Escalators Quotes

• Life is like an escalator. You see, it carries you on regardless. And you might as well enjoy the view and seize every opportunity while you're passing. Otherwise, it'll be too late.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Opportunity, Views, Life Is Like

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

  Mitch Hedberg

  Break, Stairs, Convenience

  "Live album: "Mitch All Together"". December 9, 2003.

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• Climb the ladder to success escalator style

  The Notorious B.I.G.

  Style, Ladders, Climbs

  Song: Just a Memory, Album: Duets: The Final Chapter

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• Every day of my life it feels as if I'm
  fighting my way up an escalator that only goes down.
  And no matter how fast or how hard I run to try to reach the top, I stay in
  the same place, sprinting, getting nowhere.

  Colleen Hoover

  Running, Fighting, Trying

  Colleen Hoover (2015). “Confess: A Novel”, p.104, Simon and Schuster

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• In life, redemption was walking up the down escalator: stop to congratulate yourself, and back you slid.

  Amy Waldman

  Redemption, Walking

  Amy Waldman (2011). “The Submission: A Novel”, p.58, Macmillan

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• Escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Sorry, Stairs, Convenience

  "Live album: "Mitch All Together"". 2003.

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• Beginning to reason is like stepping onto an escalator that leads upward and out of sight. Once we take the first step, the distance to be traveled is independent of our will and we cannot know in advance where we shall end.

  Peter Singer

  Distance, Independent, Sight

  Peter Singer (2011). “The Expanding Circle: Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress”, p.88, Princeton University Press

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• There is no escalator to [hockey] success only steps.

  Glen Sather

  Hockey, Nhl, Steps

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• An escalator can never break: it can only become stairs. You should never see an Escalator Temporarily Out Of Order sign, just Escalator Temporarily Stairs. Sorry for the convenience.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Sorry, Humor

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• It was like stepping on to an escalator; I could do anything. I was just made for science.

  Cynthia Kenyon

  Made

  "Cynthia Kenyon: 'The idea that ageing was subject to control was completely unexpected'". Interview with Catherine de Lange, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2013.

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• People nowadays like to be together not in the old-fashioned way of, say, mingling on the piazza of an Italian Renaissance city, but, instead, huddled together in traffic jams, bus queues, on escalators and so on. It's a new kind of togetherness which may seem totally alien, but it's the togetherness of modern technology.

  J. G. Ballard

  Italian, Technology, Cities

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• I am a guy who talks about bacon and escalators.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Funny, Guy, Comedy

  "Underneath that pasty exterior beats the dark heart of a comic". Interview with John Wenzel, www.denverpost.com. October 10, 2008.

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• We are animal in our blood and in our skin. We were not born for pavements and escalators but for thunder and mud.

  Jay Griffiths

  Animal, Blood, Skins

  Jay Griffiths (2015). “Savage Grace: A Journey in Wildness”, p.53, Counterpoint

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• When Donald Trump won the election because when I came into the show, I said, I think this guy can win. This was when he first came down that escalator. He gave his first speech.

  Trevor Noah

  Thinking, Winning, Guy

  Source: www.npr.org

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• She became confused when she stepped onto an escalator that wasn't working.

  Don DeLillo

  Confused

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• In a blackout, a Polish man was stuck on an escalator for two hours. I asked him, "Why didn't you walk down?" He said, "because I was going up!"

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Humor, Men

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

  Robert James Thomson

  Problem, Stem, Mess

  "Dr. Gridlock". Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. January 4, 2016.

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• There was a power outage at a department store yesterday. Twenty people were trapped on the escalators.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Power

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• I'm building a glass pyramid over the Egyptian escalator where my body will be mummified, so my customers can come and see me forever.

  Mohamed Al-Fayed

  Glasses, Pyramids, Forever

  "Pharaoh's revenge" by Stephen Armstrong, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2006.

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• The escalator seems to me to typify this: It leads us up, by climbing on our behalf. Yes, it doesn't even climb, it flies. Each step carries its shopper aloft, as though afraid he might change his mind. It takes us up to merchandise we might not have bothered to climb an ordinary flight of steps for.

  Joseph Roth

  Climbing, Mind, Might

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• I met this wonderful girl at Macy's. She was buying clothes and I was putting Slinkies on the escalator.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Girl, Humor

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• Time passes, as the novelist says. The single most useful trick of fiction for our repair and refreshment: the defeat of time. A century of family saga and a ride up an escalator can take the same number of pages. Fiction sets any conversion rate, then changes it in a syllable. The narrator’s mother carries her child up the stairs and the reader follows, for days. But World War I passes in a paragraph. I needed 125 pages to get from Labor Day to Christmas vacation. In six more words, here’s spring.

  Richard Powers

  Mother, Children, Spring

  Richard Powers (2009). “Generosity: An Enhancement”, p.166, Macmillan

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• 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 with old equipment, which of course is prone to break down, and the repair crews don't even know what's busted or who made the busted parts till they tear the things open. Then sometimes they have to go back to the shop and manufacture parts, because the original maker has gone out of business.

  Robert James Thomson

  Tears, Gone, Down And

  "Dr. Gridlock". The Washington Post Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. January 4, 2016.

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• I used to have the Virgin music [stores], and I would go there and just go up the escalator and say to myself, 'I'm soaking in these last moments of anonymity.' I knew I was going to make it this far; I knew that this was going to happen

  Kanye West

  Lasts, Ridiculous, Moments

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• My wife will buy anything marked down. Last year she bought an escalator.

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Humor, Years

  "The Haunted Smile: The Story of Jewish Comedians in America". Book by Lawrence J. Epstein, 2001.

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