Adverbs Daniel Handler Quotes

#1. This is love, and the trouble with it: it can make you embarrassed. Love is really liking someone a whole lot and not wanting to screw that up. Everybody's chewed this over. This unites us, this part of love.

Daniel Handler

#2. In a culture where life was short, decisions had to be made in a hurry. You would never have enough time, might never live to see the consequences of a wrong action - or a correct one. On Query, it was different.

L.E. Modesitt Jr.

#3. Why haven't we fixed sick yet? You scientists there
put down those starfish and HELP us. I hereby demand that all the people who are good at math make the world free of illness. The rest of us will write you epic poems and staple them together into a booklet.

Daniel Handler

#4. Mathematics-a wonderful science, but it hasn't yet come up with a way to divide one tricycle between three small boys.

Earl Wilson

#5. How many happy people do you think there are in the world? Twelve?

Daniel Handler

#6. Everyone should be praised by the lips of his neighbor, and not by his own mouth. Everyone should be commended by the work he has done, not by what he wanted to do.

Mike Aquilina

#7. We laughed the rest of the way, because the point of this story is, it is not the cookies. It is the love.

Daniel Handler

#8. He thought she knew what he meant, but the biggest mistake you can make is thinking they know what you mean.

Daniel Handler

#9. Adverbs is a book about love, and I thought that was pretty cheerful, but people who are reading it now are telling me that it's actually quite dark.

Daniel Handler

#10. The biggest winners are surprises to me, and takeovers are even more surprising. It takes years, not months, to produce big results.

Peter Lynch

#11. Alan Pardew has had to juggle his pack

Alan McInally

#12. It's like a boulder rolling down a hill - you can watch it and talk about it and scream and say Shit! but you can't stop it. It's just a question of where it's going to go.

Tom Wolfe

#13. The miracle is the adverbs. The way things are done.

Daniel Handler

#14. No, when you love someone you spend hours and hours with them, and even the mightiest forces in the netherworld could not say whether the hours you spend increase your love or if you simply spend more hours with someone as your love increases.

Daniel Handler

#15. It is not the diamonds or the birds, the people or the potatoes; it is not any of the nouns. The miracle is the adverbs, the way things are done. It is the way love gets done despite every catastrophe.

Daniel Handler

#16. We're trying to fix this with the plan we've been floating. Now, the law says the transition ends in 2006 or - and the 'or' is the only part that matters - 85 percent of Americans go buy a digital TV.

Michael K. Powell

#17. All the deaths are dead for nothing but you're not dead at all.

Daniel Handler

#18. Lips move; lips touch; lips signal. Lips are on the outside for show, and on the most secret inside of your mouth. Lips frame words that lie. Lips frame a hole that wants to be filled.

Jane Rogers

#19. Cynthia's lyrics always expressed the feelings people felt but they couldn't express themselves.

Barry Mann

#20. A whole person could go through the wringer and come out flat, neat, completed, like a flower pressed in a book.

Margaret Atwood