Top 36 Instruction Manual Quotes
#1. A screenplay is really an instruction manual, and it can be interpreted in any number of ways. The casting, the choice of location, the costumes and make-up, the actors' reading of a line or emphasis of a word, the choice of lens and the pace of the cutting - these are all part of the translation.
David Nicholls
#2. Aristotle wrote the 'Poetics' 2,400 years ago. It's really an instruction manual for aspiring filmmakers. It's as valid today as it was then.
Nicholas Jarecki
#3. Failure is an instruction manual written in scar tissue.
Chuck Wendig
#4. Where's your instruction manual?" I asked him. "What's the baby
customer-service number?
Lisa Kleypas
#5. 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
#6. Why can't relationships come with an instruction manual for unsophisticated adults like me?
Maria Grazia Swan
#7. Once you get into cosmological shit like this, you got to throw away the instruction manual
Stephen King
#8. But we lost so much in the Prettytime - all the foundations were gone. So we're stuck making it up as we go along!"
Tally laughed. "So what else is new, Frizz? Life doesn't come with an instruction manual. So don't tell me that humanity being logic-missing is my fault.
Scott Westerfeld
#10. We don't know what we can achieve because no instruction manual accompanies our birth
Asoka Nimal Jinadasa
#11. The lower bunks, both of us longing to be pinned. "You kids think you invented sex," my mother was fond of saying. But hadn't we? With no instruction manual or federally enforced training period, didn't we all come away feeling we'd discovered something unspeakably modern?
David Sedaris
#12. No one ever gave me an instruction manual on how to be an openly gay man.
Jameson Currier
#14. Girls are complicated. The instruction manual that comes with girls is 800 pages, with chapters 14, 19, 26 and 32 missing, and it's badly translated, hard to figure out.
Hugh Laurie
#15. A home cook who relies too much on a recipe is sort of like a pilot who reads the plane's instruction manual while flying.
Alton Brown
#16. I knew of no instruction manual for reaching a higher level of humanity and a greater wisdom. But I felt intuitively that laughter was the beginning of wisdom, as is was indispensable for survival.
Ingrid Betancourt
#17. If there were a Jessica Chase instruction manual, it would be written backwards in Arabic Pig Latin and twelve thousand pages long with random pages missing.
Olivia Cunning
#18. A large part of academic community is unthinkingly self-involved, producing reams of sterile writing - often consuming unbelievable amounts of public funds - and serving as an instruction manual for how to chase away readers and ignore historical insights.
Gotz Aly
#19. The central paradox of the machines that have made our lives so much brighter, quicker, longer and healthier is that they cannot teach us how to make the best use of them; the information revolution came without an instruction manual.
Pico Iyer
#20. Everything from airplanes to kitchen blenders and even chopsticks comes with an instruction manual. Children, despite all their complexity, do not.
Lawrence Kutner
#21. Kids don't come with an instruction manual. So if you're gonna make mistakes, at least make them your own way.
Steve Schirripa
#22. Men are always complaining about how difficult it is to understand women but I think it is the other way round. Men clan up and do not express what they feel. Then they suddenly stop all communication with you and vanish. All you can do is wait. I wish men came with instruction manual.
Preeti Shenoy
#23. When a device as simple as a door has to come with an instruction manual - even a one-word manual - then it is a failure, poorly designed.
Donald A. Norman
#24. We're hardly idiots, Linzi. I think we can manage without an instruction manual." - Trissk from Hunter's Edge (After the Fall series)
Gayla Drummond
#25. YOU KNOW HOW WHEN you're a senior in high school, and you officially know absolutely everything about everything and no one can tell you different, but on the other hand, at the same time, you're dumber than a poorly translated instruction manual for a spoon?
Andrew Smith
#26. 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
#27. How many people can pick up a book and find an instruction manual for their life?
Michael Lewis
#29. It's easy to show terrible people's behavior on screen, and we all just kind of nod and go, 'Isn't that terrible.' It's more interesting when you can show terrible behavior in the interest of something good.
Damien Chazelle
#30. There's always a choice," Lucian reassured her. "Always." He kissed her
forehead softly. "I love you," he said. He lips trailed down her face, brushing slowly over her nose, across her eyelids. "I would stay with you forever, until the end of
Time.
Anna White
#31. When I grow up, I want to be an honest lawyer so things like that can't happen.
Richard M. Nixon
#32. Knowing that you are completely forgiven destroys the power of sin in your life.
Joseph Prince
#33. Destiny was a hope found in the hearts of desperate men. But sometimes, if they believed strongly enough, desperate men could do great things.
A. Lee Martinez
#34. I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. - Jack London
Jack London
#35. So maybe it's just a part of who we all are, and always were. My worry now, though, is that we are starting to nurture these neuroses of ours, and treating them like pets. That can't be a good thing.
Craig Finn
#36. If dresses would have qualified people, then whores would have ruled the world.
Gautama Buddha
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