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Step by step, one by one, higher and higher. Step by step, rung by rung, climbing Jacob's ladder.
Men have torn up the roads which led to Heaven, and which all the world followed; now we have to make our own ladders.
Peered down the dark winding stairs and called out coarsely:
Wherever there is art, there is a staircase over there where you can ascend to the high places!
The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.
Stairs elevate you; ethics elevates you; goodness elevates you; awareness elevates you; wisdom elevates you.
Esprit de l'escalier: spirit of the staircase, wishing you'd said, wishing you'd done. Yet how much more indelible it was when the staircase was the staircase that led to the bedroom.
What signifies the ladder, provided one rise and attain the end?
I have climbed these steps so often I know each one by name.
Letter 84
An elephant with his trunk raised is a ladder to the stars.
A breaching whale is a ladder to the bottom of the sea.
My photographs are a ladder to my dreams.
These letters are ladders to you.
Me pause. An invisible line that practically pulled me toward those stairs leading
I took the stairs and felt like my childhood took the elevator.
Don't Rush Up The Stairs, you Just Might Fall. Take it One Step At A Time!
To be very successful, climbing the stairs will not be enough; you must climb the icy stairs as well!
Down they went, into the darkness. Down ancient, worn steps coated in slippery mildew. Down into the deep recesses of the earth, far beneath the corridors of Deep-Spire.
We all Need a Staircase to Grow Up Together from Friendship
I have a two-story house and a bad memory, so I'm up and down those stairs all the time. That's my exercise.
Down the steps,
... over the corpses,
... careers the pram with the child.
There are different ways to climb a mountain.
History is only the pattern of silken slippers descending the stairs to the thunder of hobnailed boots climbing upward from below.
The street curves in and out, up and down in great waves of asphalt; at night the granite tomb is noisy with starlings like the creaking of many axles; only the tired walker know how much there is to climb, how the sidewalk curves into the cold wind.
There is no elevator to success, you have to take the stairs
What is it about elevators?
All of us are like stairs, one step after another, going up and down, but all going the same way.
Stairs are only leading up So I smile!
I love you because
Five floor walk up
1 to the 2 to the E
Three avenues
Nor count compartments of the floors, But mount to paradise By the stairway of surprise.
You gotta climb the steps ... you can't skip them
...and one of those neat spiral stairways in the far corner-I wonder where it leads. Spiral staircases always seem to me like they must lead somewhere special.
Mankind progresses not smoothly, as by a sliding carpet ascent, but by rugged steps broken by gaps. He halts long on one stage before taking the next. Often he remains stationary, unable to form resolution to step forward - sometimes even has turned round and retrograded.
I have a really nice step ladder, sadly, I never knew my real ladder.
The mysterious morning stillness of hall and staircase. Who were the sleepers hidden in the upper regions? Let the house reveal its own secrets; and, one by one,
Now, finally has the elevator arrived. The stairs was about to become a personal inferno.
Level, is spelled the same forward and backwards. Those on the upper level can always hit the bottom, and those on the bottom can always rank to the top. Envision your footprints up there already trailing, and your feet will soon follow suit.
Search for the secret stairs of the wise men; when you find them, lose no time to start ascending!
The stairway is not
a thing of gleaming strands
a radiant evanescence
for angels' feet that only glance in their tread, and need not
touch the stone.
One cold November, I resolved to kill the staircase spawn... ("Staircase Man" by Diane Doniol-Valcroze & Arthur K. Flam)
When you take the right stairs you will arrive at the precise destination.
Choose the paths which are not worn out by many feet!
Hello?" No reply. My shoulders sag. "What's the point of a staircase if no one is here to watch my entrance?
There might be too many stairs to go up; ignore the stairs!
It is not easy to fling oneself down stairs in a skirt; there is always the risk that you will tangle your legs and go headlong. But I made it.
A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood.
It is through the valley that one reaches the mountain top. I need but take one step at a time until I reach the pinnacle.
To me, a staircase looks like a series of dark and light horizontal stripes, which is exactly how you'd draw a staircase. So I know how the image is going to look on the page.
History is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up.
of dark passageways, their footsteps echoing. Schoenberg
Why do I have the compulsion to caution you strenuously against going up those stairs, Windham? Perhaps you'll be swarmed by bats or set upon by little ghoulies with crossbows." "Oh, for God's sake, what could be hiding in an empty old carriage house?" ***
you look down flights of stone steps, overhung by great pink tufts of valerian and
What mazes there are in this world.
If there's a heaven, I can't find the stairway
Everytime I climbed the stairs, my heart lifted.
