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Never take an elevator in city hall. -- Harvey Milk
There is no elevator to success, you have to take the stairs. -- Zig Ziglar
If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the Up button. -- Sam Levenson
Now, finally has the elevator arrived. The stairs was about to become a personal inferno. -- Anders Zorn
I cannot switch my voice. My voice is not like an elevator going up and down. -- Maria Callas
It was like falling down an elevator shaft and landing in a pool full of mermaids. -- Hunter S. Thompson
The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs... one step at a time. -- Joe Girard
Life is like an elevator. On your way up, sometimes you have to stop and let some people off. -- Ziad K. Abdelnour
Americans have different ways of saying things. They say 'elevator', we say 'lift'... they say 'President', we say 'stupid psychopathic git. -- Alexei Sayle
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
I get bored with establishing shots of people getting out of cars and walking into buildings, getting into elevators and then 45 seconds later they have a line. -- Dick Wolf
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
The story of my life is about back entrances, side doors, secret elevators and other ways of getting in and out of places so that people won't bother me. -- Greta Garbo
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
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
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
There will be a meeting of the great powers who will disagree, and the next noise we hear will be the screeching of elevators going up and down from heaven to hell. -- Mordecai Wyatt Johnson
Sometimes when I sit down to practice and there is no one else in the room, I have to stifle an impulse to ring for the elevator man and offer him money to come in and hear me. -- Arthur Rubinstein
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
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 -the automatic elevator, the escalator, the cafeteria -are depriving us of volition and moral and physical energy. -- Edward Dahlberg
I have an elbow that bends the wrong way, and I'd do things like stand in an elevator and the doors would close, and I'd pretend that my arm had got caught in it, and then I'd scream, 'Ow, ow, put it back!' -- Geena Davis
So, when you divide the world into music lovers, music fans and then those people who are just very casual about their music, it's wallpaper to them, it's elevator music, it's just the thing that's playing in the background that helps them through their day. -- Michael Stipe
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
To the United States the Third World often takes the form of a black woman who has been made pregnant in a moment of passion and who shows up one day in the reception room on the forty-ninth floor threatening to make a scene. The lawyers pay the woman off; sometimes uniformed guards accompany her to the elevators. -- Lewis H. Lapham
I'm building a dream with elevators in it. -- Rick Ross
I'm gonna be so mad when my mood elevators wear off. -- Karen Walker
Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators. -- Stephen Fry
The people who know basketball, their elevators don't go to the top. -- Al McGuire
Why are people getting on elevators shocked to find people getting off elevators? -- Brian Regan
I'm afraid of elevators, because they are an enclosed space, but I get in. -- Amanda Lindhout
I certainly hear the Trombones Unlimited version of 'Daydream' in a lot of elevators. -- John Sebastian
Escalators are the offspring of elevators and stairs. Love is the progeny of passion and admiration. -- Jarod Kintz
I don't know of any source for online maps showing the platform, stairs, escalators, elevators, mezzanines and other station details. -- Robert James Thomson
A great city with water barriers and no bridges is like a skyscraper with no elevators. Bridges are a monument to progress. -- Joseph Straus
This is the point. One technology doesn't replace another, it complements. Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators. -- Stephen Fry
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
Usually, the energy in elevators is so awkward; I mean, I cant imagine the politics in the ones in the Conde Nast building. -- Marco Brambilla
He liked books if they were books of information and had pictures of grain elevators or of fat foreign children doing exercises in model schools. -- C. S. Lewis
A story - with a message about praising what have rather than criticizing what haven't: There are some people who knock the pyramids because they don't have elevators!!! -- Jim Ferree
As a kid, I knew I wanted to be either a cartoonist or an astronaut. The latter was never much of a possibility, as I don't even like riding in elevators. -- Bill Watterson
But just as elevators have changed the shape of buildings and cars have changed the shape of cities, bits will change the shape of organizations, be they companies, nations, or social structures. -- Nicholas Negroponte
Sometimes you get tired of riding in taxicabs the same way you get tired riding in elevators. All of a sudden, you have to walk, no matter how far or how high up. -- J. D. Salinger

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