Daniel Handler Quotes

The right boys I always toss and the wrong ones I keep on top of me like paperweights.

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• I don't take on big things. What I do, pretty much, is make the big things small and the small things big.

  

  Larry David
  • Pretty
  • Small
  • Take

• I said, to be a New Yorker you have to live here for six months, and if at the end of the six months you find you walk faster, talk faster, think faster, you're a New Yorker.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Live
  • End
  • Walk

• I believe in God. God created the world.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • World
  • God
  • Believe

• Thankfully I'm not endlessly ambitious, but I have done some crazy ambitious things like buying an island off the west coast of Scotland in the late Sixties.

  

  Jack Bruce Cream
  • Done
  • Crazy
  • Island

• Well, one always has an instinct to be a painter, and I've done quite a lot of painting at one time or another, though not with any public success.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Time
  • Done
  • Success

• So I am, in fact, very optimistic about the future of my federal party.

  

  Dalton McGuinty
  • Future
  • Party
  • Optimistic

• Lots of girls marry at 16 in Tennessee.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Marry
  • Tennessee
  • Lots

• It's much funnier when the comedy can happen with me just trying my best to genuinely do a good thing.

  

  Nathan Fielder
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Comedy

• If I could never work again and I could just listen to music and walk, I'd be very, very happy.

  

  Maira Kalman
  • Work
  • Music
  • Happy

• When you've finished reading every last thing by a famous writer, literary convention holds that you move on to his or her letters, the DVD extras peddled by publishers.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Famous
  • Writer
  • Literary

• It's like saying French shouldn't be taught because you don't understand it because it's new. Shakespeare is just like learning a new, exciting language.

  

  Samuel Barnett
  • Learning
  • Language
  • Saying

• One way in which 'Friends' did resemble 'Seinfeld' is that it really found its audience over the summer of 1995 in reruns. That's when the main title song, 'I'll Be There for You', by the Rembrandts, exploded, too.

  

  Warren Littlefield
  • Friends
  • Song
  • Summer

• I'm retired from the daredevil business.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Business
  • Retired
  • Daredevil

• I raised my sister. I was six when she was born. My mother had to make a living for herself and it was very hard, so I was looking after my sister, cooking and cleaning, and she had four jobs.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • She
  • Mother
  • Sister

• The living werewolves have genuine needs and desires, which, though they may oppose ours, are valid. Even if they want to eat humans, you can't really call them evil, any more than mice can call cats evil, or chickens can call humans evil. It's all just a matter of where you're standing.

  

  Ted Naifeh
  • May
  • Want
  • Evil

• A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Time
  • Man
  • Big

• The reality is that politicians, in terms of the amount of power they wield and the amount that they work, don't actually make that much money.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Work
  • Money
  • Power

• We started out when I was 6 years old. We played ukuleles and sang Everly Brothers songs.

  

  Edgar Winter
  • Years
  • Old
  • Brothers

• I would only believe in a god who could dance. And when I saw my devil I found him serious, thorough, profound, and solemn: it was the spirit of gravity—through him all things fall. Not by wrath does one kill but by laughter. Come, let us kill the spirit of gravity!

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Dance
  • Laughter
  • Spirit Of Gravity

• The Olympia was a really special place for me as a kid. I saw Dad perform there so many times, so it means a lot.

  

  Domhnall Gleeson
  • Dad

• We're doing what we want to do. Basically it's just down to the fact that we're all posers. We all want to go out on stage, pose, wear dinky white boots, tight trousers and have all the girls looking at our bollocks. That's us. We like showing off, we're arrogant bastards, it's just like ... over the top.

  

  Rick Savage Def Leppard
  • Stage
  • Girls
  • Bastards

• The stubbornness of a weak man should never be underestimated. The weak tend to be very stubborn when they've decided on something.

  

  Frederick Forsyth
  • Men
  • Weak
  • Stubborn

• The right boys I always toss and the wrong ones I keep on top of me like paperweights.

  

  Daniel Handler