Larry Wall Quotes
The whole intent of Perl 5's module system was to encourage the growth of Perl culture rather than the Perl core.
Quotes to Explore
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If you fall off a horse, you get back up. I am not a quitter.
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You go where you think it's good for your work and your soul to go. I need to go someplace where I am reminded about why I wanted to act in the first place, and for me, that's the theater.
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You've got to live your life, you've got to enjoy it.
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When I wrote 'Green, Green,' it was like a really a statement of where I was at philosophically in my life.
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I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.
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When you deal with a person who's experiencing dementia, you can see where they're struggling with knowledge. You can see what they forget completely, what they forget but they know what they once knew. You can tell how they're trying to remember.
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I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something.
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I have American in-laws, and I care about the environment. We don't use disposable diapers, which, of course, creates an environmental problem of our own.
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Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
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When I wrote the eight fairy tales that appear in 'Horse, Flower, Bird' I was working toward a completely new form of artistic expression, trying to create a new kind of tale that also felt vintage: innocent and childlike, but haunted. I tried to write a picture-less picture book.
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Sure, I'll have characters drop in and out of books but the main cast of characters always changes. Maybe I'm wrong but I think if had the same joe detective guy or gal, I wouldn't write them as well; I wouldn't do as good a job.
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Everybody goes through a phase of fatigue, and I am no different. Re-inventing yourself in your profession is the key to deal with fatigue.
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When you get successful, you can do pretty much whatever you want.
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In writing lyrics - well, for me, anyway - it's about getting into character, you know? 'Who is writing this?' In the case of the original 'Thick As A Brick,' supposedly a precocious, very young child who's fantasizing about his future and the context of all the confusing elements to which school boys are subjected at that time.
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That was my challenge as an actress: to be a necessary part of the office without being too aggressive.
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Well, it is curious what lasts and what doesn't. Publishing empires and whatnot would pay anything to figure it out. But they can't figure it out.
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If Edith Wharton lived in the Age of Innocence, surely we now live in the Age of Deception.
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How do Ferrari know what I'm doing next year when I don't know what I'm doing next week?
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I've had the privilege of having a lot of amazing people cook for me.
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That’s the most Warholian thing about what I do... I embrace pop culture. The very thing that everybody says is poisonous and ostentatious and shallow, it’s like my chemistry book... and I make what I believe to be art out of it.
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Everyone is anticipating the growth and attraction of this market.
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Horror is the future. And you cannot be afraid. You must push everything to the absolute limit, or else life will be boring. People will be boring. Horror is like a serpent: always shedding its skin, always changing. And it will always come back. It can't be hidden away like the guilty secrets we try to keep in our subconscious.
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If you engage people honestly, and you're willing to do the leg work, people will respond to that.
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The whole intent of Perl 5's module system was to encourage the growth of Perl culture rather than the Perl core.
