Top 100 Elevator Quotes
#1. I was 24 yesterday. Suddenly you wake up, and you get on the elevator, and there's a mirror there. And you look in the mirror, and you're an old man.
Charles Nelson Reilly
#2. Ever wanted to make out in an elevator?" I asked, grinning.
Robyn Schneider
#3. The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs ... one step at a time.
Joe Girard
#4. It was like being in an elevator cut loose at the top. Falling, falling, and not knowing when you will hit.
Margaret Atwood
#5. This time, he fumbled for Collin's hand in the elevator. He still felt like a thief, there was no denying it, but sometimes thieves stole things because they needed them to live.
Amy Lane
#6. The more people we have on our team. the less room there is in the elevator and the more complicated everything gets.
David Karp
#7. You." "Likewise." They shake hands, head back to the elevator. Groff
Michael Cunningham
#8. Professor Khupe felt his chest swell with pride. It was doing so without his encouragement. If an electrical fault had stopped the elevator from rising, his inflating ego would have powered the remainder of their journey to the twenty-second floor.
Taona Dumisani Chiveneko
#9. Now, finally has the elevator arrived. The stairs was about to become a personal inferno.
Anders Zorn
#10. Are you ready?" Klaus asked finally.
"No," Sunny answered.
"Me neither," Violet said, "but if we wait until we're ready we'll be waiting for the rest of our lives, Let's go.
Lemony Snicket
#11. People call me and ask me for advice all the time. On an elevator they tell me their problems. I think it's in part because I'm Italian so I'm emotionally available and I have a friendly persona.
Joyce DeWitt
#12. I really liked the helicopter pilot in 'Dawn of the Dead', when he gets bitten and comes out of the elevator. That guy was amazing. He did this incredible walk that we didn't even know about until we started shooting.
George A. Romero
#13. I went through all my electric bills, the water bills, the phone bills, elevator contracts, and I found enough wasteful spending without reducing any programs anywhere, without reducing any services, I found enough wasteful spending to pay my entire salary for three years.
Thomas Massie
#14. The elevator jolted and came to a halt. Caught off balance, Hannah stumbled into him. Lincoln caught her, and her cheeks filled with color. "Hmm." Mr. Welch rubbed his beard. "Looks like she's warming up to you already, Mr. Cole.
Lorna Seilstad
#15. Livvy and me together in an elevator for four hours..and we're good. To some eyes the fact that we're both alive could be viewed as a minor miracle.
Michael D. Beil
#16. When you wash your hands, when you make a cup of coffee, when you're waiting for the elevator - instead of indulging in thinking, these are all opportunities for being there as a still, alert presence.
Eckhart Tolle
#17. No matter how successful you get, always send the elevator back down.
Jack Lemmon
#18. Hold the door for a lady. Wait until a lady is out of the elevator.
Waris Ahluwalia
#19. The reason I quit being a sales manager over twenty years now is because I hate elevator pitches. I want to write stories and show people what's in them when they read them, not tell them all about it ahead of time.
Kurt Busiek
#20. Budget grows out of the story. If you're writing a story with people caught in an elevator for most of the film, you're pretty sure it won't be a $200 million movie.
J. Michael Straczynski
#21. We drive in silence until I need an answer, "What did he say to you at the elevator?" I look straight ahead when I ask.
"He thanked me for being there for you, even as a boy, when he could not protect you himself. He told me that I had his permission to love you.
Tara Brown
#22. It was the pink elephant in the room, the thunderous fart in the elevator.
David Wong
#24. Complete strangers can stand silent next to each other in an elevator and not even look each other in the eye. But at a concert, those same strangers could find themselves dancing and singing together like best friends. That's the power of music.
LZ Granderson
#25. I'm not doing much, said Jared, warm in her mind, the amusement lingering. Just stuck in an elevator with this creepy Asian girl giving me a death glare.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#26. I don't think his elevator went all the way to the top anymore, if you know what I mean
Janet Evanovich
#27. I came from dinner, went downtown with my friends, the elevator was down, I ran down the hall toward my room at 10 at night, having had two glasses of wine.
