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  • Of all the ruinous and desolate places my uncle had ever beheld, this was the most so. It looked as if it had once been a large house of entertainment; but the roof had fallen in, in many places, and the stairs were steep, rugged, and broken. There was a huge fire-place in the room into which they walked, and the chimney was blackened with smoke; but no warm blaze lighted it up now. The white feathery dust of burnt wood was still strewed over the hearth, but the stove was cold, and all was dark and gloomy.

    Uncles   Heart   Dark  
    Charles Dickens (1870). “The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”, p.429
  • Is it advisable to spread out all the conveniences of culture before people to whom a few steps up a stair to a library is a sufficient deterrent from reading?

    Ayn Rand, Leonard Peikoff (1999). “The Journals of Ayn Rand”, p.138, Penguin
  • She decided she'd rather die in some less memorable way- maybe falling down the stairs, or going peacefully in her sleep at the age eighty, after a nice quiet life with Percy.Yes, that sounded good.

    Nice   Fall   Memorable  
  • This is the point. One technology doesn't replace another, it complements. Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.

    Twitter post from Mar 11, 2009
  • I thought the force of my wanting must wake ye, surely. And then ye did come. . ." He stopped, looking at me with eyes gone soft and dark. "Christ, Claire, ye were so beautiful, there on the stair, wi' your hair down and the shadow of your body with the light behind ye…." He shook his head slowly. "I did think I should die, if I didna have ye," he said softly. "Just then.

    Beautiful   Eye   Dark  
    Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series Bundle: Books 5, 6, 7, and 8: The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.591, Delacorte Press
  • You gotta have style. It helps you get down the stairs. It helps you get up in the morning. It's a way of life. Without it, you're nobody.

    Fashion   Morning   Style  
  • Do you know how sometimes - when you are riding your bike and you start skidding across sand, or when you miss a step and start tumbling down the stairs - you have those long, long seconds to know that you are going to be hurt, and badly?

    Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.218, Simon and Schuster
  • Then the Old Man of the Earth stooped over the floor of the cave, raised a huge stone from it, and left it leaning. It disclosed a great hole that went plumb-down. "That is the way," he said. "But there are no stairs." "You must throw yourself in. There is no other way.

    Men   Caves   Earth  
    George MacDonald (2015). “The Complete Works of George MacDonald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Theological Writings & Essays (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, England’s Antiphon, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, The Light Princess, The Golden Key and many more”, p.2287, e-artnow
  • Now is the dramatic moment of fate, Watson, when you hear a step upon the stair which is walking into your life, and you know not whether for good or ill.

    Fate   Steps   Dramatic  
    Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “Sherlock Holmes. The best stories”, p.711, "Издательство ""Проспект"""
  • Sophie held the [hand]cuffs higher, hopint to instill some sense of shame, if not in him, then at least in herself. One look at him and she wanted him again. "I found them in the bed." "That makes sense," Phin said. "That's where I lost them." "I'd ask what you were doing with them," Sophie said, trying not to sound bitchy, "but I probably don't want to know, do I?" "Sure you do. It was exciting and different and depraved." Phin nodded toward the stairs. "Go put them someplace we can find them, and I'll show you later.

    Hands   Trying   Bed  
  • Aren’t you going to ask me how it went, Kitten?" “You walked in and took the stairs one at a time,” I answered. “And you haven’t barked at me to get in the car, so I take it Majestic didn’t tell you our asses were trophies for hunting season. Am I wrong?

    Hunting   Car   Majestic  
  • The elevator to success is out of order, but the stairs are always open.

  • God walked down the stairs of heaven with a Baby in His arms.

    Christmas   Baby   Heaven  
  • Now, now," said Vale in a sickeningly sweet voice reminiscent of a nursery nanny. "I already gave him a drubbing for courting Emmie."Reynaud raised his eyebrows. "You did?""He did not," Hartley said even as Vale nodded happily. "I threw him down the stairs."Vale pursed his lips and looked skyward. "Not my recollection, but I can see how your memory of the event may've become hazy.

  • You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. Every time you don't throw yourself down the stairs, that's a choice. Every time you don't crash your car, you re-enlist.

    Car   Choices   Crash  
  • I smiled at the stacks, inhaling again. Hundreds of thousands of pages that had never been turned, waiting for me. The shelves were a warm, blond wood, piled with spines of every color. Staff picks were arranged on tables, glossy covers reflecting the light back at me. Behind the little cubby where the cashier sat, ignoring us, stairs covered with rich burgundy carpet led up to the worlds unknown. 'I could just live here,' I said.

    Light   Color   Waiting  
    Maggie Stiefvater (2009). “Shiver”, p.150, Scholastic Inc.
  • He got drunk last night, kicked Mama down the stairs. But I'm alright, so I don't care.

    Family   Night   Drunk  
  • At the World Cup, there is a constant risk that you might find a bag or some object that has been left behind, and no one is quite sure what it is. To bring in a full bomb-disposal team for each item can be very time-consuming. The PackBot can go over rough terrain, climb stairs, pick things up, and also be operated from a safe distance.

    Distance   Team   Risk  
    "My Roomba's Name Is Roswell". Interview with Celeste Biever, www.slate.com. March 23, 2014.
  • The Queen is the only person who can put on a tiara with one hand, while walking down stairs.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • We are all on the stairs, my friend; some of us are going down, some us are going up!

  • Now, finally has the elevator arrived. The stairs was about to become a personal inferno.

  • A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time: pills or stairs.

  • Failures are the stairs we climb to reach success.

  • One has not lived until one has carried a sixty-pound dog down a sweeping flight of stairs at half-past V in the morning.

    Dog   Morning   Past  
    Connie Willis (2009). “To Say Nothing of the Dog”, p.210, Bantam
  • What harm cause not those huge draughts or pictures which wanton youth with chalk or coals draw in each passage, wall or stairs of our great houses, whence a cruel contempt of our natural store is bred in them?

    Wall   House   Graffiti  
  • I grew up in a haunted castle, boys. If you've never had a ghost try to push you down the stairs, you've never lived.

    Boys   Trying   Castles  
  • Girls like her, my grandfather once warned me, girls like her turn into women with eyes like bullet holes and mouths made of knives. They are always restless. They are always hungry. They are bad news. They will drink you down like a shot of whisky. Falling in love with them is like falling down a flight of stairs. What no one told me, with all those warnings, is that even after you’ve fallen, even after you know how painful it is, you’d still get in line to do it again.

    Love   Girl   Fall  
    Holly Black (2012). “Black Heart”, p.18, Simon and Schuster
  • I swept down the stairs to find Fade waiting for me at the bottom. His dark eyes widened, and for the first time since I'd known him, he was speechless. He stared up at me like I was everything he ever wanted.

    Eye   Dark   Waiting  
    Ann Aguirre (2012). “Outpost”, p.143, Macmillan
  • Exercise is important, but exercise in a gym is not important. Go and take a walk outside. Skip the umpteenth coffee date and go for a hike instead. Take the stairs. Walk your errands.

  • An escalator can never break: it can only become stairs.

    "Live album: "Mitch All Together"". December 9, 2003.
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