Larry Wall Quotes

If you remove stricture from a large Perl program currently, you're just installing delayed bugs, whereas with this feature, you're installing an instant bug that's easily fixed. Whoopee.

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• I believe women are the glue of everything.

  

  Weili Dai
  • Believe
  • Women
  • I Believe

• Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement.

  

  Farnaz Fassihi
  • Remember
  • American
  • Right

• My main goal as a songwriter is to make something that inspires people. To write things about my life that people can relate to. Whether it's a whole record or just one song for someone, I hope it can do that for them. Knowing that I have the ability to do that is inspiring to me.

  

  Kate Voegele
  • People
  • Life
  • Hope

• More often than not, the experience of shooting the movie has been disappointing and the end product has been a mere shadow of what I hoped it would be. But immersing myself in the story - that's what I like best of all.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Experience
  • Movie
  • Myself

• We are God's creation, and we have a responsibility to keep ourselves at our best.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • God
  • Responsibility
  • Best

• In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Life
  • Moral
  • Thought

• I am aware that I look good for my age. It's my genes. My dad looked incredibly young, so did my mother. And a younger husband helps. Scott is only 45. If he hadn't come along, I don't know what I'd have done.

  

  Barbara Windsor
  • Good
  • Done
  • Mother

• Imagine: in the medieval ages, there was no evidence of how the history of mankind has been affected by witchcraft. But there is significant factual history of how brutality and sadism of mankind have been displayed in the most obscene manner in the name of witch-hunt.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • History
  • Name
  • Evidence

• I attend Internet conferences all the time, and they literally make the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Up
  • Time
  • Internet

• Once you join the queue for the immigration line, pay attention to what the expeditor tells you. Have your papers ready. Don't have your cell phone out. Take off your hat. Open your passport to the page with your photo and present it to the immigration officer already open.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Attention
  • Present
  • Immigration

• I don't often get involved with campaigns at all.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Involved
  • Often
  • Campaigns

• If you believe - which I do - that acting is a bit like advocacy for your character, then of course I want to find the positive points.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Believe
  • Character
  • Positive

• My father's family came from Virginia and Philadelphia. He wasn't a brother who talked a lot. He was a workingman, a quiet, blue-collar dude.

  

  Ice T
  • Family
  • Father
  • Brother

• Hillary Clinton will always be there for you. And just remember - there's a special place in hell for women who don't help each other.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Women
  • Remember
  • Help

• I was a candidate in 1991. There was virtually a wave for Ram Mandir. In 1989 also, there was a wave - anti-Congress wave.

  

  Harish Rawat
  • Wave
  • Candidate
  • Virtually

• In principle... no government in the world can accept an armed terrorist group, some of them coming from abroad, controlling streets and villages in the name of 'jihad'.

  

  Walid Muallem
  • World
  • Government
  • Name

• I train to be the champion.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Champion
  • Train

• The government will always tell you that it wants low inflation. The real issue is the horizon over which to bring inflation down.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Real
  • Government
  • Down

• It is precisely when we have suffered defeat that we can determine to win and open the path to future victory.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Future
  • Winning
  • Path

• Oh, my tattered rags are caught on your coffee table.

  

  Homer
  • Coffee
  • Table
  • Rags

• I don't know if I'd call either of them restless. Maybe hyperactive about some things. Anyway, I think as long as your soul is still attached to your body, it's impossible for it to be restless. I think you go where your spirit takes you.

  

  Angela Johnson
  • Soul
  • Body
  • Restless

• By whomsoever no evil is done in deed, or word, or thought, him I call a Brahmin (holy man) who is guarded in these three.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Word
  • Guarded
  • Deed

• Whoever wrote the Gospel of John (we’ll continue to call him John, though we don’t know who he really was) must have been a Christian living sixty years or so after Jesus, in a different part of the world, in a different cultural context, speaking a different language—Greek rather than Aramaic—and with a completely different level of education .. The author of John is speaking for himself and he is speaking for Jesus. These are not Jesus’s words; they are John’s words placed on Jesus’s lips.

  

  Bart Ehrman
  • Christian
  • Jesus
  • Language

• If you remove stricture from a large Perl program currently, you're just installing delayed bugs, whereas with this feature, you're installing an instant bug that's easily fixed. Whoopee.

  

  Larry Wall