Downstairs Quotes
108 quotes by 100 authors
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Nothing makes a man feel older than to hear a band coming up the street and not to have the impulse to rush downstairs and…
— Robert Benchley
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If I get a week off, I'll go to a hotel that has a golf course. I like to come downstairs and go right onto…
— Lewis Black
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If I'm hanging around too much, my wife and kids say, 'Hey, why don't you go downstairs and start a new novel?'
— Nick Cave
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My schedule goes: wake up, running, exercise, downstairs, running shoes off, then to the shower. That's the Jackie Chan diary.
— Jackie Chan
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The knives in my apartment are only sharp enough to open envelopes with. Cutting a slice of coarse bread is on the borderline of their…
— Peter Høeg
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Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time. You cannot…
— Mark Twain
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Important thing is not the me that's lying here, but the me that's sitting on the edge of the bed looking back at me, and…
— Ray Bradbury
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My daughter told me she wasn't afraid of spider but that she was afraid of my smoking. She said that she was afraid of my…
— Robert Clarke
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A man will blithely do in politics what he would kick a man downstairs for in ordinary life.
— Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery
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The atom can't be seen, yet its existence can be proved. And it is simple to prove that it can't ever be seen. It has…
— Carl David Anderson
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It was so interesting, when [John Coltrane] created A Love Supreme. He had meditated that week. I almost didn't see him downstairs. And it was…
— Alice Coltrane
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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…
— Florence King
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I visited Jobs for the last time in his Palo Alto, Calif., home. He had moved to a downstairs bedroom because he was too weak…
— Walter Isaacson
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I had to, ... Tie my suit up, tie my tie and just get downstairs to my car as fast as I could, so nobody…
— Nate Robinson
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Humor is falling downstairs if you do it in the act of telling your wife not to.
— Fougasse
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Never tell. Not if you love your wife...In fact, if your old lady walks in on you deny it. Yeah. Just flat out and she'll…
— Lenny Bruce
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There is nothing as relaxing as being out on the open sea, listening to the waves and the wind and the sails and voices downstairs…
— Dave Barry
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In the last year my wife has noticed me struggling to get downstairs on a Sunday morning. I've two young children and football has been…
— Graeme Le Saux
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It was dawn now on Long Island and we went about opening the rest of the windows downstairs, filling the house with gray-turning, gold-turning light.…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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I woke up one morning, went downstairs, said 'Good morning' to my mother and nearly scared both of us to death.'
— Barry White
Who Wrote These Downstairs Quotes
100 authors contributed a total of 108 Downstairs Quotes, led by these top contributors: