Daniel Handler Quotes
You see failed vocabulary in the adult world so often, and it's often because once you reach a certain age you're kind of embarrassed to go look up a word if you don't know what it means.Daniel Handler
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You won't really get a lot of the mainstream, lovey-dovey side because that wasn't a part of my life in the beginning.
Young Buck -
I have a terrible habit of shopping after I go to the gym or hitting eBay.
Edie Campbell -
As every scuba diver knows, panic is your worst enemy: when it hits, your mind starts to thrash and you are likely to do something really stupid and self-destructive.
Daniel Dennett -
I want to help middle-school girls stay interested in math and be good at it, and see it as friendly and accessible and not this scary thing. Everyone else in society tells them it's not for them. It's for nerdy white guys with pocket protectors.
Danica McKellar -
The musket could not be aimed except in a general direction; a bow in the hands of a skilled archer could regularly hit and kill an enemy completely beyond musket range.
Edmund Morgan -
I was the first one in my family to go away to college. I came from a small town where there was no guidance in the high school at all. It was a mill town, and I never knew anyone who made their living from the arts. When you did go away to college, you went away to be something - an engineer, or a teacher, or a chemist.
E. L. Konigsburg
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For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.
Pam Brown -
I think the NAACP isn't recognized enough for all of the work it does, especially in the field of law. They may have faded from view over the last couple of decades, but they are fighting the good fight.
Tayari Jones -
I have always thought that writers come with any variety of attributes. Some are capable and some aren't.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
Thank God I had all these family values or who knows where I'd be now.
Patricia Velasquez -
Being a celebrity is a business.
Caitlyn Jenner -
Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
Walter Savage Landor
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When I write a goal down - and I truly write them down - it becomes a part of me. That's a contract that I sign with myself to say, 'I don't care what happens - I'm going to stay on this path. I'm going to try and see this through; I'm going to give it my best shot, my best effort.'
Gail Devers -
You're always going to have terrorism.
Abdullah II of Jordan -
To become a mother is to learn a whole language - to relearn it, perhaps, as it was the tongue to which we were born - and hence gain entrance to a forgotten world of comprehension.
Rachel Cusk -
I'm a big fan of community, and I think independence is over-rated.
Sally Phillips -
I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.
M. Ward -
The amygdala plays a crucial role in processing fear, and minus her two amygdalae, S.M. became unflappable. Studies of her are actually a hoot to read, since they basically consist of scientists concocting ever-more-elaborate ways of trying to scare her.
Sam Kean
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How do you open up? I didn't know how to.
Yolandi Visser -
O coração, se pudesse pensar, pararia.
Fernando Pessoa -
You work in a band, and it tends to be more like moviemaking, I think. It tends to be more of a conscious, verbalized and, to some degree, political process.
Lindsey Buckingham -
Understanding the importance of evolving is very important. Reinventing is very important. To break what you have already done is very important. That growth should never stop.
Yami Gautam -
You see failed vocabulary in the adult world so often, and it's often because once you reach a certain age you're kind of embarrassed to go look up a word if you don't know what it means.
Daniel Handler