Daniel Handler Quotes

It's always dawnest before dark

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• Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Dark
  • Door
  • Shadow

• Joe was being called a liar and a traitor; I'm being accused of nepotism, of being a glorified secretary. The stresses that that places on an individual and, of course, a marriage were tremendous. It was - there were some dark days.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Dark
  • Marriage
  • Liar

• The thing about 'Dark Knight' is its objective is to set Batman into your world, so that you can imagine the moral dilemmas he faces are exactly parallel to moral dilemmas that you would face in this world, today, if you were out there fighting crime dressed like a bat.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • World
  • Today
  • Fighting

• Anyone can wear any color. The question is about finding the right shade. There is a momentary trend to dark colors because when the financials are not that great, people go for black, navy and grey.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
  • People
  • Great
  • Black

• Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.

  

  L. Frank Baum
  • America
  • Present
  • Dark

• Many places in the Bronx seem hidden in shadows, just as the Bronx itself is in Manhattan's shadow. And dark stories develop best in dark shadows.

  

  S. J. Rozan
  • Best
  • Dark
  • Shadow

• The political world is a dark place. If you want to portray it accurately, authentically, you've got to turn out the lights from time to time.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Time
  • World
  • Political

• I'm a light sleeper. I've never been one of those people who can put their head down and suddenly everything disappears. Nighttime is the time I get most scared, anxious or worried. In those darker moments before waking or sleeping is when I feel most, I don't know, I can turn on myself, and my imagination can take me dark places.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • People
  • Time
  • Light

• I'm so tired of this vision of fashion of a diva with a big ego, and you think of big dark glasses to be pretentious and keep far away from the people.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Fashion
  • Dark

• I'm interested in stories and the dark side of peoples' minds.

  

  Ikue Mori
  • Dark
  • Minds
  • Dark Side

• When I was young, to have a big nose, big lips or dark skin was the worst. You were the wretched. That was something I not only felt, but I participated in.

  

  Nate Parker
  • Dark
  • Lips
  • Nose

• To my mind, there is no doubt that this Gandhi age is the dark age of India. It is an age in which people, instead of looking for their ideals in the future, are returning to antiquity.

  

  Babasaheb
  • People
  • Mind
  • Age

• Writers always have confidence issues - it comes with the territory. We never know where we fit in, or what the actual value of our work might be. So we hit lulls, or slogs. Throw in the idea that many creative people are somewhat manic-depressive, and it can get pretty dark at times.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • People
  • Work
  • Pretty

• What makes life worth living? Better surely, to yield to the stain of suicide blood in me and seek forgetfulness in the embrace of cold dark death.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Life
  • Death
  • Dark

• My family is a kaleidoscope... My family is like that. We're all different colors, like a prism. When we have light shine and stuff, we're beautiful. When it's dark, nothing shines, and it's a rock.

  

  Olesya Rulin
  • Different
  • Family
  • Beautiful

• I want to do work that has a message and casts a light over an area that's dark. But I'm fun and jovial, too.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Work
  • Fun
  • Light

• I'm not sure how to describe my style. A lot of my work is dark and looks a bit sad, which is strange because I'm such a smiley, over-the-top positive guy who wears gold shoes most days.

  

  Aaron Huey
  • Work
  • Guy
  • Style

• My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Music
  • Light
  • Day

• Again the pressure pushes me in the chair, shuts my eyes. I notice the dark red tongues of the flame outside the windows. I'm trying to memorize, fix all the feelings, the peculiarities of this descending, to tell those, who will be conquering space after me.

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Trying
  • Space
  • Eyes

• Everyone has the perfect gift to give the world-and if each of us is freed up to give our unique gift, the world will be in total harmony.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Up
  • World
  • Perfect

• Richard Holbrooke is known for many things, but I will remember him as an impressive, sometimes even intimidating diplomat who understood the value of culture in diplomacy.

  

  Cynthia P. Schneider
  • Remember
  • Culture
  • Value

• I've never been to Paris. I don't like to fly!

  

  Pearl Cleage
  • Fly
  • Paris

• It's always dawnest before dark

  

  Daniel Handler
  • Dark