Top 100 Thousand Words Quotes
#1. Every picture paints a thousand words and that one said 'goodbye'
Kevin Keegan
#2. How much more ought we to cherish and marvel at the fact that for nearly two thousand years people have prayed this prayer. When you take these words on your lips you stand on hallowed ground.
N. T. Wright
#3. 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
#4. A picture is worth a thousand words. An interface is worth a thousand pictures.
Ben Shneiderman
#5. 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
#6. A Picture Speaks a Thousand Words - A Book Paints a Thousand Pictures.
Philos Sopher
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. Better than a meaningless story of a thousand words is a single word of deep meaning which, when heard, produces peace.
Gautama Buddha
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. One good, compassionate and caring Self is a thousand times greater than all the fanciful, imaginary supernatural entities in the world.
Abhijit Naskar
#14. 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
#15. Words, vows, gifts, tears, and love's full sacrifice, He offers in another's enterprise; But more in Troilus thousand-fold I see Than in the glass of Pandar's praise may be, Yet hold I off.
William Shakespeare
#16. A picture may be worth a thousand words, but a thousand words is only three pages.
M.R. Mathias
#17. 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
#18. As for a picture, if it isn't worth a thousand words, the hell with it.
Ad Reinhardt
#19. 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
#20. There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.
William Faulkner
#21. 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
#22. A picture's worth a thousand words? A library card's worth millions.
Roy Blount Jr.
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.
Buddha
#30. A picture paints a thousand words, a thousand poorly chosen words.
S.E. Toon
#31. A picture may tell a thousand words but it doesn't tell a story
Thomas Wright
#32. The average daydream is about fourteen seconds long and we have about two thousand of them per day. In other words, we spend about half of our waking hours - one-third of our lives on earth - spinning fantasies.
Jonathan Gottschall
#33. 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
#34. I love words because you can only live one life, but in a novel, you can live a thousand: you contain multitudes.
Richard Flanagan
#35. 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
#36. If a picture is worth a thousand words, then the imagination is worth a thousand pictures.
J.E.B. Spredemann
#37. 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
#38. They say a picture tells a thousand words, but photographs reveal only a small part of the real story about a person.
Brownell Landrum
#39. 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
#40. 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
#41. 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
#42. I wish I could read a couple of thousand words a day. Words written by someone else for a change!
A. Louise Robertson
#43. 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
#44. People say that a picture is worth a thousand words, but sometimes a mighty quotation is worth more than a thousand pictures.
Jakub Marian
#45. 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
#46. 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
#47. 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
#48. A picture may say a thousand words, but a word can say what only a word can say.
Vishesh Sharma
#49. Ladies and gentlemen, a picture is not worth a thousand words. We found some pictures that are worth 500 billion words.
Erez Lieberman Aiden
#50. One lie has the power to tarnish a thousand truths.
Al David
#51. One real meeting is much better than a thousand internet or social media words.
Stephen Richards
#52. 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
#53. A thousand words leave not the same deep impression as does a single deed.
Henrik Ibsen
#54. 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
#55. A friend is someone who can brighten your day with a simple smile, when others try to do it with a thousand words.
Rachel
#56. People talked. Let them talk. Nothing I could do to stop them. They knew the thousand words, but they didn't know the rest of the story.
Jennifer Brown
#57. A picture can say a thousand words, but a sentence can paint a thousand pictures ...
J. Buchanan
#58. 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
#59. 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
#61. 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
#62. 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
#63. A thousand sweet words can never disguise the rattle of a viper about to strike.
Chanda Hahn
#64. A thousand moral paintings I can show
That shall demonstrate these quick blows of Fortune's
More pregnantly than words.
William Shakespeare
#65. Words are not in the power of men; men are in the power of words. Every time we open our mouths, a thousand dead men speak through us.
Hermann Bahr
#66. Words were all he knew; they possessed and overwhelmed him, as if they were a thousand white cats with whom he shared a one-room apartment.
Mark Helprin
#67. No one says a word that has not been spoken a thousand times before, a thousand thousand times, and even the first of those was a repetition of words that came before.
Catherynne M Valente
#68. Quinn, I..." He whispers the words, unfinished, into my mouth as the space between us disappears and our lips finally touch. A thousand fireworks explode inside me, and I feel them in him too, in his lips on mine, and his hands in my hairm and the way we pull each other closer
Jessi Kirby
#69. I do always know where I'm going in my books. I know the endpoint. I've written only two thousand words of my next novel but I know what the ending will be already.
Jonathan Trigell
#70. A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
Henrik Ibsen
#71. There were words for what he meant to me, but if I studied every language ever spoken for the next thousand years, I still wouldn't find enough of them to describe it.
Jeaniene Frost
#72. I just write what I think is good and keep it at a thousand words.
Henry Rollins
#73. I write about five thousand words a day, when working on a book, about three thousand a day if I'm writing a short story. I take long periods off between projects, when I read a lot, garden, and think about the next book or stories.
Eric Brown
#74. Change is happening and old structures are falling in the form of a "Death of a Thousand Cuts." In other words one grand act is not occuring but a multitude of small expressions on the part of individuals, both slowly and swiftly taking the place of heirarchy and history.
William Gibson
#75. There are errors in this book. I do not know where they are. If I did they wouldn't be there. But with close to two hundred thousand words my probabilistic mind tells me some are wrong.
Alan Greenspan
#76. Those graceful acts, those thousand decencies, that daily flow from all her words and actions, mixed with love and sweet compliance, which declare unfeigned union of mind, or in us both one soul.
John Milton
#77. It is not a great Xerxes army of words, but a compact Greek ten thousand that march safely down to posterity.
James Russell Lowell
#78. A single wise word bringing peace to the listener is worth more than a thousand speeches of empty words.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#79. This is a confusing and uncertain period, when a thousand wise words can go completely unnoticed, and one thoughtless word can provoke an utterly nonsensical furor.
Vaclav Havel
#80. Better than chanting a thousand words in a dead language is one soothing word spoken in the vernacular.
Gautama Buddha
#81. I feel myself dissolve into a thousand molecules, amazed at how three small words can completely alter my state of being.
Amy Ewing
#82. 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
#83. 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
#84. Better than a thousand sayings
Made up of useless words
Is one word of meaning
Which calms you to hear it.
Anonymous
#85. In all seriousness, people think that it's the ideas that are important. Well, everyone has ideas, all the time. I tend to write mine down and remember them, but at some point you have to apply the bum to the seat and knock out about sixty five thousand words - that's how long a novel is.
Terry Pratchett
#86. 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
#87. 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
#88. I have no words for that feeling, nor had I ever had it before, which comes from the knowledge that one is far away from all humanity, alone in a thousand square miles. We rode in silence, for speech would have been absurd. It seemed the very summit of the world.
Oliver Sacks
#89. 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
#90. These seem to me so ambiguous, so vague, so easily misunderstood in comparison to genuine music, which fills the soul with a thousand things better than words.
Felix Mendelssohn
#93. 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
#94. A picture tells a thousand words. But you get a thousand pictures from someone's voice.
Paul Fleischman
#95. An image is better than one thousand words
Confucius
#96. 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
#97. All photos speak a thousand words. This one contained a library.
Rivera Sun
#98. Just give me a thousand words and you may make your own pictures.
Erica Goros
#99. A thousand words can't make the mark a single deed will leave.
Henrik Ibsen
#100. Try and write straight English; never using slang except in dialogue and then only when unavoidable. Because all slang goes sour in a short time. I only use swear words, for example, that have lasted at least a thousand years for fear of getting stuff that will be simply timely and then go sour.
Ernest Hemingway,
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