Larry Wall Quotes

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• I have a great support network - my family, my model agency Storm, and people I work with in the fashion industry. And, of course, there are all my followers on Twitter who stop me from feeling lonely; I love them all. They keep me grounded.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • People
  • Work
  • Family

• There is no bore like a clever bore.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Like
  • Clever
  • Bore

• I grew up in New York and have lived here all my life. I think it's the best city in the world and can write about it with gusto and fervor and passion.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Life
  • Up
  • World

• There are many cultural prejudices. For instance, even though fresh fish is a regional staple, Catalans don't like sashimi.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Like
  • Fish
  • Fresh

• I just try to keep myself a traditionalist. I liked being an underground comic doing my thing. I want to maintain that. I just do.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Want
  • Myself
  • Doing

• Tell you the truth, the night before, I don't sleep. It's exciting to be in postseason, you fight one-hitter 62 games, you make it.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Truth
  • Night
  • Sleep

• I actually did not have a date to my prom. I ended up taking a friend.

  

  Rachelle Lefevre
  • Up
  • Friend
  • Prom

• My dad's not a big talker.

  

  Zara Phillips
  • Dad
  • Big
  • Talker

• Education, housing and hospitals are the most important things for society.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Important
  • Society
  • Education

• Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Love
  • Experience
  • Mistake

• A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Country
  • Man
  • Religion

• As time went on, we formed a number of different bands. We played in rival, neighborhood bands. We learned more songs and we learned how to play Chuck Berry music and we learned Ventures songs.

  

  Wayne Kramer
  • Time
  • Music
  • Different

• Everyone said, 'Well, you're very old for a first novel,' and I said, 'How do you write when you haven't lived? How do you write when you have no experience? How do you write straight out of university?'

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Experience
  • Said
  • Old

• I am offered work all the time but not for TV series.

  

  Gary Burghoff
  • Work
  • Series
  • TV

• Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Men
  • Game
  • Simple

• I try to keep myself on an even keel by trying to be as critical of myself as I am of other people. I try to separate my performance from myself.

  

  Damon Hill
  • Performance
  • Critical
  • Separate

• For us to think we can enjoy, understand and practice the Christian religion with just Matthew to Revelation is foolishness.

  

  Randall Terry
  • Christian
  • Practice
  • Religion

• Any Southerner is spoiled when it comes to food.

  

  Taylor Hicks
  • Food
  • Spoiled
  • Southerner

• Manufacture, don't just trade. There is money in manufacturing even though it is capital intensive. To achieve a big breakthrough, I had to start manufacturing the same product I was trading on; which is commodities.

  

  Aliko Dangote
  • Money
  • Commodities
  • Manufacture

• But there are two kinds of escape. There is the escape from something, motivated by fear; and the escape to something, motivated by longing. To confuse the second with the first is to confuse strength with weakness, courage with cowardice, love with fear. “All life,” said the wise witch of Edmonton, “is a wandering to find home,” and nothing will ever finally extinguish this conviction of the human heart.

  

  Alan McGlashan
  • Fear
  • Escape
  • Longing

• I feel it most in my work, because there aren't roles about women who are spiritually evolving. That anyone would even write something like that, something that's worth doing, would be a miracle!

  

  Olympia Dukakis
  • Work
  • Women
  • Doing

• I'd rather look good in my coffin than bad in my coffin.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Looks
  • Coffins

• A living organism ... feeds upon negative entropy ... Thus the device by which an organism maintains itself stationary at a fairly high level of orderliness (= fairly low level of entropy) really consists in continually sucking orderliness from its environment.

  

  Erwin Schrodinger
  • Environment
  • Organism
  • Entropy

• You have to admit that it's difficult to misplace the Perl sources.

  

  Larry Wall