Quotes of: Military-operation Keyword

You don't get it boy... this isn't a mudhole... its an operating table. (KRAKKKKK) And I'm the surgeon.

Batman: The Dark Knight Returns

We'll try to include Iraqi officers in our staffs. We will do everything we can to empower Iraqi security forces to stand up on their own and operate where they can alone.

John Abizaid

After art college, I got a job as a medical illustrator, and I was pretty good. I had to imagine what was going on in the operations because the photographs just showed a mess.

Anthony Browne

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

Abhorsen

He is indeed the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.

Irving's Sketch Book

That August, Elodie Selkirk became the latest lady in Paris to order a coin-operated boy.

The Rental Heart and Other Fairytales

Talent is the presence of ability and absence of understanding about the source and operation of knowledge.

Reflections

True intelligence operates silently. Stillness is where creativity and solutions to problems are found.

Stillness Speaks

She decided that if Lucas was gay then she was going to have to get a sex change operation. He would be so worth it.

Starcrossed

... how could Britain operate in India for 300 years and take so little back from it in terms of understanding?

Snowfed Waters

Every problem of medicine is a problem of language, and this operation was a malapropism.

Why I Don't Write Like Franz Kafka

I think Linux is a great thing, because Linux is an alternative to Windows, and because, of all the operating systems that are at all relevant today, Unix is the best of a bad lot.

Jamie Zawinski

I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary.

Larry Wall

I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life.

Oprah Winfrey

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

Thomas Jefferson

Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates.

H. L. Mencken

If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to perform operations, he becomes a journalist.

Norman Mailer

Businesses should be assured that law enforcement will operate with the utmost sensitivity toward victims of cyber attacks.

Preet Bharara

Wit penetrates; humor envelops. Wit is a function of verbal intelligence; humor is imagination operating on good nature.

Peggy Noonan

I started studying shyness in adults in 1972. Shyness operates at so many different levels. Out of that research came the Stanford shyness clinic in 1977.

Philip Zimbardo

I am convinced that people with such wounds will be quite ready to co-operate in a safe and painless experiment in the interests of humanity as a whole.

Robert Barany