Upstairs Quotes

• Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check.

  M. C. Escher

  Art, Thinking, Impossible

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• Maybe since I was 35 years old it was time to go upstairs.

  Wellington Mara

  Years

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• I don't have a formal home recording studio, but I can record tracks on my computer upstairs in my office.

  Huey Lewis

  Home, Track, Office

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• I always performed when I was a child. My parents got very annoyed, because my brother and I had our little bedrooms upstairs, and I would plaster the house with posters with arrows pointing upstairs.

  Franka Potente

  Brother, Children, Arrows

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

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• I write in the afternoon, from about 12 until 6 or 7. I use an upstairs room as my office. Once I get going I keep at it, and it usually takes about six months from the first blank screen until 'The End.

  Lee Child

  Writing, Office, Six Months

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• His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants' hall.

  James M. Barrie

  Equality, May, Servant

  The Admirable Crichton (performed 1902, pubd. 1914) act 1

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• We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.

  Tennessee Williams

  Fire, House, Looks

  Tennessee Williams (1971). “The Theatre of Tennessee Williams: The milk train doesn't stop here anymore. Kingdom of Earth (The seven descents of Myrtle). Small craft warnings. The two-character play”, p.107, New Directions Publishing

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• The secret to a happy marriage is if you can be at peace with someone within four walls, if you are content because the one you love is near to you, either upstairs or downstairs, or in the same room, and you feel that warmth that you don't find very often, then that is what love is all about.

  Bruce Forsyth

  Love, Inspirational, Marriage

  ""Even now I have to pinch myself we are together": Bruce Forsyth on 30 years of wedded bliss". www.mirror.co.uk. January 12, 2013.

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• Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second.

  Robert Frost

  Writing, Talking, House

  Robert Frost, Lawrance Roger Thompson (1964). “Selected letters”

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• I came up stairs into the world, for I was born in a cellar.

  William Congreve

  World, Born, Cellars

  'Love for Love' (1695) act 2, sc. 7

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• I finally figured it out, I finally figured out how to find some peace and happiness. I sure would hate for the man upstairs to take me now. But at least I did figure it out.

  Lewis Grizzard

  Hate, Men, Aging

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• I thought the only way you can get into things is... through the basement... exactly where my studio was ... I could creep upstairs and snatch at things, and bring them down with me... where I could munch away at them.

  Paula Rego

  Way, Creeps, Basements

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• Lots of people today would never consider themselves guilty of idolatry as far as it is spelled out in the Ten Commandments, but by reducing God to some benevolent "man upstairs" whose only attributes are love and tolerance, and who could not care less about sin, they truly have transgressed God's commandment. They have created a god in their mind who does not actually exist and will on the day of judgment, not be able to offer them any help.

  Charlie Campbell

  Men, People, Tolerance

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• Today Google celebrated its 13th anniversary.... That's right, Google turned 13 years old. Which explains why today when I searched for something, Google was just like, "I don't know. Stop asking me questions! I'm going upstairs.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Years, Google, Asking

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• I'm still here. I'm a force to be reckoned with... you have to come take my spot, and not through Twitter and not through the media, come take my spot. I'm ready to go. As big men in the league, there are two who have done something special during this millennium. I'm one and Tim Duncan is the other. Anyone else has to come upstairs and see the Shogun. I'm still the Shogun.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Men, Two

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• The worship of God....should be free at table, in private rooms, downstairs, upstairs, at home, abroad, in all places, by all peoples, at all times

  Martin Luther

  Home, Tables, Rooms

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• I've done loads of things people have never seen, dramas on BBC4 and plays upstairs at the Royal Court and the Bush, and because I didn't go to drama school, they gave me an education.

  Rafe Spall

  Drama, School, Play

  "Rafe Spall: from fat to fit". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. January 19, 2013.

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• I was born imagining myself with an apron on, with pies cooling on the window sill and babies crying upstairs. I thought that all that stuff would somehow anchor me to the planet, that it was the weight I needed to keep from just flying off into space.

  Carrie Fisher

  Baby, Anchors, Pie

  Carrie Fisher (2011). “Postcards From the Edge”, p.90, Simon and Schuster

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• With two sons born eighteen months apart, I operated mainly on automatic pilot through the ceaseless activity of their early childhood. I remember opening the refrigerator late one night and finding a roll of aluminum foil next to a pair of small red tennies. Certain that I was responsible for the refrigerated shoes, I quickly closed the door and ran upstairs to make sure I had put the babies in their cribs instead of the linen closet.

  Mary Blakely

  Baby, Son, Night

  Mary Kay Blakely (1995). “American Mom: Motherhood, Politics, and Humble Pie”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• Those people upstairs think that Karl Marx was somebody who wrote a good anti-trust law.

  Warren Beatty

  Trust, Thinking, Law

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• The man upstairs is pushing the buttons, and if your name happens to be on that button, well, thank you.

  Mario Andretti

  Men, Names, Pushing

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• For every veteran who goes through a divorce, a wife goes through one, too. For every veteran alone in the basement, there is a wife upstairs, bewildered, isolated and in despair from the dark clouds of war that hangs over family life.

  Karl Marlantes

  War, Divorce, Dark

  Karl Marlantes (2011). “What It Is Like to Go to War”, p.193, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Glory never arrives through the front door. She sneaks in uninvited round the back or through an upstairs window while you are sleeping.

  Stephen Fry

  Sleep, Doors, Sneak In

  Stephen Fry (2011). “Moab Is My Washpot”, p.48, Soho Press

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• The problem is these days people don't watch television together. The husband is downstairs watching The Game and the wife is upstairs watching The Good Wife. They don't need a show they can watch together. What family dramas are on now that are working?

  Warren Leight

  Husband, Drama, Games

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• What daughter thinks of her parents in flagrante delicto? Yet, my mother, even after years with him, dropped hints such as, 'You know, your father enjoys his matinees.' I never even saw them go to the movies together. What could she mean? All those afternoons, I thought she was upstairs listening to La Traviata, and those high notes apparently were not coming from the radio.

  Joy Behar

  Daughter, Mother, Sex

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