#word

The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words. ↗

— Philip K. Dick

#control #manipulation #meaning #meaning of #must

All Bridget Jones did was give us a word for it - singleton - which was the worst possible thing. ↗

— Daisy Donovan

#bridget jones #did #give #jones #possible

I cannot take back one word or action; the past does not change for anyone. ↗

— Charles Van Doren

#anyone #back #cannot #change #does

No matter how close to personal experience a story might be, inevitably you are going to get to a part that isn't yours and, actually, whether it happened or not becomes irrelevant. It is all about choosing the right words. ↗

— Roddy Doyle

#actually #becomes #choosing #close #experience

It's really the sound of the voices, the sound of the words, the sound of the sound that we're interested in. ↗

— Anne Dudley

#really #sound #voices #words

Let us lose none of their humble words, let us note their slightest gestures, and tell me, tell me that we will think of them together, now and later, when we realise the misery of the times and the magnitude of their sacrifice. ↗

— Georges Duhamel

#humble #later #let us #lose #magnitude

All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope. ↗

— Alexandre Dumas

#human #human wisdom #summed #two #up

I want to be on set and die hearing those words: Where's Peter? ↗

— Peter Fonda

#hearing #i #peter #set #those

The sound of 'gentle stillness' after all the thunder and wind have passed will the ultimate Word from God. ↗

— Jim Elliot

#gentle #god #passed #sound #stillness

I love the sound of words, the feel of them, the flow of them. I love the challenge of finding just that perfect combination of words to describe a curl of the lip, a tilt of the chin, a change in the atmosphere. Done well, novel-writing can combine lyricism with practicality in a way that makes one think of grand tapestries, both functional and beautiful. Fifty years from now, I imagine I’ll still be questing after just that right combination of words. ↗

— Lauren Willig

#wordsmithing #writing #beauty