Word Significance Quotes

I believe words mean something. I really do.

Words matter. Especially ones with four letters.

Words have meaning. And their meaning doesn't change.

For words are magical formulae. They leave finger marks be hind on the brain, which in the twinkling of an eye become the footprints of history. One ought to watch one' s every word.

There aren't any magical words, really. Words just hold the magic.

… words acquire scope and function from the history of events which they summarize

If words fall into disrepair, what will substitute? They are all we have

Words matter, words have import.

Words play an enormous part in our lives and are therefore deserving of the closest study.

I am convinced that words are things, and we simply don't have the machinery to measure what they are. I believe that words are tangible things.

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

Language is powerful. Words matter.

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.

One must know and recognize not merely the direct but the secret power of the word.

There is no such thing as an empty word, only one that is worn out yet remains full.

Just remember, kid, you can quicker get back a million dollars that was stole than a word that you gave away.

There is all the poetry in the world in a name. It is a poem which the mass of men hear and read. What is poetry in the common sense, but a hearing of such jingling names? I want nothing better than a good word. The name of a thing may easily be more than the thing itself to me.

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.

A story is a way to say something that can’t be said any other way, and it takes every word in the story to say what the meaning is.

Every word is a messenger. Some have wings; some are filled with fire; some are filled with death.

Why and how are words so important that they cannot be too often used.

Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects.

Words... They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build bridges across incomprehension and chaos. But when they get their corners knocked off, they're no good any more... I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you're dead.

For me, however, that beloved, glowing little word happiness has become associated with everything I have felt since childhood upon hearing the sound of the word itself.

Language is the mother, not the handmaiden, of thought; words will tell you things you never thought or felt before.