Famous Quotes & Sayings

Daniel Handler

There are secrets everywhere. I think everyone's parents have secrets. You just have to know where to look for them.

Daniel Handler

I don't think film is the writer's medium, and so I was interested to see what a director would do with it.

Daniel Handler

The trick to following someone without getting caught is to follow somebody who doesn't think they're being followed.

Daniel Handler

Anyone who thinks the pen is mightier than the sword has not been stabbed with both.

Daniel Handler

There are many things in life that become different if you take a long look at them.

Daniel Handler

I've never had a musical career. So I think it's been unaffected. I play the accordion. In terms of thinking of it as a musical career, I think it's sort of like calling yourself an astronaut because you have a shiny suit.

Daniel Handler

Are you who I think you are?

Daniel Handler

I like to think that I get better and better as a writer, but it seems pretty easy to me to slip on disguises of various people.

Daniel Handler

I do think of emotions as being on a circular path, so you can feel terrible and terrible and terrible, and then all of a sudden it becomes quite funny.

Daniel Handler

I think pirates, like astronauts, particularly for a boy, are always kind of worth thinking about.

Daniel Handler

I wrote a comedy, which hopefully [Rick director] Curtiss Clayton will bring to the screen, that I thought was the antithesis of all my work. I thought it was light and sunshiny, and Mr. Clayton reminded me that it is the story of a woman kidnapped and forced to do things against her will, which is not what most people think of as light and sunshiny.

Daniel Handler

I think we'll always miss our parents. But I think we can miss them without being miserable all the time. After all, they wouldn't want us to be miserable.

Daniel Handler

When you say, "History is written by the winners," you like to think about someone who isn't you. You want to think, "Oh, that's the juggernaut I'm standing against." But you're probably part of it.

Daniel Handler

I started making plans, thinking we would get that far.

Daniel Handler

I think if I were walking someplace and I saw a corpse my brain would tell me it was a million things before I believed it was a corpse.

Daniel Handler

The Basic Eight and Watch Your Mouth both have first-person voices, and I ended up investigating those voices and investing so much in them that I think many people took them more seriously than they ought to have.

Dan Wheldon

I haven't seen it this busy since I've been an IndyCar driver. So I think that's a great kind of thing that's happening for the IndyCar Series, in general, right now. But it's an event that I'm very proud to be part of. I love it. I can't wait to come back next year.

Dan Wheldon

When I think of the pace that I drove my first race, everything was happening a million miles an hour. Now when I get in the car everything happens so much slower.

Dan T. Cathy

As it relates to society in general, I think we are inviting God's judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at him and say, 'We know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage.

Dana Delany

I think I would make a good spy. I can sort of be a chameleon. People don't notice me very easily. I never get recognized.

Dan Uggla

When I start thinking in the batter's box, that's when I get into trouble.

People are never quiet. It's go, go, go. I'm a go-getter, but you need rest and silence, just to sit around and think about things.

Dana Perino

I think a lot of women, especially ones that want to achieve career goals, tend to worry. I don't want anyone to worry their life away.

Dana Perino

I heard today that the White House isn't even backing its own bill, because Democrats on the Hill pushed back against it. So now what they're asking for is just a clean $4 billion to help deal with the crisis with no policy reform. And I think that contributes to people having less confidence in their government.

Dana Perino

I think, certainly, in history, if you look back, a lot of people would go through their careers, build a business, or be a doctor, lawyer, and then they would go and do public service later on in their careers.

Dana Perino

I think that having love in your life does open up doors and other possibilities.

Dana Perino

Most women beat themselves up because they think they are not good enough at anything. All of those things just eat at you all the time.

Dana Perino

I hear a lot of young people talking about the need to network. I think that is true, and I think that building a network makes sense. But I also think that there is another way to approach it, and that is to try to make friends. Just try to make a lot of friends.

Dana Carvey

My Obama is getting pretty good ... I think I'll vote for whoever makes my portrayal easier. It takes time to put together a comic impression. It takes time to recognize the tics. Right now, for instance, I could do a dead- on Paul Ryan and people wouldn't recognize it. Personalities take a while to sin...

Dana Carvey

I always tend to think of all of my shows as possibly my last show. I'm like a junior Springsteen, without the underbite.

Dan Stevens

I'm shocked at being recognized. You go to places you don't think you would be and still, you are. Taxi drivers often recognise me... but I haven't got a free ride yet.

Dan Stevens

I don't think many people get to play big emotions in life.

Dan Abrams

Some people think I'm a total moron and I would hope most people think I'm very good at what I do.