Handiness Skill Quotes & Sayings

Fear of being killed and fear of killing attracts people to killers and murders. Anyone who has covered homicides for a daily paper soon learns this reality from the questions people ask of a story over coffee. — Charles Bowden

The interesting thing about the African-American experience in this country is that we are sort of a mongrel of people. I mean we're all kind of mixed up. — Barack Obama

We all wanted to copy Vivien Leigh. — Natalie Wood

Most people aren't happy about being consistent and staying at the same place for years. People want forward progress and motion. — El-P

You weren't always born to the right parents. And parents didn't necessarily get the kids they were meant to raise. — Judy Blume

We do not talk about wise men or wise ladies any more, she reflected; their place had been taken, it seemed, by all sorts of shallow people - actors and the like - who were only too ready to pronounce on all sorts of subjects. — Alexander McCall Smith

America needed recovery, not revenge. The hate had to be drained and the healing begun. — Gerald R. Ford

Look at this thing. It's ruining my life. I'm trying to live a peaceful, meaningful existence, but I feel like I'm sitting on top of a volcano. At any moment this thing can decide to freak, close down, and fight with what's happening. — Michael A. Singer

People don't want information; they want epiphanies. — Sam Horn

She was a woman with a broom or a dust-
pan or a washrag or a mixing spoon in her hand. You saw
her cutting piecrust in the morning, humming to it, or you
saw her setting out the baked pies at noon or taking them in,
cool, at dusk. She rang porcelain cups like a Swiss bell ringer
to their place. She glided through the halls as steadily as a
vacuum machine, seeking, finding, and setting to rights. She
made mirrors of every window, to catch the sun. She strolled
but twice through any garden, trowel in hand, and the flowers
raised their quivering fires upon the warm air in her wake.
She slept quietly and turned no more than three times in a
night, as relaxed as a White glove to which, at dawn, a brisk
hand will return. Waking, she touched people like pictures,
to set their frames straight. — Ray Bradbury

Whenever I have a bad performance, I look at it as a learning experience. — Johnny Damon

To understand God's thoughts we must study statistics, for these are the measure of his purpose. — Florence Nightingale

who have been trained — Thom Gardner

If I'd known I should meet a damn bear, Jamie said, grunting as he lifted another stone into place, I would have taken another path. — Diana Gabaldon