Handy Quotes
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.
..."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—
Just spend a few more months playing video games. That hand-eye coordination will come in handy when you get to third base.
When your life has been spent in one war after another for forty-five years, you have to be pretty handy to survive.
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.
I gave him a kick and he stepped back onto the third rail. Exploding, flaming eraser! This is why moms tell you to stay away from the third rail, but it sure came in handy this time.
Being needed was a handy trick. It could fill you up so full you never even noticed all the places that were empty.
While perspective is a handy device to construct imagined spaces, it is not useful, and possibly detrimental, to sketching existing environments.
My accountancy experience could come in handy if ever I find myself in the right position. For now, I'm very happy to write.
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.
Racism is to the current era what unAmericanism was to the Fifties: a curse word that provides a handy substitute for logical thought.
I slice up a ton of cucumbers, celery, carrots and red and yellow peppers. Keep them in your fridge so you always have something handy to curb your snack attack.
I always write with my .357 magnum handy. Why? Well, you never know when God may try to interfere.
Your mind is like a sponge, in the sense that it would come in handy when cleaning off a countertop or something like that.
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.
I cannot live or write without music. It stimulates the normally dormant parts of my brain that come in handy when constructing fiction.
A debt is just as hard for a Government to pay as it is for an individual. No debt ever comes due at a good time. Borrowing is the only thing that seems handy all the time.
You are wise as well as short." "I can also break bricks with my bare hands." "That's a handy skill if you ever find yourself walled up in the basement of an abandoned house by a psychopath.
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.
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.
Should ever anything be missed - milk, coals, umbrellas, brandy - the cat's pitched into with a boot or anything that's handy.
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.
You sure you don't need your Prince Charming to come and save you?" The knot in my stomach evaporated. My Prince Charming huh. "Sure, do you have one handy?
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.
It's the only time my education has come in remotely handy. -on using her Russian literature studies for copying her "Van Helsing" script into Russian to acquire a Slavic accent.
My father would always say "learn everything you can and whenever you can, because you never know when it'll come in handy."
Having a personal philosophy is like having a pet marmoset, because it may be very attractive when you acquire it, but there may be situations when it will not come in handy at all.
Maybe there's something new that can document an idea quicker, but pen and paper have always been pretty handy for me.
If there was an arrow speeding toward Will, I would be bound by oath to step in front of it.' 'Handy, that,' said Will.
I was going to study at the Sorbonne and become a diplomat. Being a diplomat comes in handy when you are dealing with record companies.
Simperium seems like a genuine utility for our own apps, and for other people as a service. And Simplenote, as a product, I love, and it's just darn handy.
The handy thing about being a father is that the historic standard is so pitifully low.
That might be nice, an extra pair of arms," Jace said. "Handy in a fight." "Not if they're growing out of your..." Dorothea paused and smiled, not without malice. "Neck.
Today secular philosophers call that kind of divine invocation God of the gaps-which comes in handy, because there has never been a shortage of gaps in people's knowledge.
Maybe one day, I would write a story about arguing in public, and those would come in handy in some way.
It is also aimed at experienced human rights activists who are looking for a handy collection of facts to use in any confrontations online – or in real life.
