Elevator Ride Quotes

#1. 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

#2. The purpose of an elevator pitch is to describe a situation or solution so compelling that the person you're with wants to hear more even after the elevator ride is over.

Seth Godin

#3. I stare at her blankly. We don't have elevators in Portland. This is my first elevator ride. How do they work exactly?

Fanny Merkin

#4. My climb to political success was no elevator ride, and it has not always been pretty, but I persevered as one of a handful of women in the male-dominated world of politics.

Dalia Grybauskaite

#5. Remember, I am not trying to orbit the earth. It is a simple elevator ride for 20 minutes.

Brian Walker

#6. Guillermo taps his foot impatiently. Oscar winks at me, sending my stomach on an elevator ride. "To be continued," he says.

Jandy Nelson

#7. Almost all of us have an elevator or two in our lives somewhere. We wait for them, we ride on them. We're annoyed by the wait but pleased with the lift.

Andy Rooney

#8. New York gets god awful cold in the winter but there's a feeling of wacky comradeship somewhere in the streets.

Jack Kerouac

#9. The walls of this elevator are made of crystal so that you can watch the people on the ground floor shrink to ants as you shoot up into the air. It's exhilarating and I'm tempted to ask Effie Trinket if we can ride it again, but somehow that seems childish.

Suzanne Collins

#10. It's about bloody time, woman.

Colleen Houck

#11. I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#12. We end up on the same elevator with her, and she spends the whole ride to the seventh floor chatting to Peeta about his paintings while the light of his still-glowing costume reflects off her bare breasts.

Suzanne Collins

#13. Unbelievable. I'm in a fucking Outside Context situation, the ship thought, and suddenly felt as stupid and dumb-struck as any muddy savage confronted with explosives or electricity.

Iain M. Banks

#14. Jake buried his face in my neck and kissed a burning trail up it and along my jaw. "Should I ride the elevator of our building up and down all night, hoping you'll show?" he asked, his voice husky. "Or should we just plan to meet?

Cindi Madsen

#15. I have to get off this elevator.
I can't ride with him,
Can't look at him,
Can't be this close to him.
Can't,
Can't,
can't.

Elana Johnson

#16. I've been to the top and I've been to the bottom more times than most people ride in an elevator.

Corey Feldman

#17. I've always admired President Chavez for standing up to imperialism and the meddling of the American government in South America.

Cindy Sheehan

#18. Are we Darwinists - where we live and let live? Or are we nurturing as a society? There has to be a standard of living that we decide to support.

Mario Batali

#19. The lush green of the fields became a rich gold that swayed sturdily under the wind and fell at last before the hands of the reapers.

Martha Ostenso

#20. 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

#21. I'd always thought that if I could get sober and stay sober, I would be able to have a career making music. My drug and alcohol addiction was the one thing holding me back. I had finally gotten the tools to stay sober, and it was just a matter of writing the songs.

Macklemore

#22. If I don't go to the gym and work out, I look like a bag of bones. I go three times a week usually and it's nearly all weights work to help with definition.

Jonas Armstrong

#23. When you're reading a novel, I think the reason you care about how any given plot turns out is that you take it as a data point in the big story of how the world works. Does such-and-such a kind of guy get the girl in the end? Does adultery ever bring happiness? How do winners become winners?

Elif Batuman