A Quote by Alice McDermott

I'd like to be better at short, snappy answers.

Alice McDermott

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Answers Better Like Short Snappy

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Alice McDermott
American - Writer
Born: June 27, 1953

I like snappy dialogue and short descriptions and lots of action.

Clive Cussler

Short answers seem like you don't care even if you are trying to answer. I get the same flack for my short texting.

Rob Zombie

As a teenager I wrote to R.A. Lafferty. And he responded, too, with letters that were like R.A. Lafferty short stories, filled with elliptical answers to straight questions and simple answers to complicated ones.

Neil Gaiman

I do have a nickname with my family; I'm called Snappy, because I do get to be a bit snippy at times. They call me Snappy Bear. That's from New Hampshire. My dad's called Crazy, my mother's Happy - it's a whole thing.

Eliza Coupe

Jesus was short on sermons, long on conversations; short on answers, long on questions; short on abstraction and propositions, long on stories and parables; short on telling you what to think, long on challenging you to think for yourself.

Brian D. McLaren

Why does everybody thing things are always contractual? I saw a shitload of questions and thought "better keep these answers short or I'll never get to all of these".

Rob Zombie

He should have known better because, early in his learnings under his brother Mahmoud, he had discovered that long human words (the longer the better) were easy, unmistakable, and rarely changed their meanings, but short words were slippery, unpredictable changing their meanings without any pattern. Or so he seemed to grok. Short human words were never like a short Martian word - such as grok which forever meant exactly the same thing. Short human words were like trying to lift water with a knife. And this had been a very short word.

Robert A. Heinlein

My truth - what I believe - is that there are no answers here and, if you are looking for answers, you'd better choose the question carefully.

Javier Bardem

We're too smart to know there aren't easy answers. But we're not dumb enough to accept that there aren't better answers.

Ann Romney

When you look at Yahoo Answers, there can be a lot of garbage. But if you're careful about the rules and supporting good contributions, over time you can get better and better, like Wikipedia.

Adam D'Angelo

A lot of times, female characters - particularly the villains - come off as very one-dimensional. They get the short shrift in that they're only given the snappy comeback, or they're relegated to a very stereotypical role. I want to know what's driving them - that's what's really interesting.

Paul Dini

Unless your answers are clearly better, copy the answers of your betters.

Warren Buffett

The days just prior to marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book.

Wilson Mizner

People don't like the idea of thinking long term. Many are desperately seeking short term answers because they have money problems to be solved today.