Top 100 Quotes About A Thousand Words
#1. Every picture paints a thousand words and that one said 'goodbye'
Kevin Keegan
#2. Beyond that, I learned about visual adaptation - what a picture can say, and what it can't. A picture's worth a thousand words, but its vocabulary is limited. A picture's no sesquipedalian.
Brent Weeks
#3. A picture is worth a thousand words. An interface is worth a thousand pictures.
Ben Shneiderman
#4. A thousand words blossomed to her lips and died there, because no amount of speaking could communicate the depths of how he'd affected her. Of how he'd changed her.
Katherine McIntyre
#5. A Picture Speaks a Thousand Words - A Book Paints a Thousand Pictures.
Philos Sopher
#6. You know, photo conversations are replacing verbal conversations. I don't know if that's a bad thing. A photo is worth a thousand words.
Ashton Kutcher
#7. Better than a meaningless story of a thousand words is a single word of deep meaning which, when heard, produces peace.
Gautama Buddha
#8. The truth is more complex than it seems and a good heart has more impact than anyone with a thousand words or actions.
Robin Sacredfire
#9. In a thousand words I can have the Lord's Prayer, the 23rd Psalm, the Hippocratic Oath, a sonnet by Shakespeare, the Preamble to the Constitution, Lincoln's Gettysburg Address and almost all of the Boy Scout Oath. Now exactly what picture were you planning to trade for all that?
Roy H. Williams
#10. I know they say that a picture's worth a thousand words, but it's amazing how often those words tell the wrong story.
Jacqueline E. Smith
#11. A picture may be worth a thousand words, but a thousand words is only three pages.
M.R. Mathias
#12. As for a picture, if it isn't worth a thousand words, the hell with it.
Ad Reinhardt
#13. A picture's worth a thousand words? A library card's worth millions.
Roy Blount Jr.
#14. His blue eyes spoke a thousand words all rolled into a heartfelt stare. They calmed the panic inside my body. In the silence between two friends, the air carried an entire conversation. His dark lashes blinked back a vow I knew he meant more than anything. 'I promise this will not destroy us.
S.D. Hendrickson
#15. love.
love isn't having butterflies all the time, i think love is calm. love is comfortable. i could sit in silence with you for the rest of our lives and it would mean more than a thousand words with anyone else.
F.R. Media
#16. There was a fine line of making love and fucking but this was love-fucking. This was cruel but sweet. Angry but happy. It was a thousand words in one timeless action - righting the wrongs of our past and hopefully repairing a future we both didn't think we'd ever find.
Pepper Winters
#17. The way I write is this: I write about a thousand words a day, a little bit more. The next morning, I read those thousand words and cursorily edit that. Then I write the next thousand. I do that all the way to the end of the book and then I reread the book quite a few times, editing as go through.
Walter Mosley
#18. A picture paints a thousand words, a thousand poorly chosen words.
S.E. Toon
#19. A picture may tell a thousand words but it doesn't tell a story
Thomas Wright
#20. There are some people who could hear you speak a thousand words, and still not understand you. And there are others who will understand - without you even speaking a word.
Yasmin Mogahed
#21. If a picture is worth a thousand words, then the imagination is worth a thousand pictures.
J.E.B. Spredemann
#22. They say a picture tells a thousand words, but photographs reveal only a small part of the real story about a person.
Brownell Landrum
#23. I had been caught with one of Prodigium's greatest enemies. Something told me that punishment would be a lot worse than writing a thousand words on some obscure topic.
Rachel Hawkins
#24. I read once that the ancient Egyptians had fifty words for sand & the Eskimos had a hundred words for snow. I wish I had a thousand words for love, but all that comes to mind is the way you move against me while you sleep & there are no words for that.
Brian Andreas
#25. People say that a picture is worth a thousand words, but sometimes a mighty quotation is worth more than a thousand pictures.
Jakub Marian
#26. A picture may say a thousand words, but a word can say what only a word can say.
Vishesh Sharma
#27. Ladies and gentlemen, a picture is not worth a thousand words. We found some pictures that are worth 500 billion words.
Erez Lieberman Aiden
#28. A thousand words leave not the same deep impression as does a single deed.
Henrik Ibsen
#29. A friend is someone who can brighten your day with a simple smile, when others try to do it with a thousand words.
Rachel
#30. A picture can say a thousand words, but a sentence can paint a thousand pictures ...
J. Buchanan
#31. A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
Henrik Ibsen
#32. I just write what I think is good and keep it at a thousand words.
