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[After college] I was going to study at the Sorbon and become a diplomat. Being a diplomat comes in handy when you are dealing with record companies. — Gloria Estefan

Every man always has handy a dozen glib little reasons why he is right not to sacrifice himself. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Beauty is a very handy thing to have, especially for a woman who ain't handsome. — Josh Billings

This is a dumb quote. — Jack Handy

Creativity needs a bit of untidiness. Make everything too neat and there is no room for experiment. — Charles Handy

Finn could break your vagina and be just handy enough to put it back together. — Christina Lauren

MUMMY, n. - an ancient Egyptian handy, too, in museums in gratifying the vulgar curiosity that serves to distinguish man from the lower animals. — Ambrose Bierce

I'm pretty handy in the kitchen. But my wife's the real genius. — Chris Diamantopoulos

Stoicism sure comes in handy when they take away your underpants. — Piper Kerman

Sacars can come in handy — J.K. Rowling

You have to stand outside the box to see how the box can be re-designed. — Charles Handy

The best learning happens in real life with real problems and real people and not in classrooms. — Charles Handy

I'm quite handy with a screwdriver. I like making and fixing things. — Raza Jaffrey

Racism is to the current era what unAmericanism was to the Fifties: a curse word that provides a handy substitute for logical thought. — Steve Sailer

Me and my big mouth! I'd get rid of it, only it's such a handy place to keep my teeth. — Jimmy Durante

Purpose, pattern, and people, the three P's at the heart of life. — Charles Handy

I think pornography is the only art form where you can be videotaped on a shaky handy cam sucking off a horse and be considered a star. — David Cross

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

The future is not inevitable. We can influence it, if we know what we want it to be. — Charles Handy

The sobering thought is that individuals and societies are not, in the end, remembered for how they made their money, but for how they spent it. — Charles Handy

I was a gymnast for many years before I was a dancer, so it comes in pretty handy when we do stunts. — Mads Mikkelsen

While perspective is a handy device to construct imagined spaces, it is not useful, and possibly detrimental, to sketching existing environments. — Paul Laseau

Time doesn't heal all wounds, handy lie though it may be. Time forces acceptance of what cannot be changed. — E.R. Pierce

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? — Homer

Beware of those who speak of the spiral of history; they are preparing a boomerang. Keep a steel helmet handy — Ralph Ellison

"And then we played Ping-Pong - "
"Not pool? I always assumed he was a billiards man - I mean, it's so handy the way he keeps a stick up his - — Claire LaZebnik

The two women exchanged the type of glance women use when there is no knife handy. — Sydney Smith

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

With a guitar I would be able to express the things I felt in sounds. — William Christopher Handy

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

Passion is born of vague hopes. — Charles Handy

The books of the 1920s and '30s that are most inviting, with their handy size, generous margins, and sharp letterpress type. — John Updike

ADA Cher Reo was sleeping off a night of drunken revelry like the rest of them, so that would be handy. — J.D. Robb

Hello again! As you see, this short course in philosophy will come in handy-sized portions. — Jostein Gaarder

An outsider's point of view is always handy. — Pat Oliphant

They weren't wearing their handy-dandy I'm an Evil Demon T-shirts; nevertheless, I could tell they were coming for me. — Julie Kenner

I hope life isn't a big joke, because I don't get it. — Jack Handy

In a knowledge economy, a good business is a community with a purpose, not a piece of property. — Charles Handy

When smashing monuments, save the pedestals. They always come in handy. — Stanislaw Lem

Citizenship is the chance to make a difference to the place where you belong. — Charles Handy

If you think a weakness can be turned into a strength, I hate to tell you this, but that's another weakness. — Jack Handy

Folks who talk about no violence are always the ones who are first to call a policeman and usually they are sure there is one handy. — Louis L'Amour

On those trains you'll be taking across Europe. A book light always comes in
handy. — Meg Cabot

A sense of humor is not required...but it sure comes in handy. — Margaret Tutor

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

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

If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason. — Jack Handy

~ "It takes a big man to cry, but it takes a bigger man to laugh at that man. — Jack Handy

