Abbreviated Quotes

#1. Someday I will tell my grandchildren that I lived in the era when OK was abbreviated to K.

Demetri Martin

#2. How come abbreviated is such a long word?

Steven Wright

#3. The embryological record is almost always abbreviated in accordance with the tendency of nature (to be explained on the principle of survival of the fittest) to attain her needs by the easiest means.

Francis Maitland Balfour

#4. Dreams do come true. They definitely do come true. It just takes a while, I guess. Sometimes it doesn't, but for me it did, anyway.

Sky Ferreira

#5. The abbreviated exam week meant that Wednesday was the last day of school for us. And all day long, it was hard not to walk around, thinking about the lastness of it all.

John Green

#6. If you wanted to greet him or get his attention, you had to say: "Oh, Mr. Forest-Ranger-who-stands-in-the-tower-watching-out-for-forest fires!" If you abbreviated it, or, heaven help us, addressed him simply as "David," you would get no response.

Katherine Paterson

#7. I start with a beat sheet, which is more of an abbreviated outline. It hits all the major plot points. From there, I move to note cards. But the most important part of my process is my inspiration board.

Kami Garcia

#8. Having the benefit to our society, not only here in the United States but throughout the world with the amount of invention you get from having a space program, is well worth the risk that an individual like myself has to take by flying in the vehicle.

Mark Kelly

#9. The floor seemed wonderfully solid. It was comforting to know I had fallen and could fall no farther.

Sylvia Plath

#10. Modern man no longer works at what cannot be abbreviated

Paul Valery

#11. Why had he never appreciated the miracle that he was, brain and nerve and bounding heart?

J.K. Rowling

#12. My favourite two festivals have always been the Big Day Out and Summersonic in Japan. The Big Day Out is a little more fun because it lasts longer. It's like an abbreviated version of the Warped tour because you get to play with the same people every day, which is really fun.

Gerard Way

#13. The perks of working in Japan are that you might go for two weeks every three or four months, so you do work an abbreviated schedule. But you really make up for the abbreviated schedule by how hard you have to fight, how much you've got to be in shape.

Owen Hart

#14. After all, I need to be a godfather slash uncle. I think the term is 'guncle'." "Guncle?" "Abbreviated, 'gay uncle'.

Sean Kennedy

#15. All good books are about everything, abbreviated.

Andrew Smith

#16. What a blessing that God allows a life to come through your body, and then allows you to place that body in a body bag and take it out. I had to say that there's a magnificent something that God has for me to do, to give me that level of completion. That level of experience. It's unspeakable.

Iyanla Vanzant

#17. When I wake up I go through an abbreviated process of mourning all over again. Plainly, there's something within me that's ready to believe in life after death. And it's not the least bit interested in whether there's any sober evidence for it.

Carl Sagan

#18. As for tweeting and texting: impassioned discussions, particularly when they're intimate, don't work in abbreviated script messages. No relationship should begin or end in 140 characters.

Mariella Frostrup

#19. Margaret laughed. "Sure thing. Sorry, Ave. I'll go and get the tea." Ave. If Avice had been feeling less awful, she would have corrected her: there was nothing worse than an abbreviated name.

Jojo Moyes

#20. The phone in my hand buzzed. Logan had just texted I Love You - so cute how he never abbreviated it.

Jeri Smith-Ready

#21. That was what we call in the trade an Unscheduled Reality Excursion, usually abbreviated to 'Oh fuck.'

Charles Stross

#22. Sexual intercourse ... a joyous, joyous, joyous, joyous impaling of woman on man's sensual mast.

Anais Nin