Top 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
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
I have no intention of becoming a shorthand author.
Isaac Pitman
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
Famous Shorthand Authors
Beck
James Naughton
Leo Tolstoy
Isaac Pitman
J. R. R. Tolkien
Jack Adams
Twyla Tharp
David Strathairn
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All Shorthand Quotes
I am told that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.
J. R. R. Tolkien 
57% of people like this quote
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
51% of people like this quote
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
46% of people like this quote
A chief petty officer taught me shorthand, which got me promoted to yeoman first class.
Jack Adams
46% of people like this quote
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
41% of people like this quote
When you work with somebody for a long period of time, you develop a shorthand with everything.
Beck
41% of people like this quote
Wilder touches all the bases... in some kind of shorthand way. Now that's art.
James Naughton
41% of people like this quote