters or less, and maybe that's why people overreact. I don't need to rustle any more feathers and lose any investors.

I hadn't fully realized just how powerful words could be before this. Whoever came up with the saying 'sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me' was talking out of his or her armpit.

People do stupid things... words are important.

Parents, teachers, clergy and physicians change lives with their words. It is hypnotic for a child or patient to hear an authority figure's words. As I am always sharing, 'wordswordswords' can become 'swordswordswords,' and we can kill or cure with either words or swords.

The seeds you are harvesting today were planted by the words of your mouth yesterday.

You know, I think there are certain words like 'illegitimate' that should not be used to describe a person. And certainly, we have come far enough in our technology that our language can evolve, because it has an impact.

What so wild as words are?

The speaker does not own the words he utters, or control their effect.

Words should have the power to inform and to move, not the power to send people scurrying away. But if you attach that much emotional energy to a word, it gives people the power to hurt each other.

I'm a firm believer that language and how we use language determines how we act, and how we act then determines our lives and other people's lives.

The words are not mere words. They are the breath and mind, perhaps even the soul, of the person who is reading.

Sometimes you don't know the effect of words until you hear it used on you.

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.