Upstairs Quotes

His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants' hall. (J. M. Barrie)
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 the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it. View quote
Tennessee Williams
I came upstairs into the world for I was born in a cellar. View quote
William Congreve
I don't have a photograph. I'd give you my footprints, but they're upstairs in my socks. View quote
Groucho Marx
Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second. View quote
Robert Frost
Old habits can't be thrown out the upstairs window. They have to be coaxeddown the stairs one step at a time. View quote
Mark Twain
Reminds me of something my grandfather would say. He'd say, "I'm goin' upstairs and fuck your grandmother." Well he was an honest guy ya know, he wasn't gonna bullshit a 4-year-old. View quote
George Carlin
Bodybuilders party a lot, and once, in Gold's - the gym in Venice, California, where all the top guys train - there was a black girl who came out naked. Everybody jumped on her and took her upstairs, where we all got together. View quote
Arnold Schwarzenegger
The smoke alarm went off in the hallway upstairs, either to let us know the battery had just died or because the house was on fire. View quote
Don DeLillo
As we celebrate mediocrity, All the boys upstairs want to see How much you'll pay for What you used to get for free. View quote
Tom Petty
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)
The music is the message, the message is the music. So that's my little ministry that the Big Man upstairs gave to me - a little ministry called love and happiness. View quote
Al Green
Life itself, she thought, as she went upstairs to dress for dinner, was stranger than dreams and far, far more disordered. View quote
Nancy Mitford
My name is Luka. I live on the second floor. I live upstairs from you. Yes, I think you've seen me before. View quote
Suzanne Vega
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. View quote
Andy Summers
There are people out there dying every day, so when you wake up, you just have to thank the Man Upstairs for another day on this planet. There's not much else we can ask for. View quote
Dikembe Mutombo
Sometimes we're at hotels, and I'll answer the phone. They'll say, 'Mr. Ripa, your breakfast is coming upstairs.' And I'm like, Is my father-in-law here? But, obviously, I'm proud either way - Ripa or Consuelos. View quote
Mark Consuelos
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. View quote
Vanessa Carlton
I ran upstairs to see my wife, we literally just sat there and held each other for, like, 20 minutes. View quote
Bill Clinton
I'm waiting. ... For something new and strange, Something I've dreamt about in some deep sleep, Truer than any waking, Heard about, long ago, so long ago, In sunshine and the summer grass of childhood, When the sky seems so near. I do not know its shape, its will, its purpose And yet all day its will has been upon me, More real than any voice I ever heard, More real than yours or mine or our dead child's, More real than all the voices there upstairs, Brawling above their cups, more real than light. And there is light in it and fire and peace, Newness of heart and strangeness like a sword, And all my body trembles under it, And yet I do not know. View quote
Stephen Vincent Benét
Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check. (M. C. Escher)
The kids were just 8 and 10 years old and seemed to be doing much better than I expected. That first night they both went upstairs to bed, and later I went up to check on them. They were asleep. When I saw Melanie I started crying. She had a picture of her dad with her. She was holding it in her arms. View quote
Gilles Villeneuve
For every veteran who goes through a divorce, a wife goes through one, too. For every veteran alone in the basement, there is a wife upstairs, bewildered, isolated and in despair from the dark clouds of war that hangs over family life. View quote
Karl Marlantes
In the upstairs bedroom, old Ann dies very slowly, remembering the events of the long-ago wedding night and the next morning... She is attended by a nurse with an Irish accent (Eileen Atkins), who sometimes prompts her: "Remember a happy time!" Dissolve to Ann's memory of a happy time. It is so mundane that if it qualifies as a high point in her life, it compares with Paris Hilton remembering a good stick of gum. View quote
Roger Ebert
Stamping around, waiting, I cursed England aloud, hands dug deep into pockets, dancing to the wind that knocked in vain at the Sunday shops. Cigarette-packets, football fixtures, bus-tickets sailed by in dust-ghosts of Saturday. A woman with a puce face and a blancmange-coloured prayer-book was waiting also for The Priest and Pig, and she looked puce disapproval at me. Twenty minutes late, the bus yawned in from town, near-empty, and it swallowed us in a gape of Sunday ennui. So we sundayed along, rattling and creaking in Sunday hollowness, I upstairs, tearing my elevenpenny ticket while I read the prospectus of Winter Commercial Classes stuck on the window. View quote
Anthony Burgess