Daniel Handler Quotes

Klaus: Maybe I don't know what 'cakesniffer' means, but I think I can translate our new school's motto... If I'm not mistaken, 'Memento Mori' means 'Remember you will die'.

Daniel Handler

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• The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.

  

  Tamae Watanabe
  • Fun
  • Reason
  • Marriage

• There's something about a divorce in that even if your parents still love you, the fact that they can't live with each other makes you feel there's something wrong with you.

  

  Jack Black
  • Parents
  • Feel
  • Wrong

• It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Want
  • Problem
  • Complexity

• I am always locked in my design studio.

  

  Valentino Garavani
  • Design
  • Studio
  • Locked

• Being evil is easy.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Evil
  • Easy
  • Being

• My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was a member of the municipal library, and she brought home two or three books a week for me. They could be dime novels or Balzac.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • School
  • Library
  • Grandmother

• We do have serious energy needs for the country, we are aware that natural gas is especially in demand because of its air quality benefits: 90 percent of new power plants have been natural gas-powered.

  

  Gale Norton
  • Country
  • Power
  • Energy

• Like some high official, you have to tell your brain: 'Do it. Come on. I have to do it.'

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • High
  • You
  • Brain

• I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Education
  • System
  • Repair

• It is a debt we owe to the purity of our religion to show that it is at variance with that law which warrants slavery.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Law
  • Religion
  • Slavery

• I find television, and particularly live television, very romantic: the idea that there is this small group of people, way up high, in a skyscraper in the middle of Manhattan, beaming this signal out into the night.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • People
  • Up
  • Live

• I went to the studio of Fischli Weiss, and it was magical. I thought: 'This is what I want to do with my life; I want to work with artists and be useful to them.' I was magnetically attracted.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Life
  • Work
  • Thought

• Workplaces still operate like it's 1962 and one person is always at home, and they are not very good at adjusting for the fact that a majority of women work and take care of children.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Good
  • Work
  • Women

• Minor Threat was an important band, believe me that it was important it in my life, but it belongs to an era that no longer exists. I'm not nostalgic. I think music today is much more important, because something can be done about it.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Life
  • Music
  • Believe

• The latter 1940s and early '50s were a time of tense, explosive conflict, in the world at large and in the politics of our nation.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • Time
  • World
  • Politics

• Looking around, I saw so many unhappy adults, people who loathed their jobs, and I didn't want to be one of them.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • People
  • Want
  • Looking

• That's the really neat thing about Dan Quayle, as you must have realized from the first moment you looked into those lovely blue eyes: impeachment insurance.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Eyes
  • Moment
  • Blue

• No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.

  

  Hal Borland
  • Forever
  • Spring
  • Winter

• From even the greatest of horrors, irony is seldom absent.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Greatest
  • Irony
  • Horrors

• In difficult times, it's important to speak up. We cannot change the past, but we can impact the future.

  

  Mark Parker
  • Up
  • Important
  • Future

• People want to be bowled over by something special. Nine times out of ten you might strike out, but that tenth time, that peak experience, is what people want. That's what can move the world. That's art.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Art
  • Experience
  • Move

• When I went to college, I met a new group of friends and looked back on my high-school experience and realized how much time I had wasted on trying to make myself something I wasn't.

  

  Katherine Schwarzenegger
  • Time
  • Trying
  • School

• oh, my God," I whispered. "But how did they get my photo? Alex tapped his mouth with his thumb. "That ...book with everyone's picture in it, that you have in high school." "Yearbook," I said. Was he trying to be funny? But of course he was right; that's exactly where it was from.

  

  L.A. Weatherly
  • God
  • Trying
  • School

• Klaus: Maybe I don't know what 'cakesniffer' means, but I think I can translate our new school's motto... If I'm not mistaken, 'Memento Mori' means 'Remember you will die'.

  

  Daniel Handler
  • School
  • Remember
  • Die