Stops Dropped

Famous quotes containing the words stops and/or dropped:

    “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)

    “I wonder what subtle form of manslaughter is next on the program. Am I to be dropped into a vat of molten steel and become part of a new skyscraper, or are you going to ask this female to kiss me again and poison me to death?”
    —Ernest Lehman (b.1920)