Browsing Topic Best Handy Quotes

A political ideology is a very handy thing to have. It’s a real time-saver, because it tells you what you think about things you know nothing about.

Cheap cigars come in handy; they stifle the odor of cheap politicians.

I am absolutely desperate to do an action movie. And not to blow my own trumpet or anything, but I actually think I’m good at it. I did it all. I was really into the routines and the choreography. I used to dance when I was younger, and so I think that came in handy.

Reading those turgid philosophers here in these remote stone buildings may not get you a job, but if those books have forced you to ask yourself questions about what makes life truthful, purposeful, meaningful, and redeeming, you have the Swiss Army Knife of mental tools, and it’s going to come in handy all the time.

I began to learn a lot of chords and rhythms. It was a bit boring at the time but came in very handy later on.

Boys, welcome to the wonderful world of talking to women about their feelings. As a handy primer, here are a few things you should know: 1) Women have feelings. 2) You will spend the next seventy years or so trying to guess what they’re feeling and why. 3) You will be wrong most of the time. 4) I like French Fries.

The jazz band’s chief stimulus, of course, was the rise of the negro ‘blues’ and their exploitation by the negro song-writer, W. C. Handy.

I am fairly rich. Money’s very handy, let’s face it.

Jackson is the most consummate sketcher I have ever known. These little panels, handy on the trail, could be handled as easily as an expert marksman uses a quiver full of arrows.

It was a great joy for me to develop a strong female character in the spirit of an Icelandic woman. Icelandic women tend to be very strong and very independent, and I think that came in very handy.

Marriage and fatherhood heighten the disillusion that we all think we are born handy. We confidently believe that we can fix things around the house, as if it’s part of the collective brain that was further enhanced by eighth-grade shop class.

I cannot live or write without music. It stimulates the normally dormant parts of my brain that come in handy when constructing fiction.

Life gives us no such handy markers – a storm comes, and far from this being a harbinger of death and collapse, during its course a person discovers love and truth, beauty and happiness, the rain lashing at the windows all the while.

An example would be handy right about now

Every man always has handy a dozen glib little reasons why he is right not to sacrifice himself.

It’s hard to carry a child around with you, but fortunately, in most cases, you don’t have to ask a child for directions if you have a well-chosen role model ready to guide you. This is the next prescription: Take one role model, as often as needed. Set aside a few minutes today to fill this prescription so you will have it handy when you need it. Think now about who your role models have been. What do they offer? Who else do you admire, and exactly what do you admire about them? Have your roster of role models ready and waiting to help you the next time you are perplexed.

Euphonic and harmonious expressions, forcible and just expressions, profound and comprehensive expressions, and especially apt and witty expressions, each have their specific influence upon different minds, and their common influence upon all minds…. It is therefore high time our most valuable aphorisms and paragraphs were put in order for frequent perusal, and for handy reference, as the circumstances of life call up subjects.

I’m pretty handy! I do a lot of things around the house, and I actually enjoy it.

I didn’t take up shorthand with any idea of becoming a professional at it. It merely appeared to me to be a good thing to know – something that might come in handy.

If there was an arrow speeding toward Will, I would be bound by oath to step in front of it.’ ‘Handy, that,’ said Will.

The word ‘beauty’ is as easy to use as the word ‘degenerate.’ Both come in handy when one does or does not agree with you

Welcome thy neighbor into thy fallout shelter. He’ll come in handy if you run out of food.

Should ever anything be missed – milk, coals, umbrellas, brandy – the cat’s pitched into with a boot or anything that’s handy.

Since I didn’t have a spork handy, I leaned over the sink and scooped up a palmful of cold water and pressed it against my face. There had to be a better option than a violent sporking. There had to be a way to get rid of my dad.

I trained with the FBI in Portland and I also had many conversations with female FBI agents in Los Angeles, as well. That was again something that also came in very handy for Basic, because I’d learned already how to handle a gun and how to behave just physically when you’re in a situation, a threat. That was very good to know.

Being needed was a handy trick. It could fill you up so full you never even noticed all the places that were empty.

Maybe one day, I would write a story about arguing in public, and those would come in handy in some way.

I’ve told you the four thunderstorms – disappointment, frustration, unfairness and isolation. You cannot avoid them, as like the monsoon they will come into your life at regular intervals. You just need to keep the raincoat handy to not let the spark die

Most people don’t realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer. Most people spend their lives going to bed when they’re not sleepy and getting up when they are!

Morality has in the past made progress when we broadened the category of things we weren’t permitted to harm (animals, ‘infidels’); saw through some delusions and rationalisations about what harms are good for people themselves (prison punishment, hysterectomies for unhappy 1950s wives); and readjusted our for-the-good of others criteria so as to demand only reasonable sacrifices (ceasing to use children as handy chimney sweeps).

It was a very easy way to have a group of friends on a very large campus – a sense of identity. It was a great place to learn how to navigate a variety of personalities, which you kind of have to do in life. You’ve got the shy woman and you’ve got the obnoxious woman and you’ve got the brainiac and you’ve got the social climber and you’ve got the introvert and the extrovert, and you’re all living together. I think it gave me valuable experience in learning how to live with people that are different than you are. And that’s an important lesson. You can bet it comes in very handy in the Senate.

Your mind is like a sponge, in the sense that it would come in handy when cleaning off a countertop or something like that.

I took out a whole fireplace and put in broken glass and installed a burner underneath, so it looks like fire on ice. I did that in my bedroom suite. I’m pretty handy.

Before I became famous I had a very full life, and that gave me a lot to pick from. I always use everything. It always comes in handy. Working with animals… Well, I just enjoyed that. That was the most peaceful time.

He knew one thing for sure, though. Whatever happened, Matt would have some handy excuse. He’d make up some story or change an old one, find some dumb quote to explain it all.