Originally Abbreviation Quotes & Sayings

Every book title becomes infinitely better if 'in your pants' or 'from your pants' is added to the title. — John Green

Many search for happiness as we look for a hate we wear on our heads. — Nikolaus Lenau

Passing is contagious. There's nothing better than making the pass that gives someone an easy hoop. — Jason Kidd

charge of a six-person team that you belong to. You walked in just as I was daydreaming, and I didn't grasp the real situation at that moment." "But that moment was the realest of my life," protested Markus without thinking. It had come right out of his heart. — David Foenkinos

If realistic fiction is primarily metonymic, fantasy is inescapably metaphoric; because the presence of the impossible blocks a literal reading, we are invited to look at Fred and his world as some sort of iconic stand-in for everyday life, rather than as an extension from it. By — Brian Attebery

R.I.P. A careless abbreviation of "requiescat in pace", attesting to indolent goodwill to the dead. According to the learned Dr. Drigge, however, the letters originally meant nothing more than "reductus in pulvis". — Ambrose Bierce

If we knew how to find
the lost, we would know
how to rediscover
the parts of our minds
left behind
in battle. — Margarita Engle

I was already a wreck when I went in, and prison nearly destroyed what little was left of me. I was worse when I came out than I was when I went in, and was not positively changed in any way. — Patricia McConnell