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Quotes About Stairs

Nigel was smiling, the bloody sod. He was loving playing the formal English butler, watching Nicholas turn red and tongue-tied. He saw Mike was grinning, quite enjoying herself. "Oh, bugger off, both of you." He stomped up the stairs, the sound of Mike's and Nigel's laughter following him.
~ Catherine Coulter
How many walks down the stairs will I regret not having made?
~ Gina Frangello
I said I thought first I was on the stairs; then I remembered I was in the kitchen when he came in.
~ Lizzie Andrew Borden
We live in a flat; my wife would be happy if we had a house with stairs. Or a little cottage in the country.
~ Fergus Henderson
Now, finally has the elevator arrived. The stairs was about to become a personal inferno.
~ Anders Zorn
There's nothing more daunting than a musical, but there's also no more direct line to joy. Getting there, though, is like pushing treacle up stairs.
~ Tim Curry
I was on the stairs coming down when she let him in.
~ Lizzie Andrew Borden
I'm neurotic about children. I see dangers everywhere - sharp corners, stairs.
~ Tamsin Egerton
My first job ever was on 'Peak Practice.' I just had to walk up the stairs. They kept the take where I slipped slightly, which was annoying.
~ Vicky McClure
I'm a freewheeling flower-child falling down the stairs constantly.
~ Ben Hopkins
When I first came down stairs, for two or three minutes I went down cellar to the water closet.
~ Lizzie Andrew Borden
The first stage I preformed on were the stairs to the hallway in the living room. There was a really nice platform, and when people were sitting in the living room, it was kind of an elevated platform and we would put on shows and skits.
~ Sean Astin
Since becoming Governor, I haven't had as much time to exercise as I used to, but that's no excuse. Sometimes you just have to get creative and pay attention to the little things. Like, at airports, I try to take the stairs, instead of the escalator.
~ Phil Scott
Never take an elevator in city hall.
~ Harvey Milk
Stairs are sturdy, but need to be sanded and buffed up." He led her up, and she imagined paint on the walls
~ Nora Roberts
Arthur's estate, Stroble and Hackett headed for the stairs that
~ Vince Flynn
Annabelle Archer!" A shrill voice came from above us. "I spoke too soon." Kate fumbled with her shoes as she tried to wedge her feet back in them. We all turned around to greet Mrs. Pierce as she barreled unsteadily down the stairs toward us, a mass of overly bouffant blond hair and turquoise chiffon. "Lord have mercy, she's drunk as a skunk!
~ Laura Durham
On the stairs I encountered Wemmick, who was coming down, after an unsuccessful application of his knuckles to my door.
~ Charles Dickens
Her [Caddy] father released her, took out his pocket handkerchief, and sat down on the stairs with his head against the wall. I hope he found some consolation in walls. I almost think he did.
~ Charles Dickens
El asta y los brazos son de hierro; la redonda base en que se apoya, de mármol, y la escalinata que a ella conduce, de oscuros y mal unidos fragmentos de sillería.
~ Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer
peered down the dark winding stairs and called out coarsely:
~ James Joyce
She hopped back into the fed van with the rest of the agents. As they pulled away, I looked up to see Mary Catherine standing at the top of the stairs by the iron railing of the porch.
~ James Patterson
Why does my brain insist on counting the steps every time I walk up a flight of stairs? I just can't help myself. There's something about my mind that always wants to keep counting.
~ Rachel Nichols
IT TOOK a conscious effort for Tallow to keep his hand off his gun as he walked up the apartment building's stairs. There was no threat here. He told himself that with every step. But every step held memory.
~ Warren Ellis