Operator Quotes

52 quotes by 50 authors

I was all-state in four sports in New Jersey, but sometimes I couldn't get served at a restaurant two blocks from my high school. There… — Monte Irvin
The love of a dog for his master is notorious; in the agony of death he has been known to caress his master, and everyone… — Charles Darwin
The public, as a whole, buys at the wrong time and sells at the wrong time. The average operator, when he sees two or three… — Charles Dow
My own grandfathers were a submarine commander and a 'desert rats' tank operator in the Second World War. — Benedict Cumberbatch
He wishes he had never entered the funhouse. But he has. Then he wishes he were dead. But he's not. Therefore he will construct funhouses… — John Barth
All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a double life. Hence… — Anne Carson
As for you, Private, if you mention a word of this to anyone, I'll feed you to the cat thing here. Understand?" "Yum," said Mogget.… — Garth Nix
Maybe you'll call me someday Hear the operator say the numbers no good And that She had a world of chances for you She had… — Demi Lovato
Time plays tricks between here and home," said Mogget sepulchrally, frightening the life out of the telephone operator. — Garth Nix
Left alone with the dial tone...excuse me, operator, why is no one listening? — Melina Marchetta
I've given him more mixed signals than a dyslexic Morse code operator. — Rachel Cohn
If you are sad, ask yourself why you are sad. Then pick up the phone and call someone and tell him the answer to the… — Miranda July
Victory in defeat, there is none higher. She didn't give up, Ben; she's still trying to lift that stone after it has crushed her. She's… — Robert A. Heinlein
Love doesn't drop on you unexpectedly; you have to give off signals, sort of like an amateur radio operator. — Helen Gurley Brown
Every serious nuclear accident involves operator error, so you want to eliminate the operator altogether. — Nathan Myhrvold
I see myself as the literary equivalent of a skilled lathe-operator, or a basket-weaver; a potter, maybe: I make mildly diverting objects that people want… — Robert Harris
Being a 911 operator means balancing seemingly contradictory skills. On one hand, operators have to be fanatically precise and well-organized. On the other, they must… — Gary Wolf
A common pickpocket trick is for the operator to carry a shawl or overcoat carelessly over the left arm, and to take a seat on… — Harry Houdini
The day after my high school graduation in 1952, I headed to Alaska. I was 17. I started out greasing equipment, then became a heavy-crane… — Dennis Washington
In the business world an executive knows something about everything, a technician knows everything about something and the switchboard operator knows everything. — Harold Coffin

Who Wrote These Operator Quotes

50 authors contributed a total of 52 Operator Quotes, led by these top contributors: