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• There’s nothing wrong with wanting to be with someone,” I said diplomatically. Unless that person turns your world upside down and makes you lose all self-control.

  Richelle Mead

  Self, World, Down And

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• I think the world today is upside down, and is suffering so much, because there is so very little love in the homes and in family life.

  Mother Teresa

  Family, Home, Thinking

  Mother Teresa (2001). “Mother Teresa: Essential Writings”

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• Ask no guarantees, ask for no security, there never was such an animal. And if there was it would be related to the great sloth which hangs upside down in a tree all day every day, sleeping its life away.

  Ray Bradbury

  Sleep, Animal, Tree

  Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.76, Hamilton Books

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• Oh, and Cammie," At the sounds of his voice, I spun around, expecting to hear him crack a joke or call me Gallagher Girl. The last thing I expected was to feel his arms sliding arounds me, to sense the whole world turning upside down as Zach dipped me in the middle of the foyer and pressed his lips to mine. Then he smiled that smile I'd come to know. "I always finish what I start.

  Ally Carter

  Girl, Voice, Cracks

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• If I could only turn the etch-a-sketch of my life upside down.

  Lynda Barry

  Etch A Sketch, Turns, If I Could

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• We are the owls of the weather chaw. We take it blistering, We take it all. Roiling boiling gusts, We're the owls with the guts. For blizzards our gizzards Dr tremble with joy. An ice storm, a gale, how we love blinding hail. We fly forward and backward, Upside down and flat. Do we flinch? Do we wail? Do we skitter or scutter? No, we yarp one more pellet And fly straight for the gutter! Do we screech? Do we scream? Do we gurgle? Take pause? Not on your life! For we are the best Of the best of the chaws!

  Kathryn Lasky

  Ice, Weather, Joy

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• The urge to travel feels magnetic. Two of my favorite words are linked: departure time. And travel whets the emotions, turns upside down the memory bank, and the golden coins scatter.

  Frances Mayes

  Memories, Favorite Words, Two

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• I know people who are embarrassed to be American. They don't like showing their passports. It's becoming a scary place. It takes someone very brave not to be quiet, someone who doesn't mind death threats, their life being turned upside down, news cameras outside their door. There is no freedom of speech in America anymore. They are not living up to the constitution. There's so much fear in America and control.

  Gillian Anderson

  Doors, America, People

  "I'm not good at playing the game" by Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. August 27, 2005.

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• The more I think about our species the more I think we just do stuff and make up explanations later when asked. But it's not true that I would rather write than read. I would rather read than write. To be honest I would rather hang upside down in a bucket than write.

  Douglas Adams

  Writing, Thinking, Buckets

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• The sloth lives his life upside down. He is perfectly comfortable that way. If the blood rushes to his head, nothing happens because there is nothing to work on.

  Will Cuppy

  Animal, Blood, Sloth

  Will Cuppy (1944). “The Great Bustard and Other People: Containing: How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes and How to Become Extinct”

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• I have developed a rash on my body where the rough cloth rubs on my skin. I wanted to take a bath, thinking that the dirt on my skin made the rash worse, but the bathing tub has been turned upside down and is being used as an extra table in the kitchen and i cannot have it until spring, so I just spread goose grease on my rash. The dogs are following me everywhere.

  Karen Cushman

  Dog, Spring, Thinking

  Karen Cushman (2014). “Catherine, Called Birdy”, p.28, Pan Macmillan

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• Everything here at St. Aggie's is upside down and inside out. It's our job not to get moon blinked and to stand right side up in an upside down world. If we don't do that we'll never be able to escape. We'll never be able to think. And thinking is the only way we'll be able to plan an escape." -Gylfie

  Kathryn Lasky

  Jobs, Moon, Thinking

  Kathryn Lasky (2010). “The Capture”, p.78, Scholastic Inc.

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• How in hell can you handle love without turning your life upside down? That's what love does, it changes everything.

