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  • Me and my roommate wrote and directed a little short comedy called 'The Elevator.' -- Heather Morris
  • Me and my roommate wrote and directed a little short comedy called 'The Elevator. -- Heather Morris
  • Rhythm and sex go together and that's where I come from as far as the music goes. Rag Doll and Love In An Elevator are such sexual songs that you put them on & the strippers go NUTS! -- Joe Perry
  • Never take an elevator in city hall. -- Harvey Milk
  • The inventory goes down the elevator every night. -- Fairfax Cone
  • If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the Up button. -- Sam Levenson
  • Hold the door for a lady. Wait until a lady is out of the elevator. -- Waris Ahluwalia
  • Now, finally has the elevator arrived. The stairs was about to become a personal inferno. -- Anders Zorn
  • If you're lucky enough to do well, it's your responsibility to send the elevator back down. -- Kevin Spacey
  • I cannot switch my voice. My voice is not like an elevator going up and down. -- Maria Callas
  • Remember, I am not trying to orbit the earth. It is a simple elevator ride for 20 minutes. -- Brian Walker
  • After seeing 'Big,' I wanted an elevator that opened directly into my apartment, just like Tom Hanks did. -- Macaulay Culkin
  • Americans have different ways of saying things. They say 'elevator', we say 'lift'... they say 'President', we say 'stupid psychopathic git. -- Alexei Sayle
  • We've made elevator music of Jesus Christ. We've made Him the most boring, bland, blah person; and He was the most revolutionary man. -- John Eldredge
  • I feel it's a responsibility for anyone who breaks through a certain ceiling... to send the elevator back down and give others a helpful lift. -- Kevin Spacey
  • A broken heart is what makes life so wonderful five years later, when you see the guy in an elevator and he is fat and smoking a cigar and saying long-time-no-see. -- Phyllis Battelle
  • I have crazy claustrophobic dreams, weird elevator dreams where the elevator closes in and all of a sudden I am lying down - oh my God, it's a casket. Just freaky stuff like that. -- Dave Grohl
  • When you wash your hands, when you make a cup of coffee, when you're waiting for the elevator - instead of indulging in thinking, these are all opportunities for being there as a still, alert presence. -- Eckhart Tolle
  • 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 I tripped. I fell down the stairs for an hour and a half. -- Demetri Martin
  • I really liked the helicopter pilot in 'Dawn of the Dead', when he gets bitten and comes out of the elevator. That guy was amazing. He did this incredible walk that we didn't even know about until we started shooting. -- George A. Romero
  • If you travel to the States... they have a lot of different words than like what we use. For instance: they say 'elevator', we say 'lift'; they say 'drapes', we say 'curtains'; they say 'president', we say 'seriously deranged git.' -- Alexei Sayle
  • I didn't feel the tusk go through me. But I did feel this sort of freight elevator coming down, popping the chicken bones, you know. It blinded me. Everything was black. It was bright noon day sun. You mustn't get walked on by elephants. -- Peter Beard
  • A factory that can turn carbon nanotubes into a sheet a yard wide and long enough to stretch one-fourth of the way to the moon is not something you'll find at your local industrial park. That's the show-stopper for the space elevator. The ribbon. -- Seth Shostak
  • People didn't always see a person with a disability who had to use a ramp or elevator as people who have been given unnecessary privileges. But I run into that often now. People are saying, 'Why do we have to go to great expense for these people?' -- Major Owens
  • I will say that walking down the street, getting on the subway, taking the elevator, if there's one or two people and they say, 'Great job, Mayor,' that is a real turn-on. I mean, anybody that wouldn't find that satisfying, rewarding, exciting, thrilling - I think they should see the doctor. -- Michael Bloomberg
  • The magnificent lobby of the Chrysler Building - faced with rare marbles, aglitter with decorative metalwork, and surmounted by a ceiling painted with a totemic image of the tower itself - leads to elevator cabs inlaid with exotic woods in fanciful patterns. The entire route from street to office is invested with ceremony, dignity, and delight. -- Martin Filler
