20th century Quote by Robert James Thomson

Over the decades, you got various companies involved in making escalators and you've got Metro varying between internal repair crews and contractors. They're dealing…

— Robert James Thomson

Escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience.

— Mitch Hedberg

An escalator can never break: it can only become stairs.

— Mitch Hedberg

“The escalator doesn’t work, and you’d think they’d still be used as stairs, but in this economic depression, even the stairs are unemployed.”

— Jarod Kintz

“When you want to ascend by an escalator that is going down, you will need to make more effort and work hard to achieve…

— Antonio J. González-Fernández

Early in my life, every time I had to climb the ladder of success because my father never taught me to use the escalator.

— Vikrant Parsai

That's the original problem from which the escalator mess stems. There's just too many of them.

— Robert James Thomson

Climb the ladder to success escalator style

— The Notorious B.I.G

I don't know of any source for online maps showing the platform, stairs, escalators, elevators, mezzanines and other station details.

— Robert James Thomson

“Escalators are the offspring of elevators and stairs. Love is the progeny of passion and admiration.”

— Jarod Kintz

I always walk up the escalator on the Tube, and I live in a house with a lot of stairs, and that's good exercise,…

— Ian Mckellen

An escalator can never break: it can only become stairs. You should never see an Escalator Temporarily Out Of Order sign, just Escalator Temporarily…

— Mitch Hedberg