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Word Quotes by Daniel Handler
- But one type of book that practically no one likes to read is a book about the law. Books about the law are notorious for…
- Instead of the word 'love' there was an enormous heart, a symbol sometimes used by people who have trouble figuring out the difference between words…
- Xenial' is a word which refers to the giving of gifts to strangers. . . . I know that having a good vocabulary doesn't guarantee…
- In the secret pocket, she often kept a small pocket dictionary, which she would take out whenever she encountered a word she did not know.
- Every night I give a violin recital for six hours, and attendance is mandatory. The word 'mandatory' means that if you don't show up, you…
- Life isn't fair," he said, in his undisguised voice, and for once the Baudelaire orphans agreed with every word the man said.
- In love, as in life, one misheard word can be tremendously important. If you tell someone you love them, for instance, you must be absolutely…
- Composer†is a word which here means “a person who sits in a room, muttering and humming and figuring out what notes the orchestra is…
- What happens in a certain place can stain your feelings for that location, just as ink can stain a white sheet. You can wash it,…
- 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…
- Everything. A letter may be coded, and a word may be coded. A theatrical performance may be coded, and a sonnet may be coded, and…
- An apocryphal story - the word "apocryphal" here means "obviously untrue" - tells of two people, long ago, who were very bored, and that instead…
- It is much, much worse to receive bad news through the written word than by somebody simply telling you, and I’m sure you understand why.…
- There are two types of panicking: standing still and not saying a word, and leaping all over the place babbling anything that comes into your…
- If you don’t care about something, one way to demonstrate your feelings is to say the word and then repeat the word with the letters…
- Scolding must be very, very fun, otherwise children would be allowed to do it. It is not because children don’t have what it takes to…
- When somebody is a little bit wrong - say, when a waited puts nonfat milk in your espresso macchiato, instead of lowfat milk - it…
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- Retire? I don't know what that word means. As long as a man is able to work and he's productive out there… — Red Adair
- Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
- A cousin of mine who was a casualty surgeon in Manhattan tells me that he and his colleagues had a one-word nickname… — Stephen Fry
- The Imitation of Christ is a cherished treasure of the Christian world. This great book was written by a Roman Catholic monk.… — Swami Vivekananda
- Exactly. She does not shine as a wife even in her own account of what occurred. I am not a whole-souled admirer… — Arthur Conan Doyle