Handiest Quotes

#1. I used to tell John my dreams, not to understand them but to get rid of them, clear my mind for the day.

Joan Didion

#2. My heart's no less bulletproof than yours. Believe me. But if you feel like you have nothing, then you have nothing to lose, right? Give yourself a shot at being my . . . different.

Gail McHugh

#3. The whole time I was modeling, I had a place in Paris, and a place in New York, and I was really single.

Boris Kodjoe

#4. But it is not at all unthinkable for anyone to tell a writer how to write. It comes with the territory.

Ernest Lehman

#5. Belial pounds on the door and we both go still. We're panting like mad. Nothing like a dose of your girlfriend's father to douse the kindled fires. Anna giggles in a very mischievous way and I grin.
My lovely little vixen.

Wendy Higgins

#6. Offices are peculiar places and nobody is ever quite sure what happens in them, least of all the people who work there. But the day tends to begin with a morning meeting, in which everybody decides what they will fail to do for the rest of the day.

Mark Forsyth

#7. Clothing, right from our first direct evidence twenty thousand years ago, has been the handiest solution to conveying social messages visually, silently, continuously.

E. J. W. Barber

#8. The abundance of beards in periods of social unrest, times of revolt or upheaval, should be noted. It's the handiest way people have of making themselves mysterious.

Mihail Sebastian