Top 268 Spiral Staircases Quotes & Sayings

Growth is a spiral process, doubling back on itself, reassessing and regrouping.

Let's stop this American downward spiral.

You can get a much better fee - I tell you as auditors quite frankly - it's much easier to get a great deal of money out of somebody who's on a down spiral into becoming MEST than it is to get money out of somebody who is going on an up spiral toward becoming theta.

Stress is a downward spiral, and you can only overcome it with a positive perspective.

There are people who look forward to spending their sunset years in the sunshine; it is my own retirement dream to await my death indoors, dragging strangers up dusty staircases while coughing up one of the most thrilling phrases in the English language: 'It was on this spot…' My fantasy is to one day become a docent.

There's no escalators - there's only staircases to success. There is no substitute for hard work.

When someone is denying what they are, then that's when things start to spiral down.

In matters of climbing long staircases, how many stairs there are is not as important as how strong a will you have!

To be fair, Republicans are not blameless. The deficit began to spiral out of control on President Bush's watch.

I knew 'Hurt' way before Dad recorded it. In 1992, 'Downward Spiral' was one of my favorite albums.

I tend to spiral out of control if I'm not working. I get panicked and don't know what to do with myself.

It's for real though, let's connect, politic...ditto! We could trade places, get lifted in the staircases, Word up, peace, incarcerated scarfaces.

People have gone down this spiral of cancel culture and the idea that everything is offensive.

There really isn't a recovery, and no signs of it on the horizon, because people have to pay the banks. It's a vicious circle - or rather, a downward spiral.

Many a man may look respectable, and yet be able to hide at will behind a spiral staircase.

For in grief nothing "stays put." One keeps on emerging from a phase, but it always recurs. Round and round. Everything repeats. Am I going in circles, or dare I hope I am on a spiral? But if a spiral, am I going up or down it? How often -- will it be for always? -- how often will the vast emptiness astonish me like a complete novelty and make me say, "I never realized my loss till this moment"? The same leg is cut off time after time.

Style-wise, Valle Nevado is what can only be described as 'hip international.' Brazilians, Chileans and Europeans make the place seem like an electronic music festival transported to an remote Andean valley. Huge speakers blare out thumping, bass-heavy music, while promotoras stalk the staircases selling everything from Red Bull to mobile phones.

Though both are bound in the spiral dance, I would rather be a cyborg than a goddess.

Goethe has made a remark upon the perfectability of the human mind, which is full of sagacity: It is always advancing, but in a spiral line.

Things don't spiral out of control when we surrender them; they spiral out of control when we try to control them!

The downward spiral of Dumbness in America is about to hit a new low.

When you're No. 8 in the world, then you start losing some matches, I think it was the first time in my career my confidence went down, and from there it was a downward spiral.

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.

London underground took me on a tour of all the hidden places, the disused shafts and staircases... that was very interesting.

On the other hand, if someone praised [Donald] Trump, he would respond with praise. This could result in creating a spiral in either a positive or negative direction. A negative spiral could potentially get out of hand, which would be alarming with regard to anyone with a hand hovering near the nuclear button.

The spiral is a spiritualized circle. In the spiral form, the circle, uncoiled, has ceased to be vicious; it has been set free.

The Spiral Gallery may happen, too. It is not dependent on government funding.

President Obama, I think, wanted what was best for the country, but I think it didn't work well. I think we have the death spiral, and I think particularly premiums in the individual market are going through the roof. Republicans want what's best for the country, but I think they're not fixing the death spiral of Obamacare. They're going to subsidize it with a lot of taxpayer money. So, characterizing something as mean or generous I think goes to people's motives, and I think it is sort of why we have such an angry country now. We think that people have ill motives.

I don't know that there are haunted houses. I know that there are dark staircases and haunted people.

Be suspicious of any work that is not building product or getting customers. It's easy to get sucked into an infrastructure rewrite death spiral.

I was throwing a spiral football at 6.

All motion is curved and all curvature is spiral.

The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy.

In 1980, business at my company, Chuck E. Cheese's, was thriving and I was feeling flush. So I bought a very large house on the Champ de Mars in Paris, right between the Eiffel Tower and the Ecole Militaire. The home was quite amazing: At six stories, it spanned 15,000 square feet and featured marble staircases and a swimming pool in the basement.

Loneliness can become a downward spiral.

I always figured I myself would never be lucky enough to die, I'd just live on and on in this increasingly dreary spiral.

Execution halts your breath, helter skelter spiral death.

The growth of understanding follows an ascending spiral rather than a straight line.

Silence is the root of everything. If you spiral into its void a hundred voices will thunder messages you long to hear.

I love the French detective series 'Spiral.' It's quite brutal to watch, but I'm already hooked.

If you ever take your foot off the gas pedal, things will spiral out of control, snowball downwards.

The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it.

As the spiral of modern art history continues to wind down, we can see the increasing demand for tradition in the visual arts.

Short term, the most important thing is to put people back to work ... If they're working, that means they're paying taxes, that means that they're buying goods and services - and the economy, instead of being on a downward spiral, starts back up on an upward spiral.

The spiral in a snail's shell is the same mathematically as the spiral in the Milky Way galaxy, and it's also the same mathematically as the spirals in our DNA. It's the same ratio that you'll find in very basic music that transcends cultures all over the world.

I loved ghost stories, creaky staircases, stormy nights. If it guaranteed nightmares I read it by flashlight, after midnight.

Once you start to spiral a company down, you lose the momentum.

Rockets often spiral out of control if you put too much propellant in them.

When you come from so many damaged places you don't ever want to spiral back there, so you gotta continue to check yourself.

Once I tried to make a standardization of staircases. Probably that is one of the oldest of the standardizations. Of course, we design new staircase steps every day in connection with all our houses, but a standardized step depends on the height of the buildings and on all kinds of things.

Tricky the paths a long love might follow, like the spiral down twists of a raindrop on a windowpane.

My '24' death obviously sent Jack Bauer into a huge downward spiral.

By admitting a mistake, it is easier to get yourself out of a spiral.

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.

Success is not arriving at the summit of a mountain as a final destination. It is a continuing upward spiral of progress. It is perpetual growth.

In fact, the wage-price spiral is the functional counterpart of unemployment. The latter occurs when there is insufficient demand; the spiral operates when there is too much and also,unfortunately, when there is just enough.

Up close the city constitutes an oppressive series of staircases, but from a distance it inspires fantasies of wealth and power so profound that even our communists are temporarily rendered speechless.

I have an addictive personality. Boarding school merely sent me more quickly on the downward spiral that dominated my childhood.

Spiral minds are harder to twist.

My body structure ensures that if I do not watch what I eat, my weight tends to spiral crazily out of control.