Operators Quotes

• Rock stars get room keys, I get business cards. Wherever I go I meet innovators of wind power equipment, solar energy operators.

  Thomas Friedman

  Stars, Keys, Rocks

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• Operator! Give me the number for 911!

  Dan Castellaneta

  Numbers, Giving, Funny Simpsons

  "The Simpsons: Bart vs. Thanksgiving". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 1990.

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• We don't want you convicted for condiment theft. You go to that prison, you'll meet big-time operators. Maple syrup stealers.

  Deb Caletti

  Syrup, Want, Prison

  Deb Caletti (2011). “Wild Roses”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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• Our aim was to insure repeat business based on the system's reputation rather than on the quality of a single store or operator.

  Ray Kroc

  Focus, Quality, Reputation

  Ray Kroc (2016). “Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald's”, p.70, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Time plays tricks between here and home," said Mogget sepulchrally, frightening the life out of the telephone operator.

  Garth Nix

  Home, Play, Telephones

  Garth Nix (2014). “Abhorsen”, p.127, Hot Key Books

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• The union miner cannot agree to the acceptance of a wage principle which will permit his annual earnings and his living standards to be determined by the hungriest unfortunates whom the non-union operators can employ.

  John L. Lewis

  Struggle, Acceptance, Economic Inequality

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• I'm hitting the driver so good I gotta dial the operator for long distance after I hit it.

  Lee Trevino

  Distance, Golf, Long

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• The only true and effective "operator's manual for spaceship earth" is not a book that any human will ever write; it is hundreds of thousands of local cultures.

  Wendell Berry

  Book, Writing, Culture

  Wendell Berry (2010). “What Matters?: Economics for a Renewed Commonwealth”, p.152, Counterpoint Press

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• I was all-state in four sports in New Jersey, but sometimes I couldn't get served at a restaurant two blocks from my high school. There were no job opportunities then... the only thing a black youth could aspire to be was a bellboy or a pullman or an elevator operator, or, maybe, a teacher. There was a time when all we had was black baseball.

  Monte Irvin

  Sports, Baseball, Teacher

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• A great lathe operator commands several times the wage of an average lathe operator, but a great writer of software code is worth 10,000 times the price of an average software writer.

  Bill Gates

  Technology, Average, Computer

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• Men who can both be right and sit tight are uncommon. I found it one of the hardest things to learn. But it is only after a stock operator has firmly grasped this that he can make big money.

  Jesse Lauriston Livermore

  Men, Investing, Bigs

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• Small-scale fisheries should not be favoured over large-scale operations ebcause of romantic notions of rugged small operators battling both the elements and anonymous corporations. [They ought to be supported] because of the scientific evidence available to confirm the common-sense inference that local fishers, if given privileged access, will tend to avoid trashing their local stocks, while foreign fishers do not have such motivation.

  Daniel Pauly

  Motivation, Common Sense, Elements

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• During my long investigation of these strange objects, I have seen many reports verified by Air Force Intelligence, detailed accounts by Air Force pilots, radar operators, and other trained observers proving the UFOs are high-speed craft superior to anything built on Earth.

  Donald Keyhoe

  Air, Long, Crafts

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• Let's Face it, - Sinatra is a king. He's a very sharp operator, a keen record chief, and has a keen appreciation of what the public wants.

  Bing Crosby

  Appreciation, Kings, Records

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• A society that is in its higher circles and middle levels widely believed to be a network of smart rackets does not produce men with an inner moral sense; a society that is merely expedient does not produce men of conscience. A society that narrows the meaning of 'success' to the big money and in its terms condemns failure as the chief vice, raising money to the plane of absolute value, will produce the sharp operator and the shady deal. Blessed are the cynical, for only they have what it takes to succeed.

  C. Wright Mills

  Smart, Blessed, Men

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• To the possible enquiry as to the probable character of a successful flying machine, the writer would answer that in his judgment two types of such machines may eventually be evolved: one, which may be termed the soaring type, and which will carry but a single operator, and another, likely to be developed somewhat later, which may be termed the journeying type, to carry several passengers, and to be provided with a motor.

  Octave Chanute

  Character, Successful, Two

  Octave Chanute (1894). “Progress in Flying Machines”

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• Every time I get in an elevator, the operator says the same thing to me: 'Basement?'

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Elevators, Basements

  "Rodney Dangerfield's Famous One-Liners" by the Associated Press, www.foxnews.com. October 5, 2004.

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• Because operators are based thousands of miles away from the battlefield, and undertake operations entirely through computer screens and remote audio feed, there is a risk of developing a 'PlayStation' mentality to killing.

  Philip Alston

  Risk, Audio, Aviation

  "Drone warfare: life on the new frontline" by Chris Woods, www.theguardian.com. February 24, 2015.

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• Lawyers are operators of the toll bridge across which anyone in search of justice has to pass.

  Jane Bryant Quinn

  Law, Bridges, Justice

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• One operator is no big deal. That can be fixed in a jiffy.

  Larry Wall

  Bigs, Fixed, Deals

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• Mathematics is ordinarily considered as producing precise and dependable results; but in the stock market the more elaborate and abstruse the mathematics the more uncertain and speculative are the conclusions we draw there from. Whenever calculus is brought in, or higher algebra, you could take it as a warning that the operator was trying to substitute theory for experience, and usually also to give to speculation the deceptive guise of investment.

  Benjamin Graham

  Giving, Trying, Investing

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• I attempt all day, at work, not to think about what lies ahead, but this costs me so much effort that there is nothing left for my work. I handle telephone calls so badly that after a while the switchboard operator refuses to connect me. So I had better say to myself, Go ahead and polish the silverware beautifully, then lay it out ready on the sideboard and be done with it. Because I polish it in my mind all day long—this is what torments me (and doesn't clean the silver).

  Lydia Davis

  Lying, Thinking, Long

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• The coming of the printing press must have seemed as if it would turn the world upside down in the way it spread and, above all, democratized knowledge. Provide you could pay and read, what was on the shelves in the new bookshops was yours for the taking. The speed with which printing presses and their operators fanned out across Europe is extraordinary. From the single Mainz press of 1457, it took only twenty-three years to establish presses in 110 towns: 50 in Italy, 30 in Germany, 9 in France, 8 in Spain, 8 in Holland, 4 in England, and so on.

  James E. Burke

  Europe, Years, World

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• Maybe you'll call me someday Hear the operator say the numbers no good And that She had a world of chances for you She had a world of chances for you She had a world of chances Chances you were burning through

  Demi Lovato

  Numbers, Burning, World

  Song: World Of Chances, Album: Here We Go Again, 2009

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• The general's staff is a handpicked collection of killers, spies, geniuses, patriots, political operators and outright maniacs. There's a former head of British Special Forces, two Navy Seals, an Afghan Special Forces commando, a lawyer, two fighter pilots and at least two dozen combat veterans and counterinsurgency experts. They jokingly refer to themselves as Team America, taking the name from the South Park-esque sendup of military cluelessness, and they pride themselves on their can-do attitude and their disdain for authority.

  Michael Hastings

  Attitude, Team, Military

  "The Runaway General: The Profile That Brought Down McChrystal" by Michael Hastings, www.rollingstone.com. June 22, 2010.

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