Daniel Handler Quotes

I write every day weekdays for about 5 hours, mostly longhand on legal pads. It has gotten neither harder nor easier, sadly or happily.

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• I think I'd be a million times more successful and more iconic if I was a singer in the '40s. I'd be allowed a level of mystery, and I think I'd suit that decade.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Think
  • Successful
  • Mystery

• For me, there is no such thing as a negative experience.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Experience
  • Me
  • Negative

• When you have a half slice of chocolate pie, it's as if you owe yourself the other half - what's known in medical circles as a 'caloric deficit.'

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Yourself
  • Chocolate
  • Medical

• Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • World
  • Book
  • Remember

• Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • True
  • Wisdom
  • Follow

• I work hard and support myself.

  

  Zoe Cassavetes
  • Work
  • Support
  • Myself

• If the government would like to hire my services to maximize value for their stake, they should approach me. No problem.

  

  Dan Gertler
  • Problem
  • Government
  • Value

• When you're a standup comic, you get up and you try stuff, and you're always kind of seeing how far you can push things.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • Up
  • Kind
  • Always

• I am still hungry; I still hate defeats. There is no substitute for victories.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • Hungry
  • Victories
  • Defeats

• Obviously, I'm not a singer. I don't consider myself a singer.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Myself
  • Singer
  • Obviously

• There is no uncreated being except God. God has no opposite.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Being
  • Opposite

• Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Love
  • For Her
  • For Him

• One of the greatest fears of the Arab world is a direct conflict between Israel and the Islamic State.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • World
  • Conflict
  • Greatest

• I dream of not having access to technology. I think it's a very wonderful time that we have found ourselves in, in terms of access to information, but alone time is better for some personalities than others. And I would very gladly give it up. I think I'd do very well.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • Up
  • Time
  • Dream

• Having lived through the transition from totalitarianism, I am acutely mindful of the need to never take for granted the basic freedoms of thought, expression and belief that democracy brings.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Democracy
  • Transition
  • Totalitarianism

• Something like 'Sex And The City' was insulting - women all clawing on to their youth when there's such ripe territory in honestly exploring women's lives as they get older.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • Women
  • City
  • Sex

• I became a Republican in the summer of 1972. I was involved in running President Nixon's re-election campaign in California and became part of his administration at the start of his second term.

  

  Ed Rollins
  • Running
  • Summer
  • Start

• Summertime and the livin' is easy,Fish are jumpin', and the cotton is high.Oh yo' daddy's rich, and yo' ma is good lookin',So hush, little baby, don' yo' cry.

  

  Ira Gershwin
  • Good
  • High
  • Baby

• Each FBI employee understands that to defeat the key threats facing our nation, we must constantly strive to be more efficient and more effective. Just as our adversaries continue to evolve, so, too, must the FBI.

  

  James Comey

• What's really important? That I'm an individual, I guess. I am an individual - a strong one, too. I'm Natalie Cole. I gotta be me.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Important
  • Strong
  • Individual

• We used to really feel like the band was our family.

  

  Chris Frantz Talking Heads
  • Family
  • Band

• People sometimes ask me if I would not give anything to be white, I answer, in the words of the song, most emphatically, 'No.' How do I know what I might be if I were a white man? I might be a sand-hog, burrowing away and losing my health for $8 a day. I might be a street-car conductor at $12 or $15 a week. There is many a white man less fortunate and less well equipped than I am. In fact, I have never been able to discover that there was anything disgraceful in being a colored man. But I have often found it inconvenient - in America.

  

  Bert Williams
  • People
  • America
  • Song

• For me, opposition is just another opposition.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Me
  • Just
  • Another

• I write every day weekdays for about 5 hours, mostly longhand on legal pads. It has gotten neither harder nor easier, sadly or happily.

  

  Daniel Handler