  Lauren Bacall

  Doe, Hell, Handle

  Lauren Bacall (2005). “By Myself and Then Some”, Large Print Press

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• Oh, was that liquor of yours a stimulant?" asked Elena. "I wondered why he didn't fall asleep." "Couldn't you tell?" chuckled Mayhew. "Not really." Miles twisted his head to take in Elena's upside-down worried face, and smile in weak reassurance. Sparkly black and purple whirlpools clouded his vision. Mayhew's laughter faded. "My God," he said hollowly, "you mean he's like that all the time?

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Laughter, Fall, Mean

  Lois McMaster Bujold, Bujold (1997). “Young Miles”, Baen Books

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• You could have a zillion Facebook followers. Those people don't buy records. It's about a hundred to one...Record companies, they don't have any money so they see social media as the free marketing...So,...'Billy, light yourself on fire and stand upside down, and that'll market the record'. I've spent a lot of time thinking about this. I don't think people by records because of anything that happens on Facebook. They buy records cause they're friends say 'I bought this record and I love it'.

  Billy Corgan

  Thinking, Fire, Light

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• You Christians look after a document containing enough dynamite to blow all civilisation to pieces, turn the world upside down and bring peace to a battle-torn planet. But you treat it as though it is nothing more than a piece of literature.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Christian, Peace, Biblical

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• We have been led to imagine all sorts of things infinitely more marvelous than the imagining of poets and dreamers of the past. It shows that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man. For instance, how much more remarkable it is for us all to be stuck-half of us upside down-by a mysterious attraction, to a spinning ball that has been swinging in space for billions of years, than to be carried on the back of an elephant supported on a tortoise swimming in a bottomless sea.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Swimming, Men, Past

  Richard P. Feynman (2005). “The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman”, p.76, Hachette UK

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• Thinking about quantum physics is like unraveling your brain and putting it back together again upside down. Much like studying Kabbalah.

  Rebecca Pidgeon

  Thinking, Together Again, Brain

  "Huff Post Exclusive Music Download" by Rebecca Pidgeon, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 6, 2005.

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• There's the tree with the branches that everyone sees, and then there's the upside-down root tree, growing the opposite way. So Earth is the branches, growing in opposing but perfect symmetry. The branches don't think much about the roots, and maybe the roots don't think much about the branches, but all the time, they're connected by the trunk, you know?

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Thinking, Opposites, Roots

  Gabrielle Zevin (2016). “Elsewhere”, p.69, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• history ... a sort of immortality turned upside down. Her life stretched backwards through ten centuries.

  Marthe Bibesco

  History, Immortality, Century

  Marthe Bibesco (1928). “Catherine-Paris”

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• In a world turned upside-down, where everything was wrong, bizarre, you could at least look up at the sky and see normality. Stars that shone regardless of who won a civil war, or who should or should not be a president. Their light was billions of years old. They didn't have a care.

  Alex Scarrow

  Stars, War, Light

  "TimeRiders: The Eternal War". Book by Alex Scarrow, July 14, 201.

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• Sister Mary was a nurse and nurses, whatever their creed, are primarily nurses, which had a lot to do with wearing your watch upside down, keeping calm in emergencies, and dying for a cup of tea.

  Terry Pratchett

  Nurse, Tea, Dying

  Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett (2011). “Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch”, p.30, Harper Collins

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• Mother Dear, one day I'm going to turn this world upside down." --From My Brother Martin, by Christine King Farris

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Mother, Brother, Kings

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• There's lots of law these days, but not much justice. Celebrities murder their wives and go free. A mother kills her children, and the news people on TV say she's the victim and want you to send money to her lawyers. When everything's upside down like this, what fool just sits back and thinks justice will prevail?

  Dean Koontz

  Mother, Children, Thinking

  Dean Koontz (2012). “One Door Away from Heaven: A superb thriller of redemption, fear and wonder”, p.466, Hachette UK

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• In seven days God had created the Earth. In a single day mankind had turned it upside down.

  Kristina McMorris

  Earth, Seven Days, World War Ii

  Kristina Mcmorris (2012). “Bridge of Scarlet Leaves”, p.82, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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