Handy Quotes - Page 3

• 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

  Ice, Race, Way

  Kingsley Amis (2010). “Everyday Drinking: The Distilled Kingsley Amis”, p.4, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• 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

  War, Years, Forty

  "Legend, Pt 1: Against the Horde". Book by David Gemmell, Ch. 7, 1984.

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• Of All the Gin Joints is one part cinematic history, one part old Hollywood weirdness, and one part handy basic bar guide, with a dash of romance and more than a few wry twists. Bailey and Hemingway prove themselves very entertaining cultural mixologists.

  Sam Lipsyte

  Romance, Hollywood, Bars

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• 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

  Humor, Needs, Sides

  Winifred Holtby (2011). “Mandoa, Mandoa!: A Comedy of Irrelevance”, p.190, Hachette UK

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• I am very handy with my advice and then when anybody appears to be following it, I get frantic.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Advice, Following, Frantic

  Flannery O'Connor (1988). “Collected Works”, New York, NY : Library of America : Distributed to the trade in the U.S. and Canada by Viking Press

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

  Mads Mikkelsen

  Years, Dancer, Gymnast

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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

  Book, Writing, Names

  Twitter post from Mar 20, 2016

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• 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

  Art, Horse, Stars

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

  Bryan Cranston

  House, Enjoy

  "Q&A – Bryan Cranston (Walter White)". AMC Interview, www.amc.com.

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

  Ruskin Bond

  Block, Writing, Paper

  Source: www.abhijitbhaduri.com

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• It was a very easy way to have a group of friends on a very large campus - a sense of identity. It was a great place to learn how to navigate a variety of personalities, which you kind of have to do in life. You've got the shy woman and you've got the obnoxious woman and you've got the brainiac and you've got the social climber and you've got the introvert and the extrovert, and you're all living together. I think it gave me valuable experience in learning how to live with people that are different than you are. And that's an important lesson. You can bet it comes in very handy in the Senate.

  Claire McCaskill

  Thinking, People, Personality

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Where would we be without science? Sure, those boffins may have come up with occasionally handy items such as life-saving medicine, air travel and the internet, but science is also guilty of some terrible things, like eugenics and Jordan's breasts.

  Ian O'Doherty

  Science, Medicine, Eugenics

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• After disasters, reproductive healthcare falls by the wayside. Yet babies continue to be born. When all infrastructure falls apart, when the hospitals and all their technological equipment are destroyed, midwives come in handy. They can help women give birth with or without electricity, running water, equipment - even shelter is optional. When babies are ready, they come.

  Robin Lim

  Running, Baby, Fall

  "An Interview With Robin Lim | CNN Woman of The Year". Interview with Polly Armstrong, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Morality has in the past made progress when we broadened the category of things we weren't permitted to harm (animals, 'infidels'); saw through some delusions and rationalisations about what harms are good for people themselves (prison punishment, hysterectomies for unhappy 1950s wives); and readjusted our for-the-good of others criteria so as to demand only reasonable sacrifices (ceasing to use children as handy chimney sweeps).

  Catherine Wilson

  Children, Sacrifice, Animal

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Humour is God's special gift to humanity. Handy, because it turns out to be necessary.

  Tim Winton

  Humanity, Special, Humour

  Source: www.readings.com.au

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• My father would always say "learn everything you can and whenever you can, because you never know when it'll come in handy."

  Charles Koch

  Father, Knows

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• The media needs to tell a story. And whenever there's a new generation, you know, with a new conversation, it's handy to say well, these are the angry young men, these are the hippies, these are the boomers.

  Naomi Wolf

  Hippie, Men, Media

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• The idea that feminism is a 'battle of the sexes' about blaming all men and setting up a 'gender war' is a handy, controversial media hook. But it doesn't reflect reality.

  Laura Bates

  Sex, War, Reality

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• The good part of what comics trains you to do is it trains you - especially if you've worked in mainstream comics like Marvel and DC, or if you're just doing your own independent comics - to compartmentalize things and work on multiple things at the same time. And that's a skill that is incredibly handy in Hollywood, because within the first year that you get here, you realize there's a reason why every successful person in Hollywood has like seven or eight projects up in the air at any point.

  Ed Brubaker

  Independent, Successful, Realizing

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think when you're in the early stages of writing a song, it's important to shut off the part of your brain that tries to edit or criticize. That function comes in handy later, but if you let it in too early, you can trip yourself up.

  Nick Valensi

  Song, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• Maybe one day, I would write a story about arguing in public, and those would come in handy in some way.

  David Sedaris

  Writing, One Day, Arguing

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Marriage and fatherhood heighten the disillusion that we all think we are born handy. We confidently believe that we can fix things around the house, as if it's part of the collective brain that was further enhanced by eighth-grade shop class.

  Bob Newhart

  Believe, Thinking, Class

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• Life gives us no such handy markers - a storm comes, and far from this being a harbinger of death and collapse, during its course a person discovers love and truth, beauty and happiness, the rain lashing at the windows all the while.

  Alain de Botton

  Rain, Giving, Storm

  Alain de Botton (2015). “On Love: A Novel”, p.119, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Every writer, by the way he uses the language, reveals something of his spirit, his habits, his capacities, his bias....Avoid the elaborate, the pretentious, the coy, and the cute. Do not be tempted by a twenty-dollar word when there is a ten-center handy, ready and able.

  William Strunk, Jr.

  Cute, Twenties, Dollars

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• 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

  Cutting, Half, Enthusiasm

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