An example would be handy right about now

When ideas fail, words come in very handy.

I studied Hindi in school and that's come in handy.

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

Never allow yourself to get caught without a loose million handy.

I'm awful with directions, and I'm not very handy around the house.

When smashing monuments, save the pedestals - they always come in handy.

If you don't have bounce on the pitch, even a spinner cannot come handy.

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

An excuse is the handy explanation we offer when we disappoint other people.

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

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

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

I always keep a supply of stimulant handy in case I see a snake, which I also keep handy.

I like to keep a bottle of stimulant handy in case I see a snake, which I also keep handy.

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

Learning how to put someone in an arm lock without breaking their arm... It's quite handy isn't it?

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

When your life has been spent in one war after another for forty-five years, you have to be pretty handy to survive.

Perseverance has always just been something that was in me. And it was a tool that came in very handy as a ballerina.

The hardest moments of your life in your 20s will provide some of the greatest lessons that will come in handy later.

Maybe there's something new that can document an idea quicker, but pen and paper have always been pretty handy for me.

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

My accountancy experience could come in handy if ever I find myself in the right position. For now, I'm very happy to write.

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.

I cannot live or write without music. It stimulates the normally dormant parts of my brain that come in handy when constructing fiction.

We shot 'Telusa Telusa' song in Bolivia. It took us 50 hours to get to the location. We shot in high altitudes, and oxygen cylinders were kept handy.

You want a kitchen put in, I'm your girl. I'm very handy, and I love a practical challenge. I fit all the stereotypes of the lesbian with power tools.

I'm really not handy. I'm not good at things like changing a light bulb. If something is broken, the chances of me being able to fix it are slim to none.

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!

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.

Language is handy, but we humans have social and emotional connections that transcend words and are communicated - and understood - without conscious thought.

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.

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.

I am always getting ideas for song lyrics and keep a notebook handy. Nowadays, I take a laptop with me everywhere, because I have a stock of handwritten lyrics in it.

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.

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.

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.

When my son was little, we mothers always did the Halloween parties, and I would wear my orange-and-black Chanel. It comes in handy on October 31. I'm the chicest pumpkin around.

I gave him a kick and he stepped back onto the third rail. Exploding, flaming eraser! This is why moms tell you to stay away from the third rail, but it sure came in handy this time.

A Kindle returns us to the inconvenience of the scroll, except with batteries and electronic glitches. It's as handy as bringing Homer along to recite the 'Iliad' while playing a lyre.

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.

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.

I am not a practising Jew, and I am not embedded in Nigerian culture, but I have a sense of those things inside me, which is very handy for acting. There are a lot of things I can draw on.

Those who imagine polygamy to be handy cover for promiscuity are apparently off the mark. If polygamists share one quality, it is that, polygamy aside, they are extraordinarily strait-laced.

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.

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.

The reason I stopped music for a while and concentrated on theatre was that it was more conducive to parenting; having the days free was quite handy. I love them both. I hope I don't have to compromise one for the other.

To be a good researcher is to be a good detective, and I enjoy ferreting out tidbits of information. For a diary book like 'A Coal Miner's Bride,' newspapers come in handy for small everyday details such as weather reports.

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.

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