Abridged Quotes

There is a breed of fashion models who weigh no more than an abridged dictionary. - Dave Barry

The market for unabridged, full-length books only started taking off over the last few years. And we think Hemingway will be especially popular for audio downloads. - Chris Lynch

The market for unabridged has increased dramatically, even for $50 to $75 a book. We didn't think we'd be able to sell enough copies at that price to cover our production costs, but there are people willing to pay for the whole book. - Chris Lynch

Some of us find our lives abridged even before the paperback comes out. - Berkeley Breathed

Many a long dispute among divines may be thus abridged: It is so. It is not so. It is so. It is not so. - Benjamin Franklin

It's written in real time, dramatizing every instant of every breath of eight hours of a nightmare in the old hotel. No cuts, no summaries, no leaps forward, as in 'five minutes later, he reached the second floor.' Every step is accounted for. I smiled when I learned that the Brilliance unabridged audio lasts eight hours, [which is just] as long as the story would take to occur in life. - David Morrell

I made an audio tape of my book, which I think is really excellent, although it's an abridged version of the book. - Fran Drescher

Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged. - Michel De Montaigne

At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged. - Charles Babbage