Daniel Handler Quotes

To Beatrice-My love flew like a butterfly, Until death swooped down like a bat, As the poet Emma Montana McElroy said: That's the end of that.

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• Like a cyclone, imperialism spins across the globe; militarism crushes peoples and sucks their blood like a vampire.

  

  Karl Liebknecht
  • Blood
  • Vampire
  • Imperialism

• I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • Time
  • Music
  • Young

• You have to be willing to ask questions that almost no one else would ask.

  

  Samantha Bee
  • You
  • Questions
  • Ask

• You learn so much on set; I don't know if you learn as much anywhere else as you do when you're on set, working.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • You
  • Know
  • Learn

• You only mature when you face problems you can't deal with.

  

  Ralph Waite
  • Problems
  • Face
  • Mature

• Having refuted, then, as well as we could, every notion which might suggest that we were to think of God as in any degree corporeal, we go on to say that, according to strict truth, God is incomprehensible, and incapable of being measured.

  

  Origen
  • God
  • Truth
  • Think

• It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Fun
  • Kind
  • Impossible

• I'm not very technically minded. I mean, I don't know how to do e-mail on computers.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Know
  • Very
  • Computers

• The Americans are more honest about it and just call it college rock.

  

  Malcolm Wilson
  • College
  • Rock
  • Honest

• If I were to explore music, I'd want to just focus on that and make that my priority.

  

  Maia Mitchell
  • Music
  • Focus
  • Explore

• These days, the scientific community accepts me. But getting to that point was tremendously hard, and I think it required a big perception shift. When people have dedicated their lives to something - and spent eight years in college - they just expect that a kid wouldn't be up to doing it.

  

  Taylor Wilson
  • People
  • Up
  • Community

• My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.

  

  Jack Layton
  • Love
  • Hope
  • For Her

• I think that ISIS is a threat to our embassy, to our consulate, as well as potentially to the American people.

  

  Rand Paul
  • People
  • American
  • Think

• A true champion will fight through anything.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • True
  • Fight
  • Champion

• I like the timeframe involved in being an actor.

  

  Karl Urban
  • Like
  • Actor
  • Being

• To see for themselves what the United States has been willing to undertake in the name of freedom. We should all visit Normandy. We should pay homage to those brave Americans who stormed ashore at Omaha Beach and gave their lives for the freedom of others.

  

  Fatos Nano
  • Freedom
  • Brave
  • Beach

• If a reviewer is beating me up, I just say, 'Oh well, my writing is not to his or her taste.' And that's as far as it goes. Because I will simultaneously read a review where somebody says, 'Oh my God, I had so much fun reading this book and I learned so much.'

  

  Dan Brown
  • Up
  • God
  • Writing

• I really had little interest in becoming famous. When I write my book, it will be my guide to avoid becoming a rock star.

  

  Edgar Winter
  • Book
  • Rock
  • Star

• I consider myself absolutely a character actor, and that's what I want as a career. I don't need to be the lead star or any of that, as long as I'm doing stuff that I'm proud of, really.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Long
  • Character
  • Career

• What is the politically correct term for 'retarded'?""I think the words you're fishing for are 'mentally disabled.' And no. I'm not mentally disabled.

  

  Rachel Gibson
  • Thinking
  • Words
  • Fishing

• It must be terribly lonely to be a king instead of a man.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Man
  • King
  • Lonely

• The 1930s was a funny time. People knew they might not live for another six months, so if they were attracted to one another, there was no time to dawdle.

  

  Alan Furst
  • People
  • Time
  • Live

• Tombs decked by the arts can scarcely represent death as a formidable enemy; we do not, indeed, like the ancients, carve sports and dances in the sarcophagus, but thought is diverted from the bier by works that tell of immortality, even from the altar of death.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Art
  • Death
  • Sports

• To Beatrice-My love flew like a butterfly, Until death swooped down like a bat, As the poet Emma Montana McElroy said: That's the end of that.

  

  Daniel Handler
  • Death
  • Butterfly