Why doesn't love come with an owner's manual?
I never liked to work, I mean manual work.
You can read a dozen different textbooks or how-to manuals that will tell you the basic rules of what makes a story - a beginning, a middle, and an end.
I class myself as a manual laborer.
Fairy tales are about money, marriage, and men. They are the maps and manuals that are passed down from mothers and grandmothers to help them survive.
Recipes are not assembly manuals. Recipes are guides and suggestions for a process that is infinitely nuanced. Recipes are sheet music.
Manuals have their uses. . . but they are not to be confused with living.
If we were a sex manual it'd be a best-seller.
I don't know anybody's road who's been paved perfectly for them, there are no manuals, you don't know what life has in store for you.
Life doesn't come with an instruction manual.
The manuals we got from IBM would show examples of programs and I knew I could do a heck of a lot better than that. So I thought I might have some talent.
Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software.
If you have to have a policy manual, publish the 'Ten Commandments. '
I would say I'd rather dig a ditch, you know, do hard, manual labor than write lyrics.
My father was a manual worker.
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've got a Range Rover. It's brilliant actually but it's manual.
Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.