Henry Rollins
#33. Better than chanting a thousand words in a dead language is one soothing word spoken in the vernacular.
Gautama Buddha
#34. There's that statement, "A picture is worth a thousand words" - well, I think flying around in Google Earth is worth a million words.
Rebecca Moore
#35. One picture is worth a thousand words. Yes, but only if you look at the picture and say or think the thousand words
William, Saroyan
#36. Pictures rarely told the truth. They were like gold lacquer over Styrofoam, making things seem shiny and bright, disguising the fragility beneath. A picture may be worth a thousand words, but it still wasn't worth a whole hell of a lot.
Amy Harmon
#37. Today, Leslie writes at least a thousand words a day on DC Metro orange line trains. Most of them perish behind the delete button.
Leslie Welch
#38. Too much. Too fast. Too intense. The glass soul falls to the ground and shatters into a thousand words. The invisible boy becomes visible, and all of a sudden, his emotions blast neon.
David Levithan
#41. I tried to think of a witty play on Every picture tells a thousand words, but then the whole word/picture thing collapsed on me.
Douglas Coupland
#42. A picture tells a thousand words. But you get a thousand pictures from someone's voice.
Paul Fleischman
#43. They say a picture is worth a thousand words. In the nonprofit world, the right picture is worth tens of thousands of dollars. I use PhotoPad to sync our Samasource Flickr account to my iPad and slip it out of my purse at cocktail parties to tell our story.
Leila Janah
#44. All photos speak a thousand words. This one contained a library.
Rivera Sun
#45. Just give me a thousand words and you may make your own pictures.
Erica Goros
#46. A thousand words can't make the mark a single deed will leave.
Henrik Ibsen
#48. Her silence was worth more to her than a thousand words.In that silence,she had peace and clarity.Except during the night,when her own jumbled thoughts would keep her awake.
Cecelia Ahern
#49. Yeah a picture paints a thousand words it's true,
But it's still not enough for how I feel about you.
I wanna put you in a melody, I gotta set you to a groove
Keith Urban
#50. I wanted to write two thousand words a day, and if I wrote a thousand words a day I was happy.
Neil Gaiman
#52. A penny for your dirty thoughts A pin for your cheating lips. If a picture's worth a thousand words I hope your counterfeit canvas rips.
Isobel Irons
#54. A photograph is worth a thousand words, provided it is accompanied by only ten words.
Edward Steichen
#56. A guilty conscience speaks a thousand words...Just saying
Jasmine Lee
#57. I write a thousand words a day. Nothing will stop me, I mean nothing, until the book is finished. I'm disciplined in spite of myself.
Joseph Wambaugh
#58. Write a thousand words a day and in three years you'll be a writer!
Ray Bradbury
#59. That was the thing about pictures
they were worth a thousand words, but sometimes they weren't the right ones.
Melissa De La Cruz
#60. A picture can tell a thousand words,
but a few words can change it's story.
Sebastyne Young
#61. Try writing an entire story with only a thousand words at your disposal. It's a terrific lesson in economy and precession.
Darynda Jones
#62. A picture's worth a thousand words. But a single word can make you think of over a thousand pictures in your mind, over a thousand moments, a thousand memories.
Rebecca McNutt
#63. Like, for example, sleeve length. Should he hide the tattoos? Or just wear a T-shirt and let "them" do the talking? If one picture's worth a thousand words, that's the first two thousand right there, two thousand minus the hi howareya nicetameetcha.
Francine Prose
#64. a picture is worth a thousand words.
Belle Ami
#65. I got a lot of flak originally for writing with photographs, because the great cliche in photography is that one photograph is worth a thousand words, and photographers are usually dodo birds anyway.
Duane Michals
#66. A demonstration is more than worth a thousand words.
Michael Scott
#68. There were a thousand words for dreams realized and only one common whimper for hopes interrupted.
Susan Meissner
#69. In the same way that our actions can be worth more than a thousand words, the words 'I'm sorry . . .' carry enormous weight and value, and can start a process of self-healing and overall healing in any relationship.
Yilda B. Rivera
#70. A picture is worth a thousand words, but conversations with them generally end in dissapointment.
Dov Davidoff
#71. They say a picture's worth a thousand words, but with me it always ends up being well over a hundred thousand.
Luke Taylor
#72. A picture might be worth a thousand words but a good sentence is worth a thousand windows
Mati Klarwein
#73. If a picture paints a thousand words, then a naked picture paints a thousand words without any vowels ...
