Top 100 Quotes About Handy
#1. Fortunately, there's another handy driver that has manifested itself throughout the history of cultures. The urge to want to gain wealth. That is almost as potent a driver as the urge to maintain your security. And that is how I view NASA going forward - as an investment in our economy.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#2. I have great respect for the semicolon; it is a mighty handy little fellow.
Abraham Lincoln
#3. Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy
Groucho Marx
#4. 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.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#5. People still have a choice, but, if they find it all too confusing, or they just want someone else to make a choice for them, there's a default that works pretty well. That's this concept of libertarian paternalism. And it's handy.
Esther Dyson
#6. Handy then encourages what he calls "portfolio people" to organize their time not based on hours in a week, but rather days in a year. For example, if you need to make $50,000 per year and can figure out a way to make $250 a day, then you only need to work 200 days a year.
Jeff Goins
#7. Woolies had a DVD sale on so I treated myself to a couple or five plus two CD's, one of which is The Smiths. It'll come in handy when my credit card statement hits the mat and I need something to listen to that's conducive to suicide.
Gillibran Brown
#8. I have been known to buy e-versions of my books because I was in a hotel room and I needed one right away to look up something in it; very handy for that - you can have it just the next minute; you can press the button and just have it.
Margaret Atwood
#10. And although in many cases these unions proved happy enough, sailors being excellent husbands, often away and handy about the house when ashore, it did make for a curious gathering when the spouses were invited to a ball.
Patrick O'Brian
#11. Think about what you have to share that could be of some value to people. Share a handy tip you've discovered while working. Or a link to an interesting article. Mentition a good book you're reading.
Austin Kleon
#12. 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
#13. Got the rocket-propelled liquorice launcher handy?
Jasper Fforde
#14. Support your partner in their interests. You never know when batting practice, kung fu movie moves, or even a poker night might come in handy during a zombie infestation.
Jesse Petersen
#15. Book light," Grandma grumbles as I hurry her away from Dad's boss and his wife. "Who the hell wants
a book light?"
"Lots of people," I say. "They are very handy things to have.
Meg Cabot
#16. 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
#18. I have these plants in my house that are dying, so having a robot butler to water them when I'm away would be pretty handy.
Cary Fukunaga
#19. 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.
James Patterson
#21. 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
#22. Perseverance has always just been something that was in me. And it was a tool that came in very handy as a ballerina.
Misty Copeland
#23. I could've punch him in the nose, but there wasn't a stepladder anywhere handy.
Jay Crownover
#24. There's no doubt that the Moon is more than a handy night light and a hair restorer for werewolves. It's responsible for the substantial amplitude of earthly ocean tides. These are of obvious influence if you're a geoduck, a type of clam that people dig up at low tide.
Seth Shostak
#25. A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.
E.B. White
#26. Cheap cigars come in handy; they stifle the odor of cheap politicians.
Ulysses S. Grant
#27. 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.
Doc Severinsen
#28. Not using that handy maxim a man is what he makes his dough at and alas how much. Sometimes it is a gentle gesture to remind people of their big time possibilities. Makes them like you.
J.P. Donleavy
#29. She may not be able to teach the baby how to cook, but she could teach the child how to shoot a gun and how to disarm a man when being attacked with a knife. You never knew when those things could come in handy.
Kathleen Brooks
#30. I ain't one of those who believe that a half knowledge of a subject is useless, but it has been my experience that when a fellow has that half knowledge he finds it's the other half which would really come in handy.
George Horace Lorimer
#31. 20-some years ago, I'd have a big old radio with a tape deck, and I'd hit record and try to get something down on the tape, but nowadays, I can use my handy little smart-phone; I sing into the app for voice memo.
Mary Chapin Carpenter
#32. I was free to appreciate these former interests of mine rather than worry about not participating in them. The 100 Thing Challenge proved a handy way to get rid of stuff that was never going to fix my past or make me someone that I was not.
Dave Bruno
#33. Lane and Zack got hitched. So while it might not be very punk rock to be too young to drink legally at your own wedding, it's certainly handy to have the thumbs up from God to get laid.
Jennifer Crusie
#34. My final word: don't follow your dreams ... chase them. With a stick, or a shovel, or whatever you have handy. Get that [bleep]ing dream!
