Larry Wall Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I've got a couple of bands that I'm working on. The one I'm really excited about, we're called London The Child. It's folky music and it's really cool.
-
Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows.
-
I am very proud of the role I played in getting legal equality for people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender, and in helping get rid of the prejudice by being visible about it, helping to block the conviction of Bill Clinton of impeachment.
-
In my experience, great reviews almost always ensure no sales.
-
No doubt that the U.S. is a super-power capable of conquering a relatively small country, but is it able to control it?
-
It's very little trouble for me to accommodate my fans, unless I'm actually taking a pee at the time.
-
We should work to de-link health insurance from employment so if you lose your job, your health insurance goes with you and it is personal, portable and affordable.
-
'Singin' in the Rain' was the one for me. Yeah. I mean, Gene Kelly could just sway and never fall. He'd just sway and sway as he danced.
-
Jessica Jackley has a gift for making people want to fork over their cash. To total strangers. Far, far away.
-
Singing is about telling a story. When you are onstage, you get to be your own self... When acting, you're someone else.
-
Chemotherapy isn't easy. I felt very fortunate I wouldn't have to go through that.
-
A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn't care to drink with, even if he drank.
-
I don't know whether it's audiences or filmmakers who want characters to be likable today, but I don't think actors are afraid of their characters being unlikable.
-
People in their forties, fifties, and onward enjoy the whole world of books in a different way than the Internet-age kids do.
-
You must aim high, not in what you are going to do at some future date, but in what you are going to make yourself do to-day. Otherwise, working is just a waste of time.
-
The officials want China to be seen as a cultured, creative nation, but in this anti-liberal political society everything outside the direct control of the state is seen as a potential threat.
-
I can hit it farther on the moon. But actually, my swing is better here on Earth.
-
The only standard journalists respect is: Will this story promote the left-wing agenda?
-
At this stage of my life, I've dedicated myself to playing what I want to play, how I want to play it for the rest of my time. Regardless of whether one might like it or one might not like it, this is where I am.
-
I think he'll do a very good job.
-
I briefly considered doing Edgar Allan Poe and just swearing a lot.
-
I thank those people that thought I had lost the agility to play shortstop, because they gave me more motivation.
-
One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.
-
Portability should be the default.
