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There was an incident, in 1912, which 'gave me a turn,' so to speak: when I brought the 'Nude Descending a Staircase' to the Independants, and they asked me to withdraw it before the opening. -- Marcel Duchamp
In the 'Nude Descending a Staircase,' I wanted to create a static image of movement: movement is an abstraction, a deduction articulated within the painting, without our knowing if a real person is or isn't descending an equally real staircase. -- Marcel Duchamp
Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness. -- Michelangelo
The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down. -- Samuel Johnson
In a crime story, the details become tremendously important - where the staircase was in relation to the bed, for example. -- Bill James
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
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
There is no 'slippery slope' toward loss of liberties, only a long staircase where each step downward must first be tolerated by the American people and their leaders. -- Alan K. Simpson
I never thought of myself in comedy at all... I loved going to the theatre and seeing people wearing beautiful clothes come down the staircase and start to dance. -- Imogene Coca
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 capture an emotion much better. -- John Lydon
I watched 'Holiday' in college, and that was when I had my first fantasy of being Katharine Hepburn, standing at the top of the staircase in a huge Hollywood mansion. -- Siri Hustvedt
Take care, these Italians, full of failings, are neither you, nor me; they are your neighbors, the ones you meet on the staircase and whom you do not like to greet. -- Alberto Sordi
I've always had this in a kind of worst-case dark imagination. I want to know what the dark form in the window is. I want to know what the noise under the staircase is. -- Lisa Unger
The slugs are ascending this steep city staircase that leads up to a huge Catholic church, essentially signifying their slow crawl towards death. The work reminds us of religion, mortality, natural decay, and the slow suffocation of commercialized societies. -- Florentijn Hofman
I would always fall down the big main staircase in our house. My favorite thing in the world was to pretend to be horribly killed at the top of it, and to fall dramatically down to the bottom of it. -- David Hyde Pierce
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 had a special staircase that took me up to the roof. There was nobody up there. -- Robert Duvall
There's a staircase on the first floor of the Capitol that I walk every day. It's made of marble, and as you walk those steps, you think of those who've walked before you. You think of the challenges that the country's faced. -- Kevin McCarthy
I remember in '37 when trolley cars were so big in New York. It was five cents for a ride... There used to be open-air buses, and you could go up a spiral staircase and sit up on top. Those were great, great days. -- Tiny Tim
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 see the steps. That's where I was. We're here right now. Tomorrow, we'll be someplace else. So why nostalgia? -- Jeanne Moreau
I joined a writing class at a nearby community center, where I was the youngest participant by about 40 years. Once a week, I'd funnel down a staircase and join the dozen retirees crowded in folding chairs around a table to discuss one another's stories. -- Anthony Marra
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 and totally likeable, because he doesn't care! He knows what a politician is, and he's a perfect embodiment of one. -- John Lydon
As in the Divine Right of Kings, hierarchies invest those who preside at the top of their pyramidal structure with absolute power to rule over the lesser ranks that spread down like a marble staircase to the broad foundation stones of those with no power at all. -- Eugene Kennedy
Once I tried to make a standardization of staircases. Probably that is one of the oldest of the standardizations. Of course, we design new staircase steps every day in connection with all our houses, but a standardized step depends on the height of the buildings and on all kinds of things. -- Alvar Aalto
Grief is a circular staircase. -- Linda Pastan
Books are a staircase to unknown worlds. -- Jason Ellis
Success is a staircase, not a doorway. -- Dottie Walters
If time is a staircase, reality is a Slinky. -- Louis Menand
What is a staircase, but a corridor improved by elevation? -- Catherine Gilbert Murdock
A tune's like a staircase - walk up on it. -- Ma Rainey
The way up is a staircase. The way down is a cliff. -- Tablo
We rise to great heights by a winding staircase of small steps. -- Francis Bacon
You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
British films are all "room with a view and a staircase and a pond." -- Ben Dreyfuss
Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Often, what seems an impossible climb is just a staircase without the steps drawn in. -- Robert Breault
He sang 'Stairway to Heaven' in four different languages but never knew where that staircase stood. -- Sherman Alexie
There is no logical staircase running from the physics of 10-28 cm. to the physics of 1028 light-years. -- Norwood Russell Hanson
Reality is a staircase going neither up nor down, we don't move; today is today, always is today. -- Octavio Paz
Many a man may look respectable, and yet be able to hide at will behind a spiral staircase. -- P. G. Wodehouse
Remember: once you have ascertained that you are dealing with hostile intruders, the staircase becomes a free-fire zone. -- Massad Ayoob
The mother is not dying exactly, but has reached a point in life where death is a familiar on the staircase. -- Clive Barnes
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...history, as you may know, is much like a spiral staircase that gives the illusion of going up, but never quite goes anywhere. -- Robert Jackson Bennett
Driving most supercars is like trying to manhandle a cow up a back staircase, but this is like smearing honey onto Keira Knightley. -- Jeremy Clarkson
At the top of the iron staircase leading to the stage, the good, dry, dusty warmth wraps me round like a comfortable dirty cloak. -- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
There is no 'slippery slope' toward loss of liberty, only a long staircase where each step down must first be tolerated by the American people and their leaders. -- Alan K. Simpson
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 to descend a grand staircase. -- Christian Lacroix
Adversity is a call to action, and your freedom lies in taking the first step. Don't worry about the entire staircase, just take one step, and then tomorrow take another. -- Kris Carr
It is a mark of wisdom not to kick away the very step from which we have risen higher. The removal of one step from a staircase brings down the whole of it. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Is there a design in the events of our lives? Or do things just happen, much like a junk yard falling down a staircase? If it's the latter, how do you deal with it? -- James Lee Burke
I carry my own church about under my own hat," said I. "Bricks and mortar won't make a staircase to heaven. I believe with your Master that the human heart is the best temple. -- Arthur Conan Doyle

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