Acronym Quotes

1. "My acronym is WWSJD: What Would Steve Jobs Do?"
Author: Aaron Levie

2. "Bear turns out to be an acronym for ‘Beating Evil's Ass Regularly'."
Author: Bobbi Romans

3. "JAG is an acronym for the Judge Advocate General, which is the judicial system of the military."
Author: Catherine Bell

4. "But she never could keep it straight. All the letters, the acronyms, the codes, the colors, changing like musical chairs, every week, every month. Games demons play. It meant nothing to her, except in a charming sort of way, as it had when Naganya wanted to play at interrogation, while the rest of them wanted chess."
Author: Catherynne M. Valente

5. "There will be others, many others. You'll try desperately to digest a single word through the acronym-laden gibberish, while beginning to wonder what the point of all this is, and also why you didn't feel that staple you just sent into your thigh. You usually do. You'll wonder what your company even does. After six years, you have no idea what an information system is, do you? Maybe you should ask. Maybe that's how this ends. You'll imagine how poetic it would be to simply unmute yourself and say, "Sorry to interrupt, guys, but what's an information system?"Still, your mind will drift further, envisioning how much more tolerable this call would be if you could just slowly masturbate during it. So you do. You masturbate during it. And it's beautiful. Masturbating, invisible within your three-walled fortress. Invisible… invisible… practically invisible."
Author: Colin Nissan

6. "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."
Author: Connie Willis

7. "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."
Author: Connie Willis

8. "Don't tell me you have OCD about this?""OCD, ADHD—pretty sure if they come up with some new acronym tomorrow I'd have it."
Author: Cyma Rizwaan Khan

9. "Acronym, n.I remember the first time you signed an email with SWAK. I didn't know what it meant. It sounded violent, like a slap connecting. SWAK! Batman knocking down the Riddler. SWAK! Cries of "Liar! Liar!" Tears. SWAK! So I wrote back: SWAK? And the next time you wrote, ten minutes later, you explained.I loved the ridiculous image I got from that, of you leaning over your laptop, touching your lips gently to the screen, sealing your words to me before turning them into electricity. Now every time you SWAK me, the echo of that electricity remains."
Author: David Levithan

10. "He was thinking about automated teller machines. The term was aged and burdened by its own historical memory. It worked at cross-purposes, unable to escape the inferences of fuddled human personnel and jerky moving parts. The term was part of the process that the device was meant to replace. It was anti-futuristic, so cumbrous and mechanical that even the acronym seemed dated."
Author: Don DeLillo

11. "I enjoy acronyms. Recursive Acronyms Crablike "RACRECIR" Especially Create Infinite Regress"
Author: Douglas R. Hofstadter

12. "The acronym was derived from the title of the first book--a pamphlet, really-- in which Khyfo was expounded, a supposedly scatalogical phase that meant 'Don't Touch'...The title was Keep Your Fucking Hands Off. Mean anything to you?Not a thing.Nor to me. But it supposedly summed up their philosophy pretty well at the time."
Author: F. Paul Wilson

13. "Unbelievable," I heard Christian mutter behind me. "She toops them both?" I head Drustan ask. "And they permit it?" Dageus sounded baffled. I looked between V'lane and Barrons. "This isn't even about me." "You're wrong about that." Barrons reached into his pocket and pulled out a cell phone. "You know how to find me if you want me." He was walking away. "More nifty acronyms?" He was gone."
Author: Karen Marie Moning

14. "It's called the FATLOSE trail. FATLOSE stands for 'Fecal Administration To LOSE weight,' an example of PLEASE—?Pretty Lame Excuse for an Acronym, Scientists and Experimenters."
Author: Mary Roach

15. "An acronym for grace is God's Riches At Christ's Expense."
Author: Renee Swope

16. "The fears that assault us are mostly simple anxieties about social skills, about intimacy, about likeableness, or about performance. We need not give emotional food or charge to these fears or become attached to them. We don't even have to shame ourselves for having these fears. Simply ask your fears, "What are you trying to teach me?" Some say that FEAR is merely an acronym for "False Evidence Appearing Real."From Everything Belongs, p. 143"
Author: Richard Rohr

17. "I may have grown up in the Age of Aquarius, but I'm growing old in the Age of the Acronym."
Author: Roy Peter Clark

18. "Brb, ttyl ok? wow, i saved a 'ton' of time with those acronyms."
Author: Stephen Colbert

19. "...fear is actually an acronym for Fuck Everything And Run."
Author: Stephen King

20. "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."
Author: Steven Rattner

21. "How many of these children would one day be queer? How many would be felled by the acronym? How many by something else? How many would forget the circus? How many would never see it at all? How many would join?"
Author: Trebor Healey

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