Handy Quotes - Page 6

• 20-some years ago, I'd have a big old radio with a tape deck, and I'd hit record and try to get something down on the tape, but nowadays, I can use my handy little smart-phone; I sing into the app for voice memo.

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Smart, Phones, Years

  Source: therumpus.net

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• As a reader, I have a very short attention span and a low tolerance for boredom, and I find that comes in handy with my writing. If I get bored writing something, I pity the people who will then try to read it.

  John Scalzi

  Writing, People, Boredom

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• The handy thing about being a father is that the historic standard is so pitifully low.

  Michael Chabon

  Father, Historic, Lows

  Michael Chabon (2012). “Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son”, p.11, Harper Collins

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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

  Community, Ruthless, Polite

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• Ranger cradled my face in his hands, using his thumbs to wipe the tears from my eyes. "The ceremony is over. Can you make it back to the car?" I nodded. "I'm okay now. Am I red and blotchy from crying?" "Yes," Ranger said, brushing a kiss across my forehead. "I love you anyway." "There's all kinds of love," I said. Ranger took me by the hand and led me back to the SUV. "This is the kind that doesn't call for a ring. But a condom might come in handy." "That's not love," I told him. "That's lust.

  Janet Evanovich

  Love You, Eye, Kissing

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• He went over to the leathers and picked them up. Nice Catholic boy like him didn't know much about BDSM, but it looked like he was going to learn firsthand. Taking out his cellphone, he hit V, but didn't expect an answer. He guessed GPS was going to have to come in handy once again.

  J.R. Ward

  Nice, Boys, Gps

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• 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

  Nice, Fighting, Growing

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• 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

  Arrows, Would Be, Steps

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• The Prydain Companion is more than a quick reference or handy glossary, though it is all of that as well. Instructive, certainly. But, like any good companion, a pleasure to be with over a long period of time.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Long, Pleasure, Periods

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• In the olden days in England, you could be hung for stealing a sheep or a loaf of bread. However, if a sheep stole a loaf of bread and gave it to you, you would only be tried for receiving, a crime punishable by forty lashes with the cat or the dog, whichever was handy. If you stole a dog and were caught, you were punished with twelve rabbit punches, although it was hard to find rabbits big enough or strong enough to punch you.

  Mike Harding

  Dog, Strong, Humorous

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• A debt is just as hard for a Government to pay as it is for an individual. No debt ever comes due at a good time. Borrowing is the only thing that seems handy all the time.

  Will Rogers

  Government, Debt, Pay

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

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• 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

  Character, Cities, Body

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

  Jimmy Durante

  Silence, Teeth, Mouths

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• Whenever I stumble over my own feet, or blurt out a thought that makes no sense at all, or leave the house wearing one pattern too many, I always think, 'It's okay, I'm from New Jersey.' I love New Jersey, because it's not just an all-purpose punch line, but probably a handy legal defense, as in 'Yes, I shot my wife because I thought she was Bigfoot, but I'm from New Jersey.'

  Paul Rudnick

  Thinking, Feet, Wife

  Paul Rudnick (2009). “I Shudder: And Other Reactions to Life, Death, and New Jersey”, Harper

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• 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

  People, Genuine, Apps

  "Automattic Buys Simperium, Maker of Simplenote" by Liz Gannes, allthingsd.com. January 24, 2013.

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• 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

  Gun, Fbi Agents, Portland

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  War, Kids, Emotional

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• I am fairly rich. Money's very handy, let's face it.

  Bob Hoskins

  Faces, Rich, Rich Money

  "This much I know: Bob Hoskins". Interview with Bob Hoskins, www.theguardian.com. September 18, 2009.

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• A man may see how this world goes with no eyes. Look with thine ears: see how yond justice rails upon yon simple thief. Hark, in thine ear: change places; and, handy-dandy, which is the justice, which is the thief?

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Simple, Men

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 4, sc. 6, l. [154]

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• I'm actually very good with Home Depot-handy type of paintwork.

  Michael Ealy

  Home, Type, Very Good

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• Cheap cigars come in handy; they stifle the odor of cheap politicians.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Odor, Cigar, Politician

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• The current flows fast and furious. It issues in a spate of words from the loudspeakers and the politicians. Every day they tell us that we are a free people fighting to defend freedom. That is the current that has whirled the young airman up into the sky and keeps him circulating there among the clouds. Down here, with a roof to cover us and a gasmask handy, it is our business to puncture gasbags and discover the seeds of truth.

  Virginia Woolf

  War, Fighting, Clouds

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Collected Essays and Letters of Virginia Woolf - Including a Short Biography of the Author”, p.6, Read Books Ltd

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• Euphonic and harmonious expressions, forcible and just expressions, profound and comprehensive expressions, and especially apt and witty expressions, each have their specific influence upon different minds, and their common influence upon all minds.... It is therefore high time our most valuable aphorisms and paragraphs were put in order for frequent perusal, and for handy reference, as the circumstances of life call up subjects.

  Charles Simmons

  Witty, Order, Expression

  Charles Simmons (1852). “Laconic Manual and Brief Remarker”, p.3

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• 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

  Writing, Brain, Fiction

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• There is no right way to knit; there is no wrong way to knit. So if anybody kindly tells you that what you are doing is "wrong," don't take umbrage; they mean well. Smile submissively, and listen, keeping your disagreement on an entirely mental level. They may be right, in this particular case, and even if not, they may drop off pieces of information which will come in very handy if you file them away carefully in your brain for future reference.

  Elizabeth Zimmermann

  Mean, Brain, Information

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