Banister Quotes

#1. You, Mackenzie Bishop," he says as we hit the landing, "have been a very bad girl."
"How so?"
He rounds the banister at the base of the staircase. "You involved me in a lie! Don't think I didn't catch it.

Victoria Schwab

#2. He took two steps at a time, but slowly, holding onto the banister, putting his whole body into it, as if the act of climbing a flight of stairs was for him, as it is for many children, a moderately pleasurable end in itself.

J.D. Salinger

#3. He seems an unlikely companion for a woman like Edie Banister, but the world, Daniel once observed, is a great honeycombed thing composed of separated mysteries.

Nick Harkaway

#4. I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
(Letter to John Banister, Jr., June 19, 1787)

Thomas Jefferson

#5. At the first turning of the second stair
I turned and saw below
The same shape twisted on the banister
Under the vapour in the fetid air
Struggling with the devil of the stairs who wears
The deceitful face of hope and of despair

T. S. Eliot

#6. The trouble with shooting people, Edie Banister now remembers, is that it's so hard to do just one.

Nick Harkaway

#7. Edie Banister, wearing a false moustache which tastes of tiger flank and erotic dancer, sitting six storeys up on the windowsill of the aged mother of a renownedly murderous prince, takes a few seconds to contemplate the unusual direction of her life.

Nick Harkaway

#8. Inej cast a meaningful glance at his cane. "Have a long trip down," she said, then leapt onto the banister, sliding from one flight to the next, slick as butter in a pan.

Leigh Bardugo

#9. The staircase was a mass of rotting wood, carved with such cruel-looking mermaids that Mr. Jelliby was afraid to put his hand on the banister.

Stefan Bachmann

#10. She shrieked. "Nora! What happened to the banister!"
Good thing she hadn't seen her bedroom yet.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#11. You've picked up a rummy habit," James Banister said cordially as they approached one another. "Sort of a crouch. You look a bit ... well, I'm sorry, but you look a bit Victor Hugo, if you catch my drift. Would you like to adjourn to a cathedral or something?

Nick Harkaway

#12. I remember when I was 5 living on Pulaski Street in Brooklyn, the hallway of our building had a brass banister and a great sound, a great echo system. I used to sing in the hallway.

Barbra Streisand

#13. I am told, on excellent authority, that her father keeps an American dry-goods store," said Sir Thomas Burdon,

Oscar Wilde

#14. Someone said it better than that; be true unto yourself. Self, right? No-one else. If everyone was true unto his or her self there might even be a chance of something better for us all.

Bryan Islip

#15. In order for an act to be a crime, libertarians say, someone must be harmed - there must be a victim. Anything that's peaceful, voluntary, and honest should be tolerated regardless of whether we agree with it. Part of the price of our own freedom is allowing others to be free.

Scott Banister

#16. Tears Are For The Living

Margaret Banister

#17. Look at the 18th century. There was a lot more freedom going on.

Steve Coogan

#18. What most people know but don't realize they know is that the world is almost entirely solar-powered already. If the sun wasn't there, we'd be a frozen ice ball at three degrees Kelvin, and the sun powers the entire system of precipitation. The whole ecosystem is solar-powered.

Elon Musk

#19. Sometimes you can only feel something by its absence. By the empty spaces it leaves behind.

Gayle Forman

#20. The soul raised over passion beholds identity and eternal causation, perceives the self-existence of Truth and Right, and calms itself with knowing that all things go well.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#21. I've played outrageous characters my whole career.

Tracy Morgan

#22. If entrepreneurs were running schools, instead of bureaucrats, schools would be teaching a lot more of the skills and mindsets found in this book. Since they're not, this book is a necessary antidote to a traditional college education.

Scott Banister

#23. Talking Sea horses would be ridiculous

Steve Merrick

#24. Whoever lives in the spirit lives in perennial peace. It is a happy peace, a smiling peace, but one is not lost in it. One is aware also of the suffering which exists around him or her and the world at large.

Paul Brunton