Top 47 Thousands Words Quotes

#1. It's extremely difficult to describe interestingly what happens on the pitch. Thousands of journalists write millions of words every week trying to do it, so your chances of avoiding cliche are very slim. And you're trying to write fiction, not a match report.

Mal Peet

Thousands Words Quotes #3528
#2. Online magazines such as Salon, Slate, and Suck, had already made an elementary discovery: a reader staring into the equivalent of a thirty-watt bulb didn't want to confront thousands of words. The medium required a little extra white space, a sort of oasis for the optic nerve.

James Marcus

Thousands Words Quotes #52037
#3. In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.

Judy Garland

Thousands Words Quotes #56480
#4. Television isn't inherently good or bad. You go to a bookstore, there are how many thousands of books, but how many of those do you want? Five? Television's the same way. If you're going to show people stuff, television is the way to go. Words and pictures show things.

Bill Nye

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#5. Like words written in the sand taken away by waves
Thousands of years of culture discovered in lost caves
Climbing to a mountain at it's highest peak
Out of no where strength when thought down and weak

Justin Bienvenue

Thousands Words Quotes #100808
#6. A defiant deed has greater value than unnumerable thousands of words ...

Emmeline Pankhurst

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#7. But now I understood that, although words were God's first creation, silence was closer to His divine spirit, and that prayers given in silence were infinitely greater than the thousands of words men might offer up to heaven.

Alice Hoffman

Thousands Words Quotes #176173
#8. Words are things. A small drip of ink, falling like dew upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps even millions.

Bryon

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#9. The human language, as precise as it is with its thousands of words, can still be so wonderfully vague.

Garth Stein

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#10. Of the tens of thousands of words spoken during the Nuremberg Nazi trial, the word "eugenics" was said only once.

A.E. Samaan

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#11. In other words, my literary agenda begins by acknowledging that America has transformed me. It does not end until I show how I (and the hundreds of thousands like me) have transformed America.

Bharati Mukherjee

Thousands Words Quotes #308809
#12. Every day, thousands of confessions are kept from their would-be confessors, none of these people knowing that their never-admitted secrets all boil down to the same three words: I am afraid.

Maggie Stiefvater

Thousands Words Quotes #329604
#13. We've assembled a group of people, your team, people who love you and pray for you. Take a look around the circle. These people represent thousands of words spent in prayer before the throne of God, begging for your safe return to the fold, begging for your peace, your faith, your heart.

Nicole O'Dell

Thousands Words Quotes #348476
#14. We'd had some sort of sex, sex of the mind, sex of ideas, sex of words, hundreds of thousands of words.

Lily King

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#15. Words can travel thousands of miles. May my words create mutual understanding and love. May they be as beautiful as gems, as lovely as flowers.

Nhat Hanh

Thousands Words Quotes #460845
#16. As the words of my book, 'The Bloodless Revolution,' accumulated, I envisaged a parallel growth: the stack of pages they would have to be printed on, thousands of times over; every page representing a slice of forest, a belch of fumes and a squirt of toxic ink.

Tristram Stuart

Thousands Words Quotes #571419
#17. World of words lost on the living /
I take my place with the walking dead /
Robbed of my voice I'm always giving /
Thousands of words to this nameless dread.

Maggie Stiefvater

Thousands Words Quotes #577370
#18. Let go of hundreds of years and relax completely. Open your hands and walk, innocent. Thousands of words, myriad interpretations, are only to free you from obstructions. If you want to know the undying person in the hut, don't separate from this skin bag here and now.

Shitou Xiqian

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#19. You are so beautiful,' he whispered. She must have heard those words before, thousands of times, but he wanted her to hear them from *him*.

Julia Quinn

Thousands Words Quotes #706986
#20. There are hundreds of thousands of words that aren't in any print dictionary today ... because there's no space for all of them.

Erin McKean

Thousands Words Quotes #712691
#21. ....my life is full of people talking to me without anyone saying anything, thousands of words but not one real conversation,.....

A.B. Turner

Thousands Words Quotes #805253
#22. An author simply comes up with a hypothetical question, and then spends eight months and 80 thousands words to come up with a believable lie to answer it

Carl Henegan

Thousands Words Quotes #931120
#23. That's it - hundreds of texts and conversations, thousands upon thousands of words spoken and sent, all boiled down into a single line. is that what relationships become?

David Levithan

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#24. I naturally own a lot of very old magazines. And I enjoy going to old magazines because the advertisements in those magazines tended to have thousands of words of copy in them.

