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A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus. -- E. B. White
I always keep a supply of stimulant handy in case I see a snake, which I also keep handy. -- W. C. Fields
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
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
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
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
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 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
That might be nice, an extra pair of arms," Jace said. "Handy in a fight." "Not if they're growing out of your..." Dorothea paused and smiled, not without malice. "Neck. -- Cassandra Clare
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
I do not claim any of the creation of the blues, although I have written many of them even before Mr. Handy had any blues published. I heard them when I was knee-high to a duck. -- Jelly Roll Morton
In 1908 Handy didn't know anything about the blues and he doesn't know anything about jazz and stomps to this day. I myself figured out the peculiar form of mathematics and harmonies that was strange to all the world but me. -- Jelly Roll Morton
An outsider's point of view is always handy. -- Pat Oliphant
When smashing monuments, save the pedestals-they always come in handy. -- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
A government is like fire, a handy servant, but a dangerous master. -- George Washington
There were a lot of gods. Gods always come in handy, they justify almost anything. -- Margaret Atwood
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy. -- Groucho Marx
Every man always has handy a dozen glib little reasons why he is right not to sacrifice himself. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I like to keep a bottle of stimulant handy in case I see a snake, which I also keep handy. -- W. C. Fields
My father was very much a handy person round the house, and I learnt a lot of carpentry from him. -- John Henry Carver
A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business. -- A. A. Milne
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
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
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
The line between true self and feigned self is blurred on all sides. Which I think is a rather handy metaphor for falling in love. -- Gayle Forman
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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
I always have a football handy at home, and I'll play with it. Sometimes it'll get on my wife's nerves. But the moment I've got a ball at my feet, I'm happy. -- Thierry Henry
I took out a whole fireplace and put in broken glass and installed a burner underneath, so it looks like fire on ice. I did that in my bedroom suite. I'm pretty handy. -- Cory Monteith
Not only do I know how to milk a cow, but I know how to herd a bunch of cows, too, which is a life skill that I think may come in handy someday. -- Martina McBride
I am a completely horizontal author. I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch and with a cigarette and coffee handy. I've got to be puffing and sipping. -- Dan Brown
I grew up in East Germany, so we had to learn Russian in school... everybody hated it. I never thought it would come in handy... And being an actor, I've been able to use it quite a bit. -- Tom Wlaschiha
If war occurs, that positive adult contact in every shape is needed more than ever. It will be a matter of emotional life and death. There's not a handy one-minute way of talking to your kid about war. -- Richard Louv
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
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
I love fresh citrus and always keep lemons, limes, and oranges on hand; they come in handy for spritzing up quickly grilled meats, seafoods, and vegetables, especially when followed up by a quick drizzle of extra virgin olive oil. -- Emeril Lagasse
They played at hearts as other children might play at ball; only, as it was really their two hearts that they flung to and fro, they had to be very, very handy to catch them, each time, without hurting them. -- Gaston Leroux
I guess I have a talent for humiliation, a place within me that experience can't reach, which is terrible in real life but something that comes in handy in writing. It seems as though humiliation has become a career for me. -- Karl Ove Knausgaard
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
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
When asked "What do we need to learn this for?" any high-school teacher can confidently answer that, regardless of the subject, the knowledge will come in handy once the student hits middle age and starts working crossword puzzles in order to stave off the terrible loneliness. -- David Sedaris
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
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
It is painful to watch children trying to show off for parents who are engrossed in their cell phones. Children are nostalgic for the 'good old days' when parents used to read to them without the cell phone by their side or watch football games or Disney movies without having the BlackBerry handy. -- Sherry Turkle
Money you know you need or want to spend in the next few years is savings. Money you keep handy for an emergency belongs in savings. Money you hope to use soon for a down payment on a house belongs in savings. And all savings belong in a low-risk bank savings account or money market account. -- Suze Orman
To shuck oysters, you'll need an oyster knife, a handy tool with a sturdy handle and a short, rigid blade which you can pick up for about ten bucks in a kitchenware shop or fish market. A quick trip online will yield any number of videos and slide shows with step-by-step instructions on how to shuck an oyster. -- Tom Douglas
I know there's millions of problems in the world, but if you dwell on those, then you're going to be miserable. I think my meditation helps me to transcend and get beyond the grip of all the negativity and regenerate from within a more positive attitude, which comes in very handy when you're going to do 150 concerts a year. -- Mike Love
I trained with the FBI in Portland and I also had many conversations with female FBI agents in Los Angeles, as well. That was again something that also came in very handy for Basic, because I'd learned already how to handle a gun and how to behave just physically when you're in a situation, a threat. That was very good to know. -- Connie Nielsen
