Quotes About Acronyms

#1. If we center our lives on BMWs, RVs, VCRs, PCs and the other acronyms of consumerism, we cannot expect our children to do otherwise.

Johnnetta B. Cole

#2. Nothing soothes an upset Punjabi like dairy products.

Chetan Bhagat

#3. I thank God, that if I am gifted with little of the spirit which is able to raise mortals to the skies, I have yet none, as I trust, of that other spirit which would drag angels down.

Daniel Webster

#4. 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

#5. Solitude, what a sad and beautiful thing it is! How beautiful when we choose it! How sad when it is forced upon us year after year! Some strong men are not lonely when they are alone, but I, who am weak, am lonely when I have no friends.

Emmanuel Bove

#6. My name is Alexander Solomon Slade. I'm the Global Operations Director, although most here call me God"

"Well Mr Slade, if we are going by acronyms, I guess I could also call you Ass?

Jodi Knight

#7. I listened for the echo, and I heard only praise -

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Douglas R. Hofstadter

#9. PML?" I asked. "Postmortem link." All corporations had their acronyms, but SPI was a special snowflake.

Lisa Shearin

#10. Story has staying power. We remember the illustrations from Sunday's sermon for months afterward, but by coffee hour we're already struggling to recite the pastor's three main points, despite various acronyms meant to help us.

Sarah Arthur

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

Jessica Park

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

Neale Donald Walsch

#13. 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

#14. I think the people of this country have had enough of experts with organisations from acronyms saying that they know what is best and getting it consistently wrong.

Michael Gove

#15. Cutting through the acronyms and argot that littered the hearing testimony, the Internet may fairly be regarded as a never-ending worldwide conversation. The government may not, through the CDA, interrupt that conversation.

Stewart Dalzell

#16. Being obscure in acronyms is great. I think I'll start making up my own ... INYM - I'm Not Your Momma.

Paul Vixie

#17. Anything that becomes unscrewed can easily be re-screwed. -RZ

Belle Winters

#18. All the skills from DBT glom together, a mass of acronyms without any meaning. I pull out the DBT books and paw through the pages. Something has to help. Then I find these words: 'The lives of suicidal, borderline individuals are unbearable as they currently being lived.

Kiera Van Gelder

#19. There's just one move a man needs to know in order to rock it on the dance floor."

"Yeah? What's the move?"

"STAG"

"What's stag?"

"The only one of Logan's crazy acronyms I live my life by-STAG. Stand there and grind.

Elle Kennedy

#20. At the ed of the hall stood a walnut door with a bronze plaque:
ASCLEPIUS
MD, DMD, DME, DC, DVS, FAAN, OMG, EMT, TTYL, FRCP, ME, IOU, OD, OT, PHARMD, BAMF, RN, PHD, INC., SMH
There may have been more acronyms in the list, but by that point Leo's brain had exploded.

Rick Riordan

#21. Brb, ttyl ok? wow, i saved a 'ton' of time with those acronyms.

Stephen Colbert

#22. 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

#23. Many causes produce war. There are ancient hatreds, turbulent frontiers, the "legacy of old forgotten, far-off things, and battles long ago." There are new-born fanaticisms. Convictions on the part of certain peoples that they have become the unique depositories of ultimate truth and right.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#24. There's a very particular way that the military speaks. There's a lot of profanity and a lot of acronyms.

Phil Klay

#25. Excessive use of made up acronyms is a significant impediment to communication and keeping communication good as we grow is incredibly important.

Ashlee Vance

#26. Westering's died out, Jody.

Dwayne Hunn

#27. PCMCIA - People can't memorize computer industries acronyms

Andy Grove

#28. 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

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

Bob Dornan

#30. We were both in love with him. I fell out of love with him, but he didn't.

Zsa Zsa Gabor

#31. 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

#32. You wanted to talk to me about SHCH.' Sacred Heart Children's Home, Nelson works out silently. He hates acronyms. Whitcliffe, of course, loves them.

Elly Griffiths

#33. 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

#34. What do you think will be the biggest problem in computing in the 90's? There are only 17,000 three-letter acronyms.

Paul Boutin