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One picture is worth a thousand words.


Fred R. Barnard

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A picture is worth a thousand words.
UNKNOWN One picture is worth ten thousand words.
FREDERICK R. BARNARD In politics, a picture is worth a thousand words.
KATHLEEN TROIA MCFARLAND A picture is worth a thousand words. An interface is worth a thousand pictures.
BEN SHNEIDERMAN A picture is worth a thousand words,
DONNA MEYERS A picture is worth a thousand words........and a video is worth a thousand pictures!
ANKALA V SUBBARAO A picture is worth a thousand words, therefore, a writer must use a thousand words to paint a pictur...
DANIEL MIXSON A picture is worth a thousand words, a text is worth your imagination.
SEAN CROSBY A picture is worth a thousand words. A satellite image is worth a million dollars.
SARAH PARCAK A picture is worth a thousand words.......and a video is worth a million pictures.....
ANKALA SUBBARAO All I can say is a picture is worth a thousand words.
HENRY HARRIS Un croquis vaut mieux qu’un long discours."Fr., "A picture is worth a thousand words.
NAPOLEON Someone says that a picture is worth a thousand words. Well I say quotes summarize them all.
TOBA BETA one look is worth ten thousand words
HARVEY MACKAY If a picture paints a thousand words, then a naked picture paints a thousand words without any vowel...
JOSH STERN They say a picture speaks a thousand words? This one speaks 2,000 words to me.
GEROLD DOMPIG While a picture paints a thousand words, a thousand words paints a masterpiece.
WILLIE HAYNES One picture is worth 1,000 denials.
RONALD REAGAN Good words are worth a thousand pictures.
SOURCE UNKNOWN NOW IF A PICTURES WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS I PAINTED A THOUSAND PICTURES
LEIF ERICSSON LEO VENESS They say a picture is worth a thousand words. In the nonprofit world, the right picture is worth ten...
LEILA JANAH A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words ...
ALAN PERLIS If a picture paints a thousand words, then why can't I paint you?
DAVID GATES "A heartfelt image is worth a thousand words, and leaves a lasting impression.” ~Tom Baker
TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN One good schoolmaster is worth a thousand priests
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.
GRACE MURRAY HOPPER One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.
ADMIRAL GRACE HOPPER One good test is worth a thousand expert opinions.
WERNHER VON BRAUN One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
EURIPIDES One horse-laugh is worth ten-thousand syllogisms.
H.L. MENCKEN One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives
EURIPIDES A hug is worth a thousand words. A friend is worth more."
True friendship is like sound health;...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON One disciplined warrior is worth more than a thousand unruly ones.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO I got a lot of flak originally for writing with photographs, because the great cliche in photography...
DUANE MICHALS My mother always told me, “Anyone worth doing, is worth doing well.” Okay, she didn’t actually...
EMMA CHASE One loyal friend,” Euripides reminds us, “is worth ten thousand relatives.
STACY SCHIFF One rare and exceptional deed is worth far more than a thousand commonplace ones.
SAINT IGNATIUS Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace.
BUDDHA Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.
BUDDHA Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace.
GAUTAMA BUDDHA One act of a kind deed is better than thousand words of knowledge.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Bhulaney ke liay bhi tujhy yaad tu kerna hoga,
Magar her yaad se hain wabasta teri hazaar baata...
HUSEYN RAZA A picture is worth a thousand words, but the way I paint I'm going to need to contact an editor. Eve...
JAMES LEE SCHMIDT Grown-ups and children are not readily encouraged to unearth the power of words. Adults are repeated...
INGA MUSCIO Changing one thing for the better is worth more than proving a thousand things are wrong.
UNKNOWN One real meeting is much better than a thousand internet or social media words.
STEPHEN RICHARDS You know, photo conversations are replacing verbal conversations. I don't know if that's a b...
ASHTON KUTCHER A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults.
LOUIS NIZER One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty councils. The thing is to supply light and not heat.
WOODROW WILSON And Hermione was struggling to her feet in the wreckage, and three red-headed men were grouped on th...
J.K. ROWLING An epic is the easiest kind of picture to make badly.
FRED R. BARNARD I would not sacrifice a single living mesquite tree for any book ever written. One square mile of li...
EDWARD ABBEY One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not hea...
WOODROW WILSON A picture is a poem without words.
HORACE A picture is a poem without words.
CONFUCIUS A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.
WILLIAM T. SHERMAN A painting is worth a thousand confused art-gallery visitors.
LJUPKA CVETANOVA A picture tells a thousand lies. (aka photoshopping)
CALE CHEW A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
HENRIK IBSEN A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed
HENRIK IBSEN Believe me, this country [Florida] has been greatly overrated. One acre of our fine Tennessee land i...
RACHEL DONELSON JACKSON One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly ...
H. L. MENCKEN One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly m...
H. L. MENCKEN Love, what you DO, Respect, who DOES for you, Appreciate, who DOES for others, Salute, who DOES for ...
PRITISH PATTANAIK Gratitude is the one who stands by your side silently when you cry than a thousand words of comfort ...
KAZERONNIE MAK Books worth reading once are worth reading twice; and what is most important of all, the masterpiece...
JOHN MORLEY I write a thousand words a day.
LISA SEE The danger of an adventure is worth a thousand days of ease and comfort
PAULO COELHO I wrote a thousand words every day
JACK LONDON A picture says more than a thousands words, but which words are these?
TAEKE DE JONG A thousand words mean nothing to me if the intent is not known.
MITTA XININDLU In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
GRAHAM GREENE We deal with several thousand dollars worth of tobacco a week.
LEON SMITH What we need now are heroes and heroines, about a million of them, one brave deed is worth a thousan...
EDWARD ABBEY This is a confusing and uncertain period, when a thousand wise words can go completely unnoticed, an...
VACLAV HAVEL The change that Mr. Barnard wants to make in the school board policy is utterly ridiculous.
MARY GORDON The man who melts With social sympathy, though not allied, Is more worth than a thousand kinsm...
EURIPIDES No mortal man could frighten him, no more than the darkness could, nor the bones of his soul, the gr...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Don't try to write too much in a single session. One thousand words a day is quite enough. Stop ...
ROBERT HARRIS Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, an...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE I love words because you can only live one life, but in a novel, you can live a thousand: you contai...
RICHARD FLANAGAN It's significant as a milestone. . . . But remember, [at] each thousand points, a venture is worth l...
JAMES PIZZO I inhale the words and form a picture in my mind and try to sing the picture.
FRED JOHNSON In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single i...
GALILEO GALILEI Words that are coerced are not worth dying over.
MICAH GAREN Life is a paradiddle...