Josh Stern
#74. It's the hardest thing for an actor not to speak because you take away their main tool. So for an actor, it's very frustrating and very challenging, and very few people can pull it off. Some actors can say a thousand words with just a look, and it's a unique gift.
Nicolas Winding Refn
#75. A Greek will never say anything he hasn't already said a thousand times. Her husband Charles reprimanded me for not knowing the word. To Charles it was a mark of one's respect for other cultures to know the local terms of abuse and the words for sex acts and natural wastes.
Don DeLillo
#76. It's interesting that, given our culture has so many words that refer to women in a truly derogatory fashion, it's 'lady' - a term that has conferred social respect on our gender for over a thousand years - that has women up in arms.
Sara Sheridan
#77. One good, compassionate and caring Self is a thousand times greater than all the fanciful, imaginary supernatural entities in the world.
Abhijit Naskar
#78. How many words a day do I write? Between six and seven thousand. And how many hours does that take? Three on a good day, as high as thirteen on a bad one
John Creasey
#79. Today I acquired a collection of ray guns, posed for a cover spread, and wrote four thousand words of essay, including a reminder for my readers to avoid that terrible gallery show. What have you done?"
"Science," Drake said, annoyance shadowing his face as he crossed to the bar.
Michael R. Underwood
#80. I never believe anything that a lawyer says when he has a wig on his head and a fee in his hand. I prepare myself beforehand to regard it all as mere words, supplied at so much the thousand. I know he'll say whatever he thinks most likely to forward his own views.
Anthony Trollope
#81. The past but lives in written words: a thousand ages were blank if books had not evoked their ghosts, and kept the pale unbodied shades to warn us from fleshless lips.
Francois Fenelon
#82. Don't try to write too much in a single session. One thousand words a day is quite enough. Stop after about four or five hours.
Robert Harris
#83. Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.
Buddha
#84. I love words because you can only live one life, but in a novel, you can live a thousand: you contain multitudes.
Richard Flanagan
#85. Scripture is God speaking. Though the words they'd read had been penned more than a thousand years earlier, still God spoke in the reading of those words. Jesus held them accountable for the words of Scripture as if God Himself had spoken those words directly to them!
James R. White
#86. Rather a thousand times the county jail than to lie under this marble figure with wings and this granite pedestal bearing the words "pro patria." What do they mean anyway?
Edgar Lee Masters
#87. Don't you know yet that men are full of words that mean nothing? The silence of a woman is a thousand times weightier. You must learn to trust silence. To load it with truth, and to wait.
Sharon Maas
#88. It had always fascinated him that she'd consumed so many words, that her head was full of stories, told a thousand different ways.
Sarah Addison Allen
#89. I wish I could read a couple of thousand words a day. Words written by someone else for a change!
A. Louise Robertson
#90. Not so, however, with books, for books cannot change. A thousand years hence they are what you find them to-day, speaking the same words, holding forth the same cheer, the same promise, the same comfort; always constant, laughing with those who laugh and weeping with those who weep.
Eugene Field
#91. And about a thousand other things, he says, pausing sometimes between his words, making sure he has them right. I get the sense that words are not sufficient tools for him to build what's going on in his head as he stands before me.
Lauren DeStefano
#92. I lack the skill to hold a story line for the length required for a novel or even a short story. I have never had an idea that could withstand a hundred thousand words, or even ten thousand words of rubber meeting the road.
Henry Rollins
#93. One lie has the power to tarnish a thousand truths.
Al David
#94. One real meeting is much better than a thousand internet or social media words.
Stephen Richards
#95. A short story is the ultimate close-up magic trick
a couple of thousand words to take you around the universe or break your heart.
Neil Gaiman
#96. I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago.
Carl Sandburg
#97. Language is an impure medium. Speech is public property and words are the soiled products, not of nature, but of society, which circulates and uses them for a thousand different ends.
Edward Hirsch
#98. Steven, my friend who came out to me my senior year, was a huge Madonna fan. So I may know all the words to 'Bedtime Stories,' 'Erotica,' and a few more of her albums - and we may have watched 'Truth or Dare' a thousand times.
Jason Mraz
#99. The weapons an author has at her disposal are flawed. There are words that feel shapeless and overused. Love, for example. I could write the word love a thousand times and it would mean a thousand different things to different readers.
Jodi Picoult
#100. A limited vocabulary, but one with which you can make numerous combinations, is better than thirty thousand words that only hamper the action of the mind.
Paul Valery
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