Larry Wall Quotes

I don't like your I-can-use-anything-as-an-adjective attitude.

Larry Wall

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• The question we all face is what sort of culture we will live in for the rest of our lives and then hand on to the next generation - one that embraces these most basic of values, or one that collapses because of their absence.

  

  Tammy Bruce
  • Live
  • Culture
  • Question

• Loser lit antiheroes aren't well intentioned or earnest; they don't care whether you like them or not. They're self-mocking, ironic and inventive; they narrate their downfalls with manic wordplay, rampant metaphors, wisecracks, and escalating flights of spleen-fueled lyricism.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • You
  • Care
  • Ironic

• Countries that intervene militarily rarely do so out of pure altruism.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Countries
  • Pure
  • Altruism

• When I first came out with my fans and the wind hit me, I almost took off.

  

  Sally Rand
  • Me
  • Wind
  • Fans

• I always enjoyed movies and in hindsight I realise how captivating they were to me.

  

  Adam Brody
  • Me
  • Movies
  • Hindsight

• A career in showbiz is like a distance run. You have to have patience and pace yourself.

  

  Tate Donovan
  • Career
  • You
  • Yourself

• You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • You
  • Football
  • Games

• To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Up
  • Things
  • Tennis

• Iggy Pop is God, if God looked half that good with his shirt off.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Good
  • God
  • Half

• Oh, there's going to be debate because you're dealing with the Bible and religion is supposed to be separate from state and that to me is already a conflict before it even hits the gay issue.

  

  Pam Grier
  • Me
  • Religion
  • Gay

• I don't sit under the tattoo gun unless I'm sold on it completely and it will define me as a person.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Me
  • Person
  • Gun

• I was born in India - but never really lived there.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • Never
  • Born
  • India

• It's easy: if you want to grow the economy, encourage job creation, and increase federal revenue, you support making bonus depreciation permanent. Permanency gives job creators the certainty they need to plan and invest in their businesses, including hiring employees.

  

  Pat Tiberi
  • Job
  • Support
  • Plan

• When I finished touring 'Fur and Gold,' I was just like, 'What am I doing? What do I have? Where is my home?' I didn't really know where it was, so I went to New York to try and make it there.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Home
  • Gold
  • New

• Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.

  

  Walt Alston
  • Baseball
  • Repeat
  • Axiom

• People don't think an athlete nowadays can have a team-first mentality and I do.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • People
  • Think
  • Team

• Probably the only way Woody Allen and I are similar is that he has a lot to say about Nietzsche.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Way
  • Say
  • Only

• I think the last thing you want to do as a writer, as a storyteller, is to create indifference. I don't necessarily go out of my way to provoke, but I would much rather have a song that triggers a whole myriad of reactions than a song that inspires a shrug of the shoulder.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Think
  • Want
  • Song

• I'm more conservative with make-up. My everyday look is a bit of concealer with lots and lots of mascara.

  

  Chloe Sevigny
  • Up
  • Everyday

• Whereas students minds used to be the chief concern of colleges and universities, it is now more their bank accounts (more accurately, that of their parents and of the taxpayers). If students happen to learn anything useful while enrolled, that's good, but if not, as long as they've paid their bills, that's not the university's problem.

  

  George Leef
  • College
  • Problem
  • Students

• I've never signed any contract and never received a cent from Iraq.

  

  Vladimir Zhirinovsky
  • Iraq
  • Contracts
  • Cents

• The attitude of, 'I will never self-publish,' coming from any author, indicates that they have never been in a position where it is their only option.

  

  Jennifer Armintrout
  • Attitude
  • Author
  • Option

• Your attitude is like the aroma of your heart. If your attitude stinks, it means your heart’s not right.

  

  Alex Kendrick
  • Heart
  • Attitude
  • Aroma

• I don't like your I-can-use-anything-as-an-adjective attitude.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Attitude