R-L-RR-L-R-LL...
R-L-R-L-RR-L-R-L-R-LL...
R-L-R-L-R-L...
ROSS R. MASON Better the man that conquer a thousand thousand men is the one who conquer one, himself.
BUDDHA The joy and smile of even one child is worth more than the prancing intellects of a thousand men, fo...
BRYANT MCGILL Silence has thousand meaning with no speech.Some speech may have thousand words with no meaning.
KOWSALAPATHY When you're at a loss for words.
Draw a picture.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS Words have no wings but they can fly a thousand miles
KOREAN PROVERB The habit of looking on the bright side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year.
SAMUEL JOHNSON The habit of looking on the best side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a years.
SAMUEL JOHNSON What is more precious: a thousand answers derived from one question? Or, one answer…from a thousan...
G.F. SMITH Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.
LISA SEE I wish I was home", She said miserably.
She tried so hard to be brave,
to be fierce as a...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You mistake patience for forbearance.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Many early-stage entrepreneurs make one simple mistake: Describing this 'big picture' in vag...
SUNIL NAGARAJ One word from Chairman Mao is worth ten thousand from others. His every statement is truth. We must ...
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A new road or a secret gate.
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J. R. R. TOLKIEN One Ring to rule them all,
One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all
and in the ...
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GEORGE R. R. MARTIN One of the things I love, and I'm a voracious reader as well as a writer, is books that surprise...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN With a book I am the writer and I am also the director and I'm all of the actors and I'm the...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN A friend of mine tells that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN I never liked Gandalf the White as much as Gandalf the Grey, and I never liked him coming back. I th...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN The success that the Tolkien books had redefined modern fantasy.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN If you go all the way back, I've always written science-fiction, I've always written fantasy...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I have many books that I want to write; I'd like to think that I'll be around for another 20...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN If I was a soldier going to war, I'd be pretty scared the night before a battle. It's a scar...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Of course it's not enough to be a good man to be an effective ruler and it never has been.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN We're going to fight racism not with racism, but we're going to fight with solidarity. We sa...
FRED HAMPTON I would suggest maintaining a life and a career outside the Industry. This is a fickle business and ...
FRED SAVAGE I am the people, I'm not the pig. You got to make a distinction. And the people are going to hav...
FRED HAMPTON Investing in management means building communication systems, business processes, feedback, and rout...
FRED WILSON For those broadcasters who are less than responsible, the FCC needs to have sharper teeth to enforce...
FRED UPTON One of the first shows I ever did was 'Laverne & Shirley.' I played this sleazy guy that...
FRED WILLARD I can say I won a Senior British Open at Turnberry. I think that's the best thing about it, the ...
FRED COUPLES Ethereum has taken what was a four-function calculator of a programming language in Bitcoin and turn...
FRED EHRSAM You really have to understand this isn't a business where you sit in the back room and do calcul...
FRED DELUCA I'd love to have Burt Reynolds' career.
FRED WILLARD I've always been a fan of instructional videos. The bass-player ones are insane. The music on th...
FRED ARMISEN I left home at 17, traveled. I got married when I was 21. That's a young age. As it turned out, ...
FRED COUPLES I always loved comedy growing up - Bob Hope, Red Skelton and Danny Kaye.
FRED WILLARD I loved Bob Hope and the way he would turn to the camera and break the fourth wall.
FRED WILLARD The news is the one thing the networks can point to with pride. Everything else they do is crap - a...
FRED FRIENDLY Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
FRED HOYLE There is a coherent plan to the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
FRED HOYLE