Larry Wall Quotes

Call me bored, but don't call me boring.

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• My look is either very baroque or very Zen - everything in between makes me itch.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Me
  • Look
  • Everything

• To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Time
  • Business
  • Better

• Ask your agent to set up a meeting with either your editor or the marketing department of the house or both so you can find out what they're doing, what they aren't, and what you can do to help.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Up
  • Help
  • House

• There are times when what's happening in rock is the best music in the world, and there are times when there is nothing worthwhile at all.

  

  Carla Bley
  • World
  • Music
  • Best

• Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.

  

  Earl Warren
  • Educational
  • Facilities

• Equality in education is my number one battle.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Education
  • Equality
  • Battle

• I'm very grateful to God for what he gives me. Victories, remarkable victories, but you have to go through the defeats. That is why I praise God for everything.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • God
  • Why
  • Me

• I need talk more, call people out. It's not who I am, but I feel I need to do this more to bring more attention for me.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • People
  • Attention
  • Talk

• No, you don't have to start your play with a premise. You can start with a character or an incident, or even a simple thought. This thought or incident grows, and the story slowly unfolds itself. You have time to find your premise in the mass of your material later. The important thing is to find it.

  

  Lajos Egri
  • Time
  • Important
  • Character

• I'm not quite as cool as I would like to be, really.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Like
  • Cool
  • Really

• In hindsight, if I could go back in time and relay a message to my younger self, I would tell him to work on his time keeping, and that the job of a drummer is not to be the one that gets noticed the most on stage, or to be the fastest, or the loudest. Above all, it is to be the timekeeper.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Time
  • Work
  • Job

• I don't sit there writing songs, thinking, 'This would be good for Rihanna.' I don't want to be pitching out like that.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• I think that everybody wants to be heard, and the easiest way to be the loudest is to be the hater.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Think
  • Way
  • Loudest

• I need a stylist to help me pull together a wardrobe. I just don't have a lot of time to go shopping. So I have a stylist that knows what I want to wear, what cut of clothing I like, someone that really thinks and understands what my style and how I want to feel in the clothes.

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
  • Time
  • Together
  • Help

• I was working like a dog as a housekeeper, barista, nanny, cook, so I could save enough money to really sit with my instruments. Whenever I had 20 minutes, I would practice a new chord or write a new verse.

  

  Valerie June
  • Money
  • Practice
  • Dog

• Let your children go if you want to keep them.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • Children
  • Want
  • You

• It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • School
  • High
  • Problems

• The art world was not initially really accepting my kind of work. I was ahead of my time.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Time
  • World
  • Work

• If you want to eat chocolate or cakes, you have to eat it in the morning, for breakfast or lunch - don't eat it in the night.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Night
  • Morning
  • Breakfast

• I guess I'm a Gemini through and through, but I'm mercurial. I get bored doing the same things.

  

  Jewel Kilcher
  • Bored
  • Gemini

• Acting is so much about waiting... waiting for an audition, waiting for the right part to come along. It's nice to write your own thing, write about what you're feeling and then go out and perform them. It's a nice thing to have and not get bored.

  

  Emily Kinney
  • Feeling
  • Nice
  • Waiting

• School failed me, and I failed the school. It bored me. The teachers behaved like sergeants. I wanted to learn what I wanted to know, but they wanted me to learn for the exam. What I hated most was the competitive system there, and especially sports. Because of this, I wasn't worth anything, and several times they suggested I leave.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • School
  • Sports
  • Bored

• Word of advice, kid. This may be the Wild West down here, but you ain't a cowboy. You're not even a boy in a cowboy suit.

  

  Caitlin Kittredge
  • May
  • Kids
  • Boy

• Call me bored, but don't call me boring.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Bored