Welcome to Elevator Quotes, where we elevate your spirits with insightful and thought-provoking quotes related to elevators, ascent, and the metaphorical rise to success. Elevators, those humble contraptions that lift us physically, also serve as powerful symbols for the journey of life and achievement. Whether it’s reaching literal heights in skyscrapers or metaphorical peaks in our endeavors, elevators embody the concept of progress, advancement, and upward mobility.
Throughout history, elevators have not only revolutionized architecture and urban design but have also captured the imagination of poets, authors, and thinkers. From allegorical tales to pragmatic observations, quotes about elevators offer a unique perspective on human aspiration and the pursuit of goals. Whether you seek inspiration for your next business presentation, social media post, or simply crave some intellectual stimulation, Elevator Quotes is your destination for uplifting wisdom and insightful reflections on the journey of life. So, step into our virtual elevator, and let these quotes lift you higher.
France has the least social mobility of any developed country. The social elevator no longer works. It’s broken. Xavier Niel
I feel it’s a responsibility for anyone who breaks through a certain ceiling… to send the elevator back down and give others a helpful lift. Kevin Spacey
Americans have different ways of saying things. They say ‘elevator’, we say ‘lift’… they say ‘President’, we say ‘stupid psychopathic git. Alexei Sayle
If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the Up button. Sam Levenson
A factory that can turn carbon nanotubes into a sheet a yard wide and long enough to stretch one-fourth of the way to the moon is not something you’ll find at your local industrial park. That’s the show-stopper for the space elevator. The ribbon. Seth Shostak
The inventory goes down the elevator every night. Fairfax Cone
People didn’t always see a person with a disability who had to use a ramp or elevator as people who have been given unnecessary privileges. But I run into that often now. People are saying, ‘Why do we have to go to great expense for these people?’ Major Owens
God didn’t design an elevator for me. It’s great because I’m climbing stairs and learning with every step. Pratik Gandhi
If you’re lucky enough to do well, it’s your responsibility to send the elevator back down. Kevin Spacey
There’s a shift and a change in how we’ve matured to becoming adults. ‘Elevator Girl’ represents our maturity. Suzuka Nakamoto
Once you choose to enter a WeWork, you choose to be part of something more ‘we’ than ‘me.’ People start coming together. They’ll see each other in the elevator; they talk in the stairways. There’s a thousand other things they do. Adam Neumann
If Spider-Man had to appear on the 90th floor of the Empire State Building, the crew would take the elevator up, open the window and say: ‘OK, Nicholas, out you go!’ There were no tricks or computer effects. Nicholas Hammond
I came from dinner, went downtown with my friends, the elevator was down, I ran down the hall toward my room at 10 at night, having had two glasses of wine. Jill Clayburgh
What’s a space elevator? Simply described, it’s a thin ribbon, about 3 feet wide and 60 thousand miles long, stretching upwards from the surface of the Earth. The lower end is bolted to a heavy anchor (think of an oil drilling platform), and the top is capped with a counterweight. Seth Shostak
There’s a lot for us to achieve and a lot more music to explore. I’m not saying we want to start doing experimental prog or something, where it turns into elevator music after a few records, but I don’t think we’ve even scratched the surface. Jim Root
It wouldn’t be believable to show an elevator stuck for five minutes in the U.S. today. Varun Sandesh
Complete strangers can stand silent next to each other in an elevator and not even look each other in the eye. But at a concert, those same strangers could find themselves dancing and singing together like best friends. That’s the power of music. LZ Granderson
If you have more money than your lifestyle, then you can either do something stupid or smart. That’s not much of a choice. That’s like saying, ‘You are on the roof. you can either take the elevator, or you can jump.’ That’s not a choice. Manoj Bhargava
The reason I quit being a sales manager over twenty years now is because I hate elevator pitches. I want to write stories and show people what’s in them when they read them, not tell them all about it ahead of time. Kurt Busiek
When we automated away the elevator operator function, who knew that all the descendants of those operators would become social media marketers, machine learning engineers, and all these other jobs that we didn’t even have a language to describe back then. Andrew Ng
You get on an elevator with someone, you say hi to them, you speak to them. You give respect. That’s just how I’ve always been. Quinn Cook
Luckily, unreasonable expectations go hand in hand with naive young scientists. The more naive the better – otherwise we would never have the audacity to try and build a 22,000-mile-high space elevator or some sprawling underwater hotel. Daniel H. Wilson
Certain things make me anxious. God forbid I get stuck in an elevator. Elizabeth Vargas
When you wash your hands, when you make a cup of coffee, when you’re waiting for the elevator – instead of indulging in thinking, these are all opportunities for being there as a still, alert presence. Eckhart Tolle
