Best Upstairs Sayings
134 Upstairs quotes by 118 unique authors
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I remember, when I was a kid, watching my mother jam herself into her girdle - a piece of equipment so rigid it could stand…
— Susan Orlean
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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…
— Tennessee Williams
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President Bartlet: There's a delegation of cardiologists having their pictures taken in the Blue Room. You wouldn't think you could find a group of people…
— Aaron Sorkin
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I don’t have a photograph, but you can have my footprints. They’re upstairs in my socks.
— Groucho Marx
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I do have one slightly crooked wheel upstairs, but everything else is ticking along just four-o, thank you very much.
— Stephen King
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I woke up as the sun was reddening; and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I…
— Jack Kerouac
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Go to bed, you fool," Calcifer said sleepily. "You're drunk." "Who, me?" said Howl. "I assure you, my friends, I am cone sold stober." He…
— Diana Wynne Jones
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Life itself, she thought, as she went upstairs to dress for dinner, was stranger than dreams and far, far more disordered.
— Nancy Mitford
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Harry ran upstairs to their dark dormitory. He pulled out the cloak and then his eyes fell on the flute Hagrid had given him for…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Nowadays, if a man living in a civilized country (ha!) hears cannon blasts in his sleep, he will, of course, mistake them for thunderclaps, gun…
— Andrea Camilleri
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Does somebody have an explanation why there's human flesh on the hall window upstairs?
— David Foster Wallace
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Are you going to tell me what that was about?” Adam asked as we went back upstairs. “Sometime,” I told him. “When we're telling ghost…
— Patricia Briggs
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Writing is something that you don't know how to do. You sit down and it's something that happens, or it may not happen. So, how…
— Charles Bukowski
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Loretta, I love you. Not like they told you love is, and I didn't know this either, but love don't make things nice - it…
— John Patrick Shanley
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It's all in her walk, a cartoon swagger. Part Jayne Mansfield, part Muhammad Ali. Men never know if it's an invitation upstairs or an invitation…
— Emma Forrest
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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…
— Harlan Coben
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The note, which had been written on one of the pads I kept around for grocery lists, said, "My lover, I came in too close…
— Charlaine Harris
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Finally the kitchen clock said 5:17. It was time to roll out. I shouted for my mom, woke Jeffrey up, ran upstairs, changed into my…
— Jordan Sonnenblick
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The best parenting advice I ever got was from a labor nurse who told me the following: 1. After your baby gets here, the dog…
— Jodi Picoult
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He went through the cupboards, found the olive oil, and started upstairs again. He glanced down at the green and gold label and had to…
— Josh Lanyon
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My wife's dying upstairs and I can't do anything about it. I look in her face and I see the memories there. I see how…
— Stephen Dobyns
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I jog through the halls and then go upstairs to Jane’s locker and carefully slip the note I wrote last night through the vent: To:…
— John Green
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I tired the back door -- unlocked. Truley the Man Upstairs was smiling down on me.
— Maggie Stiefvater
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Which is both gross and breathtakingly romantic. He could always have just gone upstairs and brushed his teeth, but he stayed and lurked by the…
— Maureen Johnson
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Calpurnia evidently remembered a rainy Sunday when we were both fatherless and teacherless. Let to its own devices, the class tied Eunice Ann Simpson to…
— Harper Lee
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