Quotes for All
William Carlos Williams, late in his long life, had a dream: He saw an enormous spiral staircase in empty space, and his father slowly descending toward him. When he reached the bottom, his father walked over, looked him in the eye and said: “You know those poems you’re writing? They’re no good.” Eliot Weinberger
The stairway to the ministry is not a grand staircase but a back stairwell that leads down to the servants’ quarters. Edmund Clowney
Different types of dangerous lives-You have no idea what you are living through; you rush through life as if you were drunk and now and then fall down some staircase. But thanks to your drunkenness you never break a limb; your muscles are too relaxed and your brain too benighted for you to find the … Read more
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
We rise to great heights by a winding staircase of small steps. Francis Bacon
You have options when it comes to abortion now. It’s not like 1955 when you just had to kick her down a staircase and hope for the best… you feed her a tapeworm and hope it takes a left at the Y. Doug Stanhope
Success is a staircase, not a doorway. Dottie Walters
Death comes to me again, a girl in a cotton slip, barefoot, giggling. It’s not so terrible she tells me, not like you think, all darkness and silence. There are windchimes and the smell of lemons, some days it rains, but more often the air is dry and sweet. I sit beneath the staircase built … Read more
Up close the city constitutes an oppressive series of staircases, but from a distance it inspires fantasies of wealth and power so profound that even our communists are temporarily rendered speechless. David Sedaris
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