I just love the idea of taking an elevator down to the stage, like Elvis did. Dusty Hill
My mother, who graduated from high school at sixteen, had no hope of affording college, so she went to work in the local post office for a dollar a day. She was doing better than her father, who earned ten cents an hour working at a nearby grain elevator. Tom Brokaw
I couldn’t fart in an elevator without people wanting to sue me. Tommy Morrison
We’re very specific when we’re drawing work plans. We think about the chances of when a person gets off the elevator where they will go. We think about how people get to a coffee machine, when they go and get their lunch, when they go to the bathroom. Miguel McKelvey
I used to think that if I didn’t have time to do an hour long workout class, there wasn’t any point in exercising. But now, I make sure to do a little something every day: a brisk walk for 10 minutes, climbing stairs instead of taking the elevator. Then a few times a week, I do a longer workout. Bobbi Brown
I moved to New York in 1980, and I met Beth Henley, who’s a marvellous playwright and who I have a real personal and professional association with, in 1982. I met her in a stalled elevator – we were the only two people in there – and she’s been one of my very dearest friends since. Holly Hunter
I think if you have a two-story office and you hire someone who’s handicapped, it might be reasonable to let him have an office on the first floor rather than the government saying you have to have a $100,000 elevator. Rand Paul
Hold the door for a lady. Wait until a lady is out of the elevator. Waris Ahluwalia
Remember, I am not trying to orbit the earth. It is a simple elevator ride for 20 minutes. Brian Walker
I have crazy claustrophobic dreams, weird elevator dreams where the elevator closes in and all of a sudden I am lying down – oh my God, it’s a casket. Just freaky stuff like that. Dave Grohl
After two terms as California’s Governator, Schwarzenegger slipped comfortably back into pictures with ‘The Last Stand,’ a modern Western, then crammed into the wide screen, as if it were a service elevator, with fellow ’80s muscle car Sylvester Stallone in ‘Escape Plan.’ Richard Corliss
I really liked the helicopter pilot in ‘Dawn of the Dead’, when he gets bitten and comes out of the elevator. That guy was amazing. He did this incredible walk that we didn’t even know about until we started shooting. George A. Romero
I grew up around religious and elevator music. I didn’t know any better, so I just thought music was kind of bland. So I didn’t listen to much as kid. Kim Shattuck
I spend so much of my day at work. I would like to have the workplace be part of a healthier strategy. Reminding me more about walking the steps rather than taking that elevator. Not just promoting healthier food in the cafeteria, but providing information on healthier choices. I use it when I look at the alternatives. Harvey V. Fineberg
After seeing ‘Big,’ I wanted an elevator that opened directly into my apartment, just like Tom Hanks did. Macaulay Culkin
I don’t know Sally Jenkins. I’ve met her once. I wouldn’t know her in an elevator. Daniel Snyder
Marty Baron, ‘The Post’s executive editor, stopped me in the elevator lobby late one debate night and suggested we look into the Trump Foundation specifically. I also became interested in researching Trump’s broader history of charity. David Fahrenthold
When you’re listening to radio and hear the same 20 songs over and over and over, you want a break from it. Sometimes you don’t want to hear something that sounds just like everything else on the radio. Eventually, if you hear the same sounds and the same musicians and the same mixes and all of that, it will start to sound like elevator music. Randy Houser
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
We lived in the projects in Brooklyn, the elevator used to be broken, and we used to walk up 20 flights of steps and then walk down. Brian Flores
Walking is a great way to exercise, and we can find ways to take additional steps each day by parking a car farther away from a destination, climbing stairs instead of taking the elevator or escalator, and walking during occasional breaks from sitting at a desk. Margaret Cuomo
People recognize me, but they don’t know where from. Today I was in the elevator and somebody asked me if I worked for his company. Michael Ian Black
If I have to move up in a building, I choose the elevator over the escalator. Because one time I was riding the escalator and I tripped. I fell down the stairs for an hour and a half. Demetri Martin
A few push-ups during breaks at work, walking to the grocery store, and opting to use the stairs instead of the elevator are all great ways to exercise. David Kirsch
Part of any book is establishing the rules at the end of the world. My first book, ‘The Intuitionist,’ takes place in an alternative world where elevator inspectors are important, so you have to establish rules, and part of that is, How do people talk? How do they behave? Colson Whitehead
One day, we were going to the studio for John’s recording session, and as we were leaving to get to the studio, in the elevator, all of a sudden, John leaned over and gave me a kiss. He said, ‘I’ve been waiting to do this all day.’ I said, ‘What are you talking about?’ What happened was, he’d liked me. May Pang
