Larry Wall Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
If God has given you the world's goods in abundance, it is to help you gain those of Heaven and to be a good example of sound teaching to your sons, servants, and relatives.
-
A lot of productivity is capturing ideas. I use a wiki - it's more valuable than e-mail for running a company - and I have a page for every person with whom I interact frequently.
-
Mum is the girliest of them all, but she ended up with me, the tomboy.
-
Today it is becoming increasingly apparent to thoughtful Americans that we cannot fight the forces and ideas of imperialism abroad and maintain any form of imperialism at home. The war has done this to our thinking.
-
Seriously, I wanted to be an artist because I saw that it meant endless possibilities. I came from a badly managed family background, so art was a way of reinventing myself.
-
I moved to Dallas in 1975 and stayed there until 1980. That's when I decided it was time to move to L.A.
-
Sometimes, it's better to stop thinking and trust your instincts. That's what I used to do when I first started making music, but as time goes on, you can sometimes over-intellectualise things.
-
What I find sad is that the New Age movement is primarily a commercial undertaking. But it is answering to a human need.
-
I never understood the idea that I was a 'backpack rapper.' I think that's a lazy way that people started thinking. They like saying that because I got dreads. I look like I belong a certain place, so it's easy to put everything in a box.
-
I can forgive the body breaking down. It's a little tougher to forgive that mental lapse.
-
Obama reminds me of the black kid at a white school that don't nobody want to play with.
-
There's always pressure, from other people and yourself. If you're happy with the looks you're born with, then what are you going to do your whole life? We keep thinking up new things and finding better ways of doing things because we're not happy with what we're given.
-
The people that are fans of animation are really the people that are keeping the art form of animation alive. If you like cartoons, support the cartoons.
-
The easiest way I can describe what makes a pop song a pop song is that it's a song you want to hear over and over.
-
I see a lot of movies. I love films as a spectator, and that's never obscured by the part of me that does the work myself. I just love going to the movies.
-
Television is generally on the conservative side, so if you're seeing it represented on TV, that probably means it's really out there in the real world.
-
Getting sober was one of the three pivotal events in my life, along with becoming an actor and having a child. Of the three, finding my sobriety was the hardest thing.
-
It hasn't been easy to find American citizens who are willing to pick fruit in 110 degree weather.
-
Some fine men are in Congress, too few, trying to do a responsible job. But they are surrounded and almost neutralized by a greater number whose instinct is to make a deal before they make a decision.
-
For Ryan's Daughter I used a total of eight harps, something that was, at least, weird.
-
How’s Her Royal Bitchiness?” “Alive.” “Pity.
-
Gentleness and kindness will make our homes a paradise upon earth.
-
One of the most unattractive human traits, and so easy to fall into, is resentment at the sudden shared popularity of a previously private pleasure. Which of us hasn't been annoyed when a band, writer, artist or television series that had been a minority interest of ours has suddenly achieved mainstream popularity? When it was at a cult level we moaned at the philistinism of a world that didn't appreciate it, and now that they do appreciate it we're all resentful and dog-in-the-manger about it.
-
Personally, I like to defiantly split my infinitives.