I took the stairs two at a time. There's a time for decorum and a time to run like a crazed vorpal's after you, except a crazed vorpal's an oxymoron. This was the time to run.
You may not reach anywhere with a single step; but with it, you open the door leading to infinity!
The stairs were certainly steep; and in those days, when they could rarely see their own feet, women were always falling; it was a commonplace of domestic life.
Thousands of people in the city who lived in walk-ups dreamed of moving out so they could escape having to climb flights of stairs. Yet here she was, surrounded by women of her age and younger, paying for the privilege.
There are too many steps in this castle, and it seems to me they add a few every night, just to vex me
- Maester Cressen
Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right
When you stand at the bottom of the mountain and look up at the mountaintop, the path looks hard and stony, and the top is obscured by clouds. But when you reach the top and you look down, you realize that there are a thousand paths that could have brought you to that place.
The lift is about SPEED and COMFORT, but the stairs are about CERTAINTY! The lift may go wrong but stairs seldom do, you can always take the stairs. They are BOUND to take you UP and to the END as long as you continue to climb!
I sigh. I may like to run, but I hate climbing stairs.
There are no elevators to success. You havehave to take the stairs...
his way across the slanted roof over the
She marched toward the door, and as she did so she raised her wand. From the tip burst three silver cats with spectacle markings around their eyes. The Patronuses ran sleekly ahead, filling the spiral staircase with silvery light, as Professor McGonagall, Harry, and Luna hurried back down.
Onward we climb. The upper slope is a crust of friable lava. It crunches like peanut brittle beneath our steps.
One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.
The carriageway to the front door was wide, and graceful white birches lined it. In autumn they shed a carpet of gold on the road, and in winter, burdened with snow, they arched over it, a frosted white tunnel paned with glimpses of blue sky.
Paths are made by walking
She took a right, and then another right. Shouldn't the long corridor leading to the stairs be just ahead? Where had she made a wrong turn?
The French say that the best part of an affair is going up the stairs.
There were fourteen steps exactly fourteen. But the top one was smaller, out of proportion, as if it had been added to avoid the evil number.
The minutes jog up the down escalator.
If you climbed one step, it means you can climb the rest.
Where do we find ourselves? In a series of which we do not know the extremes, and believe that it has none. We wake and find ourselves on a stair; there are stairs below us, which we seem to have ascended; there are stairs above us, many a one, which go upward and out of sight.
If you build castles in the air, make sure you have a ladder to reach them.
What does the perfect elevator look like, the one that will deliver us from the cities we suffer now, these stunted shacks? We don't know because we can't see inside it, it's something we cannot imagine, like the shape of angels' teeth. It's a black box.
As I'm sure you know, the expression 'It's all uphill from here' has nothing to do with walking up stairs - it merely means that things will get better in the future.
I'm building a dream with elevators in it.
I've been pushed down many flights of stairs in my time, but I always manage to find an elevator
He took two steps at a time, but slowly, holding onto the banister, putting his whole body into it, as if the act of climbing a flight of stairs was for him, as it is for many children, a moderately pleasurable end in itself.
On the other side of the handrail, the hallway's gray marble floor looks as if we've climbed a stairway through the clouds.
The staircase was deserted - the higher up the building the more reluctant were the residents to use the stairs, as if this in some way demeaned them.
From the moment you entered this world of existence, a ladder was put in front of you so you could escape.
The longest journeys start with the smallest steps.
There comes a time in every young girl's life when she is instructed by a complete stranger to scale a tall ladder for dinner atop a roof, and in almost every case the best thing to do is refuse and run home to call the asylum from which the stranger escaped.
The greatest step is that out of doores.
[The greatest step is that out of doors.]
The more steps you take towards the end, the fewer steps you have to take towards the end!
The missing stairs baffled Clary. What did vampires have against stairs?
-Clary, pg.266-
Obstacles are there to get around, climb over or scramble through.
I have a stepladder. It's a very nice stepladder but it's sad that I never knew my real ladder.
Every ceiling reached becomes a floor.
10 - Onward & Downward
Hobbits do not like heights, and do not sleep upstairs, even when they have any stairs.
I passed your floor on the way up, and now I'm passing it on the way down, and I don't think I'll be taking this elevator again.
When the elevator to your dreams is broken, take the stairs.
When you start to "fall down the stairs" there is that moment when you realize that you have no control over what is going on. You simply experience the plunge and see where it takes you.
walls, the upturned cars, the barking dogs, the
No amount of smiling at a flight of stairs has ever made it turn into a ramp,
Romance begins upstairs, then culminates downstairs.
The night! When the outside world is hiding in darkness, you have to turn on the light within in order to see where you put your steps.