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How come abbreviated is such a long word? - Steven Wright

How come abbreviated is such a long word? — Steven Wright

The shorter and the plainer the better. — Beatrix Potter

Say what you have to say in the fewest possible words. — Arthur Bryant

Know the official post office abbreviations for all 50 states without having to consult a list. — Marilyn vos Savant

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction. — Hosea Ballou

Brevity is the soul of lingerie. - Dorothy Parker

Brevity is the soul of lingerie. — Dorothy Parker

For the sake of brevity, we will always represent this number 2.718281828459... by the letter e. — Leonhard Euler

To define is to limit. - Oscar Wilde

To define is to limit. — Oscar Wilde

Whatever advice you give, be short. — Horace

Exaggerate the essential, leave the obvious vague. — Vincent Van Gogh

Conciseness in art is essential and a refinement. The concise man makes one think; the verbose bores. Always work towards conciseness. — Edouard Manet

The object . . . is to discover methods of condensing information concerning large groups of allied facts into brief and compendious expressions suitable for discussion. — Francis Galton

If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Brevity is a great charm of eloquence. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify. - Henry David Thoreau

Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify. — Henry David Thoreau

Short Abbreviate Quotes

  • Someday I will tell my grandchildren that I lived in the era when OK was abbreviated to K. — Demetri Martin
  • Artistic accounts involve severe abbreviations of what reality will force upon us. — Alain de Botton
  • I find I journalize too tediously. Let me try to abbreviate. — James Boswell
  • The music aids the message, it's there to punctuate and abbreviate and shape the silence. — Saul Williams
  • "Yog" is an abbreviation - my real name is Yorgos, which is Greek for George. — George Michael
  • There is no fast, easy shortcut for the word abbreviation. — Dana Gould
  • The word abbreviation sure is long for what it means. — Zach Galifianakis
  • Abbreviators do harm to knowledge and to love. — Leonardo da Vinci
  • Life used to move much more quickly when I was a girl. We needed to abbreviate just to keep up. — Gabrielle Zevin

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More Abbreviate Quotes

NOT everyone in this world has the fate to cherish the fullest form of love. some are born ,just to experience the abbreviation of it. — Ravinder Singh

Law Number IX: Acronyms and abbreviations should be used to the maximum extent possible to make trivial ideas profound ... Q.E.D. — Norman Ralph Augustine

My favourite two festivals have always been the Big Day Out and Summersonic in Japan. The Big Day Out is a little more fun because it lasts longer. It's like an abbreviated version of the Warped tour because you get to play with the same people every day, which is really fun. — Gerard Way

Aristotle writes that persuasion is based on three things: the ethos, or personal character of the speaker; the pathos, or getting the audience into the right kind of emotional receptivity; and the logos, or the argument itself, carried out by abbreviated syllogisms, or something like deductive syllogisms, and by the use of example. — Randal Marlin

What this means is that we shouldn't abbreviate the truth but rather get a new method of presentation. — Edward Tufte

When people complain of the decay of manners they have in mind not the impudent abbreviations of the crowd, but the decline in bowing and scraping and in speaking of one's employer as "the master." What the rich mean by the good manners of the poor is usually not civility, but servility. — Robert Wilson Lynd

The proper ending for any story about people it seems to me, since life is now a polymer in which the Earth is wrapped so tightly, should be the same abbreviation, which I now write large because I feel like it, which is this one: ETC. — Kurt Vonnegut

I start with a beat sheet, which is more of an abbreviated outline. It hits all the major plot points. From there, I move to note cards. But the most important part of my process is my inspiration board. — Kami Garcia

I knew chemistry would be worse, because I'd seen a big card of the ninety-odd elements hung up in the chemistry lab, and all the perfectly good words like gold and silver and cobalt and aluminum were shortened to ugly abbreviations with different decimal numbers after them. — Sylvia Plath

At heart, I have always been a coper, I've mostly been able to walk around with my wounds safely hidden, and I've always stored up my deep depressive episodes for the weeks off when there was time to have an abbreviated version of a complete breakdown. But in the end, I'd be able to get up and on with it, could always do what little must be done to scratch by. — Elizabeth Wurtzel

When Andrew [Ridgeley] first met my family, he heard my mom calling me "Yorgos." He just abbreviated it to Yog, and unfortunately it stuck. I hated it is a teenager. It was not the most glamorous-sounding name in the world. — George Michael

