"I am told that I talk in shorthand…" — J.R.R. Tolkien

More Shorthand Quotes

This quote is filed under Shorthand Quotes, one of 52 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• When you work with somebody for a long period of time, you develop a shorthand with everything. — Beck
• Mathematical economics is old enough to be respectable, but not all economists respect it. It has powerful supporters and impressive… — James R Newman
• Lightning is the shorthand of a storm, and tells of chaos. — Unknown Author
• I'm always disappointed when I see the word 'Puritan' tossed around as shorthand for a bunch of generic, boring, stupid,… — Sarah Vowell
• Being on a successful television show is a good thing. It’s steady work. It’s a chance to work with a… — Kelly Rowan
• A friend of mine tells that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it. — J.R.R. Tolkien
• Classical music is a special taste like Greek language or pre-Columbian archeology, not a common culture of reciprocal communication and… — Allan Bloom
• Obscenities are too often used for shock value, as a kind of shorthand for real expression of emotion. You've got… — John L'Heureux
• I tell my students that when you write, you should pretend you’re writing the best letter you ever wrote to… — Jeffrey Eugenides
• I shall not attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description… — Potter Stewart
• If photography is allowed to stand in for art in some of its functions it will soon supplant or corrupt… — Charles Baudelaire
• It's exciting and it's thrilling and it's not particularly threatening, because they're not overtly sexual. A lot of the physical… — Stephen King

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