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

  Wellington Mara

  Years

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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 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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• 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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• 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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• When an elevator brings u upstairs, you better send it back down in order to bring others up!

  Dikembe Mutombo

  Order, Elevators

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• The music is the message, the message is the music. So that's my little ministry that the Big Man upstairs gave to me - a little ministry called love and happiness.

  Al Green

  Men, Happiness And Love, Ministry

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• Sometimes I thank God for unanswered prayers. Remember when you're talkin' to the man upstairs; that just because he doesn't answer doesn't mean he don't care. Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers

  Garth Brooks

  Prayer, Mean, Men

  Song: Unanswered Prayers

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• I reveled in the smallness, the coziness of an upstairs bedroom in a traditional American Cape Cod house the half-floor that forces you to duck, to feel small and naive again, ready for anything, dying for love, your body a chimney filled with odd, black smoke. These square, squat, awkward rooms are like a fifty-square-foot paean to teenage-hood, to ripeness, to the first and last taste of youth.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Teenage, Love You, Ducks

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• My ceiling's broken, my car's got a puncture and we've just lost two matches. But I've got my health and I'll ask the big man upstairs why he didn't give us a point.

  Ian Holloway

  Men, Two, Car

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• I don’t have a photograph, but you can have my footprints. They’re upstairs in my socks.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

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• It makes me feel kind of weird, but obviously the Man Upstairs gave me something and it touches people, and I'm just so blessed.

  Eddie Van Halen

  Blessed, Men, People

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• After that, he tried to go upstairs through the broom cupboard, and then the yard. This seemed to puzzle him a little. But finally he discovered the stairs, all except the bottom on, and fell up them on his face. The whole castle shook.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Yards, Castles, Littles

  Diana Wynne Jones (2002). “Wizard's Castle”

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• Even now, Dickon was upstairs, writing sonnets to his new love, while back at Seadown House, Marianne was writing 'Ella' on scraps of paper and then burning them.

  Jessica Day George

  Writing, House, Burning

  Jessica Day George (2010). “Princess of Glass”, p.145, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in solitude, distant noises of gurgling cisterns and pipes, and the noise of wind under the tiles. Also, of endless books.

  C. S. Lewis

  Book, Wind, Long

  C. S. Lewis (1966). “Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life”, p.20, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When you've got little kids, and you're tucking them in. When you open a door and they're in their pajamas and they're, you know, wrestling with you and asking you, you know, to read to them and stuff, [The white House] starts feeling like home pretty quick. Not to mention having a mother-in-law upstairs, and the dog, and now two.

  Barack Obama

  Mother, Dog, Kids

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Your Great-Aunt Muriel doesn't agree, I just met her upstairs while she was giving Fleur the tiara. "She said 'Oh dear, is this the muggle born?' and then, 'Bad posture, skinny ankles.'" Don't take it personally, she's rude to everyone," said Ron. "Talking about Muriel?" inquired George, reemerging from the marquee with Fred. "Yeah, she's just told me my ears are lopsided. Old bat.

  J. K. Rowling

  Aunt, Talking, Giving

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• I figured I would shoot the bullets out of my nostrils, so I left [the gun] upstairs.

  Veronica Roth

  Gun, Bullets, Tobias

  "Insurgent". Book by Veronica Roth, 2012.

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• I started on 'Saturday Night Live' the same time Conan started on 'Late Night.' We just had a relationship because I would be upstairs in the studio and whenever he couldn't get a guest - which was often back then since he was just starting out - he would just call me down to be a guest.

  Norm MacDonald

  Night, Would Be, Guests

  Interview with Andy Seifert, www.avclub.com. May 14, 2010.

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• I found that things weren't going well upstairs. Carter was a crumpled heap of chicken warrior on the slope of the pyramid.

  Rick Riordan

  Warrior, Pyramids, Chickens

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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