Taking the stairs instead of an elevator, walking to an appointment rather than taking a bus, subway or taxi, and spending times outdoors in warm and sunny weather are all easy ways to increase daily physical activity. Margaret Cuomo
One of the most gratifying things I get as an artist is when people watch me do these different demonstrations, and they in some way feel empowered by what I’m doing so they can confront their own fears. Maybe it’s the fear of getting in an elevator; maybe it’s the fear of going on a plane and seeing the world. Criss Angel
Before, I would play a little hoops, a little tennis. Now it’s more yoga, Pilates, stretching, some light weight work, push-ups, sit-ups, resistance things. When I used to live on the eleventh floor, I would take the steps. I don’t do that so much now. I’m taking the elevator a bit more these days. Robin Roberts
I like what I see now in China, but I think the Japanese are a step ahead into craziness and weirdness. I go to galleries there that are the size of a New York elevator, and every time I’m surprised by the amazing things I find. I really hope I’ll be able to promote some of these artists, to show their work in the West. Jean Pigozzi
The last three books are much more a case of a moment of history, what happened almost by accident or coincidence, like being in the same elevator or lifeboat. Michael Ondaatje
I was all-state in four sports in New Jersey, but sometimes I couldn’t get served at a restaurant two blocks from my high school. There were no job opportunities then… the only thing a black youth could aspire to be was a bellboy or a pullman or an elevator operator, or, maybe, a teacher. There was a time when all we had was black baseball. Monte Irvin
What I treasure the most is people coming up to me in the elevator and saying, ‘You really did a great job’: neighbours who congratulate for a job well done or little fans who hug me and say they want to be like me. Jackie Shroff
One of my books is a hallucinogen, an aphrodisiac, a mood elevator, an intellectual garage door opener, and a metaphysical trash compactor. They’ll do everything except rotate your tires. Tom Robbins
Before the show, we see all these radio people, and most of them say, ‘Garth, you’re a lot calmer than I thought you were gonna be.’ But when the members of the band give one another that handshake, and the lights go out, and the crowd goes up, then you’re sliding into the elevator, man, your heart is just going bopbopbopbopbop. Garth Brooks
When I go to my health club, and it’s in the basement, you have to take the elevator down. And this drives me crazy. Why can’t there be a stairway? At least make it as easy to exercise as it is to not exercise. It’s in society’s interest for me to take the stairs. Malcolm Gladwell
Any time I’m trying to find that groove on a big tempo song, I go back and listen to some Aerosmith records. ‘Love in an Elevator,’ ‘Rag Doll,’ all that stuff was really great music. It’s something that I still dig and go back and listen to. Chris Young
I cannot switch my voice. My voice is not like an elevator going up and down. Maria Callas
I didn’t feel the tusk go through me. But I did feel this sort of freight elevator coming down, popping the chicken bones, you know. It blinded me. Everything was black. It was bright noon day sun. You mustn’t get walked on by elephants. Peter Beard
I was 24 yesterday. Suddenly you wake up, and you get on the elevator, and there’s a mirror there. And you look in the mirror, and you’re an old man. Charles Nelson Reilly
I was allowed to write about race using an elevator metaphor because of Toni Morrison and David Bradley and Ralph Ellison. Hopefully, me being weird allows someone who’s 16 and wanting to write inspires them to have their own weird take on the world, and they can see the different kinds of African American voices being published. Colson Whitehead
When we was making a song called ‘Bring Da Ruckus,’ we took the snare, and we put it in an elevator shaft and recorded it. Rza
I have an elbow that bends the wrong way, and I’d do things like stand in an elevator and the doors would close, and I’d pretend that my arm had got caught in it, and then I’d scream, ‘Ow, ow, put it back!’ Geena Davis
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
I still remember the days, not wanting to see anybody, not wanting to talk to anybody, really not wanting to live. I was on an express elevator to the bottom floor, wherever that might be. Michael Phelps
There are so few jobs for comedians on networks, that taxi TV and elevator TV and all this stuff are what I and every other comedian now are gunning for. Scott Rogowsky
Me and my roommate wrote and directed a little short comedy called ‘The Elevator.’ Heather Morris
On any given vote, on any given day, a smart senator who has taken a bold or controversial position can reach far more media outlets between the elevator and the Senate chamber than he or she could garner in a full press conference back home. Jim Webb
It’s so much easier to go to the Sony movie complex when you’re disabled. You take a great elevator. You get your own little private viewing area. I love it. Michael Zaslow
I remember when I was in ‘Rent,’ Daphne Rubin-Vega threw a party. At the time, she had a loft in TriBeCa, and the elevator opened right into her apartment. I was like, ‘I’ve never seen anything like that.’ I didn’t know it was possible. Leslie Odom, Jr.