  • I spend so much of my day at work. I would like to have the workplace be part of a healthier strategy. Reminding me more about walking the steps rather than taking that elevator. Not just promoting healthier food in the cafeteria, but providing information on healthier choices. I use it when I look at the alternatives. -- Harvey V. Fineberg
  • One of the most gratifying things I get as an artist is when people watch me do these different demonstrations, and they in some way feel empowered by what I'm doing so they can confront their own fears. Maybe it's the fear of getting in an elevator; maybe it's the fear of going on a plane and seeing the world. -- Criss Angel
  • I met someone who lives in an elevator. -- Jonathan Lethem
  • The elevator to success is broken. Take the stairs. -- Jenifer Lewis
  • The Lord Protector and his hair got off the elevator. -- Karen Chance
  • My heart and the elevator, a plummet inside a plummet. -- Jonathan Lethem
  • Music can elevate man to new heights. Especially elevator music. -- Jarod Kintz
  • The elevator has a shaft. So does my penis. Going down? -- Jarod Kintz
  • Working with Monk is like falling down a dark elevator shaft -- John Coltrane
  • He entered the elevator and together they moved closer to god -- Philip K. Dick
  • The space elevator will be built about 50 years after everyone stops laughing. -- Arthur C. Clarke
  • No matter how successful you get, always send the elevator back down. -- Jack Lemmon
  • ObamaCare is to health care as a fart is to an elevator. -- Greg Gutfeld
  • I took the stairs and felt like my childhood took the elevator. -- Drew Barrymore
  • There is no elevator to success, you have to take the stairs. -- Zig Ziglar
  • Moira was like an elevator with open sides. She made us dizzy. -- Margaret Atwood
  • Running is my meditation, mind flush, cosmic telephone, mood elevator and spiritual communion. -- Lorraine Moller
  • Failure is a steppingstone to poverty, Cosmic Ordering is an elevator to success. -- Stephen Richards
  • A real Rembrandt hung in a millionaire's home elevator would undoubtedly make for kitsch. -- Matei Calinescu
  • Climb aboard life's elevator, hit the "up" button, and see where it takes you. -- Amy Dickinson
  • The elevator to success is out of order, but the stairs are always open. -- Zig Ziglar
  • Why climb the corporate ladder when you can build an elevator in your own building? -- Joshua E. Leyenhorst
  • Life tells you to take the elevator, but love tells you to take the stairs. -- David Levithan
  • I was always the last woman on the last down elevator as the store was closing. -- Jean Kerr
  • It was like falling down an elevator shaft and landing in a pool full of mermaids. -- Hunter S. Thompson
  • When you get to the top, don't forget to send the elevator down for the next guy. -- Stan Kenton
  • Every time I get in an elevator, the operator says the same thing to me: `Basement?' -- Rodney Dangerfield
  • When you reach the top, you should remember to send the elevator back down for the others. -- Edith Piaf
  • If you're lucky enough to have done well, then it's your responsibility to send the elevator back down. -- Kevin Spacey
  • When an elevator brings u upstairs, you better send it back down in order to bring others up! -- Dikembe Mutombo
  • France has the least social mobility of any developed country. The social elevator no longer works. It's broken. -- Xavier Niel
  • It might not be rational, but I am terrified of getting stuck in an elevator with a bear. -- Dana Gould
  • Life is like an elevator. Up and down, just make sure you get off on the right floor. -- Keith Douglas
  • Life is like an elevator. On your way up, sometimes you have to stop and let some people off. -- Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • I don't think his elevator went all the way to the top anymore, if you know what I mean -- Janet Evanovich
  • I've been pushed down many flights of stairs in my time, but I always manage to find an elevator -- Chris Colfer
  • You have to assume everything is going to end up online, even if you're alone in a hotel elevator. -- Megan Fox
  • Life is like an elevator, a lot of ups and downs. People pushing your buttons and getting jerked around. -- lecrae
  • The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs... one step at a time. -- Joe Girard
  • You get into an elevator and there's music playing. You hear it, but you're not into it. That is passive. -- Rush Limbaugh
