Daniel Handler Quotes - Page 11

Quotes about:

• In America now there is this phenomenon called helicopter parenting, where you're hovering over your child for the whole time. Parents there view their job as being to make sure their kid never has a moment of unhappiness. Of course, as a parent myself, I can understand the urge, but I don't know whether it would be healthy or possible.

  Daniel Handler

  Jobs, Children, Kids

  4 Copy quote

• The library was one enormous room, with long, high metal shelves and the perfect quiet that libraries provide for anyone looking for an answer.

  Daniel Handler

  Long, Perfect, Library

  4 Copy quote

• A mystery is solved with a story.

  Daniel Handler

  Stories, Mystery

  4 Copy quote

• ...there's nothing wrong with occasionally staring out the window and thinking nonsense, as long as the nonsense is yours.

  Daniel Handler

  Thinking, Long, Window

  4 Copy quote

• There's an easy method for finding someone when you hear them scream. First get a clean sheet of paper and a sharp pencil. Then sketch out nine rows of fourteen squares each. Then throw the piece of paper away and find whoever is screaming so you can help them. It is no time to fiddle with paper.

  Daniel Handler

  Squares, Pieces, Paper

  4 Copy quote

• You can invent things like automatic popcorn poppers. You can invent things like steam-powered window washers. But you can’t invent more time.

  Daniel Handler

  Popcorn, Window, Steam

  4 Copy quote

• It was a curious feeling, that something could be so close and so distant at the same time.

  Daniel Handler

  Feelings, Curious

  4 Copy quote

• There are some things we might not know,but that doesnt mean we should give up.We can find out what we need to know.We can find out everything

  Daniel Handler

  Giving Up, Mean, Needs

  4 Copy quote

• Boredom is not black licorice, Snicket," she said. "There's no reason to share it with me.

  Daniel Handler

  Boredom, Black, Reason

  5 Copy quote

• It looked like something the Hemlock needed, or a piece of equipment a plumber had left behind. It looked like none of your business.

  Daniel Handler

  Hemlock, Pieces, Equipment

  4 Copy quote

• You must be all a-tingle with excitement.' 'I guess so,' I said, but I did not feel a-tingle. I did not feel a-anything.

  Daniel Handler

  Excitement, Said, Feels

  4 Copy quote

• No reality has the power to dispel a dream.

  Daniel Handler

  Dream, Reality

  4 Copy quote

• Complimenting someone in an exaggerated way is known as flattery, and flattery will generally get you anything you want.

  Daniel Handler

  Want, Way, Flattery

  4 Copy quote

• With a library it is easier to hope for serendipity than to look for a precise answer.

  Daniel Handler

  Serendipity, Library, Looks

  5 Copy quote

• Any playlist without Prince is no friend of mine.

  Daniel Handler

  No Friends, Playlists, Mines

  5 Copy quote

• But the world did not match the picture in my head, and instead I was with a strange, uncombed person, overlooking a sea without water and a forest without trees.

  Daniel Handler

  Sea, Water, Tree

  4 Copy quote

• It is very difficult to make one's way in this world without being wicked at one time or another, when the world's way is so wicked to being with.

  Daniel Handler

  Wicked, World, Way

  4 Copy quote

• They were almond cookies, although they could have been made of spinach and shoes for all I cared. I ate eleven of them, right in a row. It is rude to take the last cookie.

  Daniel Handler

  Shoes, Rude, Cookies

  9 Copy quote

• A good thing to do when one is sitting, eating, and resting is to have a conversation.

  Daniel Handler

  Sitting, Eating, Good Things

  4 Copy quote

• ...in life it is often the tiny details that end up being the most important.

  Daniel Handler

  Important, Details, Tiny

  5 Copy quote

• It is my fate that some of my questions will never be answered.

  Daniel Handler

  Fate

  4 Copy quote

• But we can also ask for something we are much more likely to get, and that is to find a person or two, somewhere in our travels, who will tell us that we are noble enough, whether it is true or not. We can ask for someone who will say, “You are noble enough,” and remind us of our good qualities when we have forgotten them, or cast them into doubt.

  Daniel Handler

  Two, Doubt, Quality

  4 Copy quote

• Everything else has vanished, so you take them now. Maybe if you're the one keeping them, I'll be the one feeling better.

  Daniel Handler

  Feel Better, Feelings, Ifs

  4 Copy quote

• Reader: Dear Mr. Snicket, What is the best way to keep a secret? Lemony Snicket : Tell it to everyone you know, but pretend you are kidding.

  Daniel Handler

  Secret, Way, Dear

  6 Copy quote

• ...there's not enough ink and paper to say all I wanted.

  Daniel Handler

  Ink And Paper, Enough, Wanted

  Daniel Handler (2012). “Why We Broke Up”, p.100, Egmont UK

  4 Copy quote

Page 11 of 23

First

← Prev

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin