Shorthands Quotes & Sayings

My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre and that I am therefore excused from saving universes. — Douglas Adams

If you are halfway smart, and you could really listen to the audience, you could really learn a lot. — Dwayne Johnson

Kayfabe is kind of a code. To break kayfabe is to let people know that the punch was not real and that the match was scripted. — John Darnielle

Love hard, or don't love at all. — Me

What's impossible to communicate, what you can't experience unless you're part of it, is the sensation of being in a real-life marriage. Even little chats seem to be floating in some kind of really ast liquid, and that vast liquid is the ocean of shared feelings and memories and shorthands, of understanding and misunderstandings between the couple
their history ocean. More and more of their business tends to go underwater, and so even the important words feel only like individual waves popping up from that ocean. All that context, that history, and those impressions from real life that the couple logs and drowns in, it all washes over everything — Darin Strauss

so many theological terms, words like 'monotheism' are late constructs, convenient shorthands for sentences with verbs in them, and that sentences with verbs in them are the real stuff of theology, — N. T. Wright

The drug may not be toxic, but you may be self-toxic, and you may discover this in the drug experience. — Terence McKenna

Communicating with the federal government is like talking to a computer that's crashing. — Steve Kluger

To be alive is to listen quietly while other people talk. That's how you learn something. — Rachel Kushner

Any politician who's ever been re-elected knows that friends come and go; enemies accumulate. — Jim Cooper

Dowry - a dowry that was quickly spent on gambling, women and ale. — Bella Forrest

A leader's job is to help his people. — W. Edwards Deming

Our language is rich with implication, so it is easier for us to accept the existence of things that cannot be explained. The Lethani is the greatest of these. — Patrick Rothfuss

He gripped her shoulders determinedly. 'I should've told you this earlier, Jordan. Now that I've got my chance, you're going to hear it whether you like it or not. You came into my life and messed the whole thing up and now I'm screwed. Because I'm in love with you. As in balls-out, head-over-heels, watching-Dancing-with-the-Stars-on-Monday-nights, wine-and-bubble-bath kind of love. Hell, I think I'd even wear a scarf indoors for you. — Julie James