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52 Shorthand quotes by 47 unique authors

When Adam Smith was being incomprehensible, he didn't have the luxury of brief, snappy technical terms as a shorthand for incoherence. — P.J. O'Rourke
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 to be an… — Chris Pine
My shorthand answer is that I try to write the kind of book that I would like to read. If I can make it clear… — David McCullough
I find I like to work with a lot of the same actors, because I find that there's sort of shorthand there, and there is… — Todd Phillips
You work enough with someone and you develop a shorthand. You know how he likes to work through the day and he knows where you're… — David Strathairn
When you play the same character for a long time, you have a shorthand. You get onto the set, you put on your outfit and… — Lisa Edelstein
Cause somewhere in the Quizling Clinic, there's a shorthand typist taking seconds over minutes. — Elvis Costello
I can't do fiction unless I visualize what's going on. When I began to write science fiction, one of the things I found lacking in… — William Gibson
When we're discussing who to invite to a dinner party, my wife Chaz and I sometimes use the shorthand, 'good value for money,' which indicates… — Roger Ebert
In point of fact, 'Simpson-Bowles' has become a symbol, or SimBowl, rather than an actual plan, political shorthand for the process of long-term deficit reduction. — Joe Klein
While eschewing emotion - and its companion, vulnerability - Obama should be careful not to sacrifice empathy, the 'I feel your pain' connection that sustained… — Dee Dee Myers
I started formal piano training when I was 4. From there I had little violas, and I had dancing lessons of every sort and description,… — Twyla Tharp
Music is the shorthand of emotion. — Leo Tolstoy
You can start any 'Monty Python' routine and people finish it for you. Everyone knows it like shorthand. — Robin Williams
I didn't know shorthand either. This meant I couldn't get a good job after college. My mother kept telling me nobody wanted a plain English… — Sylvia Plath
I decided I would put off the novel until I had gone to Europe and had a lover, and that I would never learn a… — Sylvia Plath
Imagine a poem written with such enormous three-dimensional words that we had to invent a smaller word to reference each of the big ones; that… — N.D. Wilson
Dad always warned that it was misleading when one imagined people, when one sas them in the Mind's Eye, because one never remembered them as… — Marisha Pessl
But the trouble with sainthood these days is the robe-and-halo imagery that gets stuck onto it." Carl got that brooding look again. "People forget that… — Diane Duane
After a lifetime of nods, frowns and stoic smiles, they were both fluent in emotional shorthand. — Jamie Ford
Music is the shorthand of emotion. Emotions, which let themselves be described in words with such difficulty, are directly conveyed to man in music, and… — Leo Tolstoy
The religious imagery and fairytales that formed our shared cultural references have been replaced by the cult of celebrity. Marilyn is the sex goddess, Camilla… — Alison Jackson
Catherine Keener really gets me. She and I have such a shorthand together. — Nicole Holofcener
People who work in specialized fields seem to have their own language. Practitioners develop a shorthand to communicate among themselves. The jargon can almost sound… — Barry Ritholtz
You learn what can become a good joke and can be repeatable. You have a shorthand about how to introduce a joke to someone. — Lennon Parham

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