I’m much better known in France and Germany and Spain than I am in the U.S. When I go to Russia, I get mobbed; I have groups of fans waiting for me out in the hotel lobby, waiting for me to come down off the elevator. In China, I almost got beat up because people were trying to get me to do a drawing for them. Bill Plympton
People call me and ask me for advice all the time. On an elevator they tell me their problems. I think it’s in part because I’m Italian so I’m emotionally available and I have a friendly persona. Joyce DeWitt
The space elevator’s not just another competitive technology, promoted by people who simply like the idea of diminishing the luster of the thrusters. It would open wide the doors to space. Seth Shostak
I’ve taken clowns into the war in Bosnia, the refugee camps of Kosovo, and none of those are any more important than clowning in a subway or an elevator or just walking down the street. Patch Adams
If you travel to the States… they have a lot of different words than like what we use. For instance: they say ‘elevator’, we say ‘lift’; they say ‘drapes’, we say ‘curtains’; they say ‘president’, we say ‘seriously deranged git.’ Alexei Sayle
I went through all my electric bills, the water bills, the phone bills, elevator contracts, and I found enough wasteful spending without reducing any programs anywhere, without reducing any services, I found enough wasteful spending to pay my entire salary for three years. Thomas Massie
So, when you divide the world into music lovers, music fans and then those people who are just very casual about their music, it’s wallpaper to them, it’s elevator music, it’s just the thing that’s playing in the background that helps them through their day. Michael Stipe
I love doing scenes with two actors in an elevator, but sometimes I’m a little boy, and I like swinging a sword with 800 soldiers around. Michiel Huisman
Now, finally has the elevator arrived. The stairs was about to become a personal inferno. Anders Zorn
More and more research shows that chocolate is good for you. It’s a mood elevator. It contains a lot of antioxidants and will keep us younger. It’s good for your heart and acts like aspirin. It keeps your cholesterol low. Jacques Torres
Once, after I had just worked out, I hopped on the elevator at the gym only to look up and see Conan O’Brien on it with me. I was so sad. I was all sweaty, but I love him so much, and I couldn’t help but nerd out on him. Ashlan Gorse Cousteau
We’ve made elevator music of Jesus Christ. We’ve made Him the most boring, bland, blah person; and He was the most revolutionary man. John Eldredge
I remember riding the Space Needle and going up in the elevator and being scared, but thinking, ‘This is going to be like going up a launch tower,’ and so I would sit there and try to face that fear. Anne McClain
Never take an elevator in city hall. Harvey Milk
When I was a little girl, my father, who was a high-ranking officer, pilot, and an avionics specialist in the United States military, would hoist me up onto the elevator – the flight control surface located at the tail of his airplane. From up there I could get a glimpse of the world as he saw it. Harris Faulkner
Sometimes I’ll be in an elevator and I’ll hear a corny instrumental version of ‘Light My Fire.’ John Densmore
I will say that walking down the street, getting on the subway, taking the elevator, if there’s one or two people and they say, ‘Great job, Mayor,’ that is a real turn-on. I mean, anybody that wouldn’t find that satisfying, rewarding, exciting, thrilling – I think they should see the doctor. Michael Bloomberg
One job I did turn down was ‘How I Met Your Mother.’ My character was ‘creepy gay guy.’ That was the character. The script said, ‘Creepy gay guy gets in elevator every day with Jason Segel character and he’s just being creepy.’ Leslie Jordan
Someone knocks at the door of an apartment to borrow salt or sugar, people run into each other in the elevator, and in this way become inscribed in the spectator’s memory. Krzysztof Kieslowski
The average person pushes an elevator button 6 or 7 minutes before realizing it’s not working. I did a study on this, you know. Don Rickles
The magnificent lobby of the Chrysler Building – faced with rare marbles, aglitter with decorative metalwork, and surmounted by a ceiling painted with a totemic image of the tower itself – leads to elevator cabs inlaid with exotic woods in fanciful patterns. The entire route from street to office is invested with ceremony, dignity, and delight. Martin Filler
My dad is a really cool guy, but he showed me ‘The Shining,’ and I was like, ‘Hey, dad. I’m thirsty. Let’s go get a Coke.’ So we went to the vending machine, and he hid… and I turned back, and I was like, ‘Dad? Dad?’ And the elevator scene came to my mind. Daniel Zovatto