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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• The people are starving. They need food; they need medicine; they need education. They do not need a skyscraper to house the ruling party and a 24-hour TV station.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • People
  • House
  • Education

• If sleep is the apogee of physical relaxation, boredom is the apogee of mental relaxation. Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Experience
  • Dream
  • Sleep

• Now we were the very good malchicks, smiling good evensong to one and all, though these wrinkled old lighters started to get all shook, their veiny old rookers all trembling round their glasses, and making the suds spill on the table. 'Leave us be, lads,' said one of them, her face all mappy with being a thousand years old, 'we’re only poor old women.'

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Good
  • Women

• The basic fact is that no, this isn't ideal. Very few things are. Sometimes, you have to manufacture your own history. Give fate a push,so to speak.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Giving
  • Sometimes
  • Speak

• Humour allows people to exhale a little.

  

  Zach Anner
  • People
  • Little
  • Humour

• I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Love
  • Soul
  • Young

• Probably induced by the asthma, I started reading and writing early on, my literary efforts from the age of about nine running chiefly to poetry and plays.

  

  Patrick White
  • Writing
  • Age
  • Running

• The 2000s were marked by terrorism and a bipartisan desire to fight it.

  

  Ari Fleischer
  • Desire

• 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