A picture is worth a thousand words
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"A picture is worth a thousand words, and you can convey a lot of emotions in it."
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
A picture is worth a thousand words… and 60,000 Twitter likes.
From Fox News ● Dec. 30, 2019
A picture is worth a thousand words, right?
From Washington Post ● May 21, 2019
A picture is worth a thousand words, but a thousand-page book can create a story that would take a dozen hours to fully tell onscreen.
From The Verge ● May 20, 2016
It was a retweet from a person who wrote, "A picture is worth a thousand words."
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 4, 2016
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