Daniel Handler Quotes

As the official representative of Lemony Snicket in all legal, literary, and social matters, I am often asked difficult questions, even when I am in a hurry. Recently, the most common questions have been the following:

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• The phrase 'mad as a hatter' was coined because hat makers were poisoned by the high levels of mercury used in felt processing; these workers developed a strange, uneven gait as well as strange alterations in their personalities - traits that resembled mental instability.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • High
  • Mad
  • Strange

• I got into the race and people literally laughed. They thought I had no chance of winning.

  

  Patrick McHenry
  • People
  • Winning
  • Thought

• Running for office was definitely something I've thought about. When I was younger, I wanted to major in political science. And I've been engaged in current events since I was a kid. If I can make a difference and feel passionately and capable, then I would. Why not?

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Why
  • Science
  • Political

• As we all know... golf is a puzzle without an answer.

  

  Gary Player
  • Know
  • Golf
  • Puzzle

• The biggest thrill in the world is entertaining the public, there is no bigger thrill than that.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • World
  • Bigger
  • Thrill

• My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Political
  • Spiritual
  • Islam

• Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Man
  • Thoughts
  • New

• The call that always seemed the toughest to me was the slide and tag play at second. You can see it coming, but you don't know which way the runner is going to slide, where the throw is going to be, and how the fielder is going to take the throw.

  

  Cal Hubbard
  • Know
  • Me
  • Play

• Greening the globalised manufacturing and sourcing will be the single biggest help multinationals could make to the tough pollution control in China and other developing countries.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Help
  • Control
  • Single

• When I think about filmmakers and actresses that I have admired my whole life, I've admired their entire body of work.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Life
  • Work
  • Body

• The organizers and perpetuators of segregation are as much the enemy of America as any foreign invader.

  

  Bayard Rustin
  • America
  • Enemy
  • Segregation

• I've done a lot of films that all have been pretty edgy.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Done
  • Pretty
  • Edgy

• If falling into desperation worked to make things better, then I would say, 'Let's all jump into despair.' But it doesn't help. The only way to truly find meaning and fulfillment is to look at the disaster, the pain, the difficulty, and know with complete certainty that good can come from this.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Good
  • Help
  • Pain

• I always write the pieces I want to write.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • Want
  • Always
  • Write

• My faith is the grand drama of my life. I'm a believer, so I sing words of God to those who have no faith.

  

  Olivier Messiaen
  • Life
  • God
  • Words

• It takes intelligence and training, self-discipline and fine-sensibility, to gain renewed life through leisure occupation. America now suffers spiritual poverty, and art must become more fully American life before her leisure can become culture.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Life
  • Art
  • American

• Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Society
  • Speak

• Frazer's account of the magical and religious views of mankind is unsatisfactory; it makes these views look like errors.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Religious

• Why they vote for me is irrelevant, but if they do, they're in safe hands.

  

  Pim Fortuyn
  • Why

• To have a liberal temperament is a kind of psychological boon, To be able to understand that someone you disagree with is not just a terrible creature but somebody with whom you disagree.

  

  Peter Gay

• Let us not wallow in the valley of despair.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Despair
  • Valley
  • Wallow

• I was driving in Formula Renault 2.0... with Daniel Ricciardo.

  

  Jean-Eric Vergne
  • Driving

• Style is often something which locks the painter into the same vision, the same technique, the same formula during years and years, sometimes during one's whole lifetime.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Style
  • Vision

• As the official representative of Lemony Snicket in all legal, literary, and social matters, I am often asked difficult questions, even when I am in a hurry. Recently, the most common questions have been the following:

  

  Daniel Handler