Imogen Heap

I'm interested in creating a little sound world for songs, really crafting it, building it, and making it like a little doll's house with little things inside it, staircases and rooms and everything kind of relates to everything else. I've never seen it as drums, bass, guitar and vocals in very separate spaces.

English Musician

Jeanne Moreau

My life is very exciting now. Nostalgia for what? It's like climbing a staircase. I'm on the top of the staircase, I look behind and see the steps. That's where I was. We're here right now. Tomorrow, we'll be someplace else. So why nostalgia?

French Actress

Kevin McCarthy

There's a staircase on the first floor of the Capitol that I walk every day. It's made of marble, and as you walk those steps, you think of those who've walked before you. You think of the challenges that the country's faced.

American Politician

David Hyde Pierce

I would always fall down the big main staircase in our house. My favorite thing in the world was to pretend to be horribly killed at the top of it, and to fall dramatically down to the bottom of it.

American Actor

Helmut Newton

In the photographs themselves there's a definite contrast between the figures and the location - I like that kind of California backyard look; clapboard houses, staircases outdoors.

German Photographer

Lisa Unger

I've always had this in a kind of worst-case dark imagination. I want to know what the dark form in the window is. I want to know what the noise under the staircase is.

American Author

Imogene Coca

I never thought of myself in comedy at all... I loved going to the theatre and seeing people wearing beautiful clothes come down the staircase and start to dance.

American Actress

Bill James

In a crime story, the details become tremendously important - where the staircase was in relation to the bed, for example.

American Writer

Samuel Johnson

The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.

English Writer

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.

American Leader

Staircase can refer to the entire structure, including the steps, handrails, and any ornamental design.

Architectural Feature

Staircases can spiral or have turns; they're not limited to straight up-and-down movement.

Not Always Straight

In literature and film, staircases often symbolize transition or change of state, physical or metaphorical.

Symbol of Transition

 negotiating down a spiral staircase off an elevated highway. When she gets to the bottom, she can't help but feel that, all of a sudden, she's entered a new reality that's just slightly different from the one that she left, but very similar, but different.

The hilarious art of...

 owner thought having 64 lifeboats enough for everyone on board would make the ship look too cluttered this emphasis on elegance didn't stop with Titanic's outward appearance inside when top-notch luxuries the grand staircase running the height of six days

How Did the 'Unsinkable'...

 It's about joining with others to pursue moral ideas. It's about the eternal struggle between good and evil, and we all believe we're on the good team. And most importantly, if the staircase is real, it explains the persistent undercurrent

Jonathan Haidt:...

 the staircase affords occupants of view past the stairs to the open space beyond also this kitchen countertop floats above the stairwell using space that is usually wasted and with no visible support structure creating a less

Small House Seems Large...

 is known for its use of extended silences and shots of staircases to create a feeling of discomfort. use dramatic irony. You can't just keep the audience in the dark forever. Sometimes, suspense is best served

How to make your writing...

 And I have come to find that a more appropriate metaphor for aging is a staircase -- the upward ascension of the human spirit, bringing us into wisdom, wholeness, and authenticity. Age not at all as pathology.

Jane Fonda: Life's third...

 ALBERT The pottery proves people were here, but it's not clear who. It could simply be the guards charged with protecting the Nabateans' treasure. Look at this. You got a staircase. Where does it go?

The Ancient City of Sela...

 Its early capital city at Kerma had impressive temples, palaces, and houses, including a massive mudbrick temple structure that had a chapel deep inside, reached by a long staircase at the center.

What happened to the...

 like my hip. So I turned my body perpendicular to the curb and placed my foot up sideways, and I was able to step up immediately. Within five minutes, no staircase was safe from my advances.

The perks of being a...

 I my four-year-old daughter came charging out of her bedroom down the staircase she was only four years old at the time and she was crying and through her tears she said in front of her