Ladders To Fire Quotes

#1. Beauty today can have no other measure except the depth to which a work resolves contradictions. A work must cut through the contradictions and overcome them, not by covering them up, but by pursuing them.

Theodor W. Adorno

#2. Hopefully, kids realize you can do anything you want. Skateboarding can be that gateway.

Ryan Sheckler

#3. After 40 (old age for most of man's history), one should strive to be more or less packed and ready to go were the end call to come.

Alain De Botton

#4. The man who was once starved may revenge himself upon the world not by stealing just once, or by stealing only what he needs, but by taking from the world an endless toll in payment of something irreplaceable, which is the lost faith.

Anais Nin

#5. Coming near him like a ballet dancer she took a leap towards him, and he, frightened by her vehemence, and fearing that she would crash against him, instinctively became absolutely rigid, and she felt herself embracing a statue.

Anais Nin

#6. If someone breaks up, it's an opportunity to revamp yourself; this time better and stronger than before.

Vikrmn

#7. I've always liked American actors particularly. Because that was my first impression. I was very enamoured of America when I was a kid because we were surrounded by American soldiers during the war, the accent was very strange to me, it was very exotic and very captivating.

Anthony Hopkins

#8. Don't be so quick to count out the teenagers. Some of the world's greatest changes, brilliant poetry, and innovations have come from the teenage mind.

Steve Maraboli

#9. Individual ambition is undoubtedly a strong motive in student work, but there is such a thing among students everywhere as ambition for others, call it class spirit, esprit de corps, good fellowship, or good will to men.

Herbert Baxter Adams

#10. We believe that what they call "Grexit" [a Greek exit from the eurozone] is not an option for us.

Antonis Samaras

#11. You skin is so soft. Smells like ... "
She had to tilt him to get this other arm free and hated knowing how badly she was hurting him as she did so. "Sheer, unadulterated fear?

Cherry Adair

#12. I'm not coming in ... this is fun.

Edward Higgins White

#13. It's like being intoxicated with inertia, drunk but with no enjoyment in the drinking or in the drunkenness.

Fernando Pessoa

#14. Whether it's right or wrong, fight for what you believe in.

Simone Elkeles

#15. They courted the face on the screen, the face of translucence, the face of wax on which men found it possible to imprint the image of their fantasy.

Anais Nin

#16. Out of the red and silver and the long cry of alarm to the poet who survives in all human beings, as the child survives in him; to this poet she threw an unexpected ladder in the middle of the city and ordained, 'Climb!

Anais Nin

#17. A film is a living thing. The screenplay is a guideline. You really need to have a good, sound script to know that you have a dramatic structure that's going to work thematically, and to know how one scene will got through another, and to get a sense of character.

Jose Padilha