I wish I had my beta-blockers handy. — James Black

I mean present the best case possible using whatever facts or near facts are handy. — David Baldacci

A good team is a great place to be, exciting, stimulating, supportive, successful. A bad team is horrible, a sort of human prison. — Charles Handy

Should ever anything be missed - milk, coals, umbrellas, brandy - the cat's pitched into with a boot or anything that's handy. — Charles Stuart Calverley

A government is like fire, a handy servant, but a dangerous master. — George Washington

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

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

If you say bullshit on things come in handy,
better revise it before others say otherwise. — Toba Beta

Even if I could, I wouldn't. Scars can come in handy. I have one myself above my left knee that is a perfect map of the London Underground. — J.K. Rowling

When I write I just keep a waste paper basket handy in case I am experiencing a block. — Ruskin Bond

I declared her brain frozen and assumed command of the local Warden detachment, which was handy, since it consisted of only me anyway. — Jim Butcher

There is as far as I know, no example in history, of any state voluntarily ceding power from the centre to its constituent parts. — Charles Handy

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

I buy smoked mackerel in a vain attempt at being healthy. I do actually really like it, and you don't have to cook it, which is handy. — Jo Brand

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

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

His former promiscuity is finally coming in handy, — Jeaniene Frost

Gilbert, as a rule, used money the way women use pepper spray; he liked having some handy but only produced it when physically threatened. — Joe Keenan

From my experience, QuickBooks is the easiest to use of the computer packages available. It also has a handy — Max Newnham

Sometimes I think the world has gone completely mad. And then I think, "Aw, who cares?" And then I think, "Hey, what's for supper? — Jack Handy

Right, let's go rope shopping. You should buy some rope or cord yourself; it might come in handy. You might need it when you kill yourself. — Otsuichi

Ridcully was beginning to show certain signs. If he had been a volcano, natives living nearby would be looking for a handy virgin. — Terry Pratchett

Life is something like a trumpet. If you don't put anything in, you won't get anything out. — William Christopher Handy

I could've punch him in the nose, but there wasn't a stepladder anywhere handy. — Jay Crownover

She's nothing to do with my shit, but fuck it, none of us are saints and scapegoats are always handy. — Irvine Welsh

I think America concedes that true American music has sprung from the Negro. — William Christopher Handy

Profit has to be a means to other ends rather than an end in itself. — Charles Handy

Got the rocket-propelled liquorice launcher handy? — Jasper Fforde

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

You'll never miss the water 'til the well runs dry. — William Christopher Handy

Cheap cigars come in handy; they stifle the odor of cheap politicians. — Ulysses S. Grant

Saving was slow and painful. — William Christopher Handy

This idea was first coined by Charles Handy in his book The Age of Unreason — Jeff Goins

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

A consultant solves other peoples problems. I could never do that. I want to help other people solve their own problems. — Charles Handy

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

Every habit makes our hand more witty, and out wit more handy. — Friedrich Nietzsche

An example would be handy right about now — Brian Marick

Ed felt faint. Milk shake, as it turned out, was much less handy in your veins then, say, oxygen. — Francine Pascal

A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus. — E.B. White

We cannot wait for great visions from great people, for they are in short supply. It is up to us to light our own small fires in the darkness. — Charles Handy

I am very handy with my advice and then when anybody appears to be following it, I get frantic. — Flannery O'Connor

Life is like a trumpet - if you don't put anything into it, you don't get anything out of it. — William Christopher Handy

Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes. That way, you'll be a mile from them, and you'll have their shoes — Jack Handy

I have great respect for the semicolon; it is a mighty handy little fellow. — Abraham Lincoln

I'm pretty handy! I do a lot of things around the house, and I actually enjoy it. — Bryan Cranston

Klaus grinned. 'I'm sorry,' he said, 'but it was a very interesting book, and I'm so pleased that it's coming in handy. — Lemony Snicket

[A] quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.
(The Record Lie) — A.A. Milne

We need to have faith in the future to make sense of the present. — Charles Handy

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

My big ears indicated a talent for music. This thrilled me. — William Christopher Handy

Nature was my kindergarten. — William Christopher Handy