Maureen Johnson
#35. A handy man's worth his weight in gold. You
Nora Roberts
#38. Then I read that Jesus was a friend of sinners. This still bothers me. Not because Jesus was a friend of sinners (because that came in really handy in my case). It bothered me because if I'm trying to live like Jesus, that means I'm supposed to be a friend of sinners too.
Dillon Burroughs
#39. I always have scarves handy; they're my indulgence. I buy them at an L.A. shop called Lost & Found. I'll spray one with loads of my Byredo Gypsy Water perfume, put it on and be like, 'Ah, this feels good.'
Lena Headey
#40. 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.
Arthur Lismer
#41. Exercise is another tool at your disposal, and it's handy because it's something you can prescribe for yourself,
John J. Ratey
#42. As a reader, I have a very short attention span and a low tolerance for boredom, and I find that comes in handy with my writing. If I get bored writing something, I pity the people who will then try to read it.
John Scalzi
#43. I'm actually very good with Home Depot-handy type of paintwork.
Michael Ealy
#44. 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
#45. If there was an arrow speeding toward Will, I would be bound by oath to step in front of it.'
'Handy, that,' said Will.
Cassandra Clare
#46. My accountancy experience could come in handy if ever I find myself in the right position. For now, I'm very happy to write.
Sefi Atta
#47. Ed felt faint. Milk shake, as it turned out, was much less handy in your veins then, say, oxygen.
Francine Pascal
#48. It comes in handy in situations like that. People always expect you to be riding around in stretch limousines all the time, but I will sometimes take public transportation if it's convenient, and it does surprise people, you see the heads turn.
Paul McCartney
#49. In ancient Greece, Socrates reportedly didn't fancy a literate society. He felt that people would lose the capacity to think for themselves, simply adopting the perspective of a handy written opinion, and that they would cease to remember what could be written down.
Nick Harkaway
#50. My dad does tons of voiceovers; he was Duke in 'G.I. Joe' and 'Transformers' and Handy, Lazy, and Grouchy Smurf, so I grew up with the best bed time stories ever.
Ashley Bell
#51. 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.
Lily James
#52. Supernatural healing was a handy trick for an absentminded vampire, although it would make my enemies harder to kill. Tit for tat, I guess.
Chloe Neill
#53. 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.
Peter Watts
#54. God, says Handy, or the Eternal Spark, is in every human heart, in every piece of this earth. In this rock, in this ice, in this plant, this bird. All deserve our gentleness. The
Lauren Groff
#55. That's why I don't understand why actors become arrogant and are completely unapproachable - because as an actor, the most valuable thing you can do is talk to people and hear their stories, because it'll all come in handy.
Daniel Radcliffe
#56. Beware of those who speak of the spiral of history; they are preparing a boomerang. Keep a steel helmet handy
Ralph Ellison
#57. I'm quite handy with a screwdriver. I like making and fixing things.
Raza Jaffrey
#58. If the women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy.
Red Green
#59. It's a perfectly handy skill for any boy to know." "Certainly it is, if he needs to hail a passing tugboat.
Donna Tartt
#60. In a one-woman show, there must be compelling material that you adore. In both of these there are conversations with you and another character. My Second City (improvisation) background comes in very handy for accent and body posture.
Valerie Harper
#61. To be a good researcher is to be a good detective, and I enjoy ferreting out tidbits of information. For a diary book like 'A Coal Miner's Bride,' newspapers come in handy for small everyday details such as weather reports.
Susan Campbell Bartoletti
#62. Footsteps out of the room. The side and rattle of a kitchen drawer. Lounds had covered many murders committed in kitchens where things are handy. Police reporting can change forever your view of kitchens ...
Thomas Harris
#63. Sometimes, but if you do it enough, it's harder to trip your gag reflex, which comes in very handy, if you know what I mean."
I did know what she meant, but somehow juxtaposing it with vomiting made the whole thing highly unappealing.
Elise Allen
#64. 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.
Douglas Wilson
#65. 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
#66. I think it's handy for a dramatist of any sort, if I can call myself that, to make use of weddings and wakes, to make use of those moments and those rituals that cause us to pause and look back or look forward and understand that life has changed.
