I really like language - and slang in particular, and just the shorthand we use when we communicate with people. — Brian Azzarello 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
You can write shorthand and still look at the guy you're talking to. — Michael Caine 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
Catherine Keener really gets me. She and I have such a shorthand together. — Nicole Holofcener 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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
"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
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
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
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
Music is one of the ways we can achieve a kind of shorthand to understand each other. — Yo-Yo Ma Copy Share Image
Wilder touches all the bases... in some kind of shorthand way. Now that's art. — James Naughton 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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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