#ladder

If US per capita income continues to grow at a rate of 1.5 percent a year, the country will have plenty of money to finance comfortable retirements and high-quality healthcare for all citizens, including those at the bottom of the wage ladder. ↗

— William Greider

#capita #citizens #comfortable #continues #country

The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder. ↗

— Alfred Hitchcock

#bladder #directly #endurance #film #human

It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own. ↗

— Herbert Hoover

#climbed #dictator #each #every #except

I've never been one to look up the ladder. I've always looked down the ladder. As long as there's one guy down there, I'm fine. ↗

— Ron White

#been #down #fine #guy #i

You might think about putting some heavy-duty hooks into the ceiling joists and beams so that you can have a rope ladder, or a small swing inside your house. ↗

— Paula Yates

#beams #ceiling #hooks #house #inside

If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void. ↗

— Levi Strauss

#been #composer #delicious #experience #falling

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. ↗

— Anaïs Nin

#ladders-to-fire #this-hunger #woman #men

In this business, you're either Brad Pitt right away, or you're already going down the ladder. ↗

— Skeet Ulrich

#away #brad #brad pitt #business #down

You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure. ↗

— Zig Ziglar

#climb #costume #dressed #failure #ladder

I think when I was on the corporate ladder, it was very difficult to maintain the hours. It's a little easier when you have you're an entrepreneur. ↗

— Tory Burch

#difficult #easier #entrepreneur #hours #i