What is a staircase, but a corridor improved by elevation? — Catherine Gilbert Murdock Copy Share Image
The mother is not dying exactly, but has reached a point in life where death is a familiar on the staircase. — Clive Barnes Copy Share Image
The stairway to the ministry is not a grand staircase but a back stairwell that leads down to the servants’ quarters. — Edmund Clowney Copy Share Image
Reality is a staircase going neither up nor down, we don't move; today is today, always is today. — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
I don't know that there are haunted houses. I know that there are dark staircases and haunted people. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Many a man may look respectable, and yet be able to hide at will behind a spiral staircase. — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
That was the idea behind glam clubs like Seven and The New Eve. You could eat and dance to live music. To… — Christian Lacroix Copy Share Image
I feel as though I stand at the foot of an infinitely high staircase, down which some exuberant spirit is flinging tennis… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I hate it when I go out and I see parents going, 'don't do that', or 'stop doing that' when some kid's… — Joe Strummer Copy Share Image
Up close the city constitutes an oppressive series of staircases, but from a distance it inspires fantasies of wealth and power so… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
Adversity is a call to action, and your freedom lies in taking the first step. Don't worry about the entire staircase, just… — Kris Carr Copy Share Image
Mr Lorry asks the witness questions: Ever been kicked? Might have been. Frequently? No. Ever kicked down stairs? Decidedly not; once received… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“...and one of those neat spiral stairways in the far corner-I wonder where it leads. Spiral staircases always seem to me like… — Helen Phillips Copy Share Image
Different types of dangerous lives-You have no idea what you are living through; you rush through life as if you were drunk… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Well, we were always going to fail that one,” said Ron gloomily as they ascended the marble staircase. He had just made… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Life is a journey up a spiral staircase; as we grow older we cover the ground covered we have covered before, only… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
I also have a brand-new prescription for gunfire jitters: When the shooting gets loud, proceed to the nearest wooden staircase. Run up… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
Once I tried to make a standardization of staircases. Probably that is one of the oldest of the standardizations. Of course, we… — Alvar Aalto Copy Share Image
Many years have passed since that night. The wall of the staircase up which I had watched the light of his candle… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra. The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Slowly he took out the clothes in which, ten years beforem Cosette had left Montfermeil; first the little dress, then the black… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Goresthorpe Grange is a feudal mansion - or so it was termed in the advertisement which originally brought it under my notice.… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
I recently went to my staircase at Clare College, Cambridge and there were women there! There have been a lot of convincing… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
To have that concentration to act well is like lugging things up staircases in your brain. I think that’s a thing people… — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
Yet, even for us, there is left some loveliness of environment, and the dullness of tutors and professors matters very little when… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Then, of course, through the umbilical link we all tumble backwards down the spiralling DNA staircase to one common ancestor in Africa,… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
Often, what seems an impossible climb is just a staircase without the steps drawn in. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
There is no logical staircase running from the physics of 10-28 cm. to the physics of 1028 light-years. — Norwood Russell Hanson Copy Share Image
