Escalators Quotes - Page 2

• Metro, built in the late 20th century, is the most escalator-dependent system in the world.

  Robert James Thomson

  World, Century, Metro

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

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• When air conditioning, escalators, and advertising appeared, shopping expanded its scale, but also limited its spontaneity. And it became much more predictable, almost scientific. What had once been the most surprising became the most manipulated.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Air, Shopping, Advertising

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• It was such a dramatic escalator that I was on. It was at 90 degrees. I was going straight up like a rocket ship into space. And I was thrown in with the sharks. They said sink or swim in this Cup deal.

  Kurt Busch

  Sharks, Space, Swim

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• The problem with revenge is that it never evens the score. It ties both the injured and the injurer to an escalator of pain. Both are stuck on the escalator as long as parity is demanded, and the escalator never stops.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Pain, Revenge, Ties

  "Why Charging People With Homicide For Overdose Deaths Is Revenge And Not Justice" by Brooke M. Feldman, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 12, 2017.

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

  Robert James Thomson

  Details, Maps, Online

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

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• Most Americans are on a downward escalator. Median wage in the United States, adjusted for inflation, keeps on dropping.

  Robert Reich

  United States, Dropping, Inflation

  "Inequality for All: Robert Reich Warns Record Income Gap Is Undermining Our Democracy". "Democracy NOW!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. September 13, 2013.

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• 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

  Heart, Self, Cafeteria

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• The voice is always in my head. In fact I aspire to be more like Mario. What could be better than rescuing and falling in love with a princess, right? Someone who faces every challenge in life with a cheerful Wahoo! In London a bike messenger stopped me and said ‘You’re the bloke who does Mario’ on an escalator. So naturally I go ‘Wahooooo’ all the way up the stairs.

  Charles Martinet

  Falling In Love, Princess, Voice

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• The problem with revenge is that it never gets what it wants; it never evens the score. Fairness never comes. The chain reaction set off by every act of vengeance always takes its unhindered course. It ties both the injured and the injurer to an escalator of pain...Why do family feuds go on and on?...the reason is simple: no two people, no two families, ever weigh pain on the same scale.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Forgiveness, Pain, Revenge

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• 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

  Funny, Moving, Humor

  "'Comedy Central Presents' ('Demetri Martin')". Documentary, Comedy, www.imdb.com. March 19, 2004.

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• Once Michigan stood proud. In addition to GM, Ford and Chrysler, it was home base for the United Auto Workers, a powerful escalator transporting hundreds of thousands of blue-collar workers into America's middle class.

  Kevin O'Leary

  Powerful, Home, Blue

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• To call it an anticlimax would be an insult not only to climaxes but to prefixes. It's a crummy secret, about one step up the ladder of narrative originality from It Was All a Dream. It's so witless, in fact, that when we do discover the secret, we want to rewind the film so we don't know the secret anymore. And then keep on rewinding, and rewinding, until we're back at the beginning, and can get up from our seats and walk backward out of the theater and go down the up escalator and watch the money spring from the cash register into our pockets.

  Roger Ebert

  Dream, Spring, Secret

  Roger Ebert (2005). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2006”, p.734, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• There were no mail-order catalogues in 1492. Marco Polo's journal was the wish book of Renaissance Europe. Then, Columbus sailed the ocean blue and landed in Sears' basement. Despite all the Indians on the escalator, Columbus' visit came to be known as a "discovery.

  Tom Robbins

  Ocean, Book, Blue

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Another Roadside Attraction”, p.254, Bantam

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• Now, wages in the automobile industry are made up of two components, what we call base rates and the cost of living factor which is fed in by the operation of the escalator.

  Leonard Woodcock

  Cost Of Living, Two, Wages

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• I am a guy who talks about bacon and escalators. Stand-up comedy is very much a conversation. It's very personal, stylistically.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Funny, Humor, Guy

  "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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