Cause somewhere in the Quizling Clinic, there's a shorthand typist taking seconds over minutes. — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
A chief petty officer taught me shorthand, which got me promoted to yeoman first class. — Jack Adams Copy Share Image
A friend of mine tells that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it. — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Call it a motto, a slogan, or a tag line, it’s you … in shorthand.” — Debra Eckerling Copy Share Image
Wilder touches all the bases... in some kind of shorthand way. Now that's art. — James Naughton Copy Share Image
Music is one of the ways we can achieve a kind of shorthand to understand each other. — Yo-Yo Ma Copy Share Image
You learn what can become a good joke and can be repeatable. You have a shorthand about how to introduce a joke… — Lennon Parham Copy Share Image
I can't do fiction unless I visualize what's going on. When I began to write science fiction, one of the things I… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
People often need to describe things quickly and so they use a shorthand. The problem is that after they use a label,… — Akhil Sharma Copy Share Image
Obscenities are too often used for shock value, as a kind of shorthand for real expression of emotion. You've got to scale… — John L'Heureux Copy Share Image
My shorthand answer is that I try to write the kind of book that I would like to read. If I can… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
In point of fact, 'Simpson-Bowles' has become a symbol, or SimBowl, rather than an actual plan, political shorthand for the process of… — Joe Klein Copy Share Image
To me 'The Big Easy' is shorthand for owning big stocks that are easy for wary investors to buy into. These stocks… — Kenneth Fisher Copy Share Image
The name of God should no longer come from the mouth of man. This word that has so long been degraded by… — Arthur Adamov Copy Share Image
When you play the same character for a long time, you have a shorthand. You get onto the set, you put on… — Lisa Edelstein Copy Share Image
Beyond the formative effects of reading on the individuals composing society, the fact that they have read the same books gives them… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The letter is susceptible of operations which enables one to transform literal expressions and thus to paraphrase any statement into a number… — Tobias Dantzig Copy Share Image
While eschewing emotion - and its companion, vulnerability - Obama should be careful not to sacrifice empathy, the 'I feel your pain'… — Dee Dee Myers Copy Share Image
What's great is when you're working with somebody with whom you have a connection, it's exciting because there's a shorthand and you… — Stanley Tucci Copy Share Image
Growing up in a family of actors, what's great about it is that they're very supportive and they understand what it's like… — Chris Pine Copy Share Image
I think America the symbol and America the notion are still very different from America the nation. What's touching and almost regenerative… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
I tell my students that when you write, you should pretend you’re writing the best letter you ever wrote to the smartest… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
I think it worked two ways. One, a lot of people writing about the movie used that as shorthand and it could… — Neil Burger Copy Share Image
Catherine Keener really gets me. She and I have such a shorthand together. — Nicole Holofcener Copy Share Image
I don't think it's a prize when actors and directors or writers and actors work together more than once. You have a… — Edward Zwick Copy Share Image
I'm really interested in making a mark on a paper and letting that be cursive shorthand for an idea - that's the… — Craig Thompson Copy Share Image
I didn't take up shorthand with any idea of becoming a professional at it. It merely appeared to me to be a… — Charles M. Schwab Copy Share Image
The rest of Sitka's homicides are so-called crimes of passion, which is a shorthand way of expressing the mathematical product of alcohol… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
[The Coen brothers] hire the same people over and over again, so there's a shorthand between all of the people they're working… — Alden Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
With comics, you've got to develop some kind of shorthand. You can't make every drawing look like a detailed etching. The average… — Robert Crumb Copy Share Image
I understand why there would be prohibitions on straying from monogamy because of the harm that it does not only to the… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Everybody uses pop culture as a shorthand. You might make an obscure reference to Monty Python or Iron Eagle that only some… — Ernest Cline Copy Share Image
It's a real gift to work with my sister. We obviously have such a shorthand communicating with each other that it makes… — Jennifer Todd Copy Share Image
There's nothing better than having a collaborator that you have a great shorthand with and a great comfort with who's shepherding the… — David O. Russell Copy Share Image
As for organs, traits, etc., being "for" something, the notion may be a useful shorthand, but shouldn't be taken too seriously, if… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I started formal piano training when I was 4. From there I had little violas, and I had dancing lessons of every… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
I think it is interesting that we have come back to star- and space ships. Jet will do for a transport shorthand;… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Being on a successful television show is a good thing. It’s steady work. It’s a chance to work with a group of… — Kelly Rowan Copy Share Image
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