38 Elevator Quotes for You to Enjoy

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. LZ Granderson

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When you wash your hands, when you make a cup of coffee, when you're waiting for the elevator - instead of indulging in thinking, these are all opportunities for being there as a still, alert presence. Eckhart Tolle

You Waiting Opportunities Coffee Thinking Instead Indulging Make Still Cup Hands Being Your Being There Wash Elevator Presence Alert

If I have to move up in a building, I choose the elevator over the escalator. Because one time I was riding the escalator and I tripped. I fell down the stairs for an hour and a half. Demetri Martin

Time Half Building Down One Time Tripped Over Hour Hour And A Half Fell Because Up Escalator Move Stairs Choose Riding Elevator

If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the Up button. Sam Levenson

Death You Push Sure Up Die Elevator Button

If you're lucky enough to do well, it's your responsibility to send the elevator back down. Kevin Spacey

You Responsibility Down Enough Back Well Send Your Lucky Elevator

Once you choose to enter a WeWork, you choose to be part of something more 'we' than 'me.' People start coming together. They'll see each other in the elevator; they talk in the stairways. There's a thousand other things they do. Adam Neumann

When we automated away the elevator operator function, who knew that all the descendants of those operators would become social media marketers, machine learning engineers, and all these other jobs that we didn't even have a language to describe back then. Andrew Ng

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One of the most gratifying things I get as an artist is when people watch me do these different demonstrations, and they in some way feel empowered by what I'm doing so they can confront their own fears. Maybe it's the fear of getting in an elevator; maybe it's the fear of going on a plane and seeing the world. Criss Angel

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Luckily, unreasonable expectations go hand in hand with naive young scientists. The more naive the better - otherwise we would never have the audacity to try and build a 22,000-mile-high space elevator or some sprawling underwater hotel. Daniel H. Wilson

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I don't know Sally Jenkins. I've met her once. I wouldn't know her in an elevator. Daniel Snyder

Met Once Know Sally Elevator Her

Before the show, we see all these radio people, and most of them say, 'Garth, you're a lot calmer than I thought you were gonna be.' But when the members of the band give one another that handshake, and the lights go out, and the crowd goes up, then you're sliding into the elevator, man, your heart is just going bopbopbopbopbop. Garth Brooks

You Man Heart People Thought Before Band Sliding Say Members Out See Give Crowd Lights Most Another Go Were Lot Up Than Handshake Goes Going Just Them Gonna Then Your Show Radio Elevator Garth

I have an elbow that bends the wrong way, and I'd do things like stand in an elevator and the doors would close, and I'd pretend that my arm had got caught in it, and then I'd scream, 'Ow, ow, put it back!' Geena Davis

Never take an elevator in city hall. Harvey Milk

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I moved to New York in 1980, and I met Beth Henley, who's a marvellous playwright and who I have a real personal and professional association with, in 1982. I met her in a stalled elevator - we were the only two people in there - and she's been one of my very dearest friends since. Holly Hunter

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What I treasure the most is people coming up to me in the elevator and saying, 'You really did a great job': neighbours who congratulate for a job well done or little fans who hug me and say they want to be like me. Jackie Shroff

Saying Great Me You People Fans Job Hug Say Neighbours Great Job Like Most Well Well Done Coming Up Did Done Want Little Really Congratulate Who Elevator Treasure

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. Jim Webb

Day Home Vote Smart Back Press Press Conference Outlets Given More Could He Taken He Or She Between Reach She Than Conference Senate Senator Any Controversial Far Full Who Bold Media Chamber Garner Elevator Position

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. Kurt Busiek

Time Hate People Tell About Write Over Read Because Years Sales Manager Quit Pitches Being Want Stories Them Show Show People Reason Twenty Now Elevator

People didn't always see a person with a disability who had to use a ramp or elevator as people who have been given unnecessary privileges. But I run into that often now. People are saying, 'Why do we have to go to great expense for these people?' Major Owens

If you have more money than your lifestyle, then you can either do something stupid or smart. That's not much of a choice. That's like saying, 'You are on the roof. you can either take the elevator, or you can jump.' That's not a choice. Manoj Bhargava

Saying You Money Smart Roof Stupid Something More Lifestyle Take Like Jump Than Either Then Much Choice Your Elevator

The magnificent lobby of the Chrysler Building - faced with rare marbles, aglitter with decorative metalwork, and surmounted by a ceiling painted with a totemic image of the tower itself - leads to elevator cabs inlaid with exotic woods in fanciful patterns. The entire route from street to office is invested with ceremony, dignity, and delight. Martin Filler

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So, when you divide the world into music lovers, music fans and then those people who are just very casual about their music, it's wallpaper to them, it's elevator music, it's just the thing that's playing in the background that helps them through their day. Michael Stipe

Music Day You People World Fans Music Fans Background Those About Divide Through Casual Very Wallpaper Just Lovers Them Then Who Helps Elevator Thing Playing

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