Larry Wall Quotes

Wow, I'm being shot at from both sides. That means I *must* be right.

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• I have a smile 24/7.

  

  Candis Cayne
  • Smile

• I had a Guru. He was a great saint and most merciful. I served him long - very, very long; still, he would not blow any mantra in my ears. I had a keen desire never to leave him but to stay with him and serve him and at all cost receive some instruction from him.

  

  Sai Baba
  • Great
  • Long
  • Desire

• I do not rule out the possibility of being prime minister of India one day, but there is still time.

  

  Lalu Prasad Yadav
  • Time
  • Day
  • India

• From 1961 to 1964, I was fortunate enough to work at a think tank in the Kenwood neighborhood of Chicago. As a writer and editor, I reported in a publication about the thinkers. Our offices were in a former mansion; I worked in what had been the ballroom. As I sat typing my copy, I imagined the dancers waltzing.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Work
  • Think
  • Chicago

• When you get bullied, you automatically think that you're the reason why you're getting bullied. The reality is, it's about them, not you... I'm all about blocking people. I'm all about saying, 'You know what, I don't need this in my life.'

  

  Kat Graham
  • People
  • Life
  • Why

• Accidents at power plants are bad enough. But a leak from a bioreactor could be worse, since bacteria can learn new tricks when you're not looking.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Power
  • Bad
  • Learn

• I met Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu years ago during my college days, and I was in charge of international promotion of this movie festival he was invited to as part of the jury, and then he saw my work on a short film that was directed by a friend of mine.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Work
  • Movie
  • College

• We live in a technical society.

  

  Nancy Roman
  • Live
  • Society
  • Technical

• People tend to think they know you when you come into their televisions every week.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • People
  • Think
  • Week

• I think my younger self would be more amazed to know I was doing an interview for 'The Spectator.'

  

  Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
  • Think
  • Know
  • Self

• Remember, each one of us has the power to change the world. Just start thinking peace, and the message will spread quicker than you think.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Power

• I felt a sense of fulfillment that an action plan, which I'd laid on the table on the 2nd of February 1990, had been fulfilled, had been properly implemented within the time frame which I envisaged.

  

  F. W. de Klerk
  • Time
  • Action
  • February

• I just broke up with my boyfriend, so I'm officially single. But one thing I find unbelievably annoying is all these guys in my life who want to save me.

  

  Olivia Munn
  • Life
  • Guys
  • Boyfriend

• All my life I have been acutely aware of a contradiction in the very nature of my existence. For forty-five years I struggled to resolve this dilemma by writing plays and novels. The more I wrote, the more I realized mere words were not enough. So I found another form of expression.

  

  Yukio Mishima
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Nature

• Money does not arise by convention, any more than the state does. It arises out of exchange, and arises naturally out of exchange; it is a product of the same.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Money

• My concern is with the rhythms of nature.. .I work inside out, like nature.

  

  Jackson Pollock
  • Work
  • Nature

• 'I wish I had never been born,' she said. 'What are we born for?' 'For infinite happiness,' said the Spirit. 'You can step out into it at any moment...'

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Happiness
  • Spirit
  • Moment

• 'We are all acquaintances now'. It goes beyond our personal junk circumstances; a brilliant metaphor for our times.

  

  Irvine Welsh

• I've never met Ai Weiwei but he's a colleague, an artist. In a very simple way he is heroically recording human existence. All he's done is to record death by administration, death by corruption, inefficiency. I don't even think he's pointing that sharp a finger, frankly.

  

  Anish Kapoor
  • Done
  • Death
  • Simple

• After its hothouse incubation in the seventies, appropriation breathed important new life into art. This life flowered spectacularly over the decades - even if it's now close to aesthetic kudzu.

  

  Jerry Saltz
  • Life
  • Important
  • Art

• I found filmmaking to be a very practical art form. It's about figuring out how to create within the very practical limitations/constraints of time, money, and large groups of collaborators.

  

  Jeff Nichols
  • Time
  • Money
  • Art

• Everybody feels like an outcast because the world is so large and every fingerprint is so vastly different from one another, and yet we have these standards and beliefs, and dogmatic systems of judgment and ranking, in almost all the societies of the world.

  

  Ezra Miller
  • Judgment
  • Beliefs
  • Societies

• I like the gizmos that transport people.

  

  Chris Van Allsburg
  • People

• Wow, I'm being shot at from both sides. That means I *must* be right.

  

  Larry Wall