Jill Clayburgh
#28. If you've been fortunate enough to live out your dream in the profession of your choice, then you have an obligation to send the elevator back down.
Jack Lemmon
#29. This feeling is not unlike the sinking in one's stomach when one is in an elevator that suddenly goes down, or when you are snug in your bed and your closet door suddenly creaks open to reveal the person who has been hiding there.
Lemony Snicket
#30. As we ride the elevator Gale finally says "You're still angry."
"And you're still not sorry," I reply.
"I will stand by what I said. Do you want me to lie about it?" he asks.
"No, I want you to rethink it and come up with the right opinion," I tell him.
Suzanne Collins
#31. I will say that walking down the street, getting on the subway, taking the elevator, if there's one or two people and they say, 'Great job, Mayor,' that is a real turn-on. I mean, anybody that wouldn't find that satisfying, rewarding, exciting, thrilling - I think they should see the doctor.
Michael Bloomberg
#32. When you open the elevator on the top floor of a building and the other guy doesn't get out, something is seriously wrong.
Mitch Hedberg
#33. He had an invisible sword. Really?
He walked through the lobby, got into a full elevator, and no one stared. He passed a cleaning lady in the hallway outside his room, and all she said was,"Hello there."
He had an invisible sword. Really.
Nils Johnson-Shelton
#34. The music is just like Detroit, a complete mistake. It's like George Clinton and Kraftwerk are stuck in an elevator with only a sequencer to keep them company.
Derrick May
#35. They [Percy and Annabeth] held the Doors shut as the elevator shuddered and the music played, while somewhere below them, a Titan and a giant sacrificed their lives for their escape.
Rick Riordan
#36. The elevator to success is broken. Take the stairs.
Jenifer Lewis
#37. I'd rather be alone with the bills, she thought as she pushed the elevator button. At least you know where you stand.
Katherine Pancol
#38. A real Rembrandt hung in a millionaire's home elevator would undoubtedly make for kitsch.
Matei Calinescu
#39. I heard two tan, tall people get out of the elevator, having a passionate argument.
Stikki Minaj
#40. If you die in an elevator make sure you press the UP button.
50 Cent
#41. The campus is an oasis, settled in an otherwise nondescript town in rural America. A place where the grain elevator and the railroad grew together.
Fritz Nordengren
#42. Now, I had been frightened on several different occasions in my life. The most frightening of these involved an elevator and a mime.
Brandon Sanderson
#43. (At the back of the cave, Phoebe placed her hand against one of the stones where a spring release opened an elevator door. Chris gave an over exaggerated gape.)
Holy Hand Grenade, Batman, it's a bat cave. (Chris)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#44. Ray Rice might have won something the other day because of Judge Barbara Jones. But if nothing changes in the CBA, everybody will continue to lose. Janay Rice may say she doesn't remember what happened inside that elevator. The rest of us shouldn't forget, as the hits for everybody just keep coming.
Anonymous
#45. Linus entered the elevator while the grownups talked and looked at the buttons. Buttons covered all the walls, and even the door. He pressed one, and with the luck that comes to children in fancy hotels, it was the fire alarm.
Ella Minster
#46. We've made elevator music of Jesus Christ. We've made Him the most boring, bland, blah person; and He was the most revolutionary man.
John Eldredge
#47. Guillermo taps his foot impatiently. Oscar winks at me, sending my stomach on an elevator ride. "To be continued," he says.
Jandy Nelson
#48. We were on our way to the twentieth floor, sharing the elevator with two suits that had men inside them.
Steve Toltz
#49. People waiting for an elevator don't know what to do, standing with strangers. There is nothing to do. Its an uneasy time. Some press the button repeatedly as though it would help.
Andy Rooney
#50. I was amused to note that even vampires obeyed the unwritten rules of elevator etiquette.
