Manual Quotes

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"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

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

There were years when I didn`t do anything but collect unemployment. I worked a lot, but I worked for nothing. I worked for 15 years as a kind of janitor at the Actors Studio. I would do manual things. I did lots of plays, theater workshops, for nothing.

- Christopher Walken

(on raising his daughter) 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

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

You know, when you choose to make your living as an actor, it`s all fine and good to look at it as some kind of artistic endeavor. At its best, it is that. But the fact is, most of the actors out there don`t earn $3 million a picture and can`t afford to take two years off between films and look for the right thing. Most of us are tradesmen. Acting for me, is a passion, but it`s also a job, and I`ve always approached it as such. I have a certain manual-laborist view of acting. There`s no shame in taking a film because you need some money. No shame in taking a film because you have always wanted to visit China. I was thinking about this last night as I was driving home. I started to go back through the different films I`ve done, and the television movies I`ve done and I started to think about why I chose them at that time. And I realized, every single film I`ve ever done I`ve taken because of the money. Every single one. I`m not ashamed to say that. - 1990.

- James Spader

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

Timing the Trade is a practical how-to trading manual written by an experienced trader. It`s a book that can be understood by beginners and appreciated by market veterans.

- John Murphy

Growing up in general is difficult for everyone. Ordinarily during the stage of your life when you`re going through your adolescence and you`re completely awkward and uncomfortable, the rest of the world isn`t watching you with bated breath. It`s different when you`re an actor and you choose to work your way through that period because it only makes it worse. Taking 5 years off was the best decision I`ve made so far, for myself and for my career. People always say, But you could`ve been so famous by now if you would`ve just worked during those 5 years!" I`m not in it for the fame and it`s definitely not worth it to me to have the fame but no sense of who I am whatsoever. I didn`t want to become so many of the young people I`ve worked with who have money, fame, and success but don`t know who they are as people. At the end of the day, just because one of your films does well at the box office that doesn`t make you a good person. It doesn`t make you strong, smart, or secure either. I`d rather have those three things and know that if I decided to quit this job tomorrow that I could make it comfortably through the rest of my life because I know myself very well, then have fame and a bunch of money that`s never going to buy me a manual to ME." - On why she quit acting for 5 years.

- Tina Majorino

Given what I know of spam, (filtering won`t) be very effective in reliably differentiating types of spam, without requiring large amounts of manual intervention,

- Chris Lewis

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

- Marguerite Duras

I picked up the `HTML Manual of Style,` and for inspiration I picked up Negroponte`s `Being Digital,` got on a plane, flew to the Bahamas and sat on a beach and read these books, ... And a week later, came home and started building the Web site myself.

- Danni Ashe

(Numerous different types of book were proposed. Poetry, novels, memoirs, essays, journals, scientific works. Several historical studies were recommended, including Angus Winchester`s Harvest of the Hills, an examination of the pastoral culture of the Border regions during the medieval and early modern periods. It is a book, its advocate wrote,) which details the close interrelations between work and place, as well as broadening into the history and archaeology of the landscape ... Collis`s experience as a land worker during the second world war on two farms in the south-east and south-west of England. He paints a rich picture of the way in which farms were run in the years prior to the major revolution brought by mechanisation, and introduces memorable characters from amongst the substantial manual labour force even modest-sized farms needed.

- John Stewart

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

- James Levine

I blame the politicians, ... The Air Force has a manual on how to fight a war. You hit them as hard as you can right at first.

- Lyndon Johnson

Town employees were concerned about interpretation of the personnel manual and some of the regulations, and I think addressing those with the involvement of as many town employees as he could ... has been received very positively.

- Tom Mason

(Establishing dependable network security isn`t like following a recipe for brownies.) A lot of people think you can buy a firewall, install it, and be done with it, ... have the person who knows the most (about computers) read the manual and do the job.

- Jeff Moss

The U.S. Constitution is less than a quarter the length of the owner`s manual for a 1998 Toyota Camry, and yet it has managed to keep 300 million of the world`s most unruly, passionate and energetic people safe, prosperous and free.

- P.J. O'Rourke

I began developing the plug-in collection because of several severe shortcomings in Finale that were causing me many hours of tedious manual work.

- Robert Patterson

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

- Terry Pratchett

(Correlation across replicated environments) adds a whole new dimension of complexity of the environment, ... You would expect most application groups to have the same set of policies. In reality, you have differences in policies. That reflects back to that whole process of manual storing in the environment.

- Andrew Bird

I got really big into writing manual pages, so I wrote manual pages for all the great features we were going to do but never implemented.

- Al Sowers

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.

- Alex Hume

Every decade needs its own manual of handicraft.

- Alma Jones

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.

- Andreas Schurig

She is consistently one of our most innovative and creative teachers. She is constantly on the edge. We`ve come a long way from manual typewriters.

- Andy McDonald

Even though we had a decent amount of automation, communication still came down to being manual. And we found that information on some criminals-from the time the person was picked up to the time they finished their trials and were sent off to prison-had been entered up to 40 times into various systems. It was a classic case of the left hand not knowing what the right hand was doing.

- Anthony Farina

We can process 100 phones 300 or 400 times faster, compared to what used to be a manual process. In this growing market, it`s extremely important to get those kinds of efficiencies.

- Aubrey Mackintosh

We`ve said all along that federal law requires provisional ballots and the statute was crystal clear on that. This certainly calls into question whether the DOJ is gong to pre-approve the secretary of state`s voter manual.

- Barbara Sizemore

Writing is manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe.

- John Gregory Dunne