  • Standing facing the door in an elevator and pretending you're the only person there, no matter how crowded it is. -- Paulo Coelho
  • I've been to the top and I've been to the bottom more times than most people ride in an elevator. -- Corey Feldman
  • We were on our way to the twentieth floor, sharing the elevator with two suits that had men inside them. -- Steve Toltz
  • A person who discreetly farts in an elevator is not a divine being, and a man needs to know this. -- Robert Bly
  • When you take the elevator to the top, please remember to send it back down so someone else might use it. -- Dikembe Mutombo
  • It was like being in an elevator cut loose at the top. Falling, falling, and not knowing when you will hit. -- Margaret Atwood
  • The elevator to success broke a long time ago, the problem is too many people are too lazy to take the stairs. -- Jacob Maldonado
  • The last time I saw Robert Kennedy was in an elevator by accident also, going up, one week before he was shot. -- Tom Hayden
  • The more people we have on our team. the less room there is in the elevator and the more complicated everything gets. -- David Karp
  • Happiness is being stuck in an elevator and discovering the ravishing blonde with you is a liquor salesman with a case of samples. -- Johnny Carson
  • I hate elevators. I'm claustrophobic so for me to be in an elevator or small spaces is probably the worst thing on earth. -- Aino Jawo
  • When you open the elevator on the top floor of a building and the other guy doesn't get out, something is seriously wrong. -- Mitch Hedberg
  • Now, I had been frightened on several different occasions in my life. The most frightening of these involved an elevator and a mime. -- Brandon Sanderson
  • I'm still the same and I don't feel any different but when the elevator doors open and everybody gasps, it's an alienating feeling. -- Jennifer Lawrence
  • The graphics elevator lurched upwards again. This time the new dimension is multimedia, which means adding sound and fury to the smoke and mirrors. -- Edward Tenner
  • Everyone should be able to do one card trick, tell two jokes, and recite three poems, in case they are ever trapped in an elevator. -- Daniel Handler
  • For me, speaking to anyone - on a stage, in an elevator - I am looking for impact and connection. The same goes for writing. -- Henry Rollins
  • You can forget trying to climb the success ladder, all you will ever need in life is brought to you in the Cosmic Ordering elevator. -- Stephen Richards
  • The outcome of the city will depend on the race between the automobile and the elevator, and anyone who bets on the elevator is crazy. -- Frank Lloyd Wright
  • We took the elevator back down from the first observation level of the Eiffel Tower and started walking in he direction of the Taj Mahal -- D. J. MacHale
  • Old men only lie in wait for people to ask them to talk. Then they rattle on like a rusty elevator wheezing up a shaft. -- Ray Bradbury
  • I ran three miles, staggered into the lobby, and took the elevator back to my apartment. No point to overdoing this exercise junk. --Stephanie Plum -- Janet Evanovich
  • When you lose your sense of humor, get a job running an elevator, because your life will be a series of Ups and Downs anyway. -- Napoleon Hill
  • Okay, okay, okay. I understood that pushing the elevator button over and over again would not make the elevator appear sooner. But I couldn't help myself -- James Patterson
  • What's great is when you're shooting at the same hotel you're living in, you finish shooting, put your stuff down, take an elevator and go to bed. -- Jon Turteltaub
  • If you've been fortunate enough to live out your dream in the profession of your choice, then you have an obligation to send the elevator back down. -- Jack Lemmon
  • I know [canned music] makes chickens lay more eggs and factory workers produce more. But how much more can they get out of you on an elevator? -- Victor Borge
  • Choosing to have a child you can't take care of is like farting in an elevator. Sure you got it out, but not it's everyone else's problem. -- Richard Jeni
  • I rode an elevator with a guy who was whistling the tune of 'this is the song that never ends'. Putting that on me? Come on dude.. -- Taylor Swift
  • Hey, metaphysics seminar is on the roof. Just take the elevator up and keep walking until you hit the sidewalk. Anything is true if enough people believe it." -- David Mitchell
