Elevators Quotes - Page 8

• 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 visiting any planets in the Sirius star system these days can pick up easy money working as a counsellor for neurotic elevators.

  Douglas Adams

  Stars, Decision, Frustrated

  "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe". Book by Douglas Adams, Chapter 6, 1980.

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• I know in the spy movies it always looks really cool when the operative goes from a maid's uniform to a slinky, sexy, ballgown in the amount of time it takes an elevator to climb three floors. Well, I don't know how it is for TV spies, but I can tell you that even with Velcro, the art of the quick change is one that must take a lot of practice (not to mention better lighting than one is likely to find in a tunnel that was once part of the underground railroad).

  Ally Carter

  Sexy, Art, Tunnels

  Ally Carter (2010). “Gallagher Girls: I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have To Kill You”, p.107, Hachette UK

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• A real Rembrandt hung in a millionaire's home elevator would undoubtedly make for kitsch.

  Matei Calinescu

  Real, Home, Kitsch

  Matei Călinescu (1987). “Five Faces of Modernity: Modernism, Avant-garde, Decadence, Kitsch, Postmodernism”, p.236, Duke University Press

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• We've gotta dispense with calling guys who are effeminate or who throw like girls "sissies." You know why? Because that diminishes women, and that can lead to such things as you decking your woman in a hotel elevator in New Jersey with your fist.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Girl, Guy, Jersey

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Trump voters are very loyal to Trump, and they don't want to come after him too soon. But, if something comes out that changes that dynamic, if the switch flips, the elevator goes straight to the basement. There's very little in terms of arms reaching out to help him.

  Sheldon Whitehouse

  Arms, Littles, Voters

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Choosing to have a child you can't take care of is like farting in an elevator. Sure you got it out, but not it's everyone else's problem.

  Richard Jeni

  Children, Care, Problem

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• My readers are as diverse as any group you will ever see. Something that booksellers always tell me. That they are always surprised at the kind of people that come to my readings. That they are such a mix of ages and colors. It looks like people spilling out of an elevator.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Reading, Color, People

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• The territorial body has been polluted by roads, elevators, etc. Similarly, our animal body starts being polluted. Ecology no longer deals with water, flora, wildlife and air only. It deals with the body itself as well. It is comparable with an invasion: technology is invading our body because of miniaturisation.

  Paul Virilio

  Animal, Technology, Air

  Source: ctheory.net

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• There was a place in New York called Tannen's Magic. It still exists. But back in the day, it was really fantastic. You'd go into the old Wurlitzer Building, take the elevator to the 13th floor, which was labeled 14, because of bad luck, the elevator would open, and you'd be in heaven. It was all of these guys doing magic stuff with props. It's kind of gone now, that experience, the brick-and-mortar magic shop, but you really felt like you'd landed in the most amazing place in the world.

  David Copperfield

  New York, Bricks And Mortar, Guy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Luckily, unreasonable expectations go hand in hand with naive young scientists. The more naive the better - otherwise we would never have the audacity to try and build a 22,000-mile-high space elevator or some sprawling underwater hotel.

  Daniel H. Wilson

  Hands, Space, Expectations

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• I have crazy claustrophobic dreams, weird elevator dreams where the elevator closes in and all of a sudden I am lying down - oh my God, it's a casket. Just freaky stuff like that.

  Dave Grohl

  Dream, Crazy, Lying

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• When the prisoner is brought down from Death Row he steps from the elevator directly into a "holding" room that adjoins the witness room. There are two cells in this "holding" room, two, in case it's a double execution. They're ordinary cells, just like this one, and the prisoner spends his last night there before his execu­tion in the morning, reading, listening to the radio, playing cards with the guards.

  Truman Capote

  Morning, Reading, Night

  Source: capote.wordpress.com

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• The last time I saw Robert Kennedy was in an elevator by accident also, going up, one week before he was shot.

  Tom Hayden

  Lasts, Saws, Week

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• You get into an elevator and there's music playing. You hear it, but you're not into it. That is passive.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Passive

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• After seeing 'Big,' I wanted an elevator that opened directly into my apartment, just like Tom Hanks did.

  Macaulay Culkin

  Bigs, Apartment, Wanted

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• While we were shooting the movie, we shot in the actual hotel in Hong Kong where it all went down, the Mira Hotel. Laura Poitras was coming to Hong Kong to do a screening of Citizenfour, and she ended up staying at the Mira Hotel. It was her first time back in Hong Kong, and I ran into her in the elevator. Literally I had just finished shooting one day, and I came back to the hotel and she was in the elevator.

  Zachary Quinto

  One Day, Hong Kong, Firsts

  Interview with Patrick J. Adams, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 18, 2016.

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• It is the strain of walking around the world-down the street, riding city buses and elevators, moving from place to place to place-and not knowing who might want to destroy you, who might like to fill your heart with poison, who might rob you and stab you, who might stand above you in the dark with a tarantula.

  Joe Meno

  Moving, Heart, Dark

  Joe Meno (2006). “The Boy Detective Fails”, p.114, Akashic Books

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• I think if you have a two-story office and you hire someone who's handicapped, it might be reasonable to let him have an office on the first floor rather than the government saying you have to have a $100,000 elevator.

  Rand Paul

  Thinking, Government, Two

  "Rand Paul Says He Has A Tea Party 'Mandate'". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. May 19, 2010.

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• The elevator doors opened, and Ranger stepped out and spied Tank stretched out on the carpet. "Fainted," I said. Ranger walked to Tank and stood hands on hips, staring down at him. "Tank doesn't faint. I've been in firefights with him. He's a rock." "Well, the rock fainted.

  Janet Evanovich

  Rocks, Doors, Hands

  Janet Evanovich (2008). “Fearless Fourteen: A Stephanie Plum Novel”, p.65, Macmillan

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• I will say that walking down the street, getting on the subway, taking the elevator, if there's one or two people and they say, 'Great job, Mayor,' that is a real turn-on. I mean, anybody that wouldn't find that satisfying, rewarding, exciting, thrilling - I think they should see the doctor.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Jobs, Real, Mean

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• 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

  Mean, Mirrors, Dimensions

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• A great city with water barriers and no bridges is like a skyscraper with no elevators. Bridges are a monument to progress.

  Joseph Straus

  Bridges, Cities, Water

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• My climb to political success was no elevator ride, and it has not always been pretty, but I persevered as one of a handful of women in the male-dominated world of politics.

  Dalia Grybauskaite

  Political, Males, World

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Government can ensure that we share schools and streets and lunch counters and buses and elevators and theaters, but let us never forget that only God can give us the power to love each other and to respect each other and to share life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

  Mike Huckabee

  Love, Life, Happiness

  "Huckabee takes it to church on Sunday, addresses racial tensions" By Elizabeth Landers, www.cnn.com. July 19, 2015.

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• Just wait and see this stuff play out as it does. But if, for example, why would he say some human activity linked to climate change when he has gone on record as saying that he doesn't believe it and we're gonna get people out of the EPA who do and we're gonna stop playing games with this. Why would he say it? [Donald Trump] wants to build a bridge with the opposition. This is why you don't see me at Trump Tower going up and down the elevators.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Believe, Play, Games

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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