Top 22 Spiral Staircase Quotes
#1. Philosophy must indeed recognize the possibility that the people rise to it, but must not lower itself to the people.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
#2. The five hundred feet up the square-spiral staircase
Tom Clancy
#3. Ford shared this vision. We are inviting more players to join in.
Steve Ballmer
#4. Many a man may look respectable, and yet be able to hide at will behind a spiral staircase.
P.G. Wodehouse
#5. I smile at her. "You're an angel."
"Nah," she says.
"I'm just a girl crazy in love.
Pittacus Lore
#6. She marched toward the door, and as she did so she raised her wand. From the tip burst three silver cats with spectacle markings around their eyes. The Patronuses ran sleekly ahead, filling the spiral staircase with silvery light, as Professor McGonagall, Harry, and Luna hurried back down.
J.K. Rowling
#7. The stairway to heaven is not a sweeping spiral vanishing to infinity but a tiny step that leads to the next step.
Chloe Thurlow
#8. William Carlos Williams, late in his long life, had a dream: He saw an enormous spiral staircase in empty space, and his father slowly descending toward him. When he reached the bottom, his father walked over, looked him in the eye and said: "You know those poems you're writing? They're no good."
Eliot Weinberger
#9. They laughed. It took some effort so they had to stop walking to do it. Then they plodded toward the spiral staircase. It took them five minutes to walk the last two hundred feet. "Thank God," Roger said. "Stairs. Was worried I couldn't go uphill anymore.
Peter Clines
#10. My grandsire,' Jamie observed evenly, 'has by all reports got a character that would enable him to hide conveniently behind a spiral staircase.
Diana Gabaldon
#11. History, as you may know, is much like a spiral staircase that gives the illusion of going up, but never quite goes anywhere.
Robert Jackson Bennett
#12. Life may be nothing but a series of detours.
Marty Rubin
#13. All these last months he had begun to talk about Sarima and the family as if they were ghosts, hiding just around the curve of the spiral staircase in the tower, suppressing giggles at this long, long game of hide-and-seek.
Gregory Maguire
#14. If I were a Writer now, I would wish to thicken the water of my Discourse so that it was no longer easy or familiar. I would chuse a huge lushious Style!
Peter Ackroyd
#16. He is crooked enough to hide behind a spiral staircase.
Anne McCaffrey
#17. I remember in '37 when trolley cars were so big in New York. It was five cents for a ride ... There used to be open-air buses, and you could go up a spiral staircase and sit up on top. Those were great, great days.
Tiny Tim
#18. Wisdom is a love affair with questions. Knowledge is a love affair with answers.
Julio Olalla
#19. Maximum difficulty isn't the same as optimal difficulty.
Alfie Kohn
#20. The whole concept of some stranger making his way down our chimney - not that we had one - suggested burglary more readily than generosity. Any Santa who tried it would have gotten a bullet in his holly, jolly keister.
Thomm Quackenbush
#21. You can go from doing something quite silly to something dead serious in the blink of an eye, and if you're making those connections with your audience then they're going to go right along with it.
Bruce Springsteen
#22. The impulse to share the lives of the poor, the desire to make social service, irrespective of propaganda, express the spirit of Christ, is as old as Christianity itself.
Jane Addams