Daniel Handler Quotes

I didnt want to be encumbered by what anyone elses abilities were, their equipment or environment or their ability to get certain products.

I want a campfire box.

Remember: if you take bivouac equipment along, you will bivouac.

Some say opportunity knocks only once, that is not true. Opportunity knocks all the time, but you have to be ready for it. If the chance comes, you must have the equipment to take advantage of it.

Your spikes have gone floppy.

War is like a game of chess ... but with this little difference, that in chess you may think over each move as long as you please and are not limited for time, and with this difference too, that a knight is always stronger than a pawn, and two pawns are always stronger than one, while in war a battalion is sometimes stronger than a division and sometimes weaker than a company. The relative strength of bodies of troops can never be known to anyone.... Success never depends, and never will depend, on position, or equipment, or even on numbers, and least of all on position.

Pop artists deal with the lowly trivia of possessions and equipment that the present generation is lugging along with it on its safari into the future.

A digital camera has to be kept in check like a racehorse.

Directing is all about storytelling. It's not about equipment, or anything else.

When things go right and you test properly and you find equipment that's better than what you were playing, then you can do some pretty neat things on the golf course.

For the true measure of agriculture is not the sophistication of its equipment the size of its income or even the statistics of its productivity but the good health of the land.

We didn't have time to go tobogganing, because we didn't have the toboggan.

Give us the tools, and we will finish the job

Similar thing until today, with digital cameras you look after something like that as robust as they can be.

If you want to photograph a man spinning, give some thought to why he spins. Understanding for a photographer is as important as the equipment he uses.

We don't need mass armies anymore. We replace it with more effective equipment.

We all know of course, that we should never ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever fiddle around in any way with electrical equipment. NEVER.

Trumpets! Can you bring your... uh... extracurricular tubing necessities next rehearsal?

It's more important for a photographer to have very good shoes, than to have a very good camera

Steven's [Sebring] presence was not threatening; he told me that if I never wanted the footage to be seen by anyone, he would give it to me. So I had nothing to lose and everything to gain, and what I gained was his supportive energy and the supportive energy of his wife, who was sometimes the one schlepping the equipment or doing the sound.

(Japanese Government believes that if you have a big laboratory with all the latest equipment and good funding it will automatically lead to creativity. It doesn't work that way.

I'm always looking for older equipment and ways of recording, but you can't escape the fact that it's all going to be digitized and reduced.

The ball is an essential part of the game.

The piece of equipment I'm most found off is my telescope. The other night I had a superb view of the moon.

The most important piece of equipment in your bag is your attitude