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Letter "E" » escalator
«Thousands stand and chant. Around them in the world, people ride escalators going up and sneak secret glances at the faces coming down. People dangle teabags over hot water in white cups. Cars run silently on the autobahns, streaks of painted light. People sit at desks and stare at office walls. They smell their shirts and drop them in the hamper. People bind themselves into numbered seats and fly across time zones and high cirrus and deep night, knowing there is something they've forgotten to do.»
«The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self-service populace, and all our specious comforts --the automatic elevator, the escalator, the cafeteria --are depriving us of volition and moral and physical energy.»
Author: Edward Dahlberg
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
automatic, cafeteria, cafeterias, comforts, depriving, elevator, Elevators, escalator, escalators, merchant, populace, self-service, self interest, specious, volition
«An escalator can never break: it can only become stairs. You would never see an Escalator Temporarily Out Of Order sign, just Escalator Temporarily Stairs. Sorry for the convenience.»
Author: Mitch Hedberg
(Comedian)
| Keywords:
convenience, conveniences, escalator, escalators, out of order, sorry, sorry for, stair, stairs, temporarily, up the stairs
«I met this wonderful girl at Macy's. She was buying clothes and I was putting Slinkies on the escalator.»
Author: Stephen Wright
(Actor, Writer)
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Relationships
| Keywords:
buying, clothes, escalator, escalators, met, putting
«There was a power outage at a department store yesterday. Twenty people were trapped on the escalators.»
Author: Stephen Wright
(Actor, Writer)
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department, departments, Department of, department store, Department Stores, escalator, escalators, outage, power outage, store, stored up, storing, There was, trapped, trapping, twenty, yesterday
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