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Terrible Quotes by Daniel Handler
- Assumptions are dangerous things to make, and like all dangerous things to make - bombs, for instance, or strawberry shortcake - if you make even…
- I can't think of a story that doesn't have something terrible in it. Otherwise, it's dull. So when I embarked into the world of picture…
- I was not a particularly brave child, I think, because I had a narrative mind, because my mind automatically went to any terrible thing that…
- Taking one’s chances is like taking a bath, because sometimes you end up feeling comfortable and warm, and sometimes there is something terrible lurking around…
- It is useless for me to describe to you how terrible Violet, Klaus, and even Sunny felt in the time that followed. If you have…
- How can someone so wonderful do something so terrible?
- Sometimes, just saying that you hate something, and having someone agree with you, can make you feel better about a terrible situation.
- This is love if it's not with you, a terrible fiery something that makes people look away, and it feels like a punch in the…
- There is a kind of crying I hope you have not experienced, and it is not just crying about something terrible that has happened, but…
- It is always terrible to be told to go play with people one doesn’t know...
- There was still plenty of water in the basement, and I felt it soaking me from the knees on down. If someone wanted to torture…
- It seemed to me that every adult did something terrible sooner or later. And every child, I thought, sooner or later becomes an adult.
More Terrible Quotes
- When I died my hair red the first time, I felt as if it was what nature intended. I have been accused… — Amy Adams
- You know, it is a terrible thing to appear on television, because people think that you actually know what you're talking about. — David Attenborough
- I had a terrible time with feminists in the Seventies. They hated me, those women. I think they hated everything. — David Bailey
- Fashion is in a terrible state. An overdose of too much flesh. — Geoffrey Beene
- The biggest challenge of public policy is to know when and how the world has changed. We are no longer an empty… — Richard Lamm
- It is terrible to die of thirst in the ocean. Do you have to salt your truth so heavily that it does… — Friedrich Nietzsche
- Sentimental assertions are always a form of detachment; they confront the acute, terrible awareness of individual pain, the sharp particularity of loss… — Mark Doty
- Truly, there are terrible primal arcana of earth which had better be left unknown and unevoked; dread secrets which have nothing to… — H P Lovecraft