Upstairs Quotes - Page 5

• He went through the cupboards, found the olive oil, and started upstairs again. He glanced down at the green and gold label and had to bite back a laugh at the words Extra Virgin. That about summed it up.

  Josh Lanyon

  Oil, Laughing, Gold

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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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• Calpurnia evidently remembered a rainy Sunday when we were both fatherless and teacherless. Let to its own devices, the class tied Eunice Ann Simpson to a chair and placed her in the furnace room. We forgot her, trooped upstairs to church, and were listening quietly to the sermon when a dreadful banging issued from the radiator pipes, persisting until someone investigated and brought forth Eunice Ann saying she didn't want to play Shadrach any more - Jem Finch said she wouldn't get burnt if she had enough faith, but it was hot down there.

  Harper Lee

  Sunday, Play, Class

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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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• 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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• Music comes first from my heart, and then goes upstairs to my head where I check it out.

  Roberta Flack

  Music, Heart, Firsts

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• When you are the woman upstairs, nobody thinks of you first. Nobody calls you before anyone else, or sends you the first postcard. Once your mother dies, nobody loves you “best of all.” It's a small thing, you might think, and maybe it depends on your temperament, maybe for some people it's a small thing, but for me [...]

  Claire Messud

  Mother, Love You, Thinking

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• There are people out there dying every day, so when you wake up, you just have to thank the Man Upstairs for another day on this planet. There's not much else we can ask for.

  Dikembe Mutombo

  Men, People, Dying

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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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• 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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• 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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• 'Upstairs Downstairs' and 'Downton Abbey' appeal to people because they're about our history, they look so beautiful, are written by amazing writers and have high production values.

  Keeley Hawes

  Beautiful, People, Looks

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• I might be in the basement. I'll go upstairs and check.

  M. C. Escher

  Might, Checks, Basements

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• One gets tired of the role critics are supposed to have in this culture: It's like being the piano player in a whorehouse; you don't have any control over the action going on upstairs.

  Robert Hughes

  Music, Tired, Player

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• In my house on the ceilings I have paintings of the rooms above... so I never have to go upstairs.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, House

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