Acronym Quotes

#1. I may have grown up in the Age of Aquarius, but I'm growing old in the Age of the Acronym.

Roy Peter Clark

#2. We Jews created the concept of good luck. Luck in Hebrew is mazel, which is not actually a word. It is an acronym for three words:
1. makom = place
2. zman = time
3. lamud = work

Celso Cukierkorn

#3. Bear turns out to be an acronym for 'Beating Evil's Ass Regularly'.

Bobbi Romans

#4. As a rule, any loan that had been turned into an acronym or abbreviation could more clearly be called a "subprime loan," but the bond market didn't want to be clear.

Michael Lewis

#5. SABLE- A common knitting acronym that stands for Stash Acquisition Beyond Life Expectancy.

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

#6. AMFYOYO - an acronym for "adios motherfucker, you're on your own

Lena Dunham

#7. You can't take over the world without a good acronym

C.S. Woolley

#8. She nailed the method for applying mindfulness in acute situations, albeit with a somewhat dopey acronym: RAIN. R: recognize A: allow I: investigate N: non-identification "Recognize

Dan Harris

#9. JAG is an acronym for the Judge Advocate General, which is the judicial system of the military.

Catherine Bell

#10. If you find yourself suddenly mated to a werewolf, whatever you do, don't panic. Simply turn to Jen for assistance and she will give you a cool acronym to call him ... because that's just so important. -Sally

Quinn Loftis

#11. I believe that most websites suck because HiPPOs create them. HiPPO is an acronym for the "Highest Paid Person's Opinion.

Avinash Kaushik

#12. How many of these children would one day be queer? How many would be felled by the acronym? How many by something else? How many would forget the circus? How many would never see it at all? How many would join?

Trebor Healey

#13. Acronyms are hard enough to remember on their own, but when letters aren't acronyms they become even more confusing. For example, neither RT nor ARM is an acronym.

Jeffrey R. Shapiro

#14. The name "Pakistan" was formed as an acronym of Muslim majority regions in India: Punjab, Afghani Province, Kashmir, Sindh and Baluchistan.

Firas Alkhateeb

#15. We still kissed frequently, usually a cluster of small pecks. An acronym for our early deep kisses. Which in a way was more intimate because only we knew what it stood for.

Miranda July

#16. Do you know that hobo is an acronym for Homeward Bound?

Miriam Toews

#17. It reminded Freddy of the World War II acronym, SNAFU. Situation normal, all fucked up.

Richard Phillips

#18. When we think of fear as an acronym meant to support us, we find that fear itself has genius, magic and power in it. We can use any fear that we feel to our advantage in the moment by remembering what FEAR really is: Forgetting Everything is All Right.

Lori Cash Richards

#19. Don't use the word gay unless it's an acronym for GAY (Got Aids Yet?) .

Bob Dornan

#20. TV can be an acronym for television or transvestite. I prefer using it to describe the the latter. The former is strange and undignified.

Dov Davidoff

#21. The key test for an acronym is to ask whether it helps or hurts communication.

Elon Musk

#22. Management is proving beyond a shadow of a doubt they don't have enough to do," she murmured back. "So they've invented a new acronym.

Connie Willis

#23. He tells me the AWARE technique is an acronym for Accept the anxiety, Watch the anxiety, Act normal, Repeat, and Expect the best.

Colleen Oakley

#24. the strategic situation foreseen by Robert Heinlein in the death dust story was like "a duel in a vestibule with flamethrowers," anticipating mutual assured destruction and its acronym quite nicely. Tolstoy famously

Gregory Benford

#25. Have faith that God won't send you anything you're incapable of handling. You can decide that the word fear is an acronym for ... False Evidence Appearing Real.

Wayne Dyer

#26. Don't tell me you have OCD about this?"
"OCD, ADHD - pretty sure if they come up with some new acronym tomorrow I'd have it.

Cyma Rizwaan Khan

#27. Catchy acronym in the consulting world, "MECE," which stands for "mutually exclusive and collectively exhaustive.

