Escalator Quotes

33 quotes by 30 authors

There is no escalator to [hockey] success only steps. — Glen Sather
Escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience. — Mitch Hedberg
To call it an anticlimax would be an insult not only to climaxes but to prefixes. It's a crummy secret, about one step up the… — Roger Ebert
The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self-service populace, and all our specious comforts… — Edward Dahlberg
The problem with revenge is that it never gets what it wants; it never evens the score. Fairness never comes. The chain reaction set off… — Lewis B. Smedes
The escalator seems to me to typify this: It leads us up, by climbing on our behalf. Yes, it doesn't even climb, it flies. Each… — Joseph Roth
Most Americans are on a downward escalator. Median wage in the United States, adjusted for inflation, keeps on dropping. — Robert Reich
In life, redemption was walking up the down escalator: stop to congratulate yourself, and back you slid. — Amy Waldman
The voice is always in my head. In fact I aspire to be more like Mario. What could be better than rescuing and falling in… — Charles Martinet
I used to have the Virgin music [stores], and I would go there and just go up the escalator and say to myself, 'I'm soaking… — Kanye West
The problem with revenge is that it never evens the score. It ties both the injured and the injurer to an escalator of pain. Both… — Lewis B. Smedes
Now, wages in the automobile industry are made up of two components, what we call base rates and the cost of living factor which is… — Leonard Woodcock
My wife will buy anything marked down. Last year she bought an escalator. — Henny Youngman
An escalator can never break: it can only become stairs. You should never see an Escalator Temporarily Out Of Order sign, just Escalator Temporarily Stairs.… — Mitch Hedberg
If I have to move up in a building, I choose the elevator over the escalator. Because one time I was riding the escalator and… — Demetri Martin
Once Michigan stood proud. In addition to GM, Ford and Chrysler, it was home base for the United Auto Workers, a powerful escalator transporting hundreds… — Kevin O'Leary
I met this wonderful girl at Macy's. She was buying clothes and I was putting Slinkies on the escalator. — Steven Wright
There were no mail-order catalogues in 1492. Marco Polo's journal was the wish book of Renaissance Europe. Then, Columbus sailed the ocean blue and landed… — Tom Robbins
She became confused when she stepped onto an escalator that wasn't working. — Don DeLillo
Time passes, as the novelist says. The single most useful trick of fiction for our repair and refreshment: the defeat of time. A century of… — Richard Powers

Who Wrote These Escalator Quotes

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