Daniel Handler Quotes

I like writing for movies. It's nice to be alone working on fiction in your room, and then it's nice to be in a room with a bunch of people working on a movie.

Daniel Handler

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

AlonePeopleWritingNiceMovies

I go to Costco every weekend. It's my favorite part of the week.

Jimmy Kimmel

WeekendWeekGoFavoritePartEvery

In your mid-30s, you have to take inventory, or you'll stumble.

Jenny Lewis

YouStumbleInventoryTakeYour

I have dyslexia, and I never did learn to read music, and I even had a problem in reading because everything was turned upside down, so I just had to draw from the lyrics and the voice that I would hear in my mind.

Andrae Crouch

MusicMindReadingVoiceUpside Down

If Meekmahan ever came to the Hardy compound, I would tell Meekmahan, face-to-face, 'You'll fade away and classify yourself as obsolete! Obsolete!'

Jeff Hardy

YourselfYouFadeTellFace-To-Face

Commerce has changed the ethics of citizenship and the incentives for national service. America now buys private contractors - we used to call them mercenaries - to do the country's fighting.

Michael Ignatieff

ServiceEthicsFightingAmericaNow

In 1874, Mary Fraser accompanied her husband Hugh to Hong Kong, arriving hours after a typhoon had wrecked the island. Some 10,000 boat families had drowned in the harbour. There was no way to avoid the bloated bodies, and when Mary disembarked, she felt her foot land on something soft.

Amanda Foreman

HusbandBoatIslandWayLandShe

There's no point that an album should sound like a watered down version of another album.

Stephen Malkmus

DownSoundPointLikeShouldAlbum

Just staying together is not a real virtue, if you're not happy. Or you're being denied. Or one person is being squashed. Or you really don't love each other; you're just there out of habit. That doesn't work, no matter how many years you stay together.

Ruby Dee

WorkLoveTogetherHabitHappyYou

My success is the team's success. It's one of those things to a certain degree that it's effort and ability but also how I benefit from what my teammates do, and then it is up to me to perform.

Jason Babin

SuccessEffortMeTeamTeammatesUp

I am not perfect. I know that. None of us is perfect.

Brett Kavanaugh

I AmNot PerfectPerfectKnowUsAm

The original idea of the web was that it should be a collaborative space where you can communicate through sharing information.

Tim Berners-Lee

TechnologySpaceYouInformationWeb

I don't mind what the market is, but why is it vapid? If they're such a bunch of idiots, why don't you show them good music instead? They're not going to know the difference.

Kristin Hersh

GoodMusicMindYouKnowWhy

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