“ Two things are bad for the heart — running up stairs and running down people. ”
- Bernard Baruch- Copy
- 1.7K
“ On the other side of the handrail, the hallway's gray marble floor looks as if we've climbed a stairway through the clouds. ”
- Chuck Palahniuk- Copy
- 2.4K
“ I've got a lot of stairs in my house! I'm on the sixth floor. I should be fit and have a really nice ass, but I don't. ”
- Samantha Morton- Copy
- 2.3K
“ The Queen is the only person who can put on a tiara with one hand, while walking down stairs. ”
- Princess Margaret- Copy
- 446
“ Batten, Barton, Durstine and Osborne - sounds like a trunk falling down a flight of stairs. ”
- Fred Allen- Copy
- 397
“ The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - We must step up the stairs. ”
- Vance Havner- Copy
- 936
“ Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments. ”
- John Steinbeck- Copy
- 929
“ The ambitious climb high and perilous stairs, and never care how to come down; the desire of rising bath swallowed up their fear of a fall. ”
- Thomas Adams- Copy
- 3.7K
“ A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time — pills or stairs. ”
- Joan Welsh- Copy
- 1.2K
“ A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
- 3.1K
“ The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs… one step at a time. ”
- Joe Girard- Copy
- 3K
“ I have a nervous breakdown in the film and in one scene I get to stand at the top of the stairs waving an empty sherry bottle which is, of course, a typical scene from my daily life, so isn't much of a stretch. ”
- Emma Thompson- Copy
- 2.8K
“ Do I look like a masochist or the sort who'd go through physical or verbal abuse? A year after my accident… when I fell of the stairs, I'm still being asked if I was physically abused. It saddens me that I'm being portrayed as this battered woman. ”
- Aishwarya Rai- Copy
- 2.9K
“ Commissions suit me. They set limits. Jean Marais dared me to write play in which he would not speak in the first act, would weep for joy in the second and in the last would fall backward down a flight of stairs. ”
- Jean Cocteau- Copy
- 2.7K
“ What harm cause not those huge draughts or pictures which wanton youth with chalk or coals draw in each passage, wall or stairs of our great houses, whence a cruel contempt of our natural store is bred in them? ”
- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne- Copy
- 2.9K
“ The so-called science of poll-taking is not a science at all but mere necromancy. People are unpredictable by nature, and although you can take a nation's pulse, you can't be sure that the nation hasn't just run up a flight of stairs. ”
- Elwyn Brooks White- Copy
- 2.1K
“ No sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no sooner sighed but they asked one another the reason; no sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy; and in these degrees have they made a pair of stairs to marriage, which they will climb incontinent, or else be incontinent before marriage. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 3.9K
“ He is a man of thirty-five, but looks fifty. He is bald, has varicose veins and wears spectacles, or would wear them if his only pair were not chronically lost. If things are normal with him, he will be suffering from malnutrition, but if he has recently had a lucky streak, he will be suffering from a hangover… ”
- George Orwell- Copy
- 3.9K
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