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Reality is a staircase going neither up nor down, we don't move; today is today, always is today. — Octavio Paz
Yet, even for us, there is left some loveliness of environment, and the dullness of tutors and professors matters very little when one can loiter… — Oscar Wilde
What would things been like [in Russia] if during periods of mass arrests people had not simply sat there, paling with terror at every bang… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I don't know that there are haunted houses. I know that there are dark staircases and haunted people. — Robert Breault
Many a man may look respectable, and yet be able to hide at will behind a spiral staircase. — P.G. Wodehouse
Life is a journey up a spiral staircase; as we grow older we cover the ground covered we have covered before, only higher up; as… — William Butler Yeats
In the photographs themselves there's a definite contrast between the figures and the location - I like that kind of California backyard look; clapboard houses,… — Helmut Newton
I was afraid to board a streetcar because of the conductor; I was afraid to enter the Kabuki Theater for fear of the usherettes standing… — Osamu Dazai
I loved ghost stories, creaky staircases, stormy nights. If it guaranteed nightmares I read it by flashlight, after midnight. — Lisa Gardner
In a crime story, the details become tremendously important - where the staircase was in relation to the bed, for example. — Bill James
That was the idea behind glam clubs like Seven and The New Eve. You could eat and dance to live music. To enter you had… — Christian Lacroix
London underground took me on a tour of all the hidden places, the disused shafts and staircases... that was very interesting. — Ruth Rendell
My landlord lives in the flat at the bottom of the stairs. I rent a studio flat from him, and live at the top of… — Craig Stone
The most solitary I ever felt was when I was living in New York. I used to live in Enrico Caruso's old apartment, and I… — Robert Duvall
The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down. — Samuel Johnson
Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
I've had great pleasure meeting the likes of Newt Gingrich and having a chat with the fellow on a staircase. I found him completely dishonest… — John Lydon
Words cannot express quite a lot of feelings, whereas a noise or tone or drone or sound, an accordion falling down a staircase, can somehow… — John Lydon
My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness. — Michelangelo
My life is very exciting now. Nostalgia for what? It's like climbing a staircase. I'm on the top of the staircase, I look behind and… — Jeanne Moreau
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 was. — Jeanne Moreau
To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality. — Friedrich Nietzsche
I feel as though I stand at the foot of an infinitely high staircase, down which some exuberant spirit is flinging tennis ball after tennis… — Annie Dillard
Mr Lorry asks the witness questions: Ever been kicked? Might have been. Frequently? No. Ever kicked down stairs? Decidedly not; once received a kick at… — Charles Dickens
Well, we were always going to fail that one," said Ron gloomily as they ascended the marble staircase. He had just made Harry feel rather… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling

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