Staircase Quotes (page 2)

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• soul
• tough
• him

If ever he had harboured a conscience in his tough narrow breast he had by now dug out and flung away the awkward thing - flung it so far away that were he ever to need it again he could never find it. High-shouldered to a degree little short of malformation, slender and adroit of limb and frame, his eyes close-set and the colour of dried blood, he is climbing the spiral staircase of the soul of Gormenghast, bound for some pinnacle of the itching fancy - some wild, invulnerable eyrie best... Mervyn Peake

• life
• art
• stepped

On the haunted staircase of life, art is the only step that doesn't creak. Tom Robbins

• top
• hand
• bright

His stillness was commanding. I felt myself getting whiter by the second. What does it mean to become white? How does it feel to see Death in the flesh, come to gather you in? I was scared to the marrow. I was cold and hot, dry and wet, myself and someone else. The fist clenched in my chest. I went to the staircase and sat on the top step, looking into my hands. So much remained. Every word and thing a beadwork of bright creation. Don DeLillo

• good
• top
• elegance

From the top of the staircase she sees the London train, modern and elegant, and she tells herself again: Whether it's good luck or bad to be born onto this earth, the best way to spend a life here is to let yourself be carried along, as I am moving at this moment, by a cheerful, noisy crowd moving forward. Milan Kundera

• soul
• earth
• earthly

My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness. Michelangelo

• top
• house
• favorite

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

• beautiful
• dance
• thoughts

I never thought of myself in comedy at all... I loved going to the theatre and seeing people wearing beautiful clothes come down the staircase and start to dance. Imogene Coca

• caring
• you me
• neither

Take care, these Italians, full of failings, are neither you, nor me; they are your neighbors, the ones you meet on the staircase and whom you do not like to greet. Alberto Sordi

• people
• loss
• toleration

There is no "slippery slope" toward loss of liberties, only a long staircase where each step downward must first be tolerated by the American people and their leaders. Alan K. Simpson

• faith
• having
• wholeness

Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step. Martin Luther King jr.

• faith
• evening
• faithfully

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase. Martin Luther King jr.

• world
• downs
• ups & downs

The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down. Samuel Johnson

• end
• moralizing
• beings

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

• kindness
• look
• house

In the photographs themselves there's a definite contrast between the figures and the location - I like that kind of California backyard look; clapboard houses, staircases outdoors. Helmut Newton