Jim C. Hines
#51. The space elevator will be built about 50 years after everyone stops laughing.
Arthur C. Clarke
#52. You weren't kidding, Chloe. That is one beautiful bastard. I wouldn't kick him out of my bed. Or car. Or dressing room. Or elevator, or-
Christina Lauren
#53. Ow! Dammit!"
"Watch your language. This is a holy place."
"Hah!" I grumbled. "If it's so holy, why don't they have a holy elevator? Or a holy librarian who can go fetch the blasted book for us?
Cecily White
#54. When I go to my health club, and it's in the basement, you have to take the elevator down. And this drives me crazy. Why can't there be a stairway? At least make it as easy to exercise as it is to not exercise. It's in society's interest for me to take the stairs.
Malcolm Gladwell
#55. How long could a single night really be expected to last? How far could you stretch such a small collection of minutes? He was just a boy on a roof. She was just a girl in an elevator.
Jennifer E. Smith
#56. When you see people in middle management dickering with their Fitbits in the elevator, you know the Quantified Self movement is here to stay. The
Christian Rudder
#57. The four-day elevator ride might be nothing more than a prelude to further journeys, some of which might take her to places with little to no bandwidth, and nothing was worse than getting stuck in a situation like that with nothing to read.
Neal Stephenson
#58. I ran three miles, staggered into the lobby, and took the elevator back to my apartment. No point to overdoing this exercise junk.
Stephanie Plum
Janet Evanovich
#59. That's the first question you ask when trapped in an elevator with a hungry carnivore?
I'm hungry too and could do with some eggs and bacon. But you don't have to worry about me attacking you. I expect the same courtesy.
Ella Frank
#60. I didn't feel the tusk go through me. But I did feel this sort of freight elevator coming down, popping the chicken bones, you know. It blinded me. Everything was black. It was bright noon day sun. You mustn't get walked on by elephants.
Peter Beard
#61. Read about things that wouldn't keep you up all night long, weeping and tearing out your hair.
Lemony Snicket
#62. Life is like an elevator. Up and down, just make sure you get off on the right floor.
Keith Douglas
#63. I've taken clowns into the war in Bosnia, the refugee camps of Kosovo, and none of those are any more important than clowning in a subway or an elevator or just walking down the street.
Patch Adams
#64. The elevator dinged again, letting them off on their floor. As they exited, Chase still pressed against Jamie's front, they heard the man on the elevator mumble, Damn kids. Smells like sex in here.
Jasinda Wilder
#65. Everyone I talked to was a recording-the bank, the elevator, your office, the school, a wrong number. You used to be able to call a wrong number and get a person.
Erma Bombeck
#66. And then the blasted elevator jolts to a dead stop. My stomach plummets as childhood memories of being trapped in a closed
Magda Alexander
#67. It was like falling down an elevator shaft and landing in a pool full of mermaids.
Hunter S. Thompson
#68. And as the elevator descents, passing the second floor, and the first floor, going even father down, I realize that the money doesn't matter. That all that does is that I want to see the worst
Bret Easton Ellis
#69. Why climb the corporate ladder when you can build an elevator in your own building?
Joshua E. Leyenhorst
#70. For me, speaking to anyone - on a stage, in an elevator - I am looking for impact and connection. The same goes for writing.
Henry Rollins
#71. His stomach, a packed elevator, began a slow descent toward his feet.
Jojo Moyes
#72. My mother, who graduated from high school at sixteen, had no hope of affording college, so she went to work in the local post office for a dollar a day. She was doing better than her father, who earned ten cents an hour working at a nearby grain elevator.
Tom Brokaw
#73. I rode an elevator with a guy who was whistling the tune of 'this is the song that never ends'. Putting that on me? Come on dude..
Taylor Swift
#74. I've been to the top and I've been to the bottom more times than most people ride in an elevator.
Corey Feldman
#75. We all have neighbors. Greet them on the sidewalk or in the elevator, but try not to peer through their windows. Windows are to look out from, not into.
