Elevators – Quotes

Everyone I talked to

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

Inside the mirrored elevator, Mulch used a telescopic pointer to push P for the penthouse. For the first few months he had jumped to reach the button, but that was undignified behavior for a millionaire. And besides, he was certain that Art could hear the thumping from the security desk. Eoin Colfer

The graphics elevator lurched

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

The ruin of the

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

When you reach the

When you reach the top, you should remember to send the elevator back down for the others. Edith Piaf

When you wash your

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

The outcome of the

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

I took the stairs

I took the stairs and felt like my childhood took the elevator. Drew Barrymore

We all have heard

We all have heard it claimed that 13 is an ‘unlucky number.’ Indeed, there are many hotels in America that for this very reason claim not to have a 13th floor, in the sense that there is no button bearing the label ’13’ in their elevators (I recently stayed in one in New York, in … Read more

Not unnaturally, many elevators

Not unnaturally, many elevators imbued with intelligence and precognition became terribly frustrated with the mindless business of going up and down, up and down, experimented briefly with the notion of going sideways, as a sort of existential protest, demanded participation in the decision-making process and finally took to squatting in basements sulking. An impoverished hitch-hiker … Read more