Stanley McChrystal

#28. Whatever clutter may be getting in your way during a conversation or communication, use the simple acronym HEAR to enter a more spacious and less defensive awareness. HEAR stands for: hold all assumptions; enter the emotional world; absorb and accept; and reflect, then respect. H

Donald Altman

#29. It's really only nuclear weapons that deserve the WMD acronym.

Steven Pinker

#30. Maybe the museum [of Arts and Design ]needs to follow the advice of its acronym and not be afraid to go a little M.A.D.

Jerry Saltz

#31. Fear is actually an acronym for Fuck Everything And Run.

Stephen King

#32. Perhaps because the challenges we face in our country are so daunting, we are also tempted by shortcuts. We tell ourselves that if we invent a new acronym, or write a new empowerment charter, we can avoid some of the back-breaking work that sustained progress requires

Helen Zille

#33. Survival Movement in Hostile Areas," most of which he could have quoted verbatim if somebody asked him, but really all you had to know was the acronym BLISS: B - Blends in with the surroundings L - Low in silhouette I - Irregular in shape S - Small in size S - Secluded

T.C. Boyle

#34. Seven Deadly Sins. Saligia is an acronym for: superbia, avaritia, luxuria, invidia, gula, ira, and acedia.

Dan Brown

#35. Slapping a catchy acronym like the JOBS Act on a piece of legislation makes it more difficult for politicians to oppose it - and indeed that's what happened with the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act.

Steven Rattner

#36. I think for a while now people have been scared to be out of TMT the commonly used acronym for technology-media-telecom stocks, which have tended to rise in tandem recently and the feeling has really been you have to be there ... but now we're getting a dose of reality.

Peter Oppenheimer

#37. In the old days a proposed system would have been given a three-letter acronym and bounced back and forth between different agencies and contractors for fifteen years before being launched into space.

Neal Stephenson

#38. Pick at random any three letters from the alphabet, put them in any order, and you will have an acronym designating a federal agency we can do without.

Milton Friedman

#39. RACE CARE

Anagram/Acronym: Respect, Accept & Coexist Ethnically

Kamil Ali

Kamil Ali

#40. STG - his acronym for Simply Trust God. The idea

Stacy Hawkins Adams

#41. Always remember the acronym for "FEAR" can mean one of two things: Fuck Everything And Run or Face Everything And Recover.

Cupcake Brown

#42. Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic (forming the acronym WEIRD).

Jonathan Haidt

#43. What's Management up to?" I whispered to Bennett.
"My guess is a new acronym," he whispered. "Departmental Unification Management Business." He wrote down the ltters on his legal pad. "D.U.M.B.

Connie Willis

#44. FEAR is an acronym in the English language for 'False Evidence Appearing Real'.

Neale Donald Walsch

#45. Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth As fun as the acronym is, the Bible is neither basic nor simply instructions for what to do before you die.

Adam Hamilton

#46. There are thousands of asteroids whose orbit in the Solar System crosses that of Earth. And we have a little acronym for them - NEOs: near Earth objects. And our biggest goal is to try to catalogue them, so we know in advance if one is going to put us at risk.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#47. GIFTS is an acronym for Gratitude, Intention, Forgiveness, Triumphs, and Self-love. I believe that those are the principles we need to explore in order to discover our true gifts.

Kim Coles

#48. Today, much of the global economy is based on debt and confidence. As long as we all keep holding hands and no one breaks ranks, everything will be fine. By the way, the word "fine" is my acronym for "Feeling Insecure, Neurotic and Emotional.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

#49. They called themselves "The Febs," which was an acronym for "Four-eyed Bastards.

Kurt Vonnegut

#50. One acronym to live by: PDADP, meaning Personal Displays of Affection Disturb People.

Michelle A. Lammers

#51. The acronym COAL has been proposed for this attitude of compassionate curiosity: curiosity, openness, acceptance, and love:

Gabor Mate

#52. My acronym is WWSJD: What Would Steve Jobs Do?

Aaron Levie

#53. I enjoy acronyms. Recursive Acronyms Crablike "RACRECIR" Especially Create Infinite Regress

Douglas R. Hofstadter

#54. TODAY-

Turn On Dreams Abandoned Yesterday

Kamil Ali