Larry Wall Quotes

I wasn't recommending that we make the links for them, only provide them with the tools to do so if they want to take the gamble (or the gambol).

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• A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Great
  • Different
  • Society

• It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.

  

  Barry Mann
  • Song
  • Creative
  • Begin

• To make money, I did portraits . The truth is so bizarre! I'm kind of embarrassed. I was like a 19th-century pirate painter. I'd say, 'Your mom would love a painting of you!' A salesman! I'd hawk paintings.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • Money
  • Truth
  • Mom

• The work environment on 'Battlestar Galactica' is unbelievable, and it's something that doesn't come along very often.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Work
  • Environment
  • Something

• I would say my career is in a very good place. I'm in a place of a lot of hope for what's next. I see something great, but I'm not quite there.

  

  Fortune Feimster
  • Good
  • Great
  • Hope

• Digital India is the only way for citizen empowerment, which can bring government transparency and accountability to citizens.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Government
  • Accountability

• I DJ'd for years. I DJ'd in high school, and I think my parents thought it was a passing thing. And then when I was in my second year of college, I was like, 'Yeah, you guys don't need to send me money anymore. My DJ gigs are good enough. I'm selling music; I think I'm gonna have a record deal. I can pay my tuition.'

  

  Kaskade
  • Good
  • Music
  • School

• Good material is good material.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Good
  • Material

• Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

  

  Jack Benny
  • Mind
  • Age
  • Matter

• A certain administration which I won't call by name took the arts out of the schools, and that left the brothers out on the street with nothing, so they went to the turntables and started rhyming. Then they had a way to express themselves, and that's the birth of hip-hop.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • Name
  • Hip Hop
  • Street

• You never know what's going to happen in your life, and you never know what's going to happen in someone else's life either.

  

  Tea Obreht
  • Life
  • You
  • Know

• I am waiting impatiently for the day when beleaguered, like-minded academics can order James Wolcott's collected essays for their classes.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Classes
  • Academics
  • Collected

• I think beauty comes from within. If you're happy and look at life in the best way you can, even when there are problems, it can make you beautiful on the outside.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Beautiful

• Why was I born with such contemporaries?

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Why
  • Born
  • Contemporaries

• 'The Lego Movie?' I've never heard of it.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Movie
  • Never
  • Heard

• For some reason, many designers are in fashion, but they don't love women. I love women, and I follow my clients on Instagram.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Women
  • Fashion
  • Reason

• I don't think a judge should be too much involved in outside activities.

  

  Harold H. Greene
  • Think
  • Judge
  • Too Much

• Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.

  

  Kate O'Brien
  • Think
  • Opinion
  • Enough

• When we see animals doing remarkable things, how do we know if we're simply seeing tricks or signs of real intelligence? Are talented animals just obeying commands, or do they have some kind of deeper understanding? One of the biggest challenges for animal researchers is to come up with tests that can distinguish between the two.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Up
  • Real
  • Understanding

• My parents were very supportive of my chess. When I got home after a game of chess, having missed school or something, they always made me feel very welcome; I didn't feel guilty at all about pursuing chess with such fervour. They never, for instance, perceived sports as a rival to academics.

  

  Viswanathan Anand
  • School
  • Home
  • Sports

• Of thousands of others, nearer the centre of the explosion, there was no trace. They vanished. The theory in Hiroshima is that the atomic heat was so great that they burned instantly to ashes - except that there were no ashes.

  

  Wilfred Burchett
  • Burned
  • Ashes
  • Explosion

• Of friends, however humble, scorn not one.

  

  William Wordsworth
  • Friends
  • Humble
  • Scorn

• No doubt the truth is hard to come by for those who do not like the sound of it - dreams and illusions are so much more pleasant.

  

  Anatoli Granovsky
  • Truth
  • Dreams
  • Pleasant

• I wasn't recommending that we make the links for them, only provide them with the tools to do so if they want to take the gamble (or the gambol).

  

  Larry Wall