Larry Wall Quotes

The way these things go, there are probably 6 or 8 kludgey ways to do it, and a better way that involves rethinking something that hasn't been rethunk yet.

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• I think that we are all much closer to our childhood selves than we often think, so when we read about childhood, it can surprise us how immediate or moving it is, when perhaps those feelings are just there, waiting to be accessed all the time.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • Time
  • Moving
  • Waiting

• There are just so many young designers now.

  

  Jack McCollough
  • Young
  • Just
  • Now

• Crazy old people are our entire source of polling information.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Information

• Like the United Nations, there is something inspirational about New York as a great melting pot of different cultures and traditions. And if this is the city that never sleeps, the United Nations works tirelessly, around the clock around the world.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • World
  • Great
  • Different

• It was always in the back of my mind while we were working on the first year of 'Rookie' that we'd do a print version at some point.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Mind
  • First
  • Year

• My mother and my sister are big Jon Snow fans.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Mother
  • Sister
  • Snow

• Discussion is just a tool. You have to aim; the final goal must be a decision.

  

  Harri Holkeri
  • Decision
  • Goal
  • Discussion

• I do what I feel is right. I am not scared to walk on the new path and take risk.

  

  Aamir Khan
  • Risk
  • Path
  • Right

• As someone remarked, when told the new atomic bombs would explode without a bang, 'they can’t leave anything alone.'

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Alone

• Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something which you have to be all the time. Which isn't easy.

  

  Luigi Pirandello
  • Time
  • Gentleman

• Hannah: Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.

  

  Charlie Chaplin
  • People
  • Life
  • Alone

• I have been taking stock of my 50 years since I left Wichita. How I have existed fills me with horror for I failed in everything. Spelling, arithmetic, writing, swimming, tennis, golf, dancing, singing, acting, wife, mistress, whore, friend, even cooking. And I do not excuse myself with the usual escape of not trying. I tried with all my heart.

  

  Louise Brooks
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Heart

• Terrorism has become the systematic weapon of a war that knows no borders or seldom has a face.

  

  Jacques Chirac
  • War

• The Profit and Loss Statement tells you a lot about how your business is doing. It can also help you to determine ways that you can go about saving money so that you get to bring more money home! Basically, the P&L statement measures all of your income sources verses all your business expenses for any given period of time.

  

  Darren L Johnson
  • Time
  • Money
  • Home

• There are works of fiction which seek to explain jihadi terrorists as the militant wing of Amnesty International. I don't buy that.

  

  Chris Morris

• 'Roc The Life' is a song I wrote with The Dream, who made 'Umbrella,' 'Single Ladies' and loads more.

  

  Rita Ora
  • Life
  • Song
  • Dream

• The closest thing to hell on earth is prison. It's the worst experience I've ever had in my life. Besides death.

  

  Duane Chapman
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Death

• I think sex is a very minor part of most romance novels.

  

  Lauren Willig
  • Sex

• Him, who incessantly laughs in the street, you may commonly hear grumbling in his closet.

  

  Johann Kaspar Lavater
  • May

• Our CII building in Hyderabad has zero discharge of water. Every drop of water is treated and reused.

  

  Jamshyd Godrej
  • Water

• We need to beef up STEM education.

  

  Bill Foster
  • Up
  • Education

• 'Your son was in your own tradition.''Better, I hope,' said the old man. 'There would be little sense to existence, did boys have no chance to be more than their fathers.'

  

  Poul Anderson
  • Hope
  • Son

• My family and I survived Hurricane Katrina in 2005; we left my grandmother's flooding house, were refused shelter by a white family, and took refuge in trucks in an open field during a Category Five hurricane. I saw an entire town demolished, people fighting over water, breaking open caskets searching for something that could help them survive.

  

  Jesmyn Ward
  • People
  • Family
  • Help

• The way these things go, there are probably 6 or 8 kludgey ways to do it, and a better way that involves rethinking something that hasn't been rethunk yet.

  

  Larry Wall