Operating Manual Quotes

#1. Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.

Terry Pratchett

#2. Walpole has no intellect. A mere surgeon. A wonderful operator but, after all, what is operating? ... Manual labour.

George Bernard Shaw

#3. This is your birthday treat, and you're supposed to enjoy it, I reminded myself. It was part of my normal existence to give myself instructions like this. Maybe other people acted and lived in total naturalness. I often wondered if they did. But me? I needed an operating manual.

Lauren Myracle

#4. Leafing through Forbes or Fortune [magazine]s is like reading the operating manual of a strangely sanctimonious pirate ship

Adam Gopnik

#5. The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#6. A good agent will sometimes need to be a scrapper, and that's the one you want.

Mark Billingham

#7. They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.

Kahlil Gibran

#8. If the warriors come here, and your head is still on your shoulders at sunset, come and find me,

Paulo Coelho

#9. The reason literacy is important is that literature is the operating instructions. The best manual we have. The most useful guide to the country we're visiting, life.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#10. The Constitution is an equally forthright piece of work and quite succinct ... giving the complete operating instructions for a nation of 250 million people. The manual for a Toyota Camry, which only seats five, is four times as long.

P. J. O'Rourke

#11. My drawing, like that of most cartoonists, is intended first of all to be functional: to create believable space and communicate information. My strongest point in drawing has always been my ability to show characters' nonverbal communication through facial expression and posture.

Jessica Abel

#12. Great leaders don't try to be perfect. They try to be themselves. And that's what makes them great.

Simon Sinek

#13. Here is a good bill that's needed in America. If it's unconstitutional, let the U.S. Supreme Court reverse its opinion and get in line with New Hampshire and that will make it constitutional.

Meldrim Thomson Jr.

#14. Philosophical questions are so difficult, the problems they raise are so complex, that no one can fairly expect, now, any more than in the past, to win more than a very limited assent.

G.E. Moore

#15. If you are just, then don't fear the warrior who walks among you. If you are not just and inflict pain and suffering on the innocent, then fear the law and the warrior that brings it." Anonymous

Jac Jacobsen