Alexandra Stoddard
#76. One of the most common questions writers are asked is "Where do you get your ideas?" But the sad truth is, we don't know. Ideas can come at any time and from any direction: in the shower, waiting for an elevator, or while bouncing across Wikipedia pages.
Scott Westerfeld
#77. An elevator pitch for an entertainment product should also consist of four components: 1. Your product name and category 2. The main character's ambition 3. The conflict he or she encounters 4. The real significance of the story Here's
Michael Hyatt
#78. He is fat and pink. On the United Elevator Co. advertisements, they airbrush away the pocks in his cheeks, the red slivers in his nose. In person he is too flesh, a handful of raw meat. Dogs have been known to follow him, optimistic.
Colson Whitehead
#80. For lunches he rode the elevator to the fourth-floor food court and ate Thai Town or Subway at a table tucked among potted tropicals, gazing past milling teenagers to the little penny-choked fountain where a copper salmon spat water into a chlorinated pool.
Anthony Doerr
#82. Is the elevator out of order?" Violet asked. "I'm very good with mechanical devices, and I'd be happy to take a look at it."
"That's a very kind and unusual offer," the doorman said.
Lemony Snicket
#83. That fucking better not be you in the goddamn elevator, Adam. Maintenance just called and said some asshole stopped the elevator and guess what? They started out on my floor. Are you fucking the client in the goddamn elevator five minutes after I told you not to fuck the fucking client?
Lexi Blake
#84. Because of the power shortage and lack of replacement parts there was only one elevator running in the Empire State Building, and this one went only as high as the twenty-fifth floor. After that you walked.
Harry Harrison
#85. See you later. Phil held the elevator door for Candace and
James Patterson
#86. I have crazy claustrophobic dreams, weird elevator dreams where the elevator closes in and all of a sudden I am lying down - oh my God, it's a casket. Just freaky stuff like that.
Dave Grohl
#87. The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self-service populace, and all our specious comforts -the automatic elevator, the escalator, the cafeteria -are depriving us of volition and moral and physical energy.
Edward Dahlberg
#88. Life is like an elevator. On your way up, sometimes you have to stop and let some people off.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#89. Hope was an elevator right now, broken from its cables.
Kristin Hannah
#90. If you can't recite your elevator pitch at the drop of a hat, stay home.
Aliza Licht
#91. The elevator doors opened to reveal a very large man brandishing a bloodstained antique phone receiver in a plastic bag and proclaiming, "I found this up him!"
"You know," said Tallow, "I really have no response to that.
Warren Ellis
#92. We took the elevator back down from the first observation level of the Eiffel Tower and started walking in he direction of the Taj Mahal
D.J. MacHale
#93. Chester Stone said nothing. Just stood up and threaded his way by all the furniture and over to the door. Through the reception area and into the corridor and into the elevator. Down eighty-eight floors and back outside, where the bright morning sun hit him in the face like a blow.
Lee Child
#94. If I have to move up in a building, I choose the elevator over the escalator. Because one time I was riding the escalator and I tripped. I fell down the stairs for an hour and a half.
Demetri Martin
#95. They were thirty feet away - much too far to reach the elevator - but Leo pulled out a screwdriver and chucked it like a throwing knife. An impossible shot. The screwdriver spun straight past Clytius and slammed into the UP button.
Rick Riordan
#96. Standing facing the door in an elevator and pretending you're the only person there, no matter how crowded it is.
Paulo Coelho
#97. You didn't see him watching you dance with your dad. His eyes got all shiny. I thought he was going to cry. And on the way up here, in the elevator, he tried to play it off, but I could totally tell he was nervous.
Sylvia Day
#99. They don't even look like they're together. At all. Just two strangers who shared an elevator. That poor man. That poor girl.
Stylo Fantome
#100. The last three books are much more a case of a moment of history, what happened almost by accident or coincidence, like being in the same elevator or lifeboat.
Michael Ondaatje
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