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
“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
Cause somewhere in the Quizling Clinic, there's a shorthand typist taking seconds over minutes. — Elvis Costello 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'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
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
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
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
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 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
Lego was our fourth film, because we did two Cloudys, so yeah there's a little bit of shorthand that's involved and then… — Mark Mothersbaugh Copy Share Image
I shall not attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description (of pornography),… — Potter Stewart 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
I’m very interested in sublimation. I love the way Francis Bacon talked about the grin without the cat, the sensation without the… — Cecily Brown 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
“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