Larry Wall Quotes

I think it's a new feature. Don't tell anyone it was an accident.

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• One of the best animated films I've seen come out of Disney was the Tarzan movie. I wasn't crazy about the story or the design on Tarzan's face, but the traditional animation was spectacular.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Movie
  • Best
  • Crazy

• The Palestinian Rifle is ready and we will aim it if they try to prevent us from praying in Jerusalem.

  

  Yasser Arafat
  • Try
  • Aim
  • Jerusalem

• Dining with a married couple can be uncomfortable.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Couple
  • Married
  • Uncomfortable

• I mean, we sit around and we go, you know, 'Torture doesn't work.' Well, it's been around for 5,000 years. Most stuff that doesn't work goes the way of the dodo pretty quick, like waterbeds and 8-tracks and things like that.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Work
  • Pretty
  • Know

• Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • You
  • Peace
  • Yourself

• What I see now is the consumerisation of IT. I don't want my company to tell me that I have to use a BlackBerry or I have to use a Windows phone. I just want to use the phone I want and have it all work.

  

  Parker Harris
  • Work
  • Want
  • See

• Being a mom makes you far more compassionate. You have more empathy for people, more love. I was always taught to say thank you, and I'm very grateful. And my kids have that quality, too.

  

  Florence Henderson
  • People
  • Love
  • Kids

• Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Rich
  • Poor
  • Without

• I can count my friends on one hand.

  

  Barry Zito
  • Friends
  • Hand
  • I Can

• Veganism is an answer for almost every problem facing the world in terms of hunger and climate change.

  

  Sam Simon
  • World
  • Change
  • Problem

• I once saw a lump of Greenland breaking off into the sea and moving south, which of course will affect the atmosphere and us generally, and it'll happen more and more.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • Moving
  • Sea
  • Happen

• You know, there are many alter egos and Gorillaz is a collective of alter egos, really. I think anyone who gets involved in it has to sort of accept that nothing is really as it seems.

  

  Damon Albarn Gorillaz
  • Think
  • You
  • Know

• I rewrite my books many times before submitting them, and after my editor takes a look I wind up rewriting some more! It's a good thing I learned at an early age to keep on trying. Stick to it, and eventually you'll get there.

  

  Wendelin Van Draanen
  • Up
  • Good
  • Trying

• I was imagining a long life of being a stone cold loser. Then I got a job, which was really nice, then I got a great agent, a great manager, which was really nice. I was doing a lot of set ups, and, you know, I got to start working in L.A.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • Life
  • Great
  • Long

• The District of Columbia is an extreme example of disconnect between financial input and educational outcome. Unfortunately, extreme is not the same as abnormal.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Financial
  • Same
  • Between

• I have a degree in music, yeah, from the University of Montana. I studied voice and composition and conducting and all that.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Music
  • Voice
  • Degree

• My sister is an artist and an interior designer. She went to high school for art. I went to high school for music.

  

  Maira Kalman
  • Music
  • School
  • Art

• If you've got kids who aren't being looked after by their parents, there's only so many times you can try and intervene to get that right.

  

  Adam Giles
  • Kids
  • Parents
  • You

• Learned to read, and for a while as a kid, you think books are just leaves on trees. Then suddenly, you think a human being is making that, and maybe you could do that.

  

  Anthony Doerr

• I am quite sure that a good number of "cures" of psychotics consist in the fact that the patient has decided, for one reason or other, once more to play at being sane.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • Good

• The voice stuff is super fun and I get to be anyone, but on-camera, I get to go in with wardrobe and sets and stuff and be in an environment that's not normal, and I love that.

  

  E.G. Daily
  • Fun
  • Environment

• The princes who have done great things are the ones who have taken little account of their promises.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Promises
  • Account
  • Princes

• Is my mother my friend? I would have to say, first of all she is my Mother, with a capital 'M'; she's something sacred to me. I love her dearly...yes, she is also a good friend, someone I can talk openly with if I want to.

  

  Sofia Villani Scicolone
  • Mother
  • Friend
  • Sacred

• I think it's a new feature. Don't tell anyone it was an accident.

  

  Larry Wall