Larry Wall Quotes

I was about to say, 'Avoid fame like the plague,' but you know, they can cure the plague with penicillin these days.

Larry Wall

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• I breeze through Twitter - I look at the mentions, the pictures, the videos.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Look
  • Pictures
  • Twitter

• I'd started acting as a child. But I wanted to see if it was something my true personality was interested in. I stepped away from offers when I took five years off to go to college. I've only really just decided to whole-heartedly embrace acting.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • True
  • College
  • Child

• I lived on nothing for years - squatted where I lived and where I worked, stole electricity, made things from stuff I found in skips, used paper that had been discarded - you do everything you can do to keep going and not have to get a job.

  

  Gary Hume
  • Job
  • Electricity
  • Keep Going

• A lot of artists don't like the sound of their voice. They're put off by it.

  

  Narada Michael Walden
  • Like
  • Voice
  • Sound

• That's what's interesting about the Lower East Side: It's New York, but it's also edgy. It's not as stuffy as Tribeca or Soho.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Interesting
  • New
  • New York

• No more turkey, but I'd like some more of the bread it ate.

  

  Hank Ketcham
  • Like
  • Bread
  • Turkey

• People who don't fit the mold are treated differently than those who do.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • People
  • Fit
  • Mold

• I love musicals; I love the ballet, opera, the circus. It's all performance to me.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Performance
  • Ballet
  • Opera

• If you are going to do something truly innovative, you have to be someone who does not value social approval. You can't need social approval to go forward. Otherwise, how would you ever do the thing that you are doing?

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Value
  • Doing
  • Need

• The only thing that will be remembered about my enemies after they're dead is the nasty things I've said about them.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Things
  • Said
  • Will

• After having supplied myself with provisions from Mr. Travis's, I scratched a hole under a pile of fence rails in a field, where I concealed myself for six weeks, never leaving my hiding place but for a few minutes in the dead of night to get water, which was very near.

  

  Nat Turner
  • Night
  • Water
  • Myself

• Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion! What feminism does not need, it seems to me, is an endless recycling of Doris Day Fifties clichés about noble womanhood.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Compassion

• We love the kindly wind and hail,The jolly thunderbolt,We watch in glee the fairy trailOf ampere, watt, and volt.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Wind

• 'You’re sure you want to look into these cognates? You might see things you wouldn’t like.''So long as I know the truth, I don’t care whether I like it or not.'

  

  Jack Vance
  • Long
  • Truth

• Another busy day! So let’s to business. The clock moves forward; wasted time is life defeated!

  

  Jack Vance
  • Life
  • Time
  • Business

• That beats any meat injection … that beats any fuckin cock in the world … Ali gasps, completely serious. It unnerves us tae the extent that ah feel ma ain genitals through ma troosers tae see if they're still thair.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • World
  • Serious

• The only disadvantage I see is that it would force everyone to get Perl. Horrors.

  

  Larry Wall

• This is an excellent program. Nobody has said it has done a bad job. It is small. There are only about 50,000 visas a year. ... As I ride my bike around New York City on the weekends, I see what immigrants do for America. This program has dramatically helped.

  

  Chuck Schumer
  • Done
  • Job
  • America

• My food hero has to be Auguste Escoffier. And the villain? The man who's been most responsible for the death of food in my time is Ronald McDonald. He's always scared me, I think he's evil - he's a wolf in sheep's clothing. Him and the Hamburglar.

  

  Arthur Potts Dawson
  • Time
  • Death
  • Food

• My mother gave me a push. If I hadn't had her, maybe I wouldn't have had the push. If I hadn't gone to military school, maybe I wouldn't have decided to get with the program. Maybe I'd be running a bulldozer, rather than going on and doing something more.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • School
  • Mother
  • Me

• All sins, except a sin against itself, Love should forgive. All lives, save loveless lives, true Love should pardon.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Love
  • True
  • For Her

• One cannot, at once, claim to be superhuman and then plead mortal error. I propose to take our countrymen's claims of American exceptionalism seriously, which is to say I propose subjecting our country to an exceptional moral standard.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Country
  • American
  • Moral

• I'm trying to broaden my range and get different characters in each film.

  

  Jodi Lyn O'Keefe
  • Different
  • Trying

• I was about to say, 'Avoid fame like the plague,' but you know, they can cure the plague with penicillin these days.

  

  Larry Wall