Handy Quotes - Page 4

• So I think there is one rule every host and hostess ought to keep with the comb and nail file and bicarbonate and aromatic spirits on a handy shelf,
  Which is don't spoil the denouement by telling the guests everything is terrible, but let them have the thrill of finding it out for themselves.

  Ogden Nash

  Thinking, Guests, Nails

  Ogden Nash (1941). “The face is familiar: the selected verse of Ogden Nash”, Garden City publishing company, inc

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• 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

  Sky, Fusion, Energy

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• 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

  Thinking, Scotch, Luxury

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• 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

  Math, Mind, Musician

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• Learn as much as you can about performing. Live theater, improv classes, music, stand up comedy, dance, anything to make yourself confident and comfortable in front of an audience. It'll all come in handy when auditioning for producers and performing with other actors. The best voice actors all have a live performance background. And are competent, fearless, incredibly creative actors.

  Rob Paulsen

  Class, Voice, Creative

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• 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."

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Real, Humor

  "Strategic Grill Locations". 1999.

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• Anger is a handy term and words are tricky, as we know. What one man perceives as anger, another person - in my case the deliverer of material - is, "Don't you see it, don't you see how badly you're doing?" It's like shaking a child - which you're not supposed to do.

  George Carlin

  Children, Men, Cases

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• 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

  Writing, Very Happy, Position

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• It would be far easier to lose weight permanently if replacement parts weren't so handy in the refrigerator.

  Hugh Allen

  Would Be, Weight, Replacements

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• 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

  People, Choices, Confusing

  "After Banner Decade, Peering in on the Future of Technology". "PBS NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. January 3, 2010.

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• 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.

  Charles M. Schwab

  Ideas, Might, Becoming

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• Doctors keep their scalpels and other instruments handy, for emergencies. Keep your philosophy ready too - ready to understand heaven and earth. In everything you do, even the smallest thing, remember the chain that links them. Nothing earthly succeeds by ignoring heaven, nothing heavenly by ignoring earth.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Philosophy, Doctors, Heaven

  Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.33, Modern Library

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• A handy short definition of almost all science fiction might read: realistic speculation about possible future events, based solidly on adequate knowledge of the real world, past and present, and on a thorough understanding of the nature and significance of the scientific method.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Real, Past, Thorough Understanding

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• Maybe there's something new that can document an idea quicker, but pen and paper have always been pretty handy for me.

  Grant Hart

  Something New, Pens

  Source: music.avclub.com

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• History can come in handy. If you were born yesterday, with no knowledge of the past, you might easily accept whatever the government tells you. But knowing a bit of history--while it would not absolutely prove the government was lying in a given instance--might make you skeptical, lead you to ask questions, make it more likely that you would find out the truth.

  Howard Zinn

  Lying, Past, Government

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• Thank you, Dain," she said. "I should like that very much. I've never seen a proper wrestling match before." "I daresay it will be a novel experience all round," he said, gravely eyeing her up and down. "I can't wait to see Sherburne's face when I arrive with my lady wife in tow." "There, you see?" she said, unoffended. "I told you there were other benefits to having a wife. I can come in very handy when you wish to shock your friends.

  Loretta Chase

  Wrestling, Wife, Waiting

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• When ideas fail, words come in very handy.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Sarcastic, War, Sarcasm

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• 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

  Fit, Made, Said

  Zora Neale Hurston (1937). “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, p.41, University of Illinois Press

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• 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

  Mom, Kicks, Thirds

  James Patterson (2007). “The Angel Experiment”, Little, Brown and Company

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• 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

  Mind, Cleaning, Sponges

  Demetri Martin (2011). “This Is a Book”, p.134, Hachette UK

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• There were a lot of gods. Gods always come in handy, they justify almost anything.

  Margaret Atwood

  Justify

  Margaret Atwood (2007). “The Blind Assassin: A Novel”, p.27, Anchor

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• You two have to promise to be careful!" Sinead handed Amy a small plastic bag. "I made you a going-away present–a high-powered miniature smoke bomb. Could come in handy against the Vespers. It works with knockout gas, so I tossed in a couple of breathing filters." "That's the Cahill equivalent of a Hallmark moment," Dan observed. "A smoke bomb. When you care enough to send the very best–explosives." "I'm not a flowers-and-candy kind of girl," Sinead informed him.

  Gordon Korman

  Girl, Couple, Flower

  Gordon Korman, Scholastic Multi-Platform, (2011). “The 39 Clues: Cahills vs. Vespers Book 1: The Medusa Plot”, p.48, Scholastic Inc.

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• Being needed was a handy trick. It could fill you up so full you never even noticed all the places that were empty.

  Deb Caletti

  Empty, Tricks, Needed

  Deb Caletti (2010). “The Six Rules of Maybe”, p.148, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  Nora Roberts

  Wise, Hands, Skills

  Nora Roberts (2012). “The Novels of Nora Roberts”, p.1079, Penguin

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• 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

  People, Riding, Doe

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