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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The Greater Man upstairs know when it's my time. Right now isn't the time.

  LeBron James

  Men, My Time, Right Now

  FaceBook post by LeBron James from Jun 13, 2011

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