Best Abbreviations Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“These reports that are not explained by natural phenomena or exploding outhouses are known as UFO's, which is the official abbreviation for Unidentified Flying Objects. I suppose it could also stand for Uncommonly Fat Orangutans, but in this case it does not.”

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Book:Another Whole Nother Story

Source: Another Whole Nother Story

“rolf! what? are you really rolling on the floor laughing? well, please stay down there for a sec while I KICK YOUR ASS.”

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Book:Will Grayson, Will Grayson

Source: Will Grayson, Will Grayson

“Artistic accounts involve severe abbreviations of what reality will force upon us.”

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Book:The Art of Travel

Source: The Art of Travel

“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.”

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Author:Robert Wilson Lynd

“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.”

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Book:Nonrequired Reading: Prose Pieces

Source: Nonrequired Reading: Prose Pieces

“Swear words and profanities are mere abbreviations of speech, similar to the abbreviations in writing.”

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Author:Franz Grillparzer

“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.”

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Author:Karl Kraus

“The word abbreviation sure is long for what it means.”

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Author:Zach Galifianakis

“Law Number IX: Acronyms and abbreviations should be used to the maximum extent possible to make trivial ideas profound ... Q.E.D.”

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Author:Norman Ralph Augustine

“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.”

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Author:Justin Broadrick

“DNA is an abbreviation for deoxyribonucleicantidisestablishmentarianism, a complex string of syllables.”

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Book:Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus

Source: Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus

“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.”

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Book:The Macintosh Way

Source: The Macintosh Way

“There is no fast, easy shortcut for the word abbreviation.”

Easy Shortcuts Abbreviations

Author:Dana Gould

“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.”

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Author:Ronald Fisher

“"Yog" is an abbreviation - my real name is Yorgos, which is Greek for George.”

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Author:George Michael

“Know the official post office abbreviations for all 50 states without having to consult a list.”

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Author:Marilyn vos Savant

“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.”

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Author:Sylvia Plath

“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.”

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Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“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.”

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Book:I Too Had a Love Story

Source: I Too Had a Love Story

“A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J.O.B.”

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Author:Fats Domino

“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".”

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Book:Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs

Source: Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs

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

Thinking Abbreviations Sms

Author:Malcolm Forbes

“The name Alaska is probably an abbreviation of Unalaska, derived from the original Aleut word agunalaksh, which means "the shores where the sea breaks its back." The war between water and land is never-ending. Waves shatter themselves in spent fury against the rocky bulwarks of the coast; giant tides eat away the sand beaches and alter the entire contour of an island overnight; williwaw winds pour down the side of a volcano like snow sliding off a roof, building to a hundred-mile velocity in a matter of minutes and churning the ocean into a maelstrom where the stoutest vessels founder.”

Source: Where the Sea Breaks Its Back: The Epic Story - Georg Steller & the Russian Exploration of AK

“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.”

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Author:Herbert Marcuse