Every day, a little sadder, a little madder. Will someone get me a ladder?
I have a really nice step ladder, sadly, I never knew my real ladder.
We pride ourselves as being top, really, on the African ladder. . . We feel that we have actually been advancing rather than going backwards.
I'm not trying to climb a ladder - I'm casting a bit of a net.
They climbed the ladder of learning only to find it leaning against the wrong wall.
Having worked my way from the bottom of the ladder to the top [of the UN] certainly helped me navigate that complexity, both political and bureaucratic.
The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.
Be sure that, as you scramble up the ladder of success, it is leaning against the right building.
Music sets up ladders, it makes us invisible, it sets us apart, it lets us escape; but from the visible there is no escape.
In Caribbean there is no middle class: you're either rich or you're poor. And the ladder to success is not really a ladder, it's a chain; once you reach a certain level, you can't go back and you can only keep going forward.
The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought.
If we tread our vices under our feet, we make of them a ladder by which to rise to higher things.
There's a man going 'round taking names And he decides who to free and who to blame Everybody won't be treated all the same There'll be a golden ladder reaching down When the Man comes around.
What is happening today is that there are millions of children who are not lifted up to the first rung of the ladder. Then they are condemned when they don't know how to climb from there.
Life's full of tricky snakes and ladders.
I never climbed any ladder: I have achieved eminence by sheer gravitation.
In this business, you're either Brad Pitt right away, or you're already going down the ladder.
Truth is a matter of direct apprehension-you can't climb a ladder of mental concepts to it.
I'm very superstitious. . . I never shout at magpies, walk under ladders or put my shoes on the table.
The freedom that comes with globalization is freedom for the rich and powerful nations to further exploit and further marginalize those at the bottom of the social ladder.