People who work in specialized fields seem to have their own language. Practitioners develop a shorthand to communicate among themselves. The jargon… — Barry Ritholtz 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
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
[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
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
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
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
When you work with somebody for a long period of time, you develop a shorthand with everything. — Beck 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
“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
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
However good a communicator a director is, unless they've been actors, it's just not the same as the shorthand you get with… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
Music is the shorthand of emotion. Emotions, which let themselves be described in words with such difficulty, are directly conveyed to man… — Leo Tolstoy 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
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
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
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
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
When you see the same familiar faces, it's nice when you get a chance to play with the same musicians. You start… — David Sanborn 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