A Quote by Louis Nizer

A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults.

Louis Nizer

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Graceful Insults Taunt Thousand Worth

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Louis Nizer
English - Lawyer
February 6, 1902 - November 10, 1994

Grown-ups and children are not readily encouraged to unearth the power of words. Adults are repeatedly assured a picture is worth a thousand of them, while the playground response to almost any verbal taunt is 'Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.' I don't beg so much as command to differ.

Inga Muscio

Glory and fame mean twelve thousand francs' worth of paid articles in the newspapers and five thousand crowns' worth of dinners.

Honore de Balzac

A picture might be worth a thousand words but a good sentence is worth a thousand windows

Mati Klarwein

A picture is worth a thousand words. An interface is worth a thousand pictures.

Ben Shneiderman

A picture is worth a thousand words...and uses up a thousand times the memory.

Stephen Hawking

A picture is worth a thousand words. A satellite image is worth a million dollars.

Sarah Parcak

A picture's worth a thousand words? A library card's worth millions.

Roy Blount, Jr.

A hug is worth a thousand words. A friend is worth more.

Unknown

If a picture is worth a thousand words, photographers are worth a million.

Tupac Shakur

The story was such that I couldn't make a graceful ending and then make a graceful new beginning. I could have, but I didn't want to. So, it isn't the most graceful way of writing a story. This new story is, I think, is pretty good stuff. I'm pleased with it anyway.

Jack Vance

In our current society, it is considered a weakness to be female and a treason to protest this. Highlighting inequality results in aggressive insults and threats, all of which are propped up by the repeated narrative now that women are 'playing the gender card'. And this is the final insult. That of all the unfair things associated with women - the violence and insults, the financial oppression, the very undermining of our worth as human beings - it is the acknowledgement of these inequalities that gives us some kind of unfair advantage over the men who benefit from them.

Clementine Ford

Beyonce is graceful, man. Even her way of checking you is graceful.

Fabolous

Whatever insults my State insults me.

Preston Brooks

Ladies and gentlemen, a picture is not worth a thousand words. In fact, we found some pictures that are worth 500 billion words.

Erez Lieberman Aiden

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

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing well. If it is worth having, it is worth waiting for. If it is worth attaining, it is worth fighting for. If it is worth experiencing, it is worth putting aside time for.

Oscar Wilde

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