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
I wish I had my beta-blockers handy. -- James Black
An example would be handy right about now -- Brian Marick
When ideas fail, words come in very handy. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I am fairly rich. Money's very handy, let's face it. -- Bob Hoskins
I'm actually very good with Home Depot-handy type of paintwork. -- Michael Ealy
Never allow yourself to get caught without a loose million handy. -- Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild
Cheap cigars come in handy; they stifle the odor of cheap politicians. -- Ulysses S. Grant
I'm pretty handy in the kitchen. But my wife's the real genius. -- Chris Diamantopoulos
I'm awful with directions, and I'm not very handy around the house, -- Taye Diggs
Every habit makes our hand more witty, and out wit more handy. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
I have great respect for the semicolon; it is a mighty handy little fellow. -- Abraham Lincoln
Beauty is a very handy thing to have, especially for a woman who ain't handsome. -- Josh Billings
The two women exchanged the type of glance women use when there is no knife handy. -- Sydney Smith
The handy thing about being a father is that the historic standard is so pitifully low. -- Michael Chabon
I'm pretty handy! I do a lot of things around the house, and I actually enjoy it. -- Bryan Cranston
Addictions do come in handy sometimes: at least you have to get out of bed for them. -- Martin Amis
Once you get past funny, my other qualities are so below average. It's not like I'm handy. -- Seth Meyers
Welcome thy neighbor into thy fallout shelter. He'll come in handy if you run out of food. -- Dean McLaughlin
Oh, a very useful philosophical animal, your average tortoise. Outrunning metaphorical arrows, beating hares in races... very handy. -- Terry Pratchett
It would be far easier to lose weight permanently if replacement parts weren't so handy in the refrigerator. -- Hugh Allen
When I write I just keep a waste paper basket handy in case I am experiencing a block. -- Ruskin Bond
I always write with my .357 magnum handy. Why? Well, you never know when God may try to interfere. -- Edward Abbey
We're predators; we don't eat meat because it's handy, we eat meat because we have a taste for blood. -- Jeff Lindsay
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A community where everyone is a ruthless murderer, with handy access to death-dealing devices, is a very polite community. -- Robert A. Heinlein
Playing dead not only comes in handy when face to face with a bear, but also at important business meetings. -- Jack Handey
Me and my big mouth! I'd get rid of it, only it's such a handy place to keep my teeth. -- Jimmy Durante
While perspective is a handy device to construct imagined spaces, it is not useful, and possibly detrimental, to sketching existing environments. -- Paul Laseau
Just spend a few more months playing video games. That hand-eye coordination will come in handy when you get to third base. -- John Green
I was a gymnast for many years before I was a dancer, so it comes in pretty handy when we do stunts. -- Mads Mikkelsen
When your life has been spent in one war after another for forty-five years, you have to be pretty handy to survive. -- David Gemmell
I was a gymnast for many years before I was a dancer, so it comes in pretty handy when I do stunts. -- Mads Mikkelsen
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
I cannot live or write without music. It stimulates the normally dormant parts of my brain that come in handy when constructing fiction." -- Aleksandar Hemon
I cannot live or write without music. It stimulates the normally dormant parts of my brain that come in handy when constructing fiction. -- Aleksandar Hemon
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
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
Cynicism is more than a pose; it's also a handy time saver. By deflating your companion's enthusiasm, you can cut conversations in half. -- Lisa Birnbach
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
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
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
When God writes our names in the 'Lamb's Book of Life' He doesn't do it with an eraser handy. He does it for eternity. -- R. C. Sproul
Language is handy, but we humans have social and emotional connections that transcend words and are communicated - and understood - without conscious thought. -- Leonard Mlodinow
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
When Armageddon comes, it would be good to be an Olympic athlete, because running real fast and jumping over stuff could come in handy. -- Jack Handey
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
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
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
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
A sense of humor is so handy, isn't it? It lets you see both sides of a question so that you never need do anything. -- Winifred Holtby
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
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The word 'beauty' is as easy to use as the word 'degenerate.' Both come in handy when one does or does not agree with you -- Charles Ives
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
To think, we have the garment industry instead of nature to thank for the zipper concept when it would have come in so handy for childbirth. -- Jane Wagner
[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
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
A political ideology is a very handy thing to have. It's a real time-saver, because it tells you what you think about things you know nothing about. -- Hendrik Hertzberg
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I slice up a ton of cucumbers, celery, carrots and red and yellow peppers. Keep them in your fridge so you always have something handy to curb your snack attack. -- Summer Sanders
It`s the only time my education has come in remotely handy. -on using her Russian literature studies for copying her "Van Helsing" script into Russian to acquire a Slavic accent. -- Kate Beckinsale
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

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