Manual Quotes

168 Manual quotes by 159 unique authors

Jesus Christ is our supreme commander, but He operates only through His word, which is unquestionably a training manual. However, He has many interpreters, and… — Gary North
Doing a background check is still a very manual process, because the government agencies that create the records are largely paper-based systems. I'm not going… — James Lee
Every decade needs its own manual of handicraft. — Liberty Hyde Bailey
A page of Addison or of Irving will teach more of style than a whole manual of rules, whilst a story of Poe's will impress… — H P Lovecraft
Any manual labor I've done was purely by mistake. — Jimmy Buffett
I like monsters in general - that's what I like to write about. Somebody was joking with me that my body was becoming a manual… — Maria Dahvana Headley
I fantasize about having a manual job where I can come home at night, read a book and not feel responsible for what will happen… — Jodie Foster
The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual. — R. Buckminster Fuller
I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate. — Marguerite Duras
I imported the first Mac into England in 1984; you know, the beige box. I imported what I think were the first four that came… — James Dyson
I have a Ph.D. in cell biology. And that's really manual labor. I mean, experimental science, you do it with your hands. So it's very… — Barbara Ehrenreich
There was no blueprint or how-to manual for fixing a global financial meltdown, an auto crisis, two wars and a great recession, all at the… — Rahm Emanuel
Jews have a special relationship to books, and the Haggadah has been translated more widely, and reprinted more often, than any other Jewish book. It… — Jonathan Safran Foer
The manual for WordStar, the most popular word-processing program, is 400 pages thick. To write a novel, you have to read a novel - one… — Steve Jobs
I would write my editorials using a manual typewriter in pitch-black darkness... I would produce the whole thing without having seen the text. — Charles Krauthammer
Everyone is flailing through this life without an owner's manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage. — Anne Lamott
Girls are complicated. The instruction manual that comes with girls is 800 pages, with chapters 14, 19, 26 and 32 missing, and it's badly translated,… — Hugh Laurie
Most people treat the office manual the way they treat a software manual. They never look at it. — James Levine
Any product that needs a manual to work is broken. — Elon Musk
Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers. — George Orwell
Some of the best ideas I get seem to happen when I'm doing mindless manual labor or exercise. I'm not sure how that happens, but… — Chuck Palahniuk
Language pedants hew to an oral tradition of shibboleths that have no basis in logic or style, that have been defied by great writers for… — Steven Pinker
Design is a way of life, a point of view. It involves the whole complex of visual communications: talent, creative ability, manual skill, and technical… — Paul Rand
Fame is empowering. My mistake was that I thought I would instinctively know how to handle it. But there's no manual, no training course. — Charlie Sheen
I am on the power toothbrush train and I'm asking people to try to using an Oral B power toothbrush. I just started using one… — Sherri Shepherd

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