Inspirational Quote by Kenneth Burke Download Open image “Words are like planets, each with its own gravitational pull.” — Kenneth Burke ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Inspirational Language Love Planets
Words, too, have genuine substance -- mass and weight and specific gravity. — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
Words seem like drops of water in a stream that has its own wholeness and its own motion. — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
Words can fall hard like a boulder loosed from a cliff. Words can drift unnoticed like a weed seed on a breeze. Words can… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
If words don't have vibration behind them, and a real feeling behind them, then they're just words — Charlotte Rampling Copy Share Image
They are words that are easy enough to say and which fill vast empty spaces. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Words have weight, something once said cannot be unsaid. Meaning is like a stone dropped into a pool; the ripples will spread and you… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
The most characteristic concern of rhetoric [is] the manipulation of men's beliefs for political ends....the basic function of rhetoric [is] the use of words… — Kenneth Burke Copy Share Image
“With my book in one hand And my drink in the other What more could I want But fame, Better health, And ten million… — Kenneth Burke Copy Share Image
If decisions were a choice between alternatives, decisions would come easy. Decision is the selection and formulation of alternatives. — Kenneth Burke Copy Share Image
For no continuity of social act is possible without a corresponding social status and the many different kinds of act required in an industrial… — Kenneth Burke Copy Share Image
Man is/the symbol-using (symbol making, symbol-misusing) animal/inventor of the negative (or moralized by the negative)/separated from his natural condition by instruments of his own… — Kenneth Burke Copy Share Image
The use of words by human agents to form attitudes or induce actionsin other human agents. — Kenneth Burke Copy Share Image
You persuade a man only insofar as you can talk his language by speech, gesture, tonality, order, image, attitude, idea, identifying your ways with… — Kenneth Burke Copy Share Image
Rhetoric is rooted in an essential function of language itself, a function that is wholly realistic and continually born anew: the use of language… — Kenneth Burke Copy Share Image
We not only interpret the character of events... we may also interpret our interpretations. — Kenneth Burke Copy Share Image
We talk to God--that is prayer; God talks to us--that is inspiration. — H. Emilie Cady Copy Share Image
You'll seldom experience regret for anything that you've done. It is what you haven't done that will torment you. The message, therefore, is clear.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Just understand that the good that you want is already here. All you have to do is get in harmony with it. And you… — Bob Proctor Copy Share Image
“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
It's a hard thing to describe. It's just this sense that you got something to say. — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image