Memories images, once they are fixed in words, are erased.
I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.
A programming language is a tool that has profound influence on our thinking habits.
There's no doubt in my mind that 'Slam' is going to be huge. It's a film about the power of language. People are going to see this and get blown away.
I am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity.
Talking in one language and talking in another, I think inevitably, produce two different personalities, as far as I've seen in other people. I assume it does the same for me.
Words have a magical power. They can either bring the greatest happiness or the deepest despair.
Words are magical in the way they affect the minds of those who use them.
Was it really so far-fetched to think that words had a way of shaping a person's whole life?
Words have incredible power. They can make people's hearts soar, or they can make people's hearts sore.
Although words exist for the most part for the transmission of ideas, there are some which produce such violent disturbance in our feelings that the role they play in the transmission of ideas is lost in the background.
Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.
The tongue has the power of life and death.
In the first instance, performativity must be understood not as a singular or deliberate ‘act,’ but, rather, as the reiterative and citational practice by which discourse produces the effects that it names
There is no such thing as a dirty word. Nor is there a word so powerful, that it's going to send the listener to the lake of fire upon hearing it.
I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.
Samskrit has moulded the minds of our people to the extent to which they themselves are not conscious. Samskrit literature is national in one sense, but its purpose has been universal. That was why it commanded the attention of people who were not followers of a particular culture.
I have every reason to believe that an individual man or woman fluent in several tongues seduces, possesses, remembers differently according to his or her use of the relevant language.
Why and how are words so important that they cannot be too often used.
There are words which cut like steel.
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 differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects.
Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them!
Those who have reflected on the powerful influence of language on thought will perceive in how different a manner people who speak in different languages are apt to think.
We tend to look through language and not realize how much power language has.
