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

• It is always open season on Christian and on white folks because they are the group you can kick and you can get away with it. It is politically correct.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • Christian
  • Season
  • Group

• I have rooms full of little dongly things and don't want any more. Half the little dongly things I've got, I don't even know what gizmo they're for. More importantly, half the gizmos I've got, I don't know where their little dongly thing is.

  

  Douglas Adams

• When I was a kid, my favorite movies were the George Pal version of 'War Of The Worlds,' 'Them,' and 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers.' Those movies were scary! They haunted my nightmares for years, so when I started writing, I wanted to write a story that was just as big and just as scary.

  

  David Gerrold
  • Writing
  • War
  • Scary

• I love writing about men. To get by in the world you have to know how men think. Not that all guys think alike, but women tend to think about more things at the same time, an overgeneralization, but I find it easier to make my male characters focus than I do my female characters.

  

  Bonnie Jo Campbell
  • Time
  • World
  • Men

• Content is a glimpse.

  

  Willem de Kooning
  • Vision
  • Seeing
  • Awe

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

  

  Daniel Handler