The Power Of The Written Word Quotes

#1. Concering the power of the written word

Julie Hearn

#2. My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel
it is, before all, to make you see.

Joseph Conrad

#3. To me, there's no better way to stir the soul than through the power of the written word.

Jake Parent

#4. My task is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel
it is, before all, to make you see. That
and no more, and it is everything.

Joseph Conrad

#5. A work is finished when an artist realizes his intentions.

Rembrandt

#6. But I have long loved the written word, and come to see in it the power of the sleeping lion. This is my name. This is who I am. This is how I got here. In the absence of an audience, I will write down my story so that it waits like a restful beast with lungs breathing and heart beating.

Lawrence Hill

#7. The Invitation, To Tom Highes What we can we will be, Honest Englishmen. Do the work that's nearest, Though it's dull at whiles, Helping, when we meet them, Lame dogs over stiles.

Charles Kingsley

#8. This is the paradox of the power of literature: it seems that only when it is persecuted does it show its true powers, challenging authority, whereas in our permissive society it feels that it is being used merely to create the occasional pleasing contrast to the general ballooning of verbiage.

Italo Calvino

#9. Things spoken can be forgotten and forgiven, but the written word has the power to change the course of history, to alter our lives.

Teresa Mummert

#10. I was afraid you would deny me three times before your cock grows.

David Burr Gerrard

#11. 18For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. 19For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the discernment of the discerning I will thwart.

Anonymous

#12. 18For the word of the cross is b folly to c those who are perishing, but to us d who are being saved it is e the power of God. 19For it is written,

Anonymous

#13. There are essentially two main reasons to hold a phone up at a show. First, to capture a memory for yourself, a reminder of the moment you're enjoying. And second, to share that moment with someone - to express your emotions socially. Both seem perfectly legitimate to me.

John Battelle

#14. Your body will produce what your mind believes.

Marshall Sylver

#15. I found there's a fairly blatant racism in America that's already there, and I don't think I noticed it when I lived here as a kid. But when I went back to South Africa, and then it's sort of thrust in your face, and then came back here - I just see it everywhere.

Dave Matthews

#16. Values are not just words, values are what we live by. They're about the causes that we champion and the people we fight for

John F. Kerry

#17. A man who writes a story is forced to put into it the best of his knowledge and the best of his feeling. The discipline of the written word punishes stupidity and dishonesty. A writer lives in awe of words for they can be cruel or kind, and they can change their meanings right in front of you.

John Steinbeck

#18. You are sitting on the earth and you realize that this earth deserves you and you deserve this earth. You are there - fully, personally, genuinely.

Chogyam Trungpa

#19. The word is not just a sound or a written symbol. The word is a force; it is the power you have to express and communicate, to think, and thereby to create the events in your life. The word is the most powerful tool you have as a human; it is a tool of magic.

Miguel Angel Ruiz

#20. There are many kinds of powers in the world - military power, power of the written word, intellectual power. We've tried and failed to bring peace with these kind of powers. The greatest power is the power of love.

Mata Amritanandamayi

#21. God's tried and tested people will find their power in the sign spoken of in Exodus 31:12-18. They are to take their stand on the living word: "It is written." This is the only foundation upon which they can stand securely.53

Ellen G. White

#22. A kiss brings back the youth of a young child, as when a hug brings back the memories of a lover.

Jennifer Chen

#23. A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I'm writing about New York.

Lana Del Rey

#24. The written word held a power she almost revered: to be able to write so as to influence the hearts and minds of other readers seemed nothing short of a miracle.

Patti Callahan Henry

#25. The question up for debate between Socrates and Phaedrus is whether the written word kills memory or aids it--whether it cripples the mind's power, or whether it cures it of its forgetfulness.

Maggie Nelson