(1864 quotes found)
“Technically, Windows is an "operating system," which means that it supplies your computer with the basic commands that it needs to suddenly, with no warning whatsoever, stop operating.”
Dave Barry
“We operate under a jury system in this country, and as much as we complain about it, we have to admit that we know of no better system, except possibly flipping a coin.”
“Films have degenerated to their original operation as carnival amusement - they offer not drama but thrills.”
David Mamet
“Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.”
Dag Hammarskjold
“If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door.”
Paul Beatty
“It had all the earmarks of a CIA operation; the bomb killed everybody in the room except the intended target!”
William F. Buckley Jr.
“''Now'' is the operative word. Everything you put in your way is just a method of putting off the hour when you could actually be doing your dream. You don't need endless time and perfect conditions. Do it now. Do it today. Do it for twenty minutes and watch your heart start beating.”
Barbara Sher
“Operator! Give me the number for 911”
Dan Castellaneta
“He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart”
Washington Irving
“Thurber did not write the way a surgeon operates, he wrote the way a child skips rope, the way a mouse waltzes.”
E. B. White