Alice McDermott
#67. You've always been handy with a knife, Mother
Val McDermid
#68. 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
#69. 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.
Lara Stone
#70. 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.
Matt Mullenweg
#71. 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
#72. An outsider's point of view is always handy.
Pat Oliphant
#73. 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
#74. A sense of humor is not required...but it sure comes in handy.
Margaret Tutor
#75. My father was very much a handy person round the house, and I learnt a lot of carpentry from him.
John Henry Carver
#76. I read to learn, tech myself stuff and teach myself math and do complex formulas, and it's very, very tough, but I enjoy doing that and keeping my mind active. It definitely comes in handy, I feel I have a pretty good grasp, at more than a lot of musicians, of the business and finance world.
Jeff Kendrick
#77. Relationships are one thing. I kind of agree with you there. But I'm talking
about sex. Don't you have ... uh ... needs?"
"Yes. But I take care of those by myself. I have a very handy vibrator.
Shelly Laurenston
#78. 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
#79. The books of the 1920s and '30s that are most inviting, with their handy size, generous margins, and sharp letterpress type.
John Updike
#80. I like to think of myself as some of the Scotch tape that holds things together - I'm very handy to have around. But all that actors really need is a bare stage. Lighting is just one of the luxuries of the theater.
Jean Rosenthal
#81. Every man always has handy a dozen glib little reasons why he is right not to sacrifice himself.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#83. I am quite handy; not to sound bragadocious, but I've been working with wood and building things my entire life. I used to be a skateboarder and built ramps with my father. Then, the first two years I lived in Los Angeles, I worked as a carpenter building sets.
Ian Anthony Dale
#84. One never need leave the confines of New York to get all the greenery one wishes - I can't even enjoy a blade of grass unless I know there's a subway handy or a record store or some other sign that people do not totally regret life.
Frank O'Hara
#85. From my experience, QuickBooks is the easiest to use of the computer packages available. It also has a handy
Max Newnham
#86. 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.
Cyndi Lauper
#87. It would be far easier to lose weight permanently if replacement parts weren't so handy in the refrigerator.
Hugh Allen
#88. The human race has not devised any way of dissolving barriers, getting to know the other chap fast, breaking the ice, that is one-tenth as handy and efficient as letting you and the other chap, or chaps, cease to be totally sober at about the same rate in agreeable surroundings.
Kingsley Amis
#89. 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
#90. Handy Hint! When your friend talks about having 'a sweep', do not then visualise Dick van Dyke in his cheeky chappy chimney sweeper outfit heading up into her uterus to do a rendition of 'Step in Time'. Laughter is the inappropriate response to your friend's news.
Hadley Freeman
#91. While perspective is a handy device to construct imagined spaces, it is not useful, and possibly detrimental, to sketching existing environments.
Paul Laseau
#92. 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?
Ilona Andrews
#93. A handy pair of tweezers go a long way. You never know when you're going to have to pluck out a few of those eyebrow hairs. Keep the tweezers in the purse!
Sufe Bradshaw
#94. 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.
Elon Musk
#95. I wish I had my beta-blockers handy.
[Comment when told that he had won a Nobel prize, referring to the drug he discovered for the treatment of heart disease.]
James Whyte Black
#96. 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.
Devon Monk
#97. She sucked in a breath. "You're ... "
When she didn't finish the sentence, he turned his head and watched her gaze drop to his mouth, which was only a few inches from hers.
"Handy," she finished softly.
"And you're ... "
She smiled. "Stubborn? Annoying?"
"Set to go," he said.
Jill Shalvis
#98. Trout fishing. One must be a stickler for proper form. Use nothing but #4 blasting caps, or a hand grenade, if handy, or at a pool well-lined with stone, one blast from a .44 magnum will bring a few stunned brookies quietly to the surface.
Edward Abbey
#99. Kick hard when you have the chance. Aim for parts that hurt. Hope you get lucky and his surprise shocks him into being stupid. Then knock him out with the shovel if you've got one handy. If not, go find the shovel." - Nora
Timandra Whitecastle
#100. Catalyst also provides a handy, free-of-charge quiz that managers could benefit from taking. The quiz can help leaders understand whether their organizations are inclusive and what areas need to be improved.
Ruchika Tulshyan
