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[After college] I was going to study at the Sorbon and become a diplomat. Being a diplomat comes in handy when you are dealing with record companies.
— Gloria Estefan
Every man always has handy a dozen glib little reasons why he is right not to sacrifice himself.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
This is a dumb quote.
— Jack Handy
When God writes our names in the 'Lamb's Book of Life' He doesn't do it with an eraser handy. He does it for eternity.
— R.C. Sproul
Creativity needs a bit of untidiness. Make everything too neat and there is no room for experiment.
— Charles Handy
We're predators; we don't eat meat because it's handy, we eat meat because we have a taste for blood.
— Jeff Lindsay
MUMMY, n. - an ancient Egyptian handy, too, in museums in gratifying the vulgar curiosity that serves to distinguish man from the lower animals.
— Ambrose Bierce
I'm pretty handy in the kitchen. But my wife's the real genius.
— Chris Diamantopoulos
The best learning happens in real life with real problems and real people and not in classrooms.
— Charles Handy
Cynicism is more than a pose; it's also a handy time saver. By deflating your companion's enthusiasm, you can cut conversations in half.
— Lisa Birnbach
Racism is to the current era what unAmericanism was to the Fifties: a curse word that provides a handy substitute for logical thought.
— Steve Sailer
Me and my big mouth! I'd get rid of it, only it's such a handy place to keep my teeth.
— Jimmy Durante
I think pornography is the only art form where you can be videotaped on a shaky handy cam sucking off a horse and be considered a star.
— David Cross
Her old thoughts were going to come in handy now, but new words would have to be made and said to fit them.
— Zora Neale Hurston
The future is not inevitable. We can influence it, if we know what we want it to be.
— Charles Handy
The sobering thought is that individuals and societies are not, in the end, remembered for how they made their money, but for how they spent it.
— Charles Handy
I was a gymnast for many years before I was a dancer, so it comes in pretty handy when we do stunts.
— Mads Mikkelsen
While perspective is a handy device to construct imagined spaces, it is not useful, and possibly detrimental, to sketching existing environments.
— Paul Laseau
Exercise is another tool at your disposal, and it's handy because it's something you can prescribe for yourself,
— John J. Ratey
Being needed was a handy trick. It could fill you up so full you never even noticed all the places that were empty.
— Deb Caletti
With a guitar I would be able to express the things I felt in sounds.
— William Christopher Handy
Passion is born of vague hopes.
— Charles Handy
The books of the 1920s and '30s that are most inviting, with their handy size, generous margins, and sharp letterpress type.
— John Updike
Once you get past funny, my other qualities are so below average. It's not like I'm handy.
— Seth Meyers
America's eyes darted in Kara's direction. Good idea, Kara. The fact that you're a total bitch comes in handy sometimes.
— Jamie McGuire
Should ever anything be missed - milk, coals, umbrellas, brandy - the cat's pitched into with a boot or anything that's handy.
— Charles Stuart Calverley
You can never tell what's in a woman's mind,
And if she's from Harlem, there's no use o' tryin — William Christopher Handy
And if she's from Harlem, there's no use o' tryin — William Christopher Handy
I would never put a video in front of my kid. While I don't use videos as a babysitter, they have come in handy on the airplane.
— Sheryl Crow
A necromancer, you say? I suppose it's a handy skill, but it's too morbid for my tastes. I'll take a blood-sucking vampire any day.
— Amanda Carlson
A handy man's worth his weight in gold. You
— Nora Roberts
If you think a weakness can be turned into a strength, I hate to tell you this, but that's another weakness.
— Jack Handy
Time doesn't heal all wounds, handy lie though it may be. Time forces acceptance of what cannot be changed.
— E.R. Pierce
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.
— Bix Beiderbecke
An outsider's point of view is always handy.
— Pat Oliphant
It's a perfectly handy skill for any boy to know." "Certainly it is, if he needs to hail a passing tugboat.
— Donna Tartt
If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason.
— Jack Handy
I wish I had my beta-blockers handy.
— James Black
I mean present the best case possible using whatever facts or near facts are handy.
— David Baldacci
A good team is a great place to be, exciting, stimulating, supportive, successful. A bad team is horrible, a sort of human prison.
— Charles Handy
"And then we played Ping-Pong - "
"Not pool? I always assumed he was a billiards man - I mean, it's so handy the way he keeps a stick up his - — Claire LaZebnik
"Not pool? I always assumed he was a billiards man - I mean, it's so handy the way he keeps a stick up his - — Claire LaZebnik
A government is like fire, a handy servant, but a dangerous master.
