Operating Quotes

329 quotes by 281 authors

To-day we live so cowed under the bombardment of this intellectual artillery(the media) that hardly anyone can attain to the inward detachment that is required… — Oswald Spengler
My mind, I know, I can prove, hovers on hummingbird wings. It hovers and it churns. And when it's operating at full thrust, the churning… — Dave Eggers
The better you know someone, the less well you often see them (and the less well they can therefore be transferred into fiction). They may… — Julian Barnes
A poem is this:/A nuance of sound/delicately operating/upon a cataract of sense/...the particulars/of a song waking/upon a bed of sound. — William Carlos Williams
Science manipulates things and gives up living in them. It makes its own limited models of things; operating upon these indices or variables to effect… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty
The upshot of all this is that we live in a universe whose age we can't quite compute, surrounded by stars whose distances we don't… — Bill Bryson
The Word of God will be to you a bulwark and a high tower, a castle of defense against the foe. Oh, see to it… — Charles Spurgeon
But I was a pure romantic, and only operating with half my burners turned on. — Julia Child
Even if they were willing to let you remove your Pride from the council's collective influenceâ€”and they won't beâ€”there's a reason the council exists. We… — Rachel Vincent
[Research] suggests that what we think of as free will is largely an illusion: much of the time, we are simply operating on automatic pilot,… — Malcolm Gladwell
A broken heart is such a shabby thing, like poverty and failure and the incurable diseases which are also deforming. I hate it and am… — Martha Gellhorn
You don't... get it, boy... This isn't a mudhole... it's an operating table. And I'm the surgeon. — Frank Miller
(Space programs are) a force operating on educational pipelines that stimulate the formation of scientists, technologists, engineers and mathematicians... They're the ones that make tomorrow… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
The offer of certainty, the offer of complete security, the offer of an impermeable faith that canâ€™t give way, is an offer of something not… — Christopher Hitchens
I don't know if I've come of age, but I'm certainly older now. I feel shrunken, as if there's a tiny ancient Oliver Tate inside… — Joe Dunthorne
There is, in fact, not much point in writing a novel unless you can show the possibility of moral transformation, or an increase in wisdom,… — Anthony Burgess
Creativity is not a talent. It is a way of operating. — John Cleese
Over the course of many encounters and many years, I have successfully developed a standard operating procedure for dealing with big, nasty monsters. Run away. — Jim Butcher
What was to be a relatively innocuous federal government, operating from a defined enumeration of specific grants of power, has become an ever-present and unaccountable… — Mark Levin
Miracles happen quietly every day - in an operating room, on a stormy sea, in the sudden appearance of a road side stranger. They are… — Mitch Albom

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