Antiheroes Skateboard Quotes & Sayings

Often the object of a desire, when desire is transformed into hope, becomes more real than reality itself. — Umberto Eco

Someone's an easy grader."
"Someone just has a soft spot where you are concerned." He was leaning down towards me and even though his face was a good foot away from me, I swear I felt those words like he'd whispered them into my ear. — Cora Carmack

Even though the medical and dental tests of the day before had been horrific, Will thought the first day of real treatment was far worse due to the duration; the torture lasted the entire day. During the afternoon session, they had to insert a rubber mouthpiece because he'd bitten his lip several times, and continually ground his teeth together. He struggled so hard that his head bolts had bled, the blood trickling down his face in streams. — Shane Stadler

But my doubt would not be overcome. Kierkegaard had declared that it was only to the consciousness of sin that Christianity was not horror or madness. For me it was sometimes both. — Georg Brandes

My father owned a music store when I was growing up in Rock Falls, Illinois. He could play all the instruments, which you had to do when you owned a music store back then. One day, when I was three years old, he took me to a parade. When the drums passed by, I got so excited I told him wanted to learn to play them. — Louie Bellson

The great man presides over all his states of consciousness with obstinate rigor. — Leonardo Da Vinci

Some people are paralyzed by the consciousness of death, other people live with it ... The fatwa certainly made me think about it a lot more than I ever had. I guess I know I'm going to die, but then, so are you. — Salman Rushdie

I definitely am concerned with preservation. For me, what's interesting is the archival state, or how long oil paintings last. — Lucien Smith

The Magistrate suffered from the disability of a free-thinking turn of mind and from a life that was barren and dreary to match. — J.G. Farrell

My aspirations never lay with boxing, but that's the way I was pushed. I was still a choirboy when I started boxing because I remember I went to choir practice every Wednesday night. I missed some Wednesday nights if I was boxing and then when I missed it I'd have to tell the choirmaster why. I had a battle between the choir and boxing. When my voice inevitably broke, boxing won. — Stephen Richards

I'm planning on finishing the Gospels at some point. — Chester Brown