Shorthand Quotes

Wilder touches all the bases... in some kind of shorthand way. Now that's art.

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

You can start any 'Monty Python' routine and people finish it for you. Everyone knows it like shorthand.

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.

I have no intention of becoming a shorthand author.

While eschewing emotion - and its companion, vulnerability - Obama should be careful not to sacrifice empathy, the 'I feel your pain' connection that sustained Clinton. This connection is the shorthand people use to measure their leaders' intentions. If people believe you're on their side, they will trust your decisions.

When you work with somebody for a long period of time, you develop a shorthand with everything.

A chief petty officer taught me shorthand, which got me promoted to yeoman first class.

I am told that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.

I started formal piano training when I was 4. From there I had little violas, and I had dancing lessons of every sort and description, and painting lessons. I had German. And shorthand.

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.