Elevator Quotations

A broken heart is what makes life so wonderful five years later, when you see the guy in an elevator and he is fat and smoking a cigar and saying long-time-no-see.

The inventory goes down the elevator every night.

Remember, I am not trying to orbit the earth. It is a simple elevator ride for 20 minutes.

The reason I quit being a sales manager over twenty years now is because I hate elevator pitches. I want to write stories and show people what's in them when they read them, not tell them all about it ahead of time.

I went through all my electric bills, the water bills, the phone bills, elevator contracts, and I found enough wasteful spending without reducing any programs anywhere, without reducing any services, I found enough wasteful spending to pay my entire salary for three years.

I didn't feel the tusk go through me. But I did feel this sort of freight elevator coming down, popping the chicken bones, you know. It blinded me. Everything was black. It was bright noon day sun. You mustn't get walked on by elephants.

France has the least social mobility of any developed country. The social elevator no longer works. It's broken.

We've made elevator music of Jesus Christ. We've made Him the most boring, bland, blah person; and He was the most revolutionary man.

People recognize me, but they don't know where from. Today I was in the elevator and somebody asked me if I worked for his company.

When I go to my health club, and it's in the basement, you have to take the elevator down. And this drives me crazy. Why can't there be a stairway? At least make it as easy to exercise as it is to not exercise. It's in society's interest for me to take the stairs.

I've taken clowns into the war in Bosnia, the refugee camps of Kosovo, and none of those are any more important than clowning in a subway or an elevator or just walking down the street.

Complete strangers can stand silent next to each other in an elevator and not even look each other in the eye. But at a concert, those same strangers could find themselves dancing and singing together like best friends. That's the power of music.

The average person pushes an elevator button 6 or 7 minutes before realizing it's not working. I did a study on this, you know.

I wished them good luck getting an airline reservation or a hotel room. They're going to have a hard time even getting on an elevator around here.

I was stuck in the elevator in my office building in Soho for about 45 minutes with a talent manager, and we just got to talking.

now seeking an appropriation for an elevator for Anthony Hall.

Obviously, this was the tallest building in town. I'm guessing it was six or seven stories tall. It had a massive head house where it picked up the grain. There was a pit outside where vehicles dumped grain. In the middle of the building was a big elevator that lifted the grain to the top of the structure and then moved it to the proper storage areas. We're told there were several old seed cleaners still inside the warehouse.

She opened the letter in an elevator and got dizzy. She was in total shock. She never expected this.

On any given vote, on any given day, a smart senator who has taken a bold or controversial position can reach far more media outlets between the elevator and the Senate chamber than he or she could garner in a full press conference back home.

I don't think people ought to take the elevator if they (can) walk, because they don't get to see the stairway,

Some of you delivered $1.18 corn to the elevator and paid $3.30 in diesel fuel to get it there. We're not going to turn it on a dime. Short term, we need some kind of relief.

Sure, you've got Rod Stewart and Barry Manilow, but look at the top 10. Most of the songs are rap and hip-hop. I'm sure you're not going to be hearing those songs on an elevator 10 years from now.

NASA has no plans to develop a space elevator any time soon, but the component technologies have a lot of different applications, ... High-strength materials that are less weight are great for rockets, it's great for airplanes, it's great for spacecraft.

I think everybody should take a trip up that elevator once in their life.

It appears he was not properly supervised . . . . He should not have got on the elevator by himself.

I was mugged once, which really scared me, and we had a manually controlled elevator in the building. This guy jumped me, he had broken the door... the glass of the street door and he had a big sliver of that and held it to my throat. That was the scariest thing that ever happened to me. He just wanted my credit cards.

We're working in the dark; we don't have an inventory list. We had an elevator guy standing waist-deep in sewage-contaminated water, blowing on the wires so we could short-circuit the elevator and get it working.

We're not at the penthouse and it's going to take a lot of work to get there, but the elevator is going up instead of down. With his presence and resume, he has elevated the football program, the athletic program and the university.

You can either use the elevator for the loft or the ranch but not both. If it went to both units, the state would consider that a public elevator.

When you're listening to radio and hear the same 20 songs over and over and over, you want a break from it. Sometimes you don't want to hear something that sounds just like everything else on the radio. Eventually, if you hear the same sounds and the same musicians and the same mixes and all of that, it will start to sound like elevator music.

