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Quotes About Initials

I was at a pharmaceutical conference in Dallas and bored out of my head. I'd split up from my missus and went downtown and had my kids' initials done, JLD, for Joseph, Luke and Daniel. Then I got back with my wife so I had her initials added during the Edinburgh Fringe Festival - after I'd waited a few years to see if the marriage would work!
~ John Bishop
Your conclusions are, I think, justified," he said. "Ulick Norman Owen! In Miss Brent's letter, though the signature of the surname is a mere scrawl the Christian names are reasonably clear-Una Nancy -in either case, you notice, the same initials. Ulick Norman OwenUna Nancy Owen-each time, that is to say, U. N. Owen. Or by a slight stretch of fancy, UNKNOWN!
~ Agatha Christie
I love the HRC. The initials are great.
~ William J. Clinton
Whatever you do, for goodness sake, don't change the name of your corporation to initials.
~ David Ogilvy
The asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter is in deplorable condition. Those monumental rocks, once enveloped in eternal night, are lit up now, and to make matters worse, every crag is carved with initials and monograms.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
I got his initials tattooed on the back of my neck, you know, since we both now have the same initials.
~ Ashley Scott
Someone tattooed my initials on their ring finger, and I felt that it was extreme. I freaked out and ran away from there at that time but now when I think about it, I realise how sweet and what a huge commitment it was and I appreciate it. However, at that time I found it extremely weird and didn't know how to deal with it but to just run away.
~ Rohit Saraf
I think I have enough tattoos for now. If I get any others, I'll probably do my kids initials.
~ Niki Taylor
We've always liked the word 'chump', and it's quite nearly our initials - Clarkson, Hammond, and May Productions.
~ James May
the journal, but with a kind of reverence now that he had not initially felt. He hadn't known at first whose initials they were—RLS—nor had he known who Louis or Fanny were. But then he'd read and deciphered more of the text, put it all together, and discovered that the author of the book was none other than Robert Louis Stevenson. The man whose
~ Robert Masello
I attribute my whole success in life to a rigid observance of the fundamental rule - Never have yourself tattooed with any woman's name, not even her initials.
~ P. G. Wodehouse
Deathlessness should be arrived at in a... haphazard fashion. Loving fame as much as any man, we shall carve our initials in the shell of a tortoise and turn him loose in a peat bog.
~ E. B. White
AC  (AC) AK, or AKE. Being initials in the names of places, as  Acton, signify an oak, from the Saxon ac, an oak. Gibson's Camden.
~ Samuel Johnson
Wabe. Maybe it's initials for something like Will All Babies Expectorate.
~ John Bellairs
Opinions are initials to shape and create the examples. But the world can never be changed by examples that lie in lies.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
On the top of my desk there are initials, carved into the wood, and dates...This carving, done with a pencil dug many times into the warn varnish of the desk, has the pathos of all vanished civilizations. It's like a handprint on stone. Whoever made this was once alive.
~ Margaret Atwood
A man who has his initials on his pyjamas must be uncertain of himself. Surely you should know who you are at bed time.
~ Robert Morley
The ubiquitous initials LSR for Luftschutzraum, or air-raid shelter, were said to stand for 'Lernt schnell Russisc': 'Learn Russian quickly'.
~ Antony Beevor
We named the film 'Action Jackson' because our hero, Ajay Devgn, is known as 'AJ,' and we thought it would be a good idea to use the initials and extend it into the title 'Action Jackson,' as Ajay is doing both action and dancing in the film.
~ Prabhu Deva
This is Huntress placing Panta four-five, four-six on battle stations, I repeat battle stations, time one-two-four-one. Authenticate hotel romeo, all parties acknowledge with initials.
~ Jeremy Powell
Beware of all writers who substitute initials for their give names -
~ Betsy Lerner
Using Initials was the first step by mankind towards secularism
~ Siddharth Astir
Never trust people that like to call things by initials, that's my philosophy.
~ Tad Williams
CJ It took me a moment to figure out the initials.Constant Jackass. I smiled. "Apology accepted, Barrons, if it's the Ferrari." It was.
~ Karen Marie Moning