John Hodgman

Thousands Words Quotes #1034941
#25. We are losing our common vocabulary, built over thousands of years to help and delight and instruct us, for the sake of what we take to be the new technology's virtues.

Alberto Manguel

Thousands Words Quotes #1051281
#26. 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

Thousands Words Quotes #1051836
#27. She jumped off my bed and shoved my stack of books over; thousands of words crashed onto the floor.

Maggie Stiefvater

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#28. A picture's worth a thousands words but they don't tell the whole story.

Jennifer Brown

Thousands Words Quotes #1213728
#29. Careful writers pick up the nuances of words by focusing on their makeup and their contexts over the course of tens of thousands of hours of reading.

Steven Pinker

Thousands Words Quotes #1225122
#30. A grandmaster needs to retain thousands of games in his head, for games are to him what the words of their mother tongue are to ordinary people, or notes or scores to musicians..

Garry Kasparov

Thousands Words Quotes #1265238
#31. Actions are worth more than thousands of words.

Timi Nadela

Thousands Words Quotes #1291305
#32. All of the physical universes put together, stretching out endlessly, are only a fraction of the totality of reality. In other words, all of the physical universes are only part of the physical dimensional plane, and there are thousands of dimensional planes.

Frederick Lenz

Thousands Words Quotes #1342127
#33. A grandmaster must memorize thousands of chess duels in his head, as these are for him what words of the mother tongue are to the ordinary people and what notes are to a musician.

Garry Kasparov

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#34. Saddam Hussein, influenced by fascism, ordered the deaths of tens of thousands of people, fought two disastrous wars, turned his nation into an international pariah and ruined his country's economy. In other words, his record is identical to George W. Bush's.

Ted Rall

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#35. It took man thousands of years to put words down on paper, and his lawyers still wish he wouldn't.

Mignon McLaughlin

Thousands Words Quotes #1388609
#36. Thousands of uninstructed Christians are being deceived today.
False teachers use high-sounding words
that seem like the epitome of scholarship and culture. They are intellectually clever and crafty ... adept at beguiling thoughtless, untaught men and women.

Billy Graham

Thousands Words Quotes #1511334
#37. I felt in some ways we'd had some sort of sex, sex of the mind, sex of ideas, sex of words, hundreds and thousands of words...

Lily King

Thousands Words Quotes #1533604
#38. But words are things, and a small drop of ink,
Falling, like dew, upon a thought produces
That which makes thousands, perhaps millions think.

George Gordon Byron

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#39. Unique feelings are so unique that they can not be popularized. Feelings without words in the dictionary disappear. Every year thousands of feelings disappear for lack of a concrete form.

Isidore Isou

Thousands Words Quotes #1598594
#40. Where the hell is Ronan? Gansey asked, echoing the words that thousands of humans had uttered since mankind developed speech.

Maggie Stiefvater

Thousands Words Quotes #1624292
#41. I'm not sure I can name a kind of story that wouldn't work in comics form. It's words and images, and we've been telling all kinds of stories with that combination since theatre was invented thousands of years ago.

James Vance

Thousands Words Quotes #1641815
#42. The training of a journalist, of working with words for thousands of hours, is extraordinarily useful for a fiction writer.

Tom Rachman

Thousands Words Quotes #1652683
#43. In terms of language, there were no separate words for female genitalia for thousands of years. That was mostly because women were considered pretty much the same as men, only of course flimsier, more poorly designed, and incapable of writing in the snow.

Elissa Stein And Susan Kim

Thousands Words Quotes #1729489
#44. If experiments are performed thousands of times at all seasons and in every place without once producing the effects mentioned by your philosophers, poets, and historians, this will mean nothing and we must believe their words rather than our own eyes?

Galileo Galilei

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#45. There is a limitation on debate, which is unlike other bills, for 20 hours, but there is no limitation on amendments. In other words, Republicans if they wanted to, and I suspect they do, could offer literally thousands of amendments and keep Senate in session for weeks and months.

Rick Santorum

Thousands Words Quotes #1783459
#46. Words should not seek to please, to hide the wounds in our bodies, or the shameful moments in our lives. They may hurt, give us pain, but they can also provoke us to question what we have accepted for thousands of years.

Nawal El Saadawi

Thousands Words Quotes #1791070
#47. We fell in love and heard thousands of words in every silence between us. Then we fell apart and heard only silence in thousands of words we spoke to each other.

Akshay Vasu

Thousands Words Quotes #1827017

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