Manual Quotes

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

Thought, Training, Mistake

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 that reads like a mystery to most people. They're not going to learn slash q-z any more than they're going to learn Morse code. That is what Macintosh is all about.
Steve Jobs

Learn, Write, Read

Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.
George Orwell

Language, Creation, Workers

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 it leaves me free for remarkable ideas to occur.
Chuck Palahniuk

Best, Happen, Free

The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Earth, Spaceship, Operating

The only hope of socialism resides in those who have already brought about in themselves, as far as is possible in the society of today, that union between manual and intellectual labor which characterizes the society we are aiming at.
Simone Weil

Hope, Society, Today

I love being in my garden. I don't plant a lot of exotic flora, but I do spend a lot of time outside doing manual labour.
Jacqueline Bisset

Love, Time, Spend

A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual.
Gloria Steinem

Woman, Reading, Feels

Most people treat the office manual the way they treat a software manual. They never look at it.
James Levine

Treat, Office, Software

There's not an instruction manual on how to deal with success, so you just have to rely on having great friends and a good team.
Bryan Adams

Success, Good, Great

My father was a manual worker.
Diane Abbott

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 same time.
Rahm Emanuel

Time, Great, Crisis

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 is not a work of history or philosophy, not a prayer book, user's manual, timeline, poem or palimpsest - and yet it is all these things.
Jonathan Safran Foer

Work, History, Book

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 the next day.
Jodie Foster

Home, Job, Book

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 into England. I never opened the instruction manual. That was the best thing about it.
James Dyson

Best, Four, England

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 and I cannot believe that I waited this long to use a power toothbrush. It's so much easier than using a manual toothbrush.
Sherri Shepherd

Power, Long, Try

I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate.
Marguerite Duras

Word, Literature, Journalism

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 different. You're out there in a lab, cleaning test tubes, and it just wasn't that fascinating.
Barbara Ehrenreich

Science, Mean, Different

And what we've lost sight of is that performing manual labor with your hands is one of the most incredibly satisfying and positive things you can do.
Nick Offerman

Positive, Lost, Labor

It is still true that it is easier to compose a poem in the form of a manual for adjusting a VCR than it is to write a piece using just tuning as a symphony.
Brian Ferneyhough

True, Write, Piece

I love weird or funny or beautiful sentences; Joy Williams could write a microwave-oven manual and I'm sure I'd love it, because the sentences would be tuned up like music.
Karen Russell

Love, Funny, Music

I spend a fair amount of time on my computer, but I don't hack into anything. I have to open the manual and follow instructions.
Jason Ritter

Time, Fair, Open

Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination.
Ishmael Reed

Poetry, Writing, Hard

Every decade needs its own manual of handicraft.
Liberty Hyde Bailey

Needs, Decade, Handicraft

I class myself as a manual laborer.
Theodore White

Acting is a great way to make a living, especially when I consider what my alternatives were and probably still are. I mean, you are only making movies. It is a lot less pressure than being a surgeon; although it seemed like the only other thing that I was qualified for was manual labour.
James Spader

Great, Movies, Mean

I never play video games! I'm so bad at it. I have, like, no manual dexterity.
Kelly Hu

Bad, Play, Games

I've got a Range Rover. It's brilliant actually but it's manual.
Mick Ralphs

Actually, Brilliant, Range

I would say I'd rather dig a ditch, you know, do hard, manual labor than write lyrics.
Natalie Merchant

Hard, Rather, Write

Between rounds of speed chess I read enough of a programming manual to teach myself to write programs on the school's DEC mainframe in the language Basic.
Eric Allin Cornell

School, Enough, Between

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