Upstairs Quotes - Page 2

• The president wasn't dragged anywhere, ... In reality, I think, it was his opposition which was dragged upstairs one step at a time from zero to this number that was very close to what the president proposed.

  Mitch Daniels

  Zero, Reality, Thinking

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• Remember the hours after September 11th when we came together as one to answer the attack against our homeland. We drew strength when our firefighters ran upstairs and risked their lives so that others might live; when rescuers rushed into smoke and fire at the Pentagon; when the men and women of Flight 93 sacrificed themselves to save our nation's Capitol; when flags were hanging from front porches all across America, and strangers became friends. It was the worst day we have ever seen, but it brought out the best in all of us.

  John F. Kerry

  Men, America, Fire

  "Kerry: We are here to make America stronger", www.cnn.com. July 30, 2004.

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• He taught me everything I know. Every note I write I learned from that man upstairs. People rave over my arranging today, and I just think to myself, God bless Tommy Dorsey. If it hadn't been for him, I never could have done it.

  Nelson Riddle

  Writing, Men, Thinking

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• Then the children went to bed, or at least went upstairs, and the men joined the women for a cigarette on the porch, absently picking ticks engorged like grapes off the sleeping dogs. And when the men kissed the women good night, and their weekend whiskers scratched the women's cheeks, the women did not think shave, they thought stay.

  Amy Hempel

  Good Night, Dog, Children

  Amy Hempel (2006). “The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel”, p.200, Simon and Schuster

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• My mom would give me a piece to play, but I wouldn't do any theory because when it came time to do it I would sneak back upstairs and watch TV. So, I had these kind of nonchalant lessons for years, then it just started soaking in.

  Vanessa Carlton

  Mom, Years, Play

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I might be in the basement. I'll go upstairs and check. We adore chaos because we love to produce order. I don't use drugs; my dreams are frightening enough.

  M. C. Escher

  Funny, Dream, Clever

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• I was never bitter because I believed in the man upstairs. I continue to do my best. I let someone else be bitter. If I was bitter, I was only hurting me. I prefer to remember Bill Veeck and and Jim Hegan and Joe Gordon, the good guys. There is no point in talking about the others.

  Larry Doby

  Hurt, Men, Talking

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• America is not a democracy, it's an absolute monarchy ruled by King Kid. In a nation of immigrants, the child is automatically more of an American than his parents. Americans regard children as what Mr. Hudson in Upstairs, Downstairs called betters. Aping their betters, American adults do their best to turn themselves into children. Puerility exercises droit de seigneur everywhere.

  Florence King

  Kings, Children, Kids

  Florence King (1990). “Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye”, p.30, St. Martin's Griffin

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• 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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• We do two shows a night for five weeks. A lotta times we'll go upstairs and sing until daylight - gospel songs. We grew up with it...It more or less puts your mind at ease. It does mine.

  Elvis Presley

  Song, Night, Two

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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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• 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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• To go upstairs in the word house is to withdraw step by step; while to go down to the cellar is to dream.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Dream, House, Steps

  "The Poetics of Space". Book by Gaston Bachelard, 1964.

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• Let's have some wine, go upstairs, and look at my money.

  David Letterman

  Wine, Looks

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• I was quite naïve, a boy from Southport. When I went to art college in Leeds, I lived in a basement flat, and I heard clunking on the stairs all night, and I thought it was just nurses going to work on the night shift at the local hospital! Then I found out it was all working girls upstairs. I suppose I came from a protected background and had my eyes opened wide by that side of city life.

  Marc Almond

  Girl, Art, Eye

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I'm not like a religious exerciser. My parents go down to the gym everyday now, and I'm the one that stays upstairs. But I definitely need to start exercising.

  Mark Indelicato

  Religious, Exercise, Parent

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• In hindsight I can see that my love for the arts began by watching my father and his colleagues perform on stage in Jamaica, and running a muck among the exhibits of fabulous Jamaican art at the National Gallery while mum was upstairs curating.

  Michael Hyatt

  Running, Art, Father

  Source: www.nerdprobs.com

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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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• I have not watched WAGs World, I have not watched the BBC's Upstairs, Downstairs, either. It would be Downton Abbey, I think.

  Theresa May

  Thinking, Would Be, World

  "The Conservative Party’s always stood in every seat, and I think it’s important to us". Interview with Paul Goodman and Mark Fox, conservativehome.blogs.com. February 16, 2011.

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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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• I think the key anecdote in the book is when Colin [Powell] and I were discussing Iraq. Colin was upstairs in the Treaty Room, in the residence. And he talks about his concerns about the use of military in Iraq. And I said I felt the same concerns, but it might be that we have to use it. In which case, he said, "I support you."

  George W. Bush

  Military, Book, Thinking

  Source: www.aarp.org

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