  • The music is just like Detroit, a complete mistake. It's like George Clinton and Kraftwerk are stuck in an elevator with only a sequencer to keep them company. -- Derrick May
  • Hey, metaphysics seminar is on the roof. Just take the elevator up and keep walking until you hit the sidewalk. Anything is true if enough people believe it. -- David Mitchell
  • Art is a bad word in Hollywood. You use art too many times and they show you the elevator and then your name is taken off the parking lot. -- Dennis Hopper
  • I was 24 yesterday. Suddenly you wake up, and you get on the elevator, and there's a mirror there. And you look in the mirror, and you're an old man. -- Charles Nelson Reilly
  • A sofa on an elevator would be like a slow roller coaster where you get to work on your small talk skills. Oh yes, I am an adrenaline junky. -- Jarod Kintz
  • One of my books is a hallucinogen, an aphrodisiac, a mood elevator, an intellectual garage door opener, and a metaphysical trash compactor. They'll do everything except rotate your tires. -- Tom Robbins
  • The last three books are much more a case of a moment of history, what happened almost by accident or coincidence, like being in the same elevator or lifeboat. -- Michael Ondaatje
  • I came from dinner, went downtown with my friends, the elevator was down, I ran down the hall toward my room at 10 at night, having had two glasses of wine. -- Jill Clayburgh
  • It's so much easier to go to the Sony movie complex when you're disabled. You take a great elevator. You get your own little private viewing area. I love it. -- Michael Zaslow
  • The lights disappear, The elevator shudders, Stalls, Quits. All in the same nanosecond. All that exists is darkness so thick I can't think, And Travis so close I can't breathe. -- Elana Johnson
  • I'm not a drinker, my body won't tolerate...eh...spirits, really. I had two martinis New Years Eve and I tried to hi-jack an elevator and fly it to Cuba. -- Woody Allen
  • The space elevator's not just another competitive technology, promoted by people who simply like the idea of diminishing the luster of the thrusters. It would open wide the doors to space. -- Seth Shostak
  • They [Percy and Annabeth] held the Doors shut as the elevator shuddered and the music played, while somewhere below them, a Titan and a giant sacrificed their lives for their escape. -- Rick Riordan
  • Budget grows out of the story. If you're writing a story with people caught in an elevator for most of the film, you're pretty sure it won't be a $200 million movie. -- J. Michael Straczynski
  • Someone knocks at the door of an apartment to borrow salt or sugar, people run into each other in the elevator, and in this way become inscribed in the spectator's memory. -- Krzysztof Kieslowski
  • The purpose of an elevator pitch is to describe a situation or solution so compelling that the person you're with wants to hear more even after the elevator ride is over. -- Seth Godin
  • Everyone I talked to was a recording-the bank, the elevator, your office, the school, a wrong number. You used to be able to call a wrong number and get a person. -- Erma Bombeck
  • Almost all of us have an elevator or two in our lives somewhere. We wait for them, we ride on them. We're annoyed by the wait but pleased with the lift. -- Andy Rooney
  • Different elevator music was playing since my last visit-that old disco song "Stayin' Alive." A terrifying image flashed through my mind of Apollo in bell-bottom pants and a slinky silk shirt. -- Rick Riordan
  • My climb to political success was no elevator ride, and it has not always been pretty, but I persevered as one of a handful of women in the male-dominated world of politics. -- Dalia Grybauskaite
  • People waiting for an elevator don't know what to do, standing with strangers. There is nothing to do. Its an uneasy time. Some press the button repeatedly as though it would help. -- Andy Rooney
  • The more composed scenes are like elevator music compared to some of the more dynamic styles of music. One is not better than the other. They both deserve their spots in the world. -- Jean Wilson
  • If you have done well in whatever business you are in, it is your duty to send the elevator back down and try to help bring up the next generation of undiscovered talent. -- Kevin Spacey
  • Sign by elevator put up by computer geeks in office building: REMEMBER: FIRST YOU PILAGE, THEN YOU BURN. THOSE WHO DO NOT COMPLY WILL BE SUSPENDED FROM THE RAIDING TEAM. In Mr Perfect -- Linda Howard
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