the smell of her grandfather’s fifty years of National…

'Downton Abbey' is my worst nightmare. I just hate that whole 'Upstairs Downstairs' thing, I think it's really lazy and it doesn't represent England,…

— Tom Payne

I buy 1920s iridescent Scottish glass. I love the way the sun hits it every morning. You touch something and you know. To me,…

— Judith Miller

“When she got downstairs, the whole family was in the kitchen, including Lucas. His face lit up like Vegas when he saw her. She…

— Josephine Angelini

I don't have any weird night rituals. I definitely am a ritualistic person... I like to go downstairs and remind my roommate-drummer not to…

— Charlie Worsham

Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as…

— Anonymous

When I was 15, I came downstairs one morning, picked up mother's newspaper and, oh, what a shock! The Titanic had gone. The 'unsinkable'…

— Henry Allingham

“I’m sorry,” he said in a soft voice while leaning closer to her, “for taking liberties earlier. I hope I didn’t offend you.” “You…

— Sherri Browning

My first memory in the world is my gym teacher ripping my mother's necklace off her neck and throwing it out the window and…

— Mike Nichols

Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time

— Mark Twain

I come from a very working-class background, so my family would have been downstairs in the past, as opposed to upstairs. People are often…

— Michelle Dockery

I won't say I'm out of condition now - but I even puff going downstairs.

— Dick Gregory

That mush plays havoc downstairs, you know?

— Alexander Gordon Smith

“and watched death come downstairs for him.”

— Nora Sakavic

I visited Jobs for the last time in his Palo Alto, Calif., home. He had moved to a downstairs bedroom because he was too…

— Walter Isaacson

“Pop's leg was across the room when I came downstairs.”

— Kathryn Miller Haines