Abbreviations In Quotes

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

Franz Grillparzer

#2. One of the big failings of art schools is that students aren't given any teaching on how to survive as a one-person business, which is what it is.

Stuart Pearson Wright

#3. Fashion is not just about trends. It's about political history. You can trace it from the ancient Romans to probably until the '80s, and you can see defining moments that were due either to revolutions or changes in politics.

Daphne Guinness

#4. When you are developing a character you have to bring so much of yourself to the role.

Lori Loughlin

#5. I really get inspired by stylish girls around the world that I see on the street. Colors, patterns, throughout my travels, whatever catches my eye.

Olivia Palermo

#6. We don't want to disqualify individuals who are selected partly because they bring that diverse experience to the court in cases where that experience is most likely to make a difference.

Deborah Rhode

#7. 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

#8. Determination is the wake-up call to the human will.

Tony Robbins

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

Dana Gould

#10. 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

#11. The thing was, if I had found a way to escape- even for just a little while- I knew the pain would be there waiting for me when I got back.

Neal Shusterman

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. I have, in some ways, saved characters that have been marginalized by society by playing them - and having them still have dignity and still survive, still get through it.

Jodie Foster

#15. Charles and I go back since college. None of us thought this would happen, we just wanted to play basketball. This is the highest honor that can ever be paid, and it's mind-blowing.

Dominique Wilkins

#16. 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

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

Marilyn Vos Savant

#18. 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

#19. I've always suffered from a complete inability to sense who's important.

Emo Philips

#20. Push on when you think you can't, and next time that moment will come later

Sam Sheridan

#21. Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passin'.

Harper Lee

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

Jessica Park

#23. 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

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

Alain De Botton

#25. You look at these kids ... thousands and thousands of kids ... and you stop and think, how can you not care?

Curtis R. Welling

#26. 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

#27. Here the term 'language-game' is meant to bring into prominence the fact that the speaking of language is part of an activity, of a form of life.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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

Zach Galifianakis

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

Dave Barry

#30. You are the human clay," Vosch whispers fiercely in my ear. "And I am Michelangelo. I am the master builder, and you will be my masterpiece.

Rick Yancey

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

Malcolm Forbes

#32. 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