Top 318 Manual Quotes & Sayings

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

The human brain doesn't come with an instruction manual.

The Doctor: This is bad, I don't like this. [kicks console and yells in pain] Never use force, you just embarrass yourself. Unless you're cross, in which case... always use force! Amy: Shall I run and get the manual? The Doctor: I threw it in a supernova. Amy: You threw the manual in a supernova? Why? The Doctor: Because I disagreed with it! Now stop talking to me when I'm cross!

A mobile phone needs a manual in the way that a teacup doesn't

If we were a sex manual it'd be a best-seller.

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.

Give me a user manual, and I'm happy for hours.

Om Schooled is the perfect manual for anyone who wants to start teaching yoga to kids. This is not just a theoretical book—it is a step-by-step manual. Sarah Herrington shares the wisdom she has gained from her day-to-day experiences, for many years, teaching all ages of children yoga in the New York School system.

Where's your instruction manual?" I asked him. "What's the baby customer-service number?

Painting is manual labor, no different from any other; it can be done well or poorly.

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

The training kicked in and we quickly went through our emergency procedures, I took manual control and I got the spacecraft under control and stopped about 50 meters from the space station. So, the net effect of the failure was that we were actually turning and speeding up towards the space station when we should have been slowing down, so it was quite a dangerous situation. But we got manual control, performed the first manual docking to the station at night. The training pays off. It was just automatic. We had our books out already, we went right to the right procedures and executed them.

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

Useful manual labour, intelligently performed, is the means par excellence for developing the intellect.

Writing a manual forces you to place your thoughts and ideas down on paper.

The Bible is my sport psychology manual.

I'm a big non-believer in manual driver and kernel configuration, be it visual or not.

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

I've never read a kayak manual, but I'm pretty sure page one says 'Use in water.'

My father was a manual worker.

Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination.

Hoeing: A manual method of severing roots from stems of newly planted flowers and vegetables.

There's no real manual on being a parent. There's no real manual on being a wife. I keep reminding myself, My mother did all this, only she never got to leave the house. OK, I can do this. We're all learning on our own learning curve.

I was a manual labourer. I figured out really early on that the value of my life could be determined by my hourly rate as a manual labourer digging holes.

I buy a tractor two years ago, and four-fifths of the tractor manual is about not tipping over, not raising the bucket high enough to hit high-tension wire... not killing yourself, basically. And in that manual, I found out - and it cost me a thousand dollars - that when the tractor is new, 10 hours into use of the tractor, you have to re-torque the lug nuts. If you don't, you will oval the holes. This is buried between the moron warnings. I never found it. I take the tractor in for its regular servicing, and they say my wheels are gone. How am I supposed to know that? "It's in the manual."

I don't think you could have a 7 with a manual. But I can't see having a BMW sports sedan without a manual.

I thought Manual Labor was a Mexican golf pro.

I class myself as a manual laborer.

To be an artist is first to be a manual laborer.

Real philosophy is like trying to read an alarm system installation manual in Korean.

Life doesn't come with an instruction manual.

If you have to have a policy manual, publish the 'Ten Commandments.'

I never play video games! I'm so bad at it. I have, like, no manual dexterity.

Any manual labor I've done was purely by mistake.

Why doesn't love come with an owner's manual?

We're allowing technology to take out the non-value-added manual elements of the McDonald's experience.

Sage,” Adrian declared. “These hands don’t do manual labor.

Writing is manual labor of the mind - like laying pipe.

I didn't know much about computers. I still worked on a manual Olivetti typewriter.

There are moments when art attains almost to the dignity of manual labor.

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

The most difficult book I have ever read was a manual on the use of iron bangles by A.J. Thompson.

If you vote for Democrats, you might as well give Al Quaeda a death ray and a manual.

Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual ... may well be the chess book of the year... [It] comes close to an ultimate one-volume manual on the endgame.

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

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.

Everything in this book may be wrong. - The Savior's Manual

I shave every day with an ancient manual razor. It was my father's, and I love it.

I use the volume control on my guitar, both for dynamics and as a manual noise gate.

I hate having to read the manual.

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

Dybala is three pages ahead of the rest in the football manual.

Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.

Every decade needs its own manual of handicraft.

My first love was, and remains, manual labor; sowing and harvesting, the pastures, the flock, and the cattle.

I grew up having to do manual labor because people always told me that I was an ugly girl. I've never had the permission to be myself except for when I'm doing manual labor. Because in manual labor, it's about, 'Can you pick this up, can you move this here,' and I could.

Literature is not an instruction manual.

We can't hire out our own inner work, but we can do the manual labor with delight and decency.

I knew that manual labor wasn't the career for me.

It is a sad thing that our schoolboys look upon manual labour with disfavour, if not contempt.