Upstairs Quotes - Page 4

• I terminated the interview when I didn't know what he was talking about and went upstairs to lunch.

  Graham Kennedy

  Talking, Lunch, Interviews

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

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• Wait a minute, words in the prompter, script on my desk, vending machine upstairs out of Funyuns... the writers are back!

  Jon Stewart

  Waiting, Machines, Scripts

  "Listening In as Writers Return to Late-Night Shows". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block, www.npr.org. February 14, 2008.

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• I have a picture of a rainy Paris street scene which I bought when I was 33 and on my first trip to Paris. I go past it when I go upstairs every night and it reminds me of that trip and makes me happy

  George Clooney

  Past, Night, Paris

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• The simple question 'What color do you want to paint that upstairs room?' might, if we follow things to their logical conclusions, be stated: 'How do I live, knowing that I will one day die and leave you?

  Donald Antrim

  Simple, Color, Knowing

  Donald Antrim (2011). “The Verificationist: A Novel”, p.11, Macmillan

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• I know that atmosphere of the Parisian apartment building, with the twin menaces of the concierge on the ground floor and the landlord upstairs.

  Roman Polanski

  Atmosphere, Twins, Building

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• Our skin colours may vary, but what's upstairs - there's certain things we've all got in common.

  Billy Gibbons

  Skins, May, Common

  "David Lynch and ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons dream about machines" by Michael Hann, www.theguardian.com. November 3, 2011.

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• Long ago, when Harry had been left alone while the Dursley's went out to enjoy themselves, the hours of solitude had been a rare treat: Pausing only to sneak something tasty from the fridge, he had rushed upstairs to play on Dudley's computer, or put on the television and flicked through the channels to his heart's content. It gave him an odd empty feeling to remember those times; it was like remembering a younger brother whom he had lost.

  J. K. Rowling

  Brother, Life Lesson, Heart

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• Old habits cannot be thrown out the upstairs window. They have to be coaxed downstairs one step at a time.

  Mark Twain

  Old Habits, Steps, Window

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• I used to pride myself on being impervious to the sentimentalities of soap opera, but when that loveliest of actresses, Rachel Gurney, of Upstairs, Downstairs, perished on the Titanic, I wept so convulsively and developed such anorexia that I had to be force-fed.

  S. J. Perelman

  Pride, Anorexia, Television

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• Dinner was meat - not hunks of meat, as in Australia, but pathetic scraps of meat, as in Britain - which the girls upstairs transformed into edible dishes by heating it in secret ways and adding bits of stuff to it.

  Clive James

  Funny, Girl, Humorous

  Clive James (2013). “The Complete Unreliable Memoirs”, p.286, Pan Macmillan

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• Sometimes we're at hotels, and I'll answer the phone. They'll say, 'Mr. Ripa, your breakfast is coming upstairs.' And I'm like, Is my father-in-law here? But, obviously, I'm proud either way - Ripa or Consuelos.

  Mark Consuelos

  Father, Phones, Law

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• As we celebrate mediocrity, all the boys upstairs want to see. How much you'll pay for what you used to get for free.

  Tom Petty

  Art, Boys, Media

  Song: The Last DJ, Album: The Last DJ

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• My name is Luka I live on the second floor. I live upstairs from you, yes, I think you've seen me before.

  Suzanne Vega

  Thinking, Names

  Song: Luka, Album: Solitude Standing

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• You can always create a fraction by putting one variable upstairs and another variable downstairs, but that soes not establish any causal relationship between them, nor does the resulting quotient have any necessary relationship to anything in the real world.

  Thomas Sowell

  Real, Science, Doe

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• I spend a lot of time working as a painter and in my studio I go from upstairs where I paint to downstairs where I play and record, so I get this thing crossing over.

  Andy Summers

  Play, Records, Paint

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• Never discuss the poem you contemplate writing. It's like turning on the outside spigot. It takes all the pressure off the upstairs bathroom.

  Robert Frost

  Writing, Silence, Pressure

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• Sometimes I work upstairs projecting the movies, and the rest of the time I'm just selling tickets or popcorn.

  Kyle Parker

  Popcorn, Tickets, Sometimes

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I don't believe that raising my voice in song is going to be pleasing to a God who is sitting upstairs somewhere, waiting to be pleased.

  Andrew Solomon

  Song, Believe, Voice

  Source: andrewsolomon.com

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• Women don't make the decisions in the media. Even if you see women on camera, they have to answer to the person upstairs, which is mostly men. Women only hold 3% of the decision-making offices in the media.

  Jane Fonda

  Men, Media, Office

  "Jane Fonda, Fitness Guru, Reveals What Inspires Her In Origin Magazine Interview". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 15, 2013.

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• If [Eva Braun] was crying upstairs, it wouldn't be long before [Adolf] Hitler would quietly excuse himself and then make things right. What he said to her, I don't know. Whether he said the words "I'm sorry," I don't know. But he was a charmer, he knew how to stop a woman from crying.

  Gretl Braun

  Sorry, Long, Cry

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• Go to bed, you fool," Calcifer said sleepily. "You're drunk." "Who, me?" said Howl. "I assure you, my friends, I am cone sold stober." He got up and stalked upstairs, feeling for the wall as if he thought it might escape him unless he kept in touch with it. His bedroom door did escape him.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Wall, Doors, Drunk

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

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• Life itself, she thought, as she went upstairs to dress for dinner, was stranger than dreams and far, far more disordered.

  Nancy Mitford

  Dream, Dresses, Dinner

  Nancy Mitford (2013). “Christmas Pudding and Pigeon Pie”, p.192, Vintage

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• My wife's dying upstairs and I can't do anything about it. I look in her face and I see the memories there. I see how I hurt her and how I said the wrong things and how I got angry and how I wasn't the man she hoped I'd be. I see that in her face and I see she's going to die with that. You think I'm not preoccupied?

  Stephen Dobyns

  Hurt, Memories, Thinking

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• I tired the back door -- unlocked. Truley the Man Upstairs was smiling down on me.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Tired, Men, Doors

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• Which is both gross and breathtakingly romantic. He could always have just gone upstairs and brushed his teeth, but he stayed and lurked by the fish for me.

  Maureen Johnson

  Teeth, Gone, Gross

  John Green, Lauren Myracle, Maureen Johnson (2009). “Let It Snow: Three Holiday Stories”, p.10, Penguin

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