Top 11 Abbreviations Quotes

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

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

Sea, Office, Abbreviations

The word abbreviation sure is long for what it means.

Mean, Long, Abbreviations

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

Fate, World, Abbreviations

Ravinder Singh (2018). “I Too Had a Love Story”, p.9, Penguin UK

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

Cutting, Culture, Abbreviations

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

Dana Gould

Shortcuts, Abbreviations, Easy

FaceBook post by Dana Gould from Jun 21, 2013

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

Alain de Botton

Reality, Abbreviations, Artistic

Alain de Botton (2003). “The Art of Travel”, p.13, Penguin UK

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

Malcolm Forbes

Thinking, Sms, Abbreviations

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

Should Have, Numbers, Abbreviations

Guy Kawasaki (1990). “The Macintosh Way”, HarperCollins

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

Dave Barry

Dna, Abbreviations, Strings

Dave Barry (2009). “Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus”, p.146, Ballantine Books

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

Criticism, Abbreviations, Artistic