Top 100 Thousand Words Quotes
#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. 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
#14. There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.
William Faulkner
#15. A picture's worth a thousand words? A library card's worth millions.
Roy Blount Jr.
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. A picture paints a thousand words, a thousand poorly chosen words.
S.E. Toon
#22. A picture may tell a thousand words but it doesn't tell a story
Thomas Wright
#23. 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
#24. If a picture is worth a thousand words, then the imagination is worth a thousand pictures.
J.E.B. Spredemann
#25. They say a picture tells a thousand words, but photographs reveal only a small part of the real story about a person.
Brownell Landrum
#26. 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
#27. I wish I could read a couple of thousand words a day. Words written by someone else for a change!
A. Louise Robertson
#28. 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
#29. People say that a picture is worth a thousand words, but sometimes a mighty quotation is worth more than a thousand pictures.
Jakub Marian
#30. 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
#31. A picture may say a thousand words, but a word can say what only a word can say.
Vishesh Sharma
#32. Ladies and gentlemen, a picture is not worth a thousand words. We found some pictures that are worth 500 billion words.
Erez Lieberman Aiden
#33. 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
#34. A thousand words leave not the same deep impression as does a single deed.
Henrik Ibsen
#35. A friend is someone who can brighten your day with a simple smile, when others try to do it with a thousand words.
Rachel
#36. 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
#37. A picture can say a thousand words, but a sentence can paint a thousand pictures ...
J. Buchanan
#39. 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
#40. 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
#41. A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
Henrik Ibsen
#42. I just write what I think is good and keep it at a thousand words.
Henry Rollins
#43. 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
#44. 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
#45. Better than chanting a thousand words in a dead language is one soothing word spoken in the vernacular.
Gautama Buddha
#46. 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
#47. 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
#48. 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
#49. 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
#50. 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
#51. 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
#54. 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
#55. A picture tells a thousand words. But you get a thousand pictures from someone's voice.
Paul Fleischman
#56. An image is better than one thousand words
Confucius
#57. 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
#58. All photos speak a thousand words. This one contained a library.
Rivera Sun
#59. Just give me a thousand words and you may make your own pictures.
Erica Goros
#60. A thousand words can't make the mark a single deed will leave.
Henrik Ibsen
#61. And I know you need me in the next room over But I am stuck in here all paralyzed. - THE AVETT BROTHERS, "TEN THOUSAND WORDS
Colleen Hoover
#63. 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
#64. Once I have a hook I think has potential - enough to spin out more than a hundred thousand words, then I start turning my attention to characters. Who are these people? Why did this thing happen to them? But the hook always comes first.
Linwood Barclay
#65. 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
#66. I began to write when I was seven, and I have been writing off and on ever since. It is still off and on. You can say that when I am on, when I know I have a book which I am going to write, then I write two thousand words a day. That's so many pages longhand.
William Golding
#67. I wanted to write two thousand words a day, and if I wrote a thousand words a day I was happy.
Neil Gaiman
#69. The material came bubbling up inside like a geyser or an oil gusher. It streamed up of its own accord, down my arm and out of my fountain pen in a torrent of six thousand words a day.
C.S. Forester
#70. 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
#72. A photograph is worth a thousand words, provided it is accompanied by only ten words.
Edward Steichen
#74. A guilty conscience speaks a thousand words...Just saying
Jasmine Lee
#75. 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
#76. One word of God can do more than ten thousand words of men to relieve a distressed soul.
John Flavel
#77. Beyond the first few thousand words of English, many words are expansions of more basic words through the addition of morphemes
Grabe
#78. Write a thousand words a day and in three years you'll be a writer!
Ray Bradbury
#79. A real friend is someone you say a sentence to and they know ten thousand words behind that sentence.
Jackson Pollock
#80. It was a good weekend. Five thousand words of Carry On. Fish tacos with radish and shredded cabbage. Only two more conversations about Wren. And Sunday afternoon brought Levi back, taking her front steps two at a time.
Rainbow Rowell
#81. That was the thing about pictures
they were worth a thousand words, but sometimes they weren't the right ones.
Melissa De La Cruz
#82. A picture can tell a thousand words,
but a few words can change it's story.
Sebastyne Young
#83. As soon as I began, it seemed impossible to write fast enough - I wrote faster than I would write a letter - two thousand to three thousand words in a morning, and I cannot help it.
Helen Hunt Jackson
#84. Most writers write too much. I have the exact opposite problem. I feel I could write almost anything in a paragraph. I have a natural ability to condense, and so I often think, "Are you kidding me? Five thousand words? How am I gonna make 5,000 words out of that?"
Fran Lebowitz
#85. Try writing an entire story with only a thousand words at your disposal. It's a terrific lesson in economy and precession.
Darynda Jones
#86. 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
#87. I work on a word count basis, so I have to write three thousand words a day. I can write them in the morning, I can write them in the evening; as long as they get done.
Cassandra Clare
#88. 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
#89. a picture is worth a thousand words.
Belle Ami
#90. She had changed the arc of her own story, merely by typing a couple of thousand words each day for thirty days.
Scott Westerfeld
#91. At thirty-five, having spent over twenty years running varied businesses for my family, I decided to sit down and write my first novel. I had never written anything longer than a couple of pages till then and was foolishly attempting to write a hundred-thousand words.
Ashwin Sanghi
#92. 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
#93. A demonstration is more than worth a thousand words.
Michael Scott
#95. There were a thousand words for dreams realized and only one common whimper for hopes interrupted.
Susan Meissner
#96. 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
#97. The majority of the people in the United States have had only an elementary education and have a speaking vocabulary of about two thousand words. (Even a well-educated person has a speaking vocabulary of approximately nine thousand words.)
Judith C. Waller
#98. A picture is worth a thousand words, but conversations with them generally end in dissapointment.
Dov Davidoff
#99. They say a picture's worth a thousand words, but with me it always ends up being well over a hundred thousand.
Luke Taylor
#100. A picture might be worth a thousand words but a good sentence is worth a thousand windows
Mati Klarwein
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