Top 72 Quotes About Elevators: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Elevators

#1. I'm gonna be so mad when my mood elevators wear off.

#2. I get bored with establishing shots of people getting out of cars and walking into buildings, getting into elevators and then 45 seconds later they have a line.

Dick Wolf

#3. I don't listen to music, actually. Obviously I go to clubs; I stand in elevators; a lot of my friends are musicians; I hear music all the time. But I don't have my own collection of music.

Natalia Kills

#4. Sometimes you get tired of riding in taxicabs the same way you get tired riding in elevators. All of a sudden, you have to walk, no matter how far or how high up.

J.D. Salinger

#5. 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

#6. Slowly she surveyed her surroundings and took in the tiny gold lights glinting in every store window and the twin glass elevators decked in red and green bows. A banner hung from the second floor balcony, declaring ONLY SEVEN MORE SHOPPING DAYS TILL XMAS!

Carolyn Keene

#7. Innovations are the magnificent elevators of a transformational life.

Debasish Mridha

#8. Why are people getting on elevators shocked to find people getting off elevators?

Brian Regan

#9. Music is one of the most efficient mood elevators we have. People in nursing homes, whether ambulatory or even bedridden, whether lucid or not, would be provided with great pleasure by your playing. Maybe they could even dream, return to the best times in their lives, when they were loved.

Nancy Thayer

#10. Chadron had a water tower, grain elevators, a tanning salon, a video rental store, a small liberal arts college, a Hardee's, a stoplight, and a curling yellow sign in the pet store window that read, 'Hamsters and Tarantulas Featured Today.'

Poe Ballantine

#11. Usually, the energy in elevators is so awkward; I mean, I can't imagine the politics in the ones in the Conde Nast building.

Marco Brambilla

#12. Elevators are brilliant. I'm going to stand here a little longer. The good thing about riding in an elevator as a grown-up is that nobody questions my being in the elevator. Nobody suspects me of just riding the elevator. I look like I'm one of the others.

Erlend Loe

#13. Rules meant order. Without them they'd be killing each other. It began with butting in, with parking in disabled spaces, with smoking in elevators. And it ended in murder.

Louise Penny

#14. you did, I think. With a few inches of my flesh. While we wait for the elevators, Johanna unzips the

Suzanne Collins

#15. I don't know what it is about me: I am no Rock Hudson, but I absolutely wow all the little old white-haired ladies. They stop me and talk to me all over the country, on the street, in restaurants, in elevators.

Tom Heinsohn

#16. The people who know basketball, their elevators don't go to the top.

Al McGuire

#17. A great city with water barriers and no bridges is like a skyscraper with no elevators. Bridges are a monument to progress.

Joseph Straus

#18. We all have heard it claimed that 13 is an 'unlucky number.' Indeed, there are many hotels in America that for this very reason claim not to have a 13th floor, in the sense that there is no button bearing the label '13' in their elevators (I recently stayed in one in New York, in fact).

Douglas Hofstadter

#19. I don't think there is just one Louis Vuitton woman. That is why, for the fall/winter 2011 show, I loved the idea of lots of different characters - a wife, a mistress, a girlfriend - stepping out of the row of hotel elevators.

Marc Jacobs

#20. We should explore new ways to drive down the cost of space travel. instead of costly booster rockets, maybe we should think of laser/microwave driven rockets, or space elevators. Until then, the cost of space exploration will limit our ability to explore the universe.

Michio Kaku

#21. Which is that there's too much weight improperly distributed: towers and elevators; steel, stone and cement. So much mass up so high that gravity itself could end up being warped

Douglas Coupland

#22. straight for the elevators, intent on my

Jana Aston

#23. I hate polite conversation. I hate it when people stand around and go, 'Hi, how are you?' I hate words that don't have any reason or meaning. Also I hate it when people smoke in elevators and closed in places. It's just so rude.

Madonna Ciccone

#24. 984; 85; 3; 63;, 1,000,000
The Eiffel Tower is nine hundred eighty-four feet high. On a clear day, you can see eighty-five miles from the top. It has three elevators. Each elevator can carry sixty-three people. It cost about one million dollars to build Eiffel Tower.

Suzy Kline

#25. I found it hard to think of leaving my books. They had been my elevators out of the midden, and to whom could I entrust such close friends? The

Maya Angelou

#26. There are no elevators to success. You havehave to take the stairs...

Stefany Rattles

#27. As a kid, I knew I wanted to be either a cartoonist or an astronaut. The latter was never much of a possibility, as I don't even like riding in elevators.

Bill Watterson

#28. I'm afraid of elevators, because they are an enclosed space, but I get in.

Amanda Lindhout

#29. Why is it that fancy hotels always locate the rooms that are supposed to be accessible to folks in wheelchairs and walkers at the end of the hall as far from the elevators as possible? And why is it those rooms are always the ones with the worst views?

Jayne Ann Krentz

#30. Channary did not like to take the elevators. She had once told Levana that she felt queenly having to lift her skirts as she went up and down the stairs. It had taken all of Levana's efforts not to ask if that was the same reason she lifted her skirts all those other times too.

Marissa Meyer

#31. Welcome to Tippington Fountains Shopping Center!" The doors opened to reveal the shopping mall before them. The store doors sparkled with shiny chrome handles, glass elevators rose smoothly between

Daisy Meadows

#32. They should install elevators in this place. What if they turned a handicapped person into a vampire? Talk about your discrimination lawsuit waiting to happen.

