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Quotes About Handy

What's that sticky stuff called? Basta: Duct tape. Yes, duct tape. I love duct tape.
~ Cornelia Funke
Seth was a portable, external id. Not always comfortable or appropriate, but handy nevertheless.
~ Cory Doctorow
He knew one thing for sure, though. Whatever happened, Matt would have some handy excuse. He'd make up some story or change an old one, find some dumb quote to explain it all.
~ Charlie Higson
He was especially willing to put his mechanical skills to use for the benefit of his neighbors.
~ Harold Schechter
Having a personal philosophy is like having a pet marmoset, because it may be very attractive when you acquire it, but there may be situations when it will not come in handy at all.
~ Lemony Snicket
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
He was a bitter little misanthrope but good with a spanner.
~ Tim Pratt
OrbiTape One-handed Tape Measure
~ Timothy Ferriss
I do change the odd lightbulb, and I fix the Internet when it goes down, because it's something I am really good at.
~ Seal
Every child had learned the words: "As we forgive those who trespass against us," a strong and generous message that neglected to include a timeframe. In the hills it was handier to forgive trespassers after killing them.
~ Chris Offutt
I always carry a pocketknife in my pocket for opening boxes, cutting a string, or whatever little thing comes up.
~ Brad Leone
It was very handy to have such a foreign scapegoat when so much was wrong at home.1
~ Daniel Yergin
The real challenge is to make good communication a handy and well-used tool. Then you are likely to pick it up and use it without thinking. —MAX DEPREE
~ David Allen
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
Vampires are handy characters, as they can do double duty as monster/villains and the classic, misunderstood romantic hero.
~ Nancy A. Collins
Wok cooking is intimidating, but it's the most versatile and handy tool in your kitchen.
~ Andrew Zimmern
One of the handiest features of crepes is that you can cook the pancakes all the way through and refrigerate them, to be reheated and stuffed later.
~ J. Kenji Lopez-Alt
You've always been handy with a knife, Mother
~ Val McDermid
It would be far easier to lose weight permanently if replacement parts weren't so handy in the refrigerator.
~ Unknown
You're good with your hands." He grinned, and she sighed. "I did not mean that the way it sounded." "Too bad," he said. "Because it's true.
~ Jill Shalvis
I now had two handy shafts of wood with jagged, pointy ends. I stepped between Inari and the nearest vampire and passed her one broken half of the rod. Here, I said. If you get the chance, make like Buffy.
~ Jim Butcher
That's convenient.
~ Rachel Caine
the fact that every few years they decide noodles are fatal, but I don't buy that, the fact that noodles seem pretty innocent to me, overall, and handy with kids
~ Lucy Ellmann
If I weren't a film maker, I'd probably be a handyman.
~ Marshall Brickman