Elevators Quotes - Page 6

• As a kid, I knew I wanted to be either a cartoonist or an astronaut. The latter was never much of a possibility, as I don't even like riding in elevators.

  Bill Watterson

  Kids, Riding, Astronaut

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• The walls of this elevator are made of crystal so that you can watch the people on the ground floor shrink to ants as you shoot up into the air. It's exhilarating and I'm tempted to ask Effie Trinket if we can ride it again, but somehow that seems childish.

  Suzanne Collins

  Wall, Air, People

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.68, Scholastic Inc.

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• But just as elevators have changed the shape of buildings and cars have changed the shape of cities, bits will change the shape of organizations, be they companies, nations, or social structures.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Cities, Organization, Car

  "Negroponte" by Nicholas Negroponte, www.wired.com. October 1, 1997.

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• I hate elevators. I'm claustrophobic so for me to be in an elevator or small spaces is probably the worst thing on earth.

  Aino Jawo

  Hate, Space, Earth

  ""Interview: Icona Pop's Aino Jawo on their New Album, 'This Is... Icona Pop'". "Coup De Main" Interview, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. November 25, 2013.

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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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• Okay, gang," I said, "according to blueprints, there's an elevator access panel on the east side of the building. We may get a little dirty, but—" "I thought we'd just go through the doors," Liz said, flashing three beautifully engraved invitations and some wonderfully authentic fake IDs. The tickets were $20,000 each. The Secret Service had been vetting the guest list for weeks, so Bex and I stopped beneath a streetlamp and studied Liz. "Do I even want to know where you got those?" I asked. Liz seemed to ponder it, and then she said, "No.

  Ally Carter

  Dirty, Doors, Fake

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• I remember getting in the elevator for my audition and there was a guy next to me who had a backpack full of props and wigs and things, and I went, 'Oh, my God, that guy is so prepared, I have nothing, I have no props.' And that was Andy Samberg. And Andy Samberg said he was looking at me going, 'Oh, that guy has no props. He doesn't need props.' And that was the first time we met, was in that elevator.

  Bill Hader

  Guy, Needs, Wigs

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• I met [ Samuel L. Jackson ] for the first time on The Today Show. He came out of an elevator. I was promoting A Mighty Wind and he was promoting something else. He said, "I hear we're going to be working together." I said, "On what?" He said, 'The Man.' I hadn't heard his name mentioned before. I made a few calls and found out he had the script and was interested. That was it.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Men, Wind, Names

  Source: www.hollywood.com

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• I can't stand being in Chicago anymore and hearing the Brahms Violin Concerto in the elevator. Because that shows me that when they come to the concert hall they listen to it in the same way.

  Daniel Barenboim

  Chicago, Violin, Way

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• I like what I see now in China, but I think the Japanese are a step ahead into craziness and weirdness. I go to galleries there that are the size of a New York elevator, and every time I'm surprised by the amazing things I find. I really hope I'll be able to promote some of these artists, to show their work in the West.

  Jean Pigozzi

  New York, Thinking, Artist

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• We took the elevator back down from the first observation level of the Eiffel Tower and started walking in he direction of the Taj Mahal

  D. J. MacHale

  Taj Mahal, Towers, Levels

  D.J. MacHale (2009). “Pendragon: The Soldiers of Halla”, p.78, Simon and Schuster

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• I got out of the elevator and confronted Mr. Wexler. “Killing is wrong.” “We kill chickens,” Mr. Wexler said. “We kill cows. We kill trees. So big deal, we kill some drug dealers.” It was hard to argue with that kind of logic because I like cows and chickens and trees much better than drug dealers.

  Janet Evanovich

  Tree, Drug, Cows

  Janet Evanovich (1999). “Three To Get Deadly: A Stephanie Plum Novel”, p.266, Simon and Schuster

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• When I turned the corner, I saw Toni waving at me from the elevator. I think I've already told you how it made me feel to see her smile and wave at me. You can have your sunsets and waterfalls. If a piano were to suddenly fall on my head, that's the image I'd want forever engraved in my mind. —Alton Richard

  Louis Sachar

  Fall, Sunset, Thinking

  Louis Sachar (2010). “The Cardturner”, p.253, A&C Black

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• Different elevator music was playing since my last visit-that old disco song "Stayin' Alive." A terrifying image flashed through my mind of Apollo in bell-bottom pants and a slinky silk shirt.

  Rick Riordan

  Song, Mind, Different

  "Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian". Book by Rick Riordan, books.google.ru. May 5, 2009.

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• I rode an elevator with a guy who was whistling the tune of 'this is the song that never ends'. Putting that on me? Come on dude.

  Taylor Swift

  Song, Guy, Singers

  FaceBook post by Taylor Swift from Apr 05, 2010

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• When you take the elevator to the top, please remember to send it back down so someone else might use it.

  Dikembe Mutombo

  Might Use, Remember, Please

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• Moira was like an elevator with open sides. She made us dizzy.

  Margaret Atwood

  Dizzy, Sides, Made

  Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.133, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I've always found that when you're trying to create illusions with sound, especially in a science fiction or fantasy movie, that pulling sounds from the world around us is a great way to cement that illusion because you can go out and record an elevator in George Lucas's house or something, and it will have that motor sound.

  Ben Burtt

  Movie, Creating, House

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• In our truly remarkable an unexampled civil peace, where there are rarely fist fights; where no one is born, is gravely ill, or dies; where meat is eaten but no one sees an animal slaughtered; where scores of millions of cars, trains, elevators, and airplanes go their scheduled way and there is rarely a crash; where an immense production proceeds in orderly efficiency and the shelves are duly clears and nevertheless none of this come to joy or tragic grief or any other final good it is not surprising if there are explosions.

  Paul Goodman

  Grief, Airplane, Fighting

  Paul Goodman (2011). “Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society”, p.188, New York Review of Books

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• Before, I would play a little hoops, a little tennis. Now it's more yoga, Pilates, stretching, some light weight work, push-ups, sit-ups, resistance things. When I used to live on the eleventh floor, I would take the steps. I don't do that so much now. I'm taking the elevator a bit more these days.

  Robin Roberts

  Yoga, Light, Play

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• For me, speaking to anyone - on a stage, in an elevator - I am looking for impact and connection. The same goes for writing.

  Henry Rollins

  Writing, Impact, Connections

  Source: paulsemel.com

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• When a grown man is chasing you around a building or running through the hotel and trying to jump in your elevator, oh man, I can't even see it. What excitement can you possibly get from having my autograph besides selling it?

  Clinton Portis

  Running, Men, Trying

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• We should explore new ways to drive down the cost of space travel. instead of costly booster rockets, maybe we should think of laser/microwave driven rockets, or space elevators. Until then, the cost of space exploration will limit our ability to explore the universe.

  Michio Kaku

  Thinking, Space, Cost

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. March 7, 2014.

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• You may cut off the heads of every rich man now living--of every statesman--every literary, and every scientific authority, without in the least changing the social situation. Artists, of course, disappeared long ago as social forces. So did the church. Corporations are not elevators, but levellers, as I see them.

  Henry Adams

  Cutting, Artist, Power

  Henry Adams, Ernest Samuels (1992). “Henry Adams, Selected Letters”, p.523, Harvard University Press

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• The first time I watched television I felt exactly as if something important had taken an elevator ride up to my head and gotten off and turned on the light in my mind. I knew that I was going to do something in television. It was in my cards. I remember feeling the warm relief of knowing where my future was.

  Mary Wells Lawrence

  Taken, Knowing, Light

  Mary Wells Lawrence (2002). “A Big Life in Advertising”, Knopf

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