Handy Quotes

• If you ask my wife, the biggest fault is my inability around the house. She says the only thing handy about me is that I'm close by. And, I have a terrible memory. I'm bad at saying no. I often double-book. There are a lot of things.

  Hugh Jackman

  Memories, Book, Wife

  "Hugh Jackman Interview REAL STEEL". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 4, 2011.

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• 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.

  Robert Benchley

  Spring, Writing, Soul

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• An outsider's point of view is always handy.

  Pat Oliphant

  Views, Outsiders, Point Of View

  Pat Oliphant, Harry L. Katz, Sara Day, Library of Congress (1998). “Oliphant's Anthem”, p.37, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Inspiring, Money

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• I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world because they'd never expect it.

  Jack Handey

  Hate, War, Deep Thought

  "Deep Thoughts" by Jack Handey, Berkley Publishing Group, 1992.

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  No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

  Quoted in Vidette-Messenger (Valparaiso, Ind.), 7 June 1941 See Channing 1

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• 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

  Play, Focus, Jazz

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• My father was very much a handy person round the house, and I learnt a lot of carpentry from him.

  John Henry Carver

  Father, House, Carpentry

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• I have never forgotten my days as an Eagle Scout. I didn't know it at the time, but what really came out of my Scouting was learning how to lead and serve the community. It has come in handy in my career in government.

  Lloyd Bentsen

  Government, Eagles, Careers

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• 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

  Skills, Theatre, Realizing

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• 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!

  John C. McGinley

  Memories, Short Notice, Given

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• When smashing monuments, save the pedestals - they always come in handy.

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Sea, Political, Pedestal

  "Unkempt Thoughts". Book by Stanisław Jerzy Lec, translated by Jacek Galazka, 1962.

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• But despite the universality of URLs, we often forget that they're not just a handy way to address network resources. They're also valuable communication tools.

  Jesse James Garrett

  Communication, Tools, Addresses

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• I always keep a supply of stimulant handy in case I see a snake, which I also keep handy.

  W. C. Fields

  Inspirational, Funny, Book

  In Corey Ford Time of Laughter (1970) p. 182

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• A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.

  A. A. Milne

  Inspirational, Thinking, Grieving

  A. A. Milne (2013). “The Red House Mystery and Other Novels”, p.1247, eBookIt.com

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• A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.

  E. B. White

  Men, White, Farming

  E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.109, Cornell University Press

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• Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer. Most people spend their lives going to bed when they're not sleepy and getting up when they are!

  Cindy Adams

  Children, Skulls, People

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• The Evidence Bible is a handy tool for anyone interested in proving the reliability of Scripture, the deity of Jesus Christ, and the incredible offer of our eternal salvation. It makes the defense of Scripture easily understood and should be read by all serious Bible students.

  Tim LaHaye

  Jesus, Defense, Reliability

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• Every habit makes our hand more witty and our wit less handy.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Witty, Hands, Habit

  "Nietzsche: The Gay Science: With a Prelude in German Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs".

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• A government is like fire, a handy servant, but a dangerous master.

  George Washington

  4th Of July, Fire, Government

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• 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

  Inspirational, Math, Needs

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• 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.

  Josh Billings

  Funny, Dog, Children

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• I always write with my .357 magnum handy. Why? Well, you never know when God may try to interfere.

  Edward Abbey

  Writing, Trying, May

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.12, RosettaBooks

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• Addictions do come in handy sometimes: at least you have to get out of bed for them.

  Martin Amis

  Addiction, Bed, Sometimes

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• Oh, a very useful philosophical animal, your average tortoise. Outrunning metaphorical arrows, beating hares in races... very handy.

  Terry Pratchett

  Philosophical, Animal, Race

  "Small Gods". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1992.

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