Daniel Handler Quotes

I like to give people novels I think they would like, on no particular occasion - just when we're in a bookstore together. I like to receive reference books on my birthday.

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• During three decades, along all the highways of my youth, Frank had always been there for me.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Me
  • Always
  • Youth

• I was perhaps about 10 years old when a local farmer rang us up to say he had found a young badger and would we take it in. So we did; it was a female called Bessy and she lived in the boiler room. She was extremely intelligent, had a very low opinion of cats but loved the dogs. She was pretty well trained; she went in the car.

  

  Owen Paterson
  • Up
  • She
  • Pretty

• I come from an immigrant family, but I know no other nationality apart from British.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Family
  • Know
  • Immigrant

• When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Christian
  • Spirit
  • Reaction

• Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.

  

  Florence King
  • Time
  • World
  • Mind

• Being typecast is the enemy of any actor, so if you can try to do something that flips on the head peoples' ideas of who you are or what you can do, that's my biggest aim.

  

  Owain Yeoman
  • Ideas
  • Enemy
  • Try

• I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Life
  • Want
  • You

• We shot 'Telusa Telusa' song in Bolivia. It took us 50 hours to get to the location. We shot in high altitudes, and oxygen cylinders were kept handy.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • High
  • Song
  • Location

• I have this first album that sells more than 100,000 copies in its first week, debuts at number two, goes gold, the single goes platinum, we're doing Madison Square Garden.

  

  Halsey
  • Single
  • Doing
  • Gold

• By the time I got to Bournemouth Art College, I'd been so inspired by Sam Raimi and Robert Rodriguez and their tiny, no-budget films that I decided to do a feature-length version of 'Fistful Of Fingers.'

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Time
  • Art
  • College

• A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • War
  • History
  • Legacy

• You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Control
  • Learn
  • Face

• The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the being a parent, or employer, or ruler.

  

  Samuel Morse
  • Character
  • Moral
  • Parent

• Most people consider me an optimist because I laughingly state that I would take my last two dollars and buy a money belt.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • People
  • Money
  • Me

• No two wars are identical.

  

  Kate Adie
  • Two
  • Wars
  • Identical

• When I started at Ricci, I did street wear for very cool, young girls, but the price point was for the fourth floor of Bergdorf Goodman next to Carolina Herrera. My cool girls cannot afford it.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Cool
  • Young
  • Street

• All peoples are entangled in the net of the world market.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • World
  • Market
  • Net

• One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.

  

  Gabrielle Roy
  • Earth
  • Destiny
  • Own

• So here we are, just two months away from the election, with more and more examples that modern day Jim Crowe laws are alive and well in the state of Florida.

  

  Corrine Brown

• These 'lone wolves,' people like to call them, you've got to look at them not like a lone wolf but an individual operator who's been convinced in their head, brainwashed, whatever, that this is the way to go. And they will carry out their assaults systematically throughout.

  

  Marcus Luttrell
  • People
  • Wolf

• I never – you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Man
  • Know
  • Easy

• You used to dealing with basic bitches,Basic shit all the time.I'm a new classic, upgrade your statusFrom a standby to a frequent flyer.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • Time

• Grown-ups are afraid for children. It's not children who are afraid.

  

  Maurice Sendak
  • Children

• I like to give people novels I think they would like, on no particular occasion - just when we're in a bookstore together. I like to receive reference books on my birthday.

  

  Daniel Handler
  • People
  • Together
  • Birthday