Quotes About Influence

Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.

The medium is the message.

The stroke of the whip maketh marks in the flesh; but the stroke of the tongue breaketh the bones. Many have fallen by the edge of the sword; but not so many as have fallen by the tongue.

The magic of the tongue is the most dangerous of all spells.

A word after a word after a word is power.

Everybody undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has the aptitude for it or not.

Begin with another's to end with your own.

Writers are the engineers of human souls.

I quote others in order to better express my own self.

Caesar had perished from the world of men Had not his sword been rescued by his pen.

Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.

I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with a little assistance from a professor of Greek and a few poets.

Writing has power, but its power has no vector. Writers can stir the mind, but they can't direct it. Time changes things, God changes things, the dictators change things, but writers can't change anything.

Much may be made of a Scotchman if he be caught young.

Attitude is the "little" thing that makes the big difference.

Think of that — what little things change the world's history...

The mike is mightier than the pen or the sword.

The pen is mightier than the sword. The [??n!$] is mightier than the pen.

To Lady Bird Johnson Not all the soldiers were in Vietnam. This one was in the White House.

The Child is father of the Man...

The tongue is not the sea but it can drown you.

And is then example nothing? It is everything. Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

They are little to be feared whose tongues are their swords.

Addiction has a more powerful pull than just about anything else on earth.