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Quotes About Acronym

I don't remember what it stood for," Ballard said. "I was on patrol in Pacific Division and I remember filling out the forms on the MDC. Geographic something or other." "Geographic Reporting and Safety Program," Bosch said. "The guys down in the ASS Office really worked some OT on it." "Ass Office?" "The Acronym Selection Section. You never heard of it? They got about ten guys down there full-time.
~ Michael Connelly
As a rule, any loan that had been turned into an acronym or abbreviation could more clearly be called a "subprime loan," but the bond market didn't want to be clear.
~ Michael Lewis
On the back cover of his checklist binder is an old cracked decal showing a flying Pegasus circled with the acronym NKAWTG, which means Nobody kicks ass without tanker gas!
~ Bill Clinton
When it came to the location of clandestine meetings, all operatives held to the acronym PACE. It stood for: primary, alternate, contingency, and emergency.
~ Brad Thor
The Dilligas is perhaps the ugliest boat I've ever been on... Dilligas is an acronym: Do I Look Like I Give A Shit.
~ Steven Rinella
WITCH. The useful acronym stood for Women's International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell, but it could also mean Women Inspired to Tell their Collective History, Women Interested in Toppling Consumer Holidays, and a host of imaginative variations. Proclaiming that witches were the original female rebels, hounded, persecuted, and burned at the stake because they had knowledge that men wanted suppressed, WITCH devoted itself to hit-and-run guerrilla theater, called "zaps.
~ Susan Brownmiller
Do you know that hobo is an acronym for Homeward Bound?
~ Miriam Toews
Very strongly tied to Europe, which is why CENSOR has an English name and acronym. It did attempt to leave the European Union last year, but apparently that was prompted by demonic interference. A lot of politicians were subsequently tried for treason and beheaded at the Tower of London.
~ Genevieve Cogman
The United Kingdom?' 'Very strongly tied to Europe, which is why CENSOR has an English name and acronym. It did attempt to leave the European Union last year, but apparently that was prompted by demonic interference. A lot of politicians were subsequently tried for treason and beheaded at the Tower of London.
~ Genevieve Cogman
We Jews created the concept of good luck. Luck in Hebrew is mazel, which is not actually a word. It is an acronym for three words: 1. makom = place2. zman = time3. lamud = work
~ Celso Cukierkorn
Among geeks, the cool-soundingness of the acronym is more important than the existence of what it refers to.
~ Neal Stephenson
in Hebrew, where the word for "old," zaken, is an acronym formed from the expression, zeh kanah hokhmah, literally, "this one has acquired wisdom.
~ Nicholas Delbanco
Roy G. Biv" to remember the colors and she made up a rhyme: A rainbow is named Roy G. Biv To remember the colors and the joy they give.
~ Glenn Beck
Slapping a catchy acronym like the JOBS Act on a piece of legislation makes it more difficult for politicians to oppose it - and indeed that's what happened with the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act.
~ Steven Rattner
I still remember the first acronym I learned, BLUF: Bottom Line Up Front. I still try to communicate that way. No reason to dance around getting to the point.
~ Mike Pompeo
What's Management up to? I whispered to Bennett. My guess is a new acronym, he whispered. Departmental Unification Management Business. He wrote down the ltters on his legal pad. D.U.M.B.
~ Connie Willis
Management is proving beyond a shadow of a doubt they don't have enough to do, she murmured back. So they've invented a new acronym.
~ Connie Willis
Reality is negotiable. Outside of science and law, all rules can be bent or broken, and it doesn't require being unethical. The DEAL of deal making is also an acronym for the process of becoming a member of the New Rich.
~ Timothy Ferriss
DiSSS The recipe for learning any skill is encapsulated in this acronym.
~ Timothy Ferriss
It's a Latin mnemonic invented by the Vatican in the Middle Ages to remind Christians of the Seven Deadly Sins. Saligia is an acronym for: superbia, avaritia, luxuria, invidia, gula, ira, and acedia.
~ Dan Brown
a Simple Unexpected Concrete Credentialed Emotional Story. A clever observer will note that this sentence can be compacted into the acronym SUCCESs. This
~ Chip Heath
the word LIVE—an acronym, obviously, for the Learning Institute for the Very Enlightened. "At least it doesn't say die," Kate mused.
~ Trenton Lee Stewart
I know. I admit that. You're working with NSC now. And the FBI." "So?" "So how would you like to be part of a joint effort with NIC?" "I already have enough alphabet letters, thanks." "You
~ David Baldacci
What's Management up to?" I whispered to Bennett."My guess is a new acronym, " he whispered. "Departmental Unification Management Business." He wrote down the ltters on his legal pad. "D.U.M.B.
~ Connie Willis, Bellwether