Spiral Staircases Quotes

• Many a man may look respectable, and yet be able to hide at will behind a spiral staircase.

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  P. G. Wodehouse

  Men   Looks   May  

  P. G. Wodehouse (2008). “Nothing Serious”, Everyman Paperback Classics

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• Many of the younger generation know my name in a vague way and connect it with grotesque inventions, but don't believe that I ever existed as a person. They think I'm a nonperson, just a name that signifies a tangled web of pipes or wires or strings that suggest machinery. My name to them is like a spiral staircase, veal cutlets, barber's itch — terms that give you an immediate picture of what they mean.

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  Rube Goldberg

  Believe   Mean   Thinking  

  "Rube Goldberg: Inventions!".

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• All rising to great places is by a winding stair.

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  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist   Challenges   Rising  

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• I remember in 37 when trolley cars were so big in New York. It was five cents for a ride... There used to be open-air buses, and you could go up a spiral staircase and sit up on top. Those were great, great days.

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  Tiny Tim

  New York   Air   Car  

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• Life is a journey up a spiral staircase; as we grow older we cover the ground covered we have covered before, only higher up; as we look down the winding stair below us we measure our progress by the number of places where we were but no longer are. The journey is both repetitious and progressive; we go both round and upward.

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  William Butler Yeats

  Journey   Numbers   Progress  

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• William Carlos Williams, late in his long life, had a dream: He saw an enormous spiral staircase in empty space, and his father slowly descending toward him. When he reached the bottom, his father walked over, looked him in the eye and said: “You know those poems you're writing? They're no good.”

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  Eliot Weinberger

  Dream   Father   Writing  

  Eliot Weinberger (2007). “An Elemental Thing”, p.115, New Directions Publishing

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• Arsenal have class. I remember when I was at Spurs, the Arsenal players would arrive for matches in their navy blazers with the gold gun emblem sewn into their pockets and grey slacks. We couldn’t match their ground with that beautiful main entrance, marble halls and spiral staircase. Even in 1961 when we won the Double, we were never as big a club as Arsenal.

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  Jimmy Greaves

  Beautiful   Gun   Player  

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