Peralta Quotes

#1. I prescribe a quick jerk off in the shower and a return to sanity. (Dr. Hugo Peralta)

Kate Richards

#2. Through getting sponsored and becoming a part of the Bones Brigade and Powell Peralta, doors were being opened. The entire culture was shifting from ramps to street, and I sort of became a poster child for that.

Mike Vallely

#3. I would dream of being a pro skater, but I never dreamt I'd be discovered by Lance Mountain and Stacey Peralta, who were two major heroes of mine, and be asked to skate for that team and be a part of their company.

Mike Vallely

#4. I grew up on the Bones Brigade as well. The very first skateboard video I saw was the Bones Brigade Video Show and I'd always valued the Bones Brigade and Powell Peralta as the ultimate in skateboarding.

Mike Vallely

#5. These women rob me of my mind. And I don't care.~Dr. Hugo Peralta

Kate Richards

#6. Jay Adams may not have been the world's best skater, but he was the man, the real deal, the original, the first. He is the archetype of our shared heritage.

Stacy Peralta

#7. It's the spirit of Dominicans coming out and the pride that we have in our music and our baseball players. Dominicans love two things: politics and baseball. When we're not talking politics, we're talking baseball.

Jose Peralta

#8. We are here to say that if you are evil enough to threaten the life of a child, if you are evil enough to interfere with their education, and if you are evil enough to place in danger the future of our communities, you ought to be punished in a very special way.

Jose Peralta

#9. I just remember all those days in the unemployment line, stressed out over when my next job was coming.

Constance Marie

#10. Good design doesn't date.

Harry Seidler

#11. Going with intuition a lot of times is very lonely. You're going on hunches - a little voice in here says, "Go this way." And your mind is saying, "You're crazy."

Stacy Peralta

#12. I never once thought I wanted to be a soldier. I wanted to be a teacher. As soon as I left college, though, they sent me my draft notice, stuck me in officers training, and I ended up on the continent for twelve years. My life went by like a dream.

Haruki Murakami

#13. What I lack in technique, I think I make up more for in intuition. I think intuition is underrated and so important in the work that one does in one's life.

Stacy Peralta

#14. I couldn't possibly have become a member of this Institute, you know, if I hadn't organized it myself.

Jonas Salk

#15. I definitely want to focus on economic development, because that is what is needed in the community, as well as education.

Jose Peralta

#16. I've been a professional athlete, I've directed films, I've run a company with 150 employees, and nothing compares to writing a screenplay. Just the second I think I know what I'm doing, the rug gets pulled out and I have no idea what I'm doing. Because there are so many problems to solve.

Stacy Peralta

#17. Certainly you don't want to make something that nobody sees. It's not really about success, it's about sharing something.

Stacy Peralta

#18. In essence, Christianity is so simple that it eludes so many. Human beings have a tendency to need to complicate everything, including matters of faith. Jesus simply wants people to come to Him in faith so He can lead them and help them.

Mike Peralta

#19. He was a part of my life, however briefly
a happy part.

Emily Hainsworth

#20. I want to bring a voice back to the community. I think we haven't received our fair share of resources.

Jose Peralta

#21. Watching young Afghan skaters in the film 'Skateistan' made me realize why I've spent my entire life as a skateboarder.

Stacy Peralta

#22. The dead are dead, and talking won't bring them back to life.

Otfried Preussler