— George Washington
Smoking wildwood flower got to be a habit, we didn't see no harm. We thought it was kind of handy, to take a trip and never leave the farm.
— Jim Stafford
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.
— Alvin Lee
You can go your whole life and not need math or physics for a minute, but the ability to tell a joke is always handy.
— Garrison Keillor
I am fairly rich. Money's very handy, let's face it.
— Bob Hoskins
You never know when an old calendar might come in handy! Sure, it's not 1985 right now, but who knows what tomorrow will bring?
— Homer
Beware of those who speak of the spiral of history; they are preparing a boomerang. Keep a steel helmet handy
— Ralph Ellison
If you say bullshit on things come in handy,
better revise it before others say otherwise. — Toba Beta
better revise it before others say otherwise. — Toba Beta
Even if I could, I wouldn't. Scars can come in handy. I have one myself above my left knee that is a perfect map of the London Underground.
— J.K. Rowling
When I write I just keep a waste paper basket handy in case I am experiencing a block.
— Ruskin Bond
I declared her brain frozen and assumed command of the local Warden detachment, which was handy, since it consisted of only me anyway.
— Jim Butcher
There is as far as I know, no example in history, of any state voluntarily ceding power from the centre to its constituent parts.
— Charles Handy
Men are just like unlit lamps: in themselves they are no good for anything, but, when lit, they can be handy to have around the house.
— Moderata Fonte
I buy smoked mackerel in a vain attempt at being healthy. I do actually really like it, and you don't have to cook it, which is handy.
— Jo Brand
There were a lot of gods. Gods always come in handy, they justify almost anything.
— Margaret Atwood
Do you have a credit card or something?" I ask because who wouldn't have a credit card handy during the zombie fucking apocalypse.
— Courtney Summers
His former promiscuity is finally coming in handy,
— Jeaniene Frost
Gilbert, as a rule, used money the way women use pepper spray; he liked having some handy but only produced it when physically threatened.
— Joe Keenan
From my experience, QuickBooks is the easiest to use of the computer packages available. It also has a handy
— Max Newnham
Sometimes I think the world has gone completely mad. And then I think, "Aw, who cares?" And then I think, "Hey, what's for supper?
— Jack Handy
Right, let's go rope shopping. You should buy some rope or cord yourself; it might come in handy. You might need it when you kill yourself.
— Otsuichi
Ridcully was beginning to show certain signs. If he had been a volcano, natives living nearby would be looking for a handy virgin.
— Terry Pratchett
Life is something like a trumpet. If you don't put anything in, you won't get anything out.
— William Christopher Handy
She's nothing to do with my shit, but fuck it, none of us are saints and scapegoats are always handy.
— Irvine Welsh
I think America concedes that true American music has sprung from the Negro.
— William Christopher Handy
Got the rocket-propelled liquorice launcher handy?
— Jasper Fforde
Your mind is like a sponge, in the sense that it would come in handy when cleaning off a countertop or something like that.
— Demetri Martin
You'll never miss the water 'til the well runs dry.
— William Christopher Handy
Cheap cigars come in handy; they stifle the odor of cheap politicians.
— Ulysses S. Grant
Saving was slow and painful.
— William Christopher Handy
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy
— Groucho Marx
A consultant solves other peoples problems. I could never do that. I want to help other people solve their own problems.
— Charles Handy
Every habit makes our hand more witty, and out wit more handy.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
An example would be handy right about now
— Brian Marick
Ed felt faint. Milk shake, as it turned out, was much less handy in your veins then, say, oxygen.
— Francine Pascal
We cannot wait for great visions from great people, for they are in short supply. It is up to us to light our own small fires in the darkness.
— Charles Handy
I am very handy with my advice and then when anybody appears to be following it, I get frantic.
— Flannery O'Connor
Life is like a trumpet - if you don't put anything into it, you don't get anything out of it.
— William Christopher Handy
Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes. That way, you'll be a mile from them, and you'll have their shoes
— Jack Handy
Klaus grinned. 'I'm sorry,' he said, 'but it was a very interesting book, and I'm so pleased that it's coming in handy.
— Lemony Snicket
[A] quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.
(The Record Lie) — A.A. Milne
(The Record Lie) — A.A. Milne
Depressives kill themselves. Psychotics, rocked in the poison cradles of their own egos, want to do everyone handy a favor and take them along. I'm
— Stephen King
My big ears indicated a talent for music. This thrilled me.
— William Christopher Handy
Nature was my kindergarten.
— William Christopher Handy