Tim (who farmed in Iowa and managed a grain elevator at the time) and Joan had four kids and they are avid readers and watched the (1980s) TV show. They went up there twice on vacation. It was just an irrigated soybean field when Tim bought it. We always worked with Tim and his family and we wanted to do what it took to make it go.

We'll be cleaning and straightening up in the back. We also plan a ramp that will be handicapped accessible and an elevator ? maybe even a deck one day. People could overlook the river and the Becky Thatcher from the deck.

When I was little, my grandfather used to make me stand in a closet for five minutes without moving. He said it was elevator practice.

There are some farmers who pull up to the elevator here in the fall and just tell the people that this load of corn is going to the foundation.

Bloomingdale's could boost sales 5% if it put up an ad for a one-day sweater sale in my building at lunchtime. Everyone in the elevator will see it because they're desperate to not have to look at anyone else.

Elevator fatalities are just not a common occurrence.

What's done in the elevator stays in the elevator. Except when it doesn't.

Every elevator is full of school-age kids. It's great to see the excitement in their faces.

I've been on the elevator for a couple of years.

We love the idea of an elevator on Mars as a demonstration system, ... There's also been talk of an elevator on the moon as a technical demonstrator. We think both these ideas are very good and should be pursued.

Everything from the elevator down will be closed.

Every time I got on the elevator in the hotel, I'd meet people who had evacuated. You could see on their faces that they were distraught.

We wanted a better solution to provide more elevator service while work is in progress.

Even if one is thinking about elevator music, or Weather Channel music, there isn't any necessity for that music to be bad music. I remind people all the time that Mozart would probably sound great in an elevator. A lot of Mozart is very smooth to our ears, but that doesn't mean there isn't an amazing amount of subtlety there for the listener who digs deeper.

The way the platform was against the tram, it was just like stepping into an elevator car.

I once told this writer a story about how I met the guys in an elevator and found out we all had the same last name, so we decided to form a band.

I'm living two blocks away from this library - and I don't know why I was so elated about this - but I'm in my mesh jogging shorts in the elevator and I saw that my book 'Swamplandia!' was their book club selection. And I was over the moon.

If you open the door between floors, there can be a fair gap between the shaft of the elevator and the frame of the elevator car,

I'm not big on the mayor taking the subway, ... That doesn't make up for the fact that he cut the city's contribution to the MTA capital program from $100 million a year to $75 million. It doesn't make up for his voting for the first fare hike and cuts in elevator operators and station booth attendants.

I'm not big on the mayor taking the subway. That doesn't make up for the fact that he cut the city's contribution to the MTA capital program from $100 million a year to $75 million. It doesn't make up for his voting for the first fare hike and cuts in elevator operators and station booth attendants.

A broken heart is what makes life so wonderful five years later, when you see that special guy in an elevator and he is fat and smoking and saying 'Long time no see'

It's ridiculous that a public courthouse has elevator problems like this. We have enough other problems to deal with here. But broken elevators are not a once-in-a-while occurrence. It's an everyday occurrence. Each time we get on an elevator, we have to think it might be the last ride before it breaks again.

It's got big floor plates, a good elevator system. It's a world-class building, which corporations and institutions search for.

In one of our Virginia Beach condo units, the elevator broke with a resident inside it and was down for a week. The entire fourth floor is retired folks in their 70s and 80s, and they had to walk up four flights of stairs to get to their unit.

In that phase, we will be providing bus shuttle service from a nearby accessible station for customers with disabilities. The existing elevator shaft will be preserved, meaning the elevator will remain in its current location when the project is completed.

George, a camel, stepped on the foot of a Rockette; six sheep came off the elevator as three kings bearing gifts got on; human Christmas trees bumped into eight maids-a-milking at the water cooler and an elf came down with the flu.

Sometimes when I sit own to practice and there is no one else in the room, I have to stifle an impulse to ring for the elevator man and offer him money to come in and hear me

For me, it was 90 minutes of wasted time. They got nowhere beyond their elevator statements. I'm not sure that's going to help people make sense of things, because these propositions are so complicated.

It's going to require an elevator and that's going to be very expensive.