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
The religious imagery and fairytales that formed our shared cultural references have been replaced by the cult of celebrity.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
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
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
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
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
When I meet certain filmmakers, sometimes you sit down and you do have some kind of shorthand. It can be fun to… — Noah Baumbach Copy Share Image
There's shorthand that happens when you work with someone you know where you can almost finish each other's sentences. There's just a… — Joe Lo Truglio 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
A friend of mine tells that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it. — J. R. R. Tolkien 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
"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
You work enough with someone and you develop a shorthand. You know how he likes to work through the day and he… — David Strathairn 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
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
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
You can write shorthand and still look at the guy you're talking to. — Michael Caine 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
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
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
Stereotypes are the mind's shorthand for dealing with complexities. They have two aspects: they are much blunter than reality; they are shaped… — Robert E Lane Copy Share Image
In A Brief History Of Time I used the word "God" like Einstein did as a shorthand for the laws of physics.… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
