Shorthand Writing Quotes & Sayings

it's about doing what you can, whenever you can, to stand up for what you believe. You fight and you never, ever give up. That's what makes a man. — Craig Schaefer

Normally I sit there in the films really hating watching myself. Loving watching the films, hating watching myself. — Daniel Radcliffe

If you melt dry ice in a pool and go swimming, will you get wet? — Steven Wright

"Oppression" or "systems of oppression" operate as a shorthand terms in much writing and speaking so that we do not have to list all these systems of meaning and control each time (i.e. racism, ableism, xenophobia, etc.). I needed a term like that, but "oppression" implies a kind of top-down understanding of power that is at odds with the Foucaultian model I rely on in my work. — Dean Spade

Passion comes from within, but you can find it anywhere. — C.C. Wyatt

Consistency is the virtue of mules! — Amish Tripathi

You can write shorthand and still look at the guy you're talking to. — Michael Caine

My favourite place in the world to run is Stanley Park in Vancouver. One loop around there is perfect. — Matthew Morrison

I hate nothing more than having my nails painted. I feel like I'm in time out. — Troian Bellisario

Rome is possibly my favorite city in the world. I have such fond memories there - most of them food related. — Mallory Jansen

Jesus honored the dignity of people, whether he agreed with them or not. He would not found his kingdom on the basis of race or class or other such divisions. — Philip Yancey

When I arrived, I didn't understand London customers perfectly, but we've developed the right style with the right price, and step by step, I'm in harmony with London. — Alain Ducasse

I tell my students that when you write, you should pretend you're writing the best letter you ever wrote to the smartest friend you have. That way, you'll never dumb things down. You won't have to explain things that don't need explaining. You'll assume an intimacy and a natural shorthand, which is good because readers are smart and don't wish to be condescended to. I think about the reader. I care about the reader. Not "audience." Not "readership." Just the reader. — Jeffrey Eugenides

If anything is scary about my writing, it's that it's the product of a very particular vision and doesn't reference common speech that heavily. By 'common speech,' I don't mean language as much as an agreed-on way of seeing, or a shorthand. — Mary Gaitskill

You can't act on an empty stomach, because you're breathing's all wrong. — Vivien Leigh

Yes, everyone else is smart, everyone else is cool, everyone else is healthy and attractive - but she brought you. — Robin Sloan

Here I am, sitting at a little oak table where in old times possibly some fair lady sat to pen, with much thought and many blushes, her ill-spelt love-letter, and writing in my diary in shorthand all that has happened since I closed it last. — Bram Stoker

I think it worked two ways. One, a lot of people writing about the movie used that as shorthand and it could either be a good thing or they could use it to dismiss the movie like we were a copycat movie or something like that. It's very much its own story. It is a young woman in a post-apocalyptic society, but after that it's just a whole different kind of story and a different journey that she goes through. — Neil Burger

The Chinese government launched China's first 24-hour news channel. And since the channel will only report stories that are favorable to the ruling party, they've decided to call it Fox News. — Conan O'Brien

But wouldn't [the Spice Girls] have shown a little bit more solidarity if they had at least called themselves feminists? The feminist activist Jennifer Pozner was more dismissive,writing that it was "probably a fair assumption to say that 'zigazig-ha' is not Spice shorthand for 'subvert the dominant paradigm. — Marisa Meltzer

Love was more than just a fleeting desire, or a brief glimpse into a fairy tale, or a flash of playful flirtation in her beautiful hazel eyes. It was more than infatuation with a person's best qualities, or reluctant acceptance of their less appealing traits. Real love meant loving the whole person, in every form, in every state, in every way. It was what transformed the ordinary monotony of everyday life into extraordinary moments of warmth and compassion and joy. — Jacqueline E. Smith

Money was important, but really only because it afforded opportunity for my family and me. With money, we were healthier, we were less stressed, we had more time, and we enjoyed life. — Gregg Russell