Staircase Quotes

Grief is a circular staircase.

— Linda Pastan

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

— Ma Rainey

“Sarcasm is the new staircase to stardom.”

— Ahmed Mostafa

Books are a staircase to unknown worlds.

— Jason Ellis

Success is a staircase, not a doorway.

— Dottie Walters

“I’m an old creaky staircase when I wake up. Someone”

— Tahereh Mafi

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

— Catherine Gilbert Murdock

“He is crooked enough to hide behind a spiral staircase.”

— Anne McCaffrey & Margaret Ball

“through the entryway with the stone staircase. She stopped”

— Laura Howard

...To which mystical land does an unfinished staircase lead?

— Pam Munoz Ryan

Though the elevator only goes to the top floor, there is always a staircase to the roof.

— Shubham Joshi

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

— Robert Breault

Faith is taking the first step even when you dont see the whole staircase.

— Anonymous

“You need mountains, long staircases don't make good hikers.”

— Amit Kalantri

Faith is taking the first step even when you cant see the whole staircase...

— VVN

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

— P. G. Wodehouse

It is a mark of wisdom not to kick away the very step from which we have risen higher. The removal of…

— Mahatma Gandhi

They say faith is taking the first step when you cant see the whole staircase. Actually, wisdom is seeing the elevator behind…

— Shannon L. Alder

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

— Bill James

“The staircase to Heaven is inside your heart; you enter through the door of your soul. Our whole life is but an…

— Elizabeth E. Botchis

Love is like a staircase, it has its ups and downs, some twists and turn, but in the end, it puts us…

— Anonymous

“And the stairs. Oh, the stairs. The staircase in our third-floor walk-up was the steepest, hardest, metal-est staircase I have ever encountered…

— Mindy Kaling

“Gregori moved immediately to the spiral staircase. He could feel her, knew unerringly the exact spot where she waited. He didn't need…

— Christine Feehan

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…

— Jeanne Moreau

“He crosses the front room, which he calls his study, and comes down the staircase. The stairs turn a corner; they are…

— Christopher Isherwood

“he nodded and pointed up a staircase just inside the door. The stairs were dark and dusty, no hint reaching them of…

— Michaela Thompson

“May I ask what you have in your black leather bag with gold buckles?" "Everything." They were climbing a narrow staircase. Rhoda…

— Maurice Sendak

“From the outset my main concern was with the shape and the self-contained nature of discrete things, the curve of banisters on…

— W.G. Sebald

“John A. Templer of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, author of the definitive (and, it must be said, almost only) scholarly text…

— Bill Bryson

“We wind our way up the spiral staircase and then down the long hallway that leads to his room. I feel almost…

— Paula Stokes

From the top of the staircase she sees the London train, modern and elegant, and she tells herself again: Whether it's good…

— Milan Kundera

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

— Alvar Aalto

“Are you really going to carry me up those stairs?" "Yeah." Gennie cast a look at the winding staircase and tightened her…

— Nora Roberts

“That was me on the staircase to Chicago-Over-Chicago. Yes, I was standing on nothing but congealed starlight. Yes, I was walking up…

— Jim Butcher

“The remaining chain swung down, he wrenched the door out and he was free. The last thing he heard behind him was…

— Cornell Woolrich

“There was a time when I experienced architecture without thinking about it. Sometimes I can almost feel a particular door handle in…

— Peter Zumthor

“Suddenly a force greater than my common sense—which, I’ll admit, has been pretty faulty lately, propels me—and I find myself creeping up…

— Stephanie Wardrop

“I am in good company, simply following those in front of me and knowing others are following behind. We are on our…

— Sven Lindqvist

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

— Tablo

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

— Francis Bacon