Mari Mancusi

#33. Do the elevators work?" I ask Uriah, as quietly as I can. "Sure they do." says Zeke, rolling his eyes, "You think I'm stupid enough not to come here early and turn on the emergency generator?" "Yeah," says Uriah. "I kinda do.

Veronica Roth

#34. The story of my life is about back entrances, side doors, secret elevators and other ways of getting in and out of places so that people won't bother me.

Greta Garbo

#35. Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.

Stephen Fry

#36. I'm a really claustrophobic person to begin with. I hate elevators, especially crammed elevators. I get really scared. So I think that it's very definitely scary when girls are all around me and I can't go anywhere. At the same time, I guess I got to get used to it, you know what I mean?

Justin Bieber

#37. A story - with a message about praising what have rather than criticizing what haven't: There are some people who knock the pyramids because they don't have elevators!!!

Jim Ferree

#38. My mom thinks I'm the heroine in every book I write ... so I'm a demon possessed, call girl, vampire killing, elfin college student who likes to have sex in elevators.
Story of my life ...

H.M. Ward

#39. He liked books if they were books of information and had pictures of grain elevators or of fat foreign children doing exercises in model schools.

C.S. Lewis

#40. I recommend people develop a fear of elevators, like I have. Even if something is on the tenth floor, I'm walking up. If you don't have claustrophobia, pretend you do and take the stairs everywhere! It ends up being so healthy!

Tamara Taylor

#41. I don't know of any source for online maps showing the platform, stairs, escalators, elevators, mezzanines and other station details.

Robert James Thomson

#42. I certainly hear the Trombones Unlimited version of 'Daydream' in a lot of elevators.

John Sebastian

#43. What is it about elevators?

E.L. James

#44. But who can resist the seductions of elevators these days, those stepping stones to Heaven, which make relentless verticality so alluring?

Colson Whitehead

#45. You're the best boyfriend ever. You let me ride in elevators and everything."
"Laugh it up, Pet. It'll be hilarious when we get stuck and the smell of unclean tourist is invading your nostrils."
"Don't worry, Sexy. I'll protect you.

C.J. Roberts

#46. However, the more stressful my situation is, the less I think about it, or anything related to it. At present , I thought about how the elevators were like mechanical horses, and I wondered if anyone loved them or named them.

Penny Reid

#47. Women should never chase elevators, buses or men, because there will always be another one!

Anonymousmale1

#48. The cigar-box which the European calls a 'lift' needs but to be compared with our elevators to be appreciated. The lift stops to reflect between floors. That is all right in a hearse, but not in elevators. The American elevator acts like a man's patent purge-it works.

Mark Twain

#49. I just played one of the bad guys in Hercules 3D, and I had cornrows. People moved away from me in elevators, that's for sure. I wore them for about three months. After a while, they get a little gnarly, and you have to redo them.

Johnathon Schaech

#50. Small towns blossomed by elevators and the trains
Once every 14 miles along the prairie veins
We were born of progress, now progress will decree
That we're no longer viable, and should no long be ...
Still Standing about Canada's Prairie Elevators (The First Song album)

Phyllis Wheaton

#51. But just as elevators have changed the shape of buildings and cars have changed the shape of cities, bits will change the shape of organizations, be they companies, nations, or social structures.

Nicholas Negroponte

#52. I'm building a dream with elevators in it.

Rick Ross

#53. The corridor was silent. It was necessary to walk very slowly, her hand on the wall. A man was curled on his side near the elevators, shivering. She wanted to speak to him, but speaking would take too much strength, so she looked at him instead - I see you, I see you - and hoped this was enough.

Emily St. John Mandel

#54. When we elevate others, we elevate ourselves. Let's all go be "elevators."
KMR

Kathleen M. Rodgers

#55. I hate elevators. I'm claustrophobic so for me to be in an elevator or small spaces is probably the worst thing on earth.

Aino Jawo

#56. We are experiencing a level-one security breach and all elevators have been temporarily shut down. Please enjoy a hot cup of tea while we wait for clearance.

Marissa Meyer

#57. That's an unusual name," I muttered. "Yeah," he agreed, dragging me down the luxuriant hall toward the elevators. "I kind of like it," I blurted, because I did. But after I blurted that I kind of wished I didn't. "I can die happy," he murmured.

Kristen Ashley

#58. There will be a meeting of the great powers who will disagree, and the next noise we hear will be the screeching of elevators going up and down from heaven to hell.

Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

#59. When an elevator brings u upstairs, you better send it back down in order to bring others up!

Dikembe Mutombo

#60. I took the stairs and felt like my childhood took the elevator.

Drew Barrymore

#61. It might not be rational, but I am terrified of getting stuck in an elevator with a bear.

Dana Gould

#62. Climb aboard life's elevator, hit the "up" button, and see where it takes you.

Amy Dickinson

#63. When you take the elevator to the top, please remember to send it back down so someone else might use it.

Dikembe Mutombo

#64. You have to assume everything is going to end up online, even if you're alone in a hotel elevator.

Megan Fox

#65. I know [canned music] makes chickens lay more eggs and factory workers produce more. But how much more can they get out of you on an elevator?

Victor Borge

#66. When you reach the top, you should remember to send the elevator back down for the others.

Edith Piaf

#67. 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