Quotes About Staircases

#1. My Aunt Marsha ruled the family with a rod of iron. She was one wicked, mean woman.

Karolyn Grimes

#2. In matters of climbing long staircases, how many stairs there are is not as important as how strong a will you have!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#3. London underground took me on a tour of all the hidden places, the disused shafts and staircases ... that was very interesting.

Ruth Rendell

#4. One of the previous Kings of the Enchanted Forest had been very fond of sweeping up and down staircases in a long velvet robe and his best crown, so he had added stairs wherever he thought there was room

Patricia C. Wrede

#5. Truth lies deep, and must be digged for. Since

William Gurnall

#6. There's no escalators - there's only staircases to success. There is no substitute for hard work.

Lilly Singh

#7. I loved ghost stories, creaky staircases, stormy nights. If it guaranteed nightmares I read it by flashlight, after midnight.

Lisa Gardner

#8. The way up is a staircase.
The way down is a cliff.

Tablo

#9. The mother is not dying exactly, but has reached a point in life where death is a familiar on the staircase.

Clive Barnes

#10. So many directors are solely focused on their own success in Hollywood and multimillion dollar budgets and deals.

Shirley Knight

#11. If time is a staircase, reality is a Slinky.

Louis Menand

#12. ...and one of those neat spiral stairways in the far corner-I wonder where it leads. Spiral staircases always seem to me like they must lead somewhere special.

Helen Phillips

#13. Grief is a circular staircase.

Linda Pastan

#14. Success is a staircase, not a doorway.

Dottie Walters

#15. I don't know that there are haunted houses. I know that there are dark staircases and haunted people.

Robert Breault

#16. It's for real though, let's connect, politic ... ditto!
We could trade places, get lifted in the staircases,
Word up, peace, incarcerated scarfaces.

Raekwon

#17. It's about time people told the truth about beautiful women. They do not shimmer down staircases. They do not descend, as was once supposed, from on high, attached to nothing other than wings. Clara was from somewhere. She had roots.

Zadie Smith

#18. The Bodhi Tree Grows in L.A.

Bhante Walpola Piyananda

#19. I wholeheartedly support the aspirations of the Ukrainian people for a democratic, free and just society where the rule of law prevails without corruption or government violence directed against citizens.

Marcy Kaptur

#20. Many a man can save himself if he admits he's done wrong and takes his punishment.

Henrik Ibsen

#21. Remember: once you have ascertained that you are dealing with hostile intruders, the staircase becomes a free-fire zone.

Massad Ayoob

#22. She had debated, in the frivolity of the beginning, whether to build a hole or a tower; a hole, because she was fond of hobbits, or a tower - well, a tower for many reasons, but chiefly because she liked spiral staircases.

Keri Hulme

#23. The stairway to the ministry is not a grand staircase but a back stairwell that leads down to the servants' quarters.

Edmund Clowney

#24. A tune's like a staircase - walk up on it.

Ma Rainey

#25. Real progress is progress in charity, all other advances being secondary thereto.

Aldous Huxley

#26. It is a mark of wisdom not to kick away the very step from which we have risen higher. The removal of one step from a staircase brings down the whole of it.

Mahatma Gandhi

#27. Once I tried to make a standardization of staircases. Probably that is one of the oldest of the standardizations. Of course, we design new staircase steps every day in connection with all our houses, but a standardized step depends on the height of the buildings and on all kinds of things.

Alvar Aalto

#28. Brick walls towered over her. Decrepit staircases crowded about her. Nothing had changed. The line there, the lessons there, the rape there. Shouldn't the place be crimson with blood and black with shame?

Sarah Sundin

#29. In the photographs themselves there's a definite contrast between the figures and the location - I like that kind of California backyard look; clapboard houses, staircases outdoors.

Helmut Newton

#30. But 'midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, To hear, to see, to feel, and to possess, And roam along, the world's tired denizen, With none who bless us, none whom we can bless.

Lord Byron

#31. Up close the city constitutes an oppressive series of staircases, but from a distance it inspires fantasies of wealth and power so profound that even our communists are temporarily rendered speechless.

David Sedaris

#32. And it's time people told the truth about beautiful women. They do not shimmer down staircases. They do not descend, as was once supposed, from on high, attached to nothing other than wings.

Zadie Smith