Larry Wall Quotes

It's getting harder and harder to think out loud. One of these days someone's gonna go off and kill Thomas a'Becket for me...

Larry Wall

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• Coaching is the great passion of my life, and the job to me has always been an opportunity to work with our student athletes and help them discover what they want.

  

  Pat Summitt
  • Life
  • Work
  • Great

• I love to come in and play with a wig or glasses or clothes. I love using props. I'm from the Peter Sellers school of trying to prepare for the character.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Trying
  • School
  • Love

• I make money using my brains and lose money listening to my heart. But in the long run my books balance pretty well.

  

  Kate Seredy
  • Long
  • Money
  • Heart

• I'm a little bit like a turducken: I'm sort of like an Indian person, wrapped in a British person, wrapped in an American kind of thing.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • American
  • Kind
  • British

• Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Society
  • Corruption
  • Every

• This is how I started: My mom was crazy for antique shops and junk shops, and my sister and I would play this game where, if we were driving with my parents and saw a junk shop or an antique shop, we'd scream at the top of our lungs. My poor father would have heart failure and screech to a halt, and we'd leap out and go and explore.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Heart
  • Father
  • Game

• I remember moving out to L.A. straight after college and just starting to try to write scripts and trying to get stuff off the ground.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Trying
  • Remember
  • College

• Only amazing designers think of the truly new.

  

  Patrick Demarchelier
  • Think
  • Amazing
  • New

• My main focus is to help people through music.

  

  Candice Glover
  • People
  • Music
  • Help

• I see retirement as just another of these reinventions, another chance to do new things and be a new version of myself.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Myself
  • Chance
  • Retirement

• The Army confronted racial integration when it was still unpopular in society. It has been struggling to more fully integrate women. Its troops, after all, reflect society.

  

  Dana Priest
  • Women
  • Society
  • Army

• A house is kind of scary.

  

  Laura Dekker
  • House
  • Kind
  • Scary

• After I do my first writing of the day, I will generally look at Twitter and Google News - and that's my big media secret. I look at Twitter and I look at Google because they pull all the headlines from other websites.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Writing
  • Day
  • Media

• We've been in the nation-building business since World War I, and especially since WWII. The goal is not a Jeffersonian Democracy in Afghanistan, but a representative government that respects human rights, protects its own people, and is a friend of the West. These are very realistic - and necessary - goals.

  

  Oliver North
  • People
  • World
  • Business

• My confidence comes from my fights and my training.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Confidence
  • Training
  • Fights

• We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Friends
  • Know
  • Rather

• Feminism is nothing but equality, and actually, feminism benefits men because it liberates us and it releases us from many stigmas imposed by the macho culture on us as well. So if more of us could understand that it's nothing but equality, I think many agendas in terms of equality would have advanced quicker because it really helps us as well.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Men
  • Culture
  • Equality

• 'Cake Boss' does massive, massive things, which are great.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Great
  • Boss
  • Cake

• It was, therefore, the sort of loveliness which is not perfect, but draws its charm from a measure of imbalance, which can accommodate flaws and make little of them, for a while at least.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Perfect

• Some people think you are strong when you hold on. Others think it is when you let go.

  

  Sylvia
  • Strong
  • Hold
  • Let Go

• People ask all the time, 'What would you be doing if you weren't Kid Rock?' It's simple: I'd be broke Kid Rock.

  

  Robert James Ritchi
  • People
  • Time
  • Simple

• I was involved in the color correction and the digital color correction. In an odd way, you end up making a film many times-the DVD, the archival record of a high-definition master, and so on.

  

  John Dykstra
  • Up
  • High
  • Color

• He who is not satisfied with a little, is satisfied with nothing.

  

  Epicurus

• It's getting harder and harder to think out loud. One of these days someone's gonna go off and kill Thomas a'Becket for me...

  

  Larry Wall