Daniel Handler Quotes

Miracles are like meatballs because nobody knows what they are made of, where they came from or how often they should appear.

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• In Australia, kids play in American accents.

  

  Yael Stone
  • Kids
  • American
  • Play

• The Ferrari is a beautiful car. It's great.

  

  Vanessa Ferrari
  • Great
  • Beautiful
  • Car

• I love the process of acting, and to turn your passion into a career is the biggest gift.

  

  Ram Kapoor
  • Career
  • Passion
  • Gift

• For the Negro, Andrew Johnson did less than nothing when once he realized that the chief beneficiary of labor and economic reform in the South would be freedmen. His inability to picture Negroes as men made him oppose efforts to give them land; oppose national efforts to educate them; and above all things, oppose their rights to vote.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Men
  • Picture
  • Vote

• I don't understand why there aren't more powerful female directors. I don't have the answers, but I hope that things may start to shift and that studios will employ more women to handle strong and interesting material.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Women
  • Why
  • May

• When you're trained for battle, the idea is that it will be man against man.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Man
  • You
  • Battle

• 'A Pirate Looks at 40,' we had to do that song. I've been covering that forever.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Song
  • Forever
  • Looks

• I wouldn't want to donate my body for scientific study.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • Want
  • Study
  • Body

• The history of mankind is confined within a limited period, and from every quarter brings an intimation that human affairs have had a beginning.

  

  Adam Ferguson
  • History
  • Beginning
  • Period

• A lot of people don't know how to talk on the phone anymore.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • People
  • Know
  • Phone

• People react to 'District 9' and Die Antwoord on the same level.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • People
  • Die
  • Same

• If it took Labouchere three columns to prove that I was forgotten, then there is no difference between fame and obscurity.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Difference
  • Unknown
  • Fame

• Military cemeteries in every corner of the world are silent testimony to the failure of national leaders to sanctify human life.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • Life
  • World
  • Failure

• We always tend to distrust geniuses about genius, as if what they say didn’t arouse much empathy in us, or as if we were waiting till some more reliable source of information came along...

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Waiting
  • Empathy

• Temple is an intensely moral creature. She has a passionate sense of right and wrong, for example, in regard to the treatment of animals; and law, for her, is clearly not just the law of the land but, in some far deeper sense, a divine or cosmic law, whose violation can have disastrous effects-seeming breakdowns in the course of nature itself.

  

  Oliver Sacks
  • She
  • Nature
  • Law

• The sky is now indelible ink,The branches reft asunder;But you and I we do not shrink;We love the lovely thunder.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Sky

• Much of good science - and perhaps all of great science - has its roots in fantasy.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Good
  • Great
  • Science

• La crisi consiste appunto nel fatto che il vecchio muore e il nuovo non può nascere: in questo interregno si verificano i fenomeni morbosi piú svariati.

  

  Antonio Gramsci

• I go through life now reminding myself to remember something, and I do this while that something is happening. I'll be experiencing a moment and I'll say to myself, "Remember this!" Otherwise my whole life just blurs by.

  

  Heidi Julavits
  • Life
  • Remember this
  • Blurs

• Man is the interpreter of nature, science the right interpretation.

  

  William Whewell
  • Men
  • Interpretation
  • Interpreter

• Our soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines and Coast Guardsmen volunteer to protect and defend this country and all its citizens, and do so with honor, integrity and excellence. Our nation continually asks them to do more and more, with less and less.

  

  Allen West
  • Country
  • Honor
  • Integrity

• Only in marriage do love and time, eternal enemies, join forces.

  

  Adam Zagajewski
  • Time
  • Love
  • Marriage

• We were the 'chosen people,' chosen to be killed?

  

  Maurice Sendak
  • People

• Miracles are like meatballs because nobody knows what they are made of, where they came from or how often they should appear.

  

  Daniel Handler