Abbreviations For Quotes

#1. Know the official post office abbreviations for all 50 states without having to consult a list.

Marilyn Vos Savant

#2. She loathed all the IM and texting abbreviations and acronyms. She was a snob like that

Jessica Park

#3. Swear words and profanities are mere abbreviations of speech, similar to the abbreviations in writing.

Franz Grillparzer

#4. These reports that are not explained by natural phenomena or exploding outhouses are known as UFO's, which is the official abbreviation for Unidentified Flying Objects. I suppose it could also stand for Uncommonly Fat Orangutans, but in this case it does not.

Cuthbert Soup

#5. the poorly typed lines, the symbols and abbreviations of Internet chat that make such language seem so much like a process of decay. As

Garth Greenwell

#6. You have to make your own condensed notes. You learn from MAKING them. A lot of thinking goes into deciding what to include and exclude. You develop your own system of abbreviations and memory methods for the information.

Peter Rogers

#7. There is no fast, easy shortcut for the word abbreviation.

Dana Gould

#8. I knew chemistry would be worse, because I'd seen a big card of the ninety-odd elements hung up in the chemistry lab, and all the perfectly good words like gold and silver and cobalt and aluminum were shortened to ugly abbreviations with different decimal numbers after them.

Sylvia Plath

#9. Frequently, crashes are followed with a message like 'ID 02'. 'ID' is an abbreviation for idiosyncrasy and the number that follows indicates how many more months of testing the product should have had.

Guy Kawasaki

#10. Rolf! what? are you really rolling on the floor laughing? well, please stay down there for a sec while I KICK YOUR ASS.

David Levithan

#11. A pun, though despicable in itself, can be the noblest vehicle of an artistic intention by serving as the abbreviation of a wittyview. It can be a social criticism in the form of an epigram.

Karl Kraus

#12. Artistic accounts involve severe abbreviations of what reality will force upon us.

Alain De Botton

#13. Law Number IX: Acronyms and abbreviations should be used to the maximum extent possible to make trivial ideas profound ... Q.E.D.

Norman Ralph Augustine

#14. The word abbreviation sure is long for what it means.

Zach Galifianakis

#15. DNA is an abbreviation for deoxyribonucleicantidisestablishmentarianism, a complex string of syllables.

Dave Barry

#16. SM is an abbreviation of both stock market and sadomasochism
and there are those who think they are one and the same.

Malcolm Forbes

#17. When people complain of the decay of manners they have in mind not the impudent abbreviations of the crowd, but the decline in bowing and scraping and in speaking of one's employer as "the master." What the rich mean by the good manners of the poor is usually not civility, but servility.

Robert Wilson Lynd