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

• I have a social life. But I don't discuss it.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Life
  • Social
  • Social Life

• 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

• I constantly have a devil on my shoulder telling me that what I'm doing is really horrible, and then somehow the lightning strike happens, and everything comes together.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Me
  • Devil
  • Horrible

• 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

• I hate the hand that comes out of a car and just drops litter in the street. I hate that! For some reason, it just fills me with fury! It's just utter laziness, lack of interest in other people, lack of interest in the planet, in the hedgehog who might eat the plastic bag, it's a lack of concern.

  

  Joanna Lumley
  • People
  • Hate
  • Hand

• 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

• Judaism teaches everyone tolerance towards everyone.

  

  Csanad Szegedi
  • Tolerance
  • Teaches
  • Judaism

• There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Beauty
  • Terrible
  • Surface

• Broadway musicals, where you sing the whole time, I really don't like; I like alternating dialogue and music.

  

  Pedro Almodovar
  • Time
  • Music

• New York Fashion Week comes only twice a year, make it count

  

  Tommy Hilfiger
  • Fashion
  • Week

• I'm tough, I'm pushy, I'm really loud. I used to spend a lot of time thinking about it. But we only have so much brain capacity, so if I'm spending part of my brain thinking about how I'm acting, A, I'm not spending all of my brain doing, and B, I'm not actually in that moment.

  

  Christine Quinn
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Brain

• 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