Quotes about words
Words are swords
Pentru a invata sa vorbeasca, fiinta umana are nevoie de doar 2 ani. Pentru a invata sa taca… o viata intreaga.
A gossip is one who talks to you about others; a bore is one who talks to you about himself; a brilliant conversationalist is one who talks to you about yourself.
Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
– Nathaniel Hawthorne
I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings.
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
So the whole war is because we can’t talk to each other…
– Orson Scott Card, Ender’s game
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 them.
– Philip K. Dick
No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words.
– Roger Zelazny, Lord of Light
For every word, there is an underworld…
– Krassi Zourkova, Wildalone
What is above all needed is to let the meaning choose the word, and not the other way around. In prose, the worst thing one can do with words is surrender to them. When you think of a concrete object, you think wordlessly, and then, if you want to describe the thing you have been visualising you probably hunt about until you find the exact words that seem to fit it. When you think of something abstract you are more inclined to use words from the start, and unless you make a conscious effort to prevent it, the existing dialect will come rushing in and do the job for you, at the expense of blurring or even changing your meaning. Probably it is better to put off using words as long as possible and get one’s meaning as clear as one can through pictures and sensations. Afterward one can choose – not simply accept – the phrases that will best cover the meaning, and then switch round and decide what impressions one’s words are likely to make on another person.
– George Orwell: Politics and the English Language
Articles
Can I cast a spell just using words?
Some people say you actually can :)
https://quora.com/Can-I-cast-a-spell-just-using-words
Words have more power than you think
http://kreativforditas.com/your-words-have-more-power-than-you-think
Powerful examples of how words can literally put a spell on you!
http://kreativforditas.com/6-powerful-examples-words-can-literally-put-spell
Do nursery rhymes have secret meanings behind their innocent exterior?
Baa Baa Black Sheep, Lucy Locket lost her Pocket and Humpty Dumpty all seem like sweet and simple children’s nursery rhymes, but is there more to them than meets the eye?
Many nursery rhymes do have a secret meaning behind them. They were once satirical, subversive folk songs about historical events or the despised conduct of leaders.
Behind these lie darker tales of cowardice, greed, immorality, cruelty, religious persecution, execution, sickness, and death. But most nursery rhymes were created just as innocent entertainment for children.
https://nurseryrhymecentral.com/the-fascinating-secret-meanings-behind-nursery-rhymes
Dark & Creepy meanings behind our favorite nursery rhymes & lullabies
Most of the nursery rhymes and songs we know have been around for centuries. And while the melody might be relaxing and the lyrics catchy, there are some creepy and dark meanings behind them that we didn’t expect
https://cafemom.com/parenting/meanings-nursery-rhymes-lullabies/mary-mary-quite-contrary
English words
The word “Grammar” shares its roots with the French word “Grimoire” which is basically a book of instructions in the use of magic.
In english language, money is connected to the language of water:
- what’s on the side of a river? Banks, right? And what do they do? Direct the flow of currency == current-sea
- “money flow”, “liquid cash”, “being flush”, “keeping a business afloat” and “making a deposit at the bank”
- “Mortgage”… it’s macabre and a pledge. Mort (french) == dead
- “Merchant” also means ‘sea’ hence the ‘Mer’ in Mermaids. merchant == the chant of the sea (literally)
- our “offspring” (spring is also water) begin as semen (sea men) are born via their mothers “birth (berth) canal”, when her “waters” break and are immediately issued with a “birth (berth) certificate”
- as people get older and wish to travel abroad, they need to prove their citizen (ship of course) by obtaining a passport (pass port)
- all ships are females. Have female names and they deliver a product. She is seaworthy. She sits in her berth.
Have you ever woken up on a Monday “mourning” and felt like dying?
Or somehow managed to get through your exhausting “week days” in a “weak daze”?
You wake up in the mourning and go to the jobe, it’s a real undertaking.
You want to have a jobe (job) to urn (earn) a living, can’t wait to have a weak end (weekend)
You have a mort-gage (dead pledge), you’re in dead (debt), it’s gravely (dead in a grave) serious
Why is Pissfull read the same as Peaceful?
Knowledge = know ledger (an entry book for things you know)
Understanding = under standing (standing under the foundation you’re building on)
“I Magi Nation” = A nation of magicians
“Earth” is an anagram of “heart”.
“Evil” backwards is “Live”.
Thinky words:
- any-thing
- every-thing
- no-thing
- some-thing
