Best Staircases Quotes
66 Staircases quotes by 60 unique authors
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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
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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
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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
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I don't know that there are haunted houses. I know that there are dark staircases and haunted people.
— Robert Breault
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Many a man may look respectable, and yet be able to hide at will behind a spiral staircase.
— P.G. Wodehouse
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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
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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
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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
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I loved ghost stories, creaky staircases, stormy nights. If it guaranteed nightmares I read it by flashlight, after midnight.
— Lisa Gardner
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In a crime story, the details become tremendously important - where the staircase was in relation to the bed, for example.
— Bill James
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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
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London underground took me on a tour of all the hidden places, the disused shafts and staircases... that was very interesting.
— Ruth Rendell
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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
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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
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The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.
— Samuel Johnson
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Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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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
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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
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My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness.
— Michelangelo
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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