Storeys Quotes

#1. The curtains were blood-red and drawn. This was not an office. It was a small library, two storeys high, with thin ladders and impractical balconies and an expansive ceiling featuring a gaggle of naked Greeks. It was the sort of library you'd marry a man for.

Catherine Lowell

#2. London is a huge shop, with a hotel on the upper storeys.

George Gissing

#3. Edie Banister, wearing a false moustache which tastes of tiger flank and erotic dancer, sitting six storeys up on the windowsill of the aged mother of a renownedly murderous prince, takes a few seconds to contemplate the unusual direction of her life.

Nick Harkaway

#4. The tree which fills the arms grew from the tiniest sprout; the tower of nine storeys rose from a (small) heap of earth; the journey of a thousand li commenced with a single step.

Lao-Tzu

#5. The trouble about jumping was that if you didn't pick the right number of storeys, you might still be alive when you hit bottom.

Sylvia Plath

#6. Downtown Detroit has more vacant buildings over 10 storeys than any city in the world.

Meg White

#7. We come to a lamp beside the pathway, and suddenly we stop walking, and we start to dance, and we glitter in the shafts of light, like stars, like flies, like flakes of dust.

David Almond

#8. She went looking for beauty but never looked inside herself.

Mohamed Ghazi

#9. I fell in love. Why can't I fall out of it?" He got a look on his face, which I knew meant he was making a mental note of that line too.

Marshall Thornton

#10. All white people are born with a singular mission in life in order to pass from regular whitehood into ultra-whitehood. Just as Muslims have to visit Mecca, all white people must eventually renovate a house before they can be complete.

Christian Lander

#11. Surely it is counterproductive to expect sense from someone you are beating senseless.

Megan Whalen Turner