Elevator/design

Famous quotes containing the words elevator and/or design:

“The cigar-box which the European calls a “lift” needs but to be compared with our elevators to be appreciated. The lift stops to reflect between floors. That is all right in a hearse, but not in elevators. The American elevator acts like the man’s patent purge—it works”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

“What but design of darkness to appall?—
If design govern in a thing so small.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)