Shorthand Quotes

Shorthand Quote of the day

A chief petty officer taught me shorthand, which got me promoted to yeoman first class.

When Adam Smith was being incomprehensible, he didn't have the luxury of brief, snappy technical terms as a shorthand for incoherence.

Music is one of the ways we can achieve a kind of shorthand to understand each other.

I won't make shorthand films, because I don't want to manipulate audiences into assuming quick, manufactured truths.

Images are ... a kind of emotional shorthand.

You can start any 'Monty Python' routine and people finish it for you. Everyone knows it like shorthand.

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 and interesting and compelling to me, then I hope maybe it will be for the reader.

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 in that is its power and significance.

A friend of mine tells that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.

Apparently, 'conspiracy stuff' is now shorthand for unspeakable truth.

I have no intention of becoming a shorthand author.

However good a communicator a director is, unless they've been actors, it's just not the same as the shorthand you get with someone who's been an actor.

As a painter, taking photos is a form of shorthand - note-taking.

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, and painting lessons. I had German. And shorthand.

Hunches are a kind of subterranean logic shorthand.

Habits are the shorthand of behavior.

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 guests expected to be entertaining.

Lightning is the shorthand of a storm, and tells of chaos.

When you work with somebody for a long period of time, you develop a shorthand with everything.

Catherine Keener really gets me. She and I have such a shorthand together.

Classical music is a special taste like Greek language or pre-Columbian archeology, not a common culture of reciprocal communication and psychological shorthand.

I feel really connected to these young ladies I get to work with; I'm dancing around with them and playing music for them. We sit down and get to know each other so we have a shorthand.

When you get into making movies, then the physical mundane reality of life must be presented. But in comics you can jack it up and work in shorthand.

Cause somewhere in the Quizling Clinic, there's a shorthand typist taking seconds over minutes.

Community is extremely intimate. When we talk about humor, I love that you know when you're home because there is laughter in the room, there is humor, there is shorthand. That is about community.

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 word of shorthand. If I never learned shorthand I would never have to use it.

The Statue of Liberty is meant to be shorthand for a country so unlike its parts that a trip from California to Indiana should require a passport.

As for organs, traits, etc., being "for" something, the notion may be a useful shorthand, but shouldn't be taken too seriously, if only because of the ubiquitous phenomenon of exaptation.

The rest of Sitka's homicides are so-called crimes of passion, which is a shorthand way of expressing the mathematical product of alcohol and firearms.

You can write shorthand and still look at the guy you're talking to.

In mixed company women practise a kind of visual shorthand that they later decode in detail in other women's company.

Everybody uses pop culture as a shorthand. You might make an obscure reference to Monty Python or Iron Eagle that only some people will get, but if they do it conveys a world of meaning.

Everybody uses pop culture as a shorthand.

I didn't take up shorthand with any idea of becoming a professional at it. It merely appeared to me to be a good thing to know - something that might come in handy.

Obscenities are too often used for shock value, as a kind of shorthand for real expression of emotion. You've got to scale down your monstrosities. A scream is not a discovery.

[The Coen brothers] hire the same people over and over again, so there's a shorthand between all of the people they're working with.

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.

After a lifetime of nods, frowns and stoic smiles, they were both fluent in emotional shorthand.