Upstairs Quotes - Page 3

• I forget how good I've got it sometimes, how lucky I am just to be alive. And I pass good prayer to the man upstairs just to thank him like I should. Yeah you know, I get it... I've got it good.

  Rodney Atkins

  Prayer, Men, Lucky

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• When I start to think about all the things, I'm doing sometimes I just have to thank the man upstairs. Because I'm doing the morning show here in Chicago 5 days a week, and I have the syndicated radio show that's been going on now for several years. In addition we are in the midst of taping 13 episodes of a television show-The Legends of Jazz: The Masters of jazz on PBS-TV.

  Ramsey Lewis

  Morning, Men, Thinking

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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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• Anecdote: The extent of Michael Jackson's fame at its height, and his eagerness to exploit it is shown by an incident in 1984 when invited to a White House reception hosted by then President and First Lady Ronald and Nancy Reagan. Jackson had been assured that the only people there, besides the presidential couple, would be a few staff members' children. Aghast to find around 75 adults and no children, Jackson locked himself in an upstairs bathroom, refusing to emerge until assured that all non-essential adults had been replaced by a number of children.

  Michael Jackson

  Children, Couple, White

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• When you've got little kids, and you're tucking them in. When you open a door and they're in their pajamas and they're, you know, wrestling with you and asking you, you know, to read to them and stuff, [The white House] starts feeling like home pretty quick. Not to mention having a mother-in-law upstairs, and the dog, and now two.

  Barack Obama

  Mother, Dog, Kids

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Everyone loves a slice of period-drama-pie, but I think the success of Upstairs Downstairs is really down to the wonderful format that Jean Marsh and Eileen Atkins created.

  Ellie Kendrick

  Drama, Thinking, Pie

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

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• I don't know nothing about that. I'm not the man upstairs.

  Cartier Martin

  Men, He Man, Knows

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• When you go upstairs, go up with high spirit; when you go downstairs, go down with high spirit.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Spirit

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• When I was about 17, I didn't speak. English was like a foreign language. I'd just grunt. The only time I talked was when I said my lines on set. I didn't speak to any of the actors or anything. Then one day Alison from the Corrie press office started talking to me in the green room and I just decided to talk back. She ran upstairs to tell everyone that she'd just had a 10-minute conversation with me like it was the most unbelievable thing in the world. I just woke up one day and thought, 'I'm going to talk today'. I've really made up for lost time since.

  Jack P. Shepherd

  Talking, Speak English, Office

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• The distance between the glorified spirits in heaven and the militant saints on earth seems great; but it is not so. We are not far from home. Heaven... is just one sigh and we get there. Our departed friends are only in the upper room, as it were, of the same house; they have not gone far off; they are upstairs and we are down below.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Distance, Home, House

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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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• My parents used to park us kids at the public library in downtown Honolulu every Saturday. They'd leave us there at 8 A.M. and pick us up at 4 P.M. - so between those hours, you'd better find something to do! I sat upstairs in the picture room and went through opera, ballet, and theater books. I loved the photographs of people wearing elaborate makeup and costumes - they really pulled at me inside. I was in that library every week for years, until I was about 13. I had a rich interior life, because I didn't have much of a social life.

  Bette Midler

  Book, Kids, Makeup

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• I didn't go Hollywood on the outside with flashy cars, upstairs maids and mink covered bathroom fixtures. I went Hollywood on the inside and that's worst of all. I tried to avoid being natural. I lowered my voice. I copied the mannerisms of other stars. I struck poses. I received bad advice - from dramatic coaches, from agents, and from studio executives. I stopped being a human being. I blame myself and I blame Hollywood's star system.

  Joan Caulfield

  Stars, Character, Voice

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

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• I remember one time I heard this English professor asking the class what the world's scariest noise is. Is it a man crying out in pain? A woman's scream of terror? A gunshot? A baby crying? And the professor shakes his head and says, 'No, the scariest noise is, you're all alone in your dark house, you know you're all alone, you know that there is no chance anyone else is home or within miles—and then, suddenly, from upstairs, you hear the toilet flush.

  Harlan Coben

  Baby, Pain, Home

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• I figured I would shoot the bullets out of my nostrils, so I left [the gun] upstairs.

  Veronica Roth

  Gun, Bullets, Tobias

  "Insurgent". Book by Veronica Roth, 2012.

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• I found that things weren't going well upstairs. Carter was a crumpled heap of chicken warrior on the slope of the pyramid.

  Rick Riordan

  Warrior, Pyramids, Chickens

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• Even now, Dickon was upstairs, writing sonnets to his new love, while back at Seadown House, Marianne was writing 'Ella' on scraps of paper and then burning them.

  Jessica Day George

  Writing, House, Burning

  Jessica Day George (2010). “Princess of Glass”, p.145, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Anthony raised his red plastic cup to me and shouted something, but it was too hard to hear over the music. “What?” I called back. “You look great!” A goofy smile was plastered on his face. “Oh boy,” Vee said. “Not just a pimp, but a smashed pimp.” “So maybe he’s a little drunk.” “Drunk and hoping to corner you alone in a bedroom upstairs.” Ugh.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Boys, Drunk, Pimp

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.414, Simon and Schuster

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• Shut up!" Eve yelled from somewhere upstairs. "Jackass!" "You know, when people say that, I just hear the word awesome.

  Rachel Caine

  People, Shut Up, Jackasses

  Rachel Caine (2011). “Last Breath: The Morganville Vampires”, p.26, Penguin

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• I'm going to brush my hair and change my clothes if we're going out. That gives you two ten minutes to get it out of your system, so I'm not stuck with a couple of frustrated horndogs all day. But no pressure," she added on a laugh as she swung out of the room and started upstairs.

  Lynsay Sands

  Couple, Hair, Two

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• All right I think we've been down here in the dark long enough. There's a whole other world upstairs. Take my hand Constant Reader and I'll be happy to lead you back into the sunshine. I'm happy to go there because I believe most people are essentially good. I know that I am. It's you I'm not entirely sure of.

  Stephen King

  Believe, Dark, Sunshine

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• All the lines that held me to my life were sliced apart in swift cuts, like clipping the strings of a bunch of balloons. Everything that made me who I was - my love for the dead girl upstairs, my love for my father, my loyalty to my new pack, the love for my other brothers, my hatred for my enemies, my home, my name, my self - disconnected from me in that second - snip, snip, snip - and floated up into space.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Girl, Loyalty, Brother

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “Breaking Dawn: Twilight”, p.212, Hachette UK

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• You were firing questions at me today, trying to get inside my head. You asked if I believed in God. I told you of course I do- I've always had a strong sense of self. Your house is quiet now, you're sleeping upstairs and I'm alone with this blasted, idiotic book that purports to tally the sum of my life, and fact is, maybe I do. But maybe, ka-lyrra, your God doesn't believe in me. -- From The (Greatly Revised) Black Edition Of The O'Callaghan Book of the Sin Siriche Du

  Karen Marie Moning

  Strong, Believe, Book

  Karen Marie Moning (2012). “The Highlander Series 7-Book Bundle”, p.1384, Dell

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