Daniel Handler Quotes
Violet said...'We've never known anyone who could remain so cheerful, no matter what terrible things occurred.
Quotes to Explore
-
I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
-
All women's issues are to some degree men's issues and all men's issues are to some degree women's issues because when either sex wins unilaterally both sexes lose.
-
I'm not Mr. Mom, but there's just certain things I won't say anymore.
-
Frankly, writing poetry for children is plain old fun, and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career.
-
I've just always been a bit of a dork.
-
Every single figure on Mount Rushmore was a third party at one time or another, so third parties become major parties, and I think that the Libertarian Party may become my major party.
-
At one point, we were across the street from the Sharon Tate house; at another, we lived in Elvis's old Bel Air bachelor pad. It was where he first met the Beatles.
-
In the 1960s and '70s, there wasn't much evidence at all. We knew vaguely the causes of cancer, but methods like genomics were very new.
-
The English king's power was curbed by Parliament, though that wasn't always a good thing, as politicians often behave no better than monarchs - there are just more of them.
-
When we start to write for a new record, we never really know what we're doing. We don't come into the room with a set of ideas, but miraculously, a song comes out of it.
-
Your goal as a candidate - define others before they can define you.
-
You'd have to be completely crazy not to be influenced by and take from other artists. It's completely impossible not to.
-
Taiwan has been so well developed economically. But we are underdeveloped culturally.
-
You know what they say about Chicago. If you don't like the weather, wait fifteen minutes.
-
People have different views of how you deal with different issues in literature, and, frankly, long may it last that there is a range of views.
-
I know who Jack Whittaker is. And some days I don't like who I am.
-
'...it is inappropriate for a public activist to wear a niqab, since people want to see you. The Islamic faith does not mandate wearing a niqab; it is just a social tradition.'
-
Honesty is a gift we can give to others. It is also a source of power and an engine of simplicity. Knowing that we will attempt to tell the truth, whatever the circumstances, leaves us with little to prepare for. We can simply be ourselves.
-
I know that victims of torture will offer intentionally misleading information if they think their captors will believe it.
-
I believe in the ability of focusing strongly in something, then you are able to extract even more out of it. It's been like this all my life, and it's been only a question of improving it, and learning more and more and there is almost no end. As you go through you just keep finding more and more. It's very interesting, it's fascinating.
-
I like photography as a recording device. It's the best possible two-dimensional representation of 3D living things that we have.
-
When people feel good, they look good.
-
Violet said...'We've never known anyone who could remain so cheerful, no matter what terrible things occurred.
