Manual Quotes

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

My father was a manual worker.

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.

Every decade needs its own manual of handicraft.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

There's something on the Internet called the White Resistance Manual. It's pretty much for white supremacists.

Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination.

I hate having to read the manual.

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.

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.

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.

I class myself as a manual laborer.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.