Upside Down Quotes - Page 9

• He thought of trying to explain something he had recently noticed about himself: that if anyone insulted him, or one of his friends, he didn't really mind--or not much, anyway. Whereas if anyone insulted a novel, a story, a poem that he loved, something visceral and volcanic occurred within him. He wasn't sure what this might mean--except perhaps that he had got life and art mixed up, back to front, upside down.

  Julian Barnes

  Art, Mean, Insulted Him

  "Homage To Hemingway" by Julian Barnes, www.newyorker.com. July 4, 2011.

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• Sometimes it was tough doing take after take upside down! I did a lot of that sort of thing.

  John Astin

  Tough, Sometimes

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• People whose lives are upside down often read fiction. When you're not sure where you'll end up or how you are going to be, and you're looking for some way forward, fiction is a great friend.

  Anne Enright

  Way Forward, People, Fiction

  Interview with Conan Putnam, www.believermag.com. January, 2014.

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• Creatures that hang themselves up like an old rag, to sleep;
  And disgustingly upside down.
  Hanging upside down like rows of disgusting old rags
  And grinning in their sleep.
  Bats!

  D. H. Lawrence

  Sleep, Rags, Bats

  D.H. Lawrence (2016). “Snake and Other Poems”, p.51, Courier Dover Publications

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• Fear is cruel and mean. The political reigns of terror have been reigns of madness and malignity,--a total perversion of opinion;society is upside down, and its best men are thought too bad to live.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fear, Mean, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.130, Harvard University Press

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• The Church desperately needs people of joy and zeal. Show me a church that is consistently obedient to this single command, and I will show you a church that is turning its world upside down.

  Josh Hunt

  People, Joy, Church

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• Grace is thickly counter-intuitive. It feels risky and unfair. It's dangerous and disorderly. It wrestles control out of our hands. It is wild and unsettling. It turns everything that makes sense to us upside-down and inside-out.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Hands, Grace, Down And

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• If in all ideology men and their circumstances appear upside-down as in a camera obscura, this phenomenon arises just as much from their historical life-process as the inversion of objects on the retina does from the physical life-process.

  Friedrich Engels

  Men, Historical, Cameras

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1970). “The German Ideology”, p.47, INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHERS CO

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• [Roger] Vadim became famous worldwide as a director, and I as an actress, but the other side of the coin was terrible. My life was totally turned upside down. I was followed, spied upon, adored, insulted. My private life became public.

  Brigitte Bardot

  Directors, Coins, Roger

  "Brigitte Bardot on Cannes, celebrity and career". CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. May 24, 2007.

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• I think what we need to do is to step back as a society and say okay, we've kind of turned things upside-down. We have moved away from the nuclear family, in which the man always works and the woman stays home. How are we going to rearrange things now? We've done the first part of the revolution, we've turned everything on its head, but we haven't figured out what structures will actually work in this new world.

  Debora Spar

  Home, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• How easy it is for a fantasy to grab hold of your foot like a rope, and dangle your life upside down while brigands go through your pockets. Deal with the life you've got. Solve the problems you have, rather than fantasizing about a life without them.

  Bill James

  Feet, Pockets, Rope

  "The Professor of Baseball" by Ben McGrath, www.newyorker.com. July 14, 2003.

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• The mind wraps itself around a poem. It is almost sensual, particularly if you work on a computer. You can turn the poem round and about and upside down, dancing with it a kind of bolero of two snakes twisting and coiling, until the poem has found its right and proper shape.

  Marge Piercy

  Snakes, Two, Dancing

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• Learning about ourselves is rather inconvenient because it turns the world we live in upside down.

  Peter Kingsley

  World, Turns, Inconvenient

  Peter Kingsley (2003). “Reality”, The Golden Sufi Center

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• At the time the world was all upside down. The American people were beginning to move around a lot. The old hometown ties had been pretty much broken. The theme of Farmer Takes a Wife appealed to people. Everybody was homesick. And it sold and sold and sold.

  John Gould

  Moving, Ties, People

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• It certainly seems too simple to say what I am going to say, yet it is almost as if you would be better off turning the entire rational approach upside down, taking it for granted that all of its assumptions were false, for they are indeed more false than true.

  Seth

  Simple, Would Be, Assumption

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• When I first discovered it it was so weird because I was doing all these positions, they're called Asanas, and I was thinking 'But I used to do this when I was a kid. I used to do shoulder stands and upside down positions.' So I think I used to do it as a child subconsciously, but not knowing what it actually was.

  Jayne Middlemiss

  Children, Kids, Thinking

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• The awesome thing about lettering - which is different from many forms of art - is that you can actually see your mistakes. There are sophomore mistakes that people do at the beginning that you spot everywhere. For example, a lot of people make 'W's by turning 'M's upside down.

  Jessica Hische

  Art, Mistake, People

  Source: www.digitalartsonline.co.uk

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• It was practically with people with strings. There was no CG involved, it was just painfully taking Collin [Farrell] and Jessica Biel and putting them upside-down, we built the set upside-down and just try to twist perspective to make it all seem like zero gravity. And it was one of the most difficult things I've ever shot.

  Len Wiseman

  Zero, Perspective, People

  Source: collider.com

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• Where race is involved, there is a pronounced and proven tendency in the United States for the majority culture to willfully misremember the history and turn it upside down.

  Taylor Branch

  Race, Majority, United States

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Our upside down welfare state is socialism for the rich, free enterprise for the poor.

  William O. Douglas

  Socialism, Rich, Welfare

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• Yet in truth the big question Camus asked was never the Anglo-American liberal one: How can we make the world a little bit better tomorrow? It was the grander French one: Why not kill yourself tonight? That the answers come to much the same thing in the end-easy does it; tomorrow may be a bit better than today; and, after all, you have to have a little faith in people-doesn't diminish the glamour that clings to the man who turned the question over and look at it, elegantly, upside down.

  Adam Gopnik

  Men, People, Littles

  "Fascinating history" by Adam Gopnik, www.newyorker.com. April 9, 2012.

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• A pioneer is a man who turned all the grass upside down, strung bob-wire over the dust that was left, poisoned the water, cut down the trees, killed the Indian who owned the land and called it progress.

  Charles Marion Russell

  Cutting, Men, Dust

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• It was a very, very strange experience to go through on social media. Before that, my social media life had been very tame. I had only just dipped my toes in the world of Twitter and was throwing out a tweet, here and there, of very boring and normal stuff. All of a sudden, Pornstache just turned my world upside down.

  Pablo Schreiber

  Media, Here And There, World

  Source: collider.com

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• I sketch the faces upside down because it's like drawing from the left side of the brain or the right side of the brain. I never took an art lesson in my life.

  Stevie Nicks

  Art, Drawing, Brain

  Source: www.fleetwoodmacnews.com

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• The idea that laws decide what is right or wrong is mistaken in general. Laws are, at their best, an attempt to achieve justice; to say that laws define justice or ethical conduct is turning things upside down.

  Richard Stallman

  Law, Ideas, Justice

  Richard Stallman (2002). “Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman”, p.157, Lulu.com

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