You can write shorthand and still look at the guy you're talking to. — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
In mixed company women practise a kind of visual shorthand that they later decode in detail in other women's company. — Malcolm De Chazal Copy Share Image
“...there was no shorthand for "I'm sorry." You were obliged to speak those two words.” — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
When you work with somebody for a long period of time, you develop a shorthand with everything. — Beck Copy Share Image
“God - it's merely shorthand for where we come from, where we're going and what it's all about” — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
I won't make shorthand films, because I don't want to manipulate audiences into assuming quick, manufactured truths. — John Cassavetes Copy Share Image
You can start any 'Monty Python' routine and people finish it for you. Everyone knows it like shorthand. — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
I really like language - and slang in particular, and just the shorthand we use when we communicate with people. — Brian Azzarello Copy Share Image
The Statue of Liberty is meant to be shorthand for a country so unlike its parts that a trip from California to… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Community is extremely intimate. When we talk about humor, I love that you know when you're home because there is laughter in… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
That was cool, because they've all [ George Clooney and Josh Brolin and Scarlett Johansson] worked with the Coens. They were much… — Alden Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
When we're discussing who to invite to a dinner party, my wife Chaz and I sometimes use the shorthand, 'good value for… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
I feel really connected to these young ladies I get to work with; I'm dancing around with them and playing music for… — Drew Barrymore Copy Share Image
When you get into making movies, then the physical mundane reality of life must be presented. But in comics you can jack… — Walter Hill Copy Share Image
“My mother and Joe have a lovers' shorthand, an economy of gestures that comes when you are close enough to someone to… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Classical music is a special taste like Greek language or pre-Columbian archeology, not a common culture of reciprocal communication and psychological shorthand. — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
The word 'Italy' is a geographical expression, a description which is useful shorthand, but has none of the political significance the efforts… — Klemens von Metternich Copy Share Image
What really interests me, on a deeper level, is how our information is coming to us in some kind of messed up… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
It's exciting and it's thrilling and it's not particularly threatening, because they're not overtly sexual. A lot of the physical side of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I didn't know shorthand either. This meant I couldn't get a good job after college. My mother kept telling me nobody wanted… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
The religious imagery and fairytales that formed our shared cultural references have been replaced by the cult of celebrity. Marilyn is the… — Alison Jackson Copy Share Image
"Oppression" or "systems of oppression" operate as a shorthand terms in much writing and speaking so that we do not have to… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
Money follows mission, not the reverse. This is a shorthand way of saying that the stronger the congregation's relational characteristics, the easier… — Kennon Callahan Copy Share Image
I find I like to work with a lot of the same actors, because I find that there's sort of shorthand there,… — Todd Phillips Copy Share Image
“People say, "I have heart disease," not "I am heart disease." Somehow the presumption of a person's individuality is not compromised by… — Martha Manning Copy Share Image
Mathematical economics is old enough to be respectable, but not all economists respect it. It has powerful supporters and impressive testimonials, yet… — James R Newman Copy Share Image
“I decided I would put off the novel until I had gone to Europe and had a lover, and that I would… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
To my way of thinking, the concept drawings that Rembrandt did, the drawings he made that he used to model his artists,… — Jim Woodring Copy Share Image