Handy Quotes
Handy Quote of the day
Cheap cigars come in handy; they stifle the odor of cheap politicians.
I still play jazz, and I've always got that trumpet very handy, but I'm coming to feel the classical venues are where my main focus is, in the realm of symphonic pops.
MUMMY, n. - an ancient Egyptian handy, too, in museums in gratifying the vulgar curiosity that serves to distinguish man from the lower animals.
Me and my big mouth! I'd get rid of it, only it's such a handy place to keep my teeth.
Every time I wake up I have this huge dreadlock in the back, and I don't know why. It's not like I sleep like a maniac or anything. It gets knots out really easy, and it's handy.
Never allow yourself to get caught without a loose million handy.
My father was very much a handy person round the house, and I learnt a lot of carpentry from him.
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.
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.
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.
A community where everyone is a ruthless murderer, with handy access to death-dealing devices, is a very polite community.
I do not claim any of the creation of the blues, although I have written many of them even before Mr. Handy had any blues published. I heard them when I was knee-high to a duck.
Oh, a very useful philosophical animal, your average tortoise. Outrunning metaphorical arrows, beating hares in races... very handy.
Every man always has handy a dozen glib little reasons why he is right not to sacrifice himself.
I was a gymnast for many years before I was a dancer, so it comes in pretty handy when I do stunts.
To think, we have the garment industry instead of nature to thank for the zipper concept when it would have come in so handy for childbirth.
I always keep a supply of stimulant handy in case I see a snake, which I also keep handy.
A sense of humor is so handy, isn't it? It lets you see both sides of a question so that you never need do anything.
The line between true self and feigned self is blurred on all sides. Which I think is a rather handy metaphor for falling in love.
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.
I am very handy with my advice and then when anybody appears to be following it, I get frantic.
Her old thoughts were going to come in handy now, but new words would have to be made and said to fit them.
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
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.
My lucky number is four billion. That doesn't come in real handy when you're gambling. "Come on, four billion! Darn! Seven. Not even close. I need more dice."
Not only do I know how to milk a cow, but I know how to herd a bunch of cows, too, which is a life skill that I think may come in handy someday.
Whether it was working on theatre sets or stage lighting, I didn't realize most all of the skills I was exposed to were going to come in handy later on when I became a designer.
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.
Great literature must spring from an upheaval in the author's soul. If that upheaval is not present then it must come from the works of any other author which happens to be handy and easily adapted.
Humans didn't really fight over skin tone or ideology; those were just handy cues for kin-selection purposes. Ultimately it always came down to bloodlines and limited resources.
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.
Newfoundland dogs are good to save children from drowning, but you must have a pond of water handy and a child, or else there will be no profit in boarding a Newfoundland.
I would love to have a photographic memory. It would come in handy with the rants I'm given on Scrubs... often on short notice!
We have this handy fusion reactor in the sky called the sun, you don't have to do anything, it just works. It shows up every day.
It would be far easier to lose weight permanently if replacement parts weren't so handy in the refrigerator.
Welcome thy neighbor into thy fallout shelter. He'll come in handy if you run out of food.
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?
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.