Larry Wall Quotes

Well, that's more-or-less what I was saying, though obviously addition is a little more cosmic than the bitwise operators.

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• We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.

  

  Zoltan Kodaly
  • Music
  • Book
  • Silence

• I bite my nails. I've been chewing on them for years. As long as you don't chew through flesh it's all right.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Long
  • You
  • Years

• Modesty means admitting the possibility of error, subsuming the self for the good of the whole, remaining open to surprise and the gifts that only failure can bring. There are many ways to practice it. Try taking up golf. Or making your own bagels. Or raising a teenager.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Up
  • Good
  • Practice

• College dropouts with significant debt struggle with repayment over the course of their lives and do not receive the benefits afforded to their peers who have debt but obtain higher-paying jobs as a result of college completion.

  

  Hank Johnson
  • College
  • Struggle
  • Debt

• My mum's really short so she always wears really tall heels, and I used to steal them and now it's just a part of my everyday life.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Life
  • She
  • Everyday

• As I went to college, I went into radio and television. Now I suppose most people think that's one step ahead of basket weaving as a major in college, but it was part of the journalism department.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • People
  • College
  • Step

• The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Power
  • Truth
  • Free

• I never read reviews - I never have. I've never read message boards, either. I'm just not interested in it in any way - I'm not interested in it inflating my ego, and I'm not interested in it improving my self-worth. So, I don't read them.

  

  Kate Levering
  • Never
  • Ego
  • Self-Worth

• When we overthrew Mubarak, we did this in 18 days. And because we were very naive and very unexperienced in revolutions, we thought that that was it. It is very difficult to imagine that you can actually get rid of a dictatorship that has been there for 60 years only in 18 days. So we were very naive.

  

  Bassem Youssef
  • You
  • Thought
  • Years

• My love, growing up on the Prairies, was country music.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Music
  • Country
  • Growing

• Whoever is for higher taxes, feel free to pay higher taxes.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Free
  • Feel
  • Taxes

• An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment the world hands out and the punishment he inflicts upon himself.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Up
  • World
  • Hands

• We want to let our play be the judges.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Want
  • Play
  • Judges

• I always enjoy impersonating my characters in the first-person singular.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Always
  • Enjoy
  • First-Person

• I've gone from the most trusted man in America to one of the most debated.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • America
  • Man
  • Gone

• Who is a terrorist? Is it not the person who has been persecuting human beings simply because they are black?

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Black
  • Person
  • Human

• I have Tom Ford, Gucci, Saint Laurent, McQueen, and odd pieces that I've just acquired because I happened to have come across them and felt they have some historical resonance.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Just
  • Odd
  • Gucci

• I must say that I always thought I had a voice, even when I was 4 years old.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Thought
  • Voice
  • Old

• Accidents happen, whether they're car accidents, friendly fire, drug overdoses. Accidents happen, and they're tragic. It's like a bomb that goes off and pieces of shrapnel rip into the flesh of the family. It's the families that need the compassion, because everywhere they walk, every day, someone reminds them of their loss.

  

  James Belushi
  • Family
  • Car
  • Fire

• There are actors who spend 20 years working and still don't achieve what I've achieved so quickly. So I think my only course of action is to work as hard as I can, not just for the sake of the film, but also to prove to these people that I do have talent.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
  • People
  • Work
  • Action

• America is the greatest country on Earth. But because of some of the mistakes that have been made, we, I think, are going to have a lot of work to do in the next administration to restore that sense that America is that shining beacon on a hill.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Work
  • Country
  • America

• Elected presidents are for countries.

  

  William Hague
  • Country
  • President

• This morning came on to me, silver wings silhouetted against the child's sunrise.

  

  Jimi Hendrix The Jimi Hendrix Experience
  • Silver wings
  • Child`s sunrise

• Well, that's more-or-less what I was saying, though obviously addition is a little more cosmic than the bitwise operators.

  

  Larry Wall