Books are a staircase to unknown worlds.

Recent results from astronomers who study the occasional gravitational lensing of unknown worlds by intervening stars suggest that orphan planets could be at least…

— Seth Shostak

Once I tried to make a standardization of staircases. Probably that is one of the oldest of the standardizations. Of course, we design new…

— Alvar Aalto

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

— Tablo

I would always fall down the big main staircase in our house. My favorite thing in the world was to pretend to be horribly…

— David Hyde Pierce

Life is a journey up a spiral staircase; as we grow older we cover the ground covered we have covered before, only higher up;…

— William Butler Yeats

It's like climbing a staircase. I'm on the top of the staircase, I look behind me and I see the steps. That's where I…

— Jeanne Moreau

We rise to great heights by a winding staircase of small steps.

— Francis Bacon

Grief is a circular staircase.

— Linda Pastan

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

— Clive Barnes

Many a man may look respectable, and yet be able to hide at will behind a spiral staircase.

— P. G. Wodehouse

What is a staircase, but a corridor improved by elevation?

— Catherine Gilbert Murdock

I've seen a lot in my life, and everybody goes down the dark, winding staircase eventually. It's a bad place to be and that's…

— Daniel Craig

Often, what seems an impossible climb is just a staircase without the steps drawn in.

— Robert Breault

In a crime story, the details become tremendously important - where the staircase was in relation to the bed, for example.

— Bill James

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

— Ma Rainey