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

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

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

Everything from airplanes to kitchen blenders and even chopsticks comes with an instruction manual. Children, despite all their complexity, do not.
Lawrence Kutner

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

Growing up, being watched from the outside... it's kind of very taxing and maybe I should just do some kind of manual labor-it might be more relaxing. But I can't, it's not in my nature.
Jennifer Connelly

I class myself as a manual laborer.
Theodore White

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

I hate having to read the manual.
Trevor Horn

I like to see oral sex and manual sex and intercourse as foreplay for my vibrator sex.
Betty Dodson

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

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

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

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

It is estimated that raising the retirement age to 70 would cut the shortfall by about 36%. But this proposal has some drawbacks. Women and men who have worked jobs that require manual labor all of their lives may not physically be able to do work until they are 70 years old.
Steve Israel

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

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 few people see the Bible as a true training manual.
Gary North

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

Manual labor to my father was not only good and decent for it's own sake but, as he was given to saying, it straightened out one's thoughts.
Mary Ellen Chase

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