Frequently, crashes are followed with a message like 'ID 02'. 'ID' is an abbreviation for idiosyncrasy and the number that follows indicates how many more months of testing the product should have had. — Guy Kawasaki

DNA is an abbreviation for deoxyribonucleicantidisestablishmentarianism, a complex string of syllables. — Dave Barry

Miss: A title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market. Miss, Misses (Mrs.) and Mister (Mr.) are the three most distinctly disagreeable words in the language, in sound and sense. Two are corruptions of Mistress, the other of Master. If we must have them, let us be consistent and give one to the unmarried man. I venture to suggest Mush, abbreviated to MH. — Ambrose Bierce

The Australian accent is sort of like going down a step in smartness, you could say, because you guys pronounce things as they're spelled. We add and abbreviate stuff. — Callan McAuliffe

The soul of wit may become the very body of untruth. However elegant and memorable, brevity can never, in the nature of things, do justice to all the facts of a complex situations. On such a theme one can be brief only by omission and simplification. Omission and simplification help us to understand - but help is, in many cases, to understand the wrong thing; for our comprehension may be only of the abbreviator's neatly formulated notions, not of the vast, ramifying reality from which these notions have been so arbitrarily abstracted. — Aldous Huxley

The perks of working in Japan are that you might go for two weeks every three or four months, so you do work an abbreviated schedule. But you really make up for the abbreviated schedule by how hard you have to fight, how much you've got to be in shape. — Owen Hart

Natural Selection is not Evolution. Yet, ever since the two words have been in common use, the theory of Natural Selection has been employed as a convenient abbreviation for the theory of Evolution by means of Natural Selection, put forward by Darwin and Wallace. This has had the unfortunate consequence that the theory of Natural Selection itself has scarcely ever, if ever, received separate consideration. — Ronald Fisher

What modern technology has done has afforded us the luxury of abbreviation and being concise with time, I think. Things that it would take you a week to do can now be done in a day, which is absolutely awesome because you can concentrate on the bigger picture. — Justin Broadrick

The individual is denuded of everything but appetites, desires, and tastes, wrenched from any context of human obligation or commitment. It is a process of mutilation; and once this has been achieved, we are offered the consolation of reconstituting the abbreviated humanity out of the things and the goods around us, and the fantasies and vapors which they emit. — Jeremy Seabrook

A pun, though despicable in itself, can be the noblest vehicle of an artistic intention by serving as the abbreviation of a wittyview. It can be a social criticism in the form of an epigram. — Karl Kraus

Swear words and profanities are mere abbreviations of speech, similar to the abbreviations in writing. — Franz Grillparzer

I mean, that's at least in part why I ingested chemical waste - it was a kind of desire to abbreviate myself. To present the CliffNotes of the emotional me, as opposed to the twelve-column read. — Carrie Fisher

Today when two people decide upon a thoughtless and precipitate abbreviation of the physical space between them, they think, at least at that moment, that they're mutually attracted and drawn together by an overwhelming force. — Wislawa Szymborska

If a word is misspelled in the dictionary, how would we ever know? If Webster wrote the first dictionary, where did he find the words? Why is 'phonics' not spelled the way it sounds? How come abbreviated is such a long word? — George Carlin

The abbreviations (e.g. NATO, UN, USSR - E.W.) denote that and only that which is institutionalized in such a way that the transcending connotation is cut off. The meaning is fixed, doctored, loaded. Once it has become an official vocable, constantly repeated in general usage, "sanctioned" by the intellectuals, it has lost all cognitive value and serves merely for recognition of an unquestionable fact. — Herbert Marcuse

SM is an abbreviation of both stock market and sadomasochism-- and there are those who think they are one and the same. — Malcolm Forbes

R.I.P. A careless abbreviation of "requiescat in pace", attesting to indolent goodwill to the dead. According to the learned Dr. Drigge, however, the letters originally meant nothing more than "reductus in pulvis". — Ambrose Bierce

The embryological record is almost always abbreviated in accordance with the tendency of nature (to be explained on the principle of survival of the fittest) to attain her needs by the easiest means. — Francis Maitland Balfour

The abbreviated exam week meant that Wednesday was the last day of school for us. And all day long, it was hard not to walk around, thinking about the lastness of it all. — John Green

His life, measured in space and time, will take up a mere few lines, which my ignorance will abbreviate further. — Jorge Luis Borges

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