28 Shorthand Quotes for You to Enjoy

A friend of mine tells that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it. J. R. R. Tolkien

Mine Tells Talk Friend Shorthand Then

I would say that there's definitely some advantages with me being able to talk shop with some of the effects people. Because I come from a post-production world, I can speak shorthand with them. I don't think many other actors can say that and know how the process 100% works. Masi Oka

Me People Speak World Think Other Say Definitely Post-Production Would Able Some Advantages Come Know Talk Because How Effects Shop Being Process Them Shorthand Many Works Actor

Foot-binding, which started out as a fashionable impulse, became an expression of Han identity after the Mongols invaded China in 1279. The fact that it was only performed by Chinese women turned the practice into a kind of shorthand for ethnic pride. Amanda Foreman

The Bush administration opened several lines of attack against the rule of law and the integrity of an independent Justice Department. The scandals are so famous that they've been reduced to shorthand: Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, NSA, Attorneygate. Ari Melber

Justice Integrity Law Rule Rule Of Law Several Ghraib Independent Scandals Administration Attack Abu Opened Reduced Been Lines Department Famous Justice Department Against Bush Bush Administration Shorthand Guantanamo

I'm really interested in making a mark on a paper and letting that be cursive shorthand for an idea - that's the origin of cartooning. Craig Thompson

Mark Paper Cartooning Idea Making Interested Shorthand Really Origin Letting

My shorthand answer is that I try to write the kind of book that I would like to read. If I can make it clear and interesting and compelling to me, then I hope maybe it will be for the reader. David McCullough

Hope Me Book Try Will Kind Would Write Clear Like Make Read Reader Answer Maybe Interesting Shorthand Then Compelling

When you see the same familiar faces, it's nice when you get a chance to play with the same musicians. You start to develop this shorthand so everybody knows where you're at and where you're going, but then again, there are always surprises. But the more people are comfortable with the material, the more free you can be with the music. David Sanborn

Music You Musicians People Free Nice Everybody See Faces More More People Develop Knows Comfortable Always Material Surprises Familiar Get Same Going Where Again Shorthand Then Play Start Chance

You work enough with someone and you develop a shorthand. You know how he likes to work through the day and he knows where you're vulnerable and where your weaknesses and strengths are, so it makes for a good team, a team that knows who's over there behind your back. David Strathairn

Work Good Day You Enough Back Weaknesses Someone Through Develop He Over Know Likes Knows Vulnerable Makes How Behind Where Shorthand Your Team Strengths

You can tell a lot in shorthand. Jane Goldman

You Tell Lot Shorthand

I won't make shorthand films, because I don't want to manipulate audiences into assuming quick, manufactured truths. John Cassavetes

Films Assuming Make Because Audiences Quick Truths Want Manipulate Shorthand

I think saying 'a John Hughes movie' is just shorthand for a lot of people to say 'a coming-of-age story,' because I think, when you're of a certain age, that's what John Hughes means to you. Jon Watts

Saying You Age People Think Say John Because Lot Hughes Just Movie Story Shorthand Certain Certain Age Means

Genre is a really great shorthand you can have with an audience. In the same way you can use music to create a connection with an audience, it brings so much of their knowledge of what genre really is to the table. You have a shortcut to connect with them. I really like that. Jonathan Levine

To me, using music is creating a shorthand with an audience. And I love music so much. Jonathan Levine

Love Music Me Audience Shorthand Much Creating Using

When we talk about 9/11 and 26/11 - which is the shorthand for the Mumbai attacks in 2008 - we're talking about the most successful terrorist attacks in history. When you start trying to study the most successful event of its kind, it actually doesn't make for great fiction because there isn't the kind of failure in it that fiction thrives on. Karan Mahajan

Great Failure History You Thrive Kind About Attacks Study Most Talk Make Talking Because Terrorist Trying Fiction Which Shorthand Successful Event Mumbai Actually Start

Being on a successful television show is a good thing. It's steady work. It's a chance to work with a group of people in an intimate way... where you develop a sort of shorthand with each other, and a trust. Kelly Rowan

Work Good You Trust People Group Other Intimate Way Television Television Show Steady Steady Work Good Thing Develop Sort Being Where Shorthand Successful Show Each Thing Chance

It's always nice to have the same people that you are familiar with and shorthand with, obviously, to be around you. Kevin Macdonald

You People Nice Obviously Around Always Familiar Same Shorthand

As a Muslim woman, I'm all too familiar with the media shorthand for 'Muslim' and 'woman' equaling Covered in Black Muslim Woman. She's seen, never heard. Visible only in her invisibility under that black burka, niqab, chador, etc. Mona Eltahawy

Woman Black Seen Too Visible Muslim Only Never Invisibility She Covered Heard Familiar Etc Shorthand Media Her

With comics, you've got to develop some kind of shorthand. You can't make every drawing look like a detailed etching. The average reader actually doesn't want all that detail; it interferes with the flow of the reading process. Robert Crumb

When we're discussing who to invite to a dinner party, my wife Chaz and I sometimes use the shorthand, 'good value for money,' which indicates guests expected to be entertaining. Roger Ebert

Good Money Sometimes Wife Value Dinner Party Guests Dinner Party Entertaining Invite Discussing Expected Which Shorthand Use Who

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