Handbook Quotations

Let me be clear. 'The Good Father' isn't a handbook on how to assassinate the president.

Stealing bases was put to me almost as a prerequisite for staying in the game. They didn't give me a handbook on how to do it; they said do it. Under those conditions you go out and develop your own handbook.

When I was young, I had this feeling that there was this handbook that I had never gotten that explained how to be, how to laugh, what to wear, how to stand by yourself in the hallway. Everyone looked so natural - like they all practiced and knew exactly what to do - even the way they pushed their hair out of their face.

There's no handbook for parenting. So you walk a very fine line as a parent because you are civilizing these raw things. They will tip the coffee over and finger-paint on the table. At some point, you have to say, 'We're gonna have to clean that up because you don't paint with coffee on a table.'

You have to abide by the tournament rules. It said basically that they've now made a tournament rule that you have to have a number on your back. That's the way we read the letter. I haven't seen the amended page in the tournament handbook but I'm sure that's coming through.

The American Red Cross will be working over the next three years to get more than one million additional families in the Bay Area prepared for a large earthquake. This handbook will play an important role in our training efforts.

We have saturated Europe with oil. And as any economics handbook will tell you, excessive supply makes prices fall. But we do not have the means to decrease supply: all our (oil) exports are directed at Europe.

At the end, I'd get behind Kurt, I'd get close to him. I tried everything. I pulled out the whole handbook and I couldn't really do a lot with him.

There's so much of it you can't control. There is no handbook for how to conduct yourself in the public world.

We go through procedure very carefully, and they also have a handbook that spells out what to do if any problem goes on in the school bus. I really don't feel that there's a need for parents to be concerned. We will go through full review, all steps, make sure, we're doing what we need to be doing to protect the best interests of all our kids.

The entire handbook can be reduced to three rules. One: you do not touch your ball from the time you tee it up to the moment you pick it out of the hole. Two: don't bend over when you are in the rough. Three: when you are in the woods, keep clapping your hands.

These players will know even before they sign, the player handbook will state, that we have rules about no facial hair and their hair being trimmed. They have to be good role models for the kids in the stands. What (the Loggers' rules) show are good discipline and I think a lot of them will be happy that they have rules.

You don't have to have an animal, or be in 4-H or FFA, to exhibit at the fair. With an Exhibitor Handbook and a nominal entry fee as low as 75 cents in some categories, everyone has a chance at taking home a blue ribbon.

All Californians need to be made aware of earthquake hazards and how to survive them. This handbook is a valuable primer for preparedness.

It is spelled out perfectly in the student handbook the rules and guidelines for incidents involving student behavior. We have these procedures so that swift action may be taken.

We had to inspect 110,000 homes in six weeks, and I had nobody to send out to do the inspections. There's not exactly a handbook on that.

Regarding the Boy Scouts, I'm very suspicious of any organization that has a handbook