Operations Quotes
822 quotes by 646 authors
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Room to swing a cat, it seemed was absolutely essential. It was an infrequent but indispensable operation.
— H.G. Wells
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Sitting there with them, it was almost hard to remember when I first came to Perkins, so determined to remember to be a one-woman operation…
— Sarah Dessen
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Show me a completely smooth operation and I'll show you someone who's covering mistakes. Real boats rock.
— Frank Herbert
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Tally-When you looked around at everyone else how come you didn’t notice they were brain damaged? Az - We didn’t have much to compare our…
— Scott Westerfeld
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The resulting texts always took a narrative term, enigmatic at first but ultimately explicit and often premonitory. The semantic distribution of these basic elements diverted…
— Brion Gysin
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Tally sighed, tipping her feet again to follow. "Maybe that's because they have better stuff to do than kid tricks. Maybe partying in town is…
— Scott Westerfeld
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I didn't expect to recover from my second operation but since I did, I consider that I'm living on borrowed time. Every day that dawns…
— Henri Matisse
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There is no reason to assume that the universe has the slightest interest in intelligence—or even in life. Both may be random accidental by-products of…
— Arthur C. Clarke
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Most people are slow to champion love because they fear the transformation it brings into their lives. And make no mistake about it: love does…
— Aberjhani
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Everybody allows that to know any other science you must have first studied it, and that you can only claim to express a judgment upon…
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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You know what I find most shocking about the Vel'd'Hiv?" Guillaume said. "Its code name." I knew the answer to that, thanks to my extensive…
— Tatiana de Rosnay
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No theory ever benefited by the application of data, Amy. Data kills theories. A theory has no better time than when it's lying there naked,…
— Christopher Moore
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...forgetting is vastly underrated as a mental operation.
— Michael Pollan
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A typical weeknight when he was home like this: 1. Sit down and try to do homework. 2. Get interrupted by Jeffrey: “Please play with…
— Jordan Sonnenblick
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It is difficult at times to repress the thought that history is about as instructive as an abattoir; that Tacitus was right and that peace…
— Seamus Heaney
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You spend Christmas at somebody's house, you worry about their operations, you give them hugs and kisses and flowers, you see them in their dressing…
— Nick Hornby
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The operation of the Church is entirely set up for the sinner; which creates much misunderstanding among the smug.†(August 9, 1955)
— Flannery O'Connor
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I was hoping that Neville would assist me with the first stage of the operation,†he said, “and I am sure he will perform it…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Boyfriend huh? I didn't realize we had taken things to that level." "Oh, I'm sorry--this is my first undercover operation," Jordan said. "I'm a little…
— Julie James
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Are you acquainted with the mood of mind in which, if you were seated alone, and the cat licking its kitten on the rug before…
— Emily Bronte
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