Daniel Handler Quotes

I'm always interested to see what films are made of books. I kind of don't participate as a filmgoer in any kind of debate about what's better, the book or the movie. So I think it's interesting when people want to do it.

Daniel Handler

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 28, 1970

Topics

PeopleBookThinkBetterInteresting

As an adult, you think of yourself as being someone else when you're away from your family, but when you come back to your family, you suddenly find yourself back in the exact same role that you always had in your family as a child and as a teenager.

John Wells

FamilyYourselfChildThinkSomeone

It's suddenly practical to do very high quality video wirelessly over mobile devices, and we're just in the early days of that.

John Sculley

QualityEarlyOverHighDaysMobile

The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.

John Stuart Mill

PowerGreatGovernmentEvilReason

To be social is to be forgiving.

Robert Frost

SocialForgiving

Beer is nasty.

Rob Gronkowski

BeerNasty

All my life, I've been sort of a professional optimist, full of good cheer about matters political and journalistic. I always thought I'd get older and become an unnaturally cheerful old fart. But it's not happening.

Molly Ivins

LifeGoodThoughtPoliticalMy Life

My father earned every penny he had, and I would have loved to have bought him a Rolls-Royce because his whole life was cars. Sadly, he didn't live to see the day when I could have done that for him, which still hurts.

Bruce Forsyth

LifeFatherLiveDayLovedPenny

The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

JokeGodsFondToo

It's interesting, because I've worked with people who are just not nice people, and I've worked with people who are crazy, and the difference is: crazy is much worse.

Phil LaMarr

PeopleCrazyInterestingNiceJust

A gun show is about like-minded people who feel as if everything has been taken away from them - jobs, money, pride.

Paul Theroux

MoneyPeopleGunPrideFeelBeen

In the subprime mortgage industry, bankers handed out iffy loans like candy at a parade because such loans meant revenue and, hence, bonuses for executives in the here-and-now.

Thomas Frank

MortgageCandyParadeOutIndustry

I've learned that maybe sometimes it's better to show people who you are and what you are thinking about. That way, you can be more relaxed with yourself.

Tina Maze

YourselfPeopleThinkingBetterYou

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