Larry Wall Quotes

Not that I have anything much against redundancy. But I said that already.

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• I've always been fascinated by horror films and genre films. And horror films harbored a fascination for me and always have been something I've wanted to watch and wanted to make.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Me
  • Always
  • Horror

• As his talent expands, some of his stories become pointed social commentary; some are surprisingly effective religious tracts, disguised as science fiction. Others still are nostalgic vignettes, but under it all is still Bradbury, the poet of 20th-century neurosis.

  

  Damon Knight
  • Science
  • Religious
  • Talent

• It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • People
  • Want
  • Easy

• If the lyrics are something new, then maybe I want to give it a more traditional form, or the other way around, but not have all one or the other.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Want
  • Way
  • New

• I always have really fresh, hormone-free, additive-free chicken, healthy veggies, and brown rice in the fridge to grab because I'm always on the go.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Free
  • Always
  • Healthy

• Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Men
  • Ideas
  • Material

• There are so many projects on my Dream List. I have so many things in the works, just like little ideas or collections of things or things I write or even just a title of something.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Dream
  • Like
  • Ideas

• A lot of shorts spend too much time setting up the idea; sometimes they meander.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Up
  • Time
  • Sometimes

• The long-term study of GMO foods is going on in real time and in real life. Not in a lab.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Life
  • Time
  • Long

• I had the idea that I should beat up every player I tangled with and nothing ever convinced me it wasn't a good idea.

  

  Ted Lindsay
  • Up
  • Good
  • Me

• Turn money into time – especially important for people with kids.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • People
  • Time
  • Important

• Either Man will abolish war, or war will abolish Man.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • War

• I view my own body as a petting zoo. I am the main attraction... And the only customer.

  

  Craig Ferguson

• If I think about what life is, I believe life is a miracle. And if I think about what a miracle is, I don’t believe in it.

  

  Antonio Porchia
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Miracle

• I just want to keep playing music and keep recording. I feel like my best days are ahead.

  

  Rickie Lee Skaggs
  • Music

• Measures of self-government and a school council, especially for such young children, were a great innovation.

  

  Dora Russell
  • Great
  • Children
  • School

• I think I always knew I wasn't gonna have a regular job.

  

  Chance The Rapper
  • Job

• When an audience is laughing with a character, they make themselves so vulnerable, and they open up. They expose their heart the moment they're laughing, because they're relaxed and they're disarmed.

  

  Phoebe Waller-Bridge
  • Up
  • Heart
  • Character

• A story, in which native humour reigns, Is often useful, always entertains; A graver fact, enlisted on your side, May furnish illustration, well applied; But sedentary weavers of long tales Give me the fidgets, and my patience fails.

  

  William Cowper
  • Long
  • Giving
  • Failing

• If I am 100% prepared for the fight, my opponent has no chance to win the fight. I am saying what I mean: He has a 0% chance to win the fight. There is going to be no luck involved; there is going to be nothing else to stop me from winning the fight.

  

  Wladimir Klitschko
  • Winning
  • Chance
  • Fight

• Horror used to be one thing, and I think that's starting to broaden - there can have subgenres, and other things can be going on in a horror story. In comics, you'll never get the 'Boo' effect in a comic; you can go for mood, atmosphere and personal tragedy to build the horror elements and sense of dread.

  

  Cullen Bunn
  • Mood

• I figured out something spiritual. Billboard this: 'Life is supposed to be fun!'

  

  Jenny McCarthy
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Spiritual

• Not that I have anything much against redundancy. But I said that already.

  

  Larry Wall