Escalator Quotes

She became confused when she stepped onto an escalator that wasn't working. — Don DeLillo

Metro, built in the late 20th century, is the most escalator-dependent system in the world. — Robert James Thomson

I always walk up the escalator on the Tube, and I live in a house with a lot of stairs, and that's good exercise, but you need more than that. — Ian McKellen

That's the original problem from which the escalator mess stems. There's just too many of them. — Robert James Thomson

Sometimes Life Takes you down on an escalator only to lead you to the plane where you will fly — Samer Chidiac

History is not an escalator. — Max Eastman

Most Americans are on a downward escalator. Median wage in the United States, adjusted for inflation, keeps on dropping. — Robert Reich

In a blackout, a Polish man was stuck on an escalator for two hours. I asked him, "Why didn't you walk down?" He said, "because I was going up!" — Henny Youngman

It was like stepping on to an escalator; I could do anything. I was just made for science. — Cynthia Kenyon

The best escalator to opportunity in America is education. — Nicholas Kristof

The minutes jog up the down escalator. — David Mitchell

In life, redemption was walking up the down escalator: stop to congratulate yourself, and back you slid. — Amy Waldman

Climb the ladder to success escalator style — The Notorious B.I.G.

There is no escalator to [hockey] success only steps. — Glen Sather

They use the M as an anchor to get the doughnut and then there's an escalator to nowhere. — Gemma Burgess

I'm building a glass pyramid over the Egyptian escalator where my body will be mummified, so my customers can come and see me forever. — Mohamed Al-Fayed

My wife will buy anything marked down. Last year she bought an escalator. — Henny Youngman

I met this wonderful girl at Macy's. She was buying clothes and I was putting Slinkies on the escalator. — Steven Wright