Shorthand Quotes

Music is the shorthand of emotion.
Leo Tolstoy

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

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

Start, Everyone, Knows

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.
Dee Dee Myers

Trust, Pain, Sacrifice

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.
Twyla Tharp

Training, Started, Painting

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

Class, Taught, Petty

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

Work, Time, Long

I find I like to work with a lot of the same actors, because I find that there's sort of shorthand there, and there is this unspoken trust, both ways. They trust me and I trust them. And I know what I'm going to get from them, to an extent. It's just fun, kind of creating this little family.
Todd Phillips

Work, Trust, Family

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, Someone

When you play the same character for a long time, you have a shorthand. You get onto the set, you put on your outfit and two-thirds of your work is done because you've built on that work for so many years.
Lisa Edelstein

Work, Time, Character

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, Book, Try

Growing up in a family of actors, what's great about it is that they're very supportive and they understand what it's like to be an actor - the rejections, the highs and lows... and having a common language with them is great because you have shorthand speech.
Chris Pine

Family, Great, Understand

I have no intention of becoming a shorthand author.
Isaac Pitman

Becoming, Intention, Author

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

Art, Touches, Bases

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