Clever Quote by Teresa Monachino Download Open image ““Why is abbreviation such a long word?”” — Teresa Monachino ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Clever Funny Language Teresa-monachino Wordplay Words-fail-me
“Why use long words when short ones will do? Not all readers have been to college or university.” — Ken Scott Copy Share Image
Confusions in life: Why is the word ABBREVIATION too long? If a TURTLE loses his shell, is it Naked or Homeless? If OLIVE OIL… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
Cause somewhere in the Quizling Clinic, there's a shorthand typist taking seconds over minutes. — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
I would never use a long word, even, where a short one would answer the purpose. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“He also thought that ‘abbreviation’ was too long for its meaning, that ‘monosyllabic’ should have one syllable, ‘dyslexic’ should be renamed ‘O’ and ‘unspeakable’… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
Those who run to long words are mainly the unskillful and tasteless; they confuse pomposity with dignity, flaccidity with ease, and bulk with force. — Henry Watson Fowler Copy Share Image
“Why is it that a man with hair on his head has more hair than a man with hairs on his head?” — Teresa Monachino Copy Share Image
“To say someone is a vision is to pay them a great compliment. If you say that they look a sight it is a… — Teresa Monachino Copy Share Image
“Quite a lot is a large amount but quite a few is also a large amount.” — Teresa Monachino Copy Share Image
In some circles where very heavy people think they have very heavy brains, words like "charming" and "clever" and "pretty" are all put-downs; all… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
You're beautiful, cute, pretty, gorgeous, and fuck.. I ran out of words. — Raghib Clitso Copy Share Image
What we shall need is not geniuses, or cynics, or misanthropes, or clever tacticians, but plain, honest, straghtforward men. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“There was once an old but clever donkey, who never liked the sting of any bee, Nor for all the Slung mud, did he… — Priyavrat Thareja Copy Share Image
There was another reason [she] took her books whenever they went away. They were her home when she was somewhere strange. They were familiar… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
“The cactus thrives in the desert while the fern thrives in the wetland. The fool will try to plant them in the same flowerbox.… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
Good people are found not changed. Recently I read a headline that said, 'We don't teach people to be nice. We simply hire nice… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
My valour is certainly going! - it is sneaking off! - I feel it oozing out as it were at the palms of my… — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
'I Love You' fails to sum up all the memories, smiles, laughs, trials, and tribulations. — Raghib Clitso Copy Share Image
People may say that what I do is very clever, but it's not really at all. It's not Swift. — Rory Bremner Copy Share Image
I do remember what I said. The promise. To protect her. If I'd done that ... even if I didn't make it, you wouldn't've… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image