For 'Narrow Stairs', the majority of the songs I brought in were guitar songs - songs we could sit in a room and just play. I can honestly say I had more fun and felt more inspired on this record than anything that we had done in a long time.

- Ben Gibbard

Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

- John Steinbeck

I'll take the stairs instead of the elevator, or when I'm on a phone call, I'll do squats or pace the room when I'm talking. We're modern women! We have to figure out how to make it work, right?

- Ivanka Trump

I collect fantasy swords, replicas from films, and have them displayed on the wall as you go up the stairs.

- Gary Numan

We live in a flat; my wife would be happy if we had a house with stairs. Or a little cottage in the country.

- Fergus Henderson

I keep my own personality in a cupboard under the stairs at home so that no one else can see it or nick it.

- Dawn French

You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs.

- Dante Alighieri

If you can find a frock you look nice in and can run up three flights of stairs, you're not fat.

- Caitlin Moran

I have piles of poetry books in the bathroom, on the stairs, everywhere. The only way to write poetry is to read it.

- Carol Ann Duffy

I started as a writer for magazines, and soon they asked me to illustrate my stories. I started from the bottom of the bottom. And I climbed the stairs, one by one.

- Carine Roitfeld

You can't be aware of everything. You'd fall down the stairs if you were aware of every intricate thing involved in going down stairs.

- Alan Alda

I don't like two stories. I like one story. I never grew up with stairs. I like to stick to what I know.

- Bruno Mars

All the years I coached, we sent a card to every professor for each kid I had, and I was able to keep track on a daily basis who cut class or who was dropping a grade average. What I did was bring that kid in at 5:00 in the morning, and he would run the stairs from the bottom to the top until I told him to quit.

- Bobby Knight

I feel like heels must be a workout! I know that they're really bad for you, but I run around in heels a lot and go up a lot of stairs, so maybe that's my terrible workout. I know that's not really a workout.

- Blake Lively

Two things are bad for the heart - running up stairs and running down people.

- Bernard Baruch

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

- Anders Zorn

I got my first job the old-fashioned way: I took an elevator to the top floor of many buildings and walked down floor by floor on the stairs going into every firm and asking the receptionist if she knew of any jobs available.

- Alan Patricof

When I was a kid, I used to sneak down the stairs when my folks were listening to 'The Witch's Tale' and 'Inner Sanctum' on the radio. I went to see 'Frankenstein' in the movie theater and got the pants scared off of me.

- Al Feldstein

Well, you know, I was raised by a 1970s feminist. My mom had a consciousness-raising group. I used to sit at the top of the stairs and listen to them.

- Ayelet Waldman

A nice quick workout is the stairs; it takes me five minutes to do 24 floors.

- Amy Jo Martin