Upstairs Quotes

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.
Robert Frost

Writing, Off, Talking

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.
Tennessee Williams

Live, Fire, Down

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

Impossible, Achieve, Attempt

His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants hall.
James M. Barrie

Equality, May, Equal

I remember, when I was a kid, watching my mother jam herself into her girdle - a piece of equipment so rigid it could stand up on its own - and I remember her coming home from fancy parties and racing upstairs to extricate herself from its cruel iron grip.
Susan Orlean

Home, Mother, Remember

It makes me feel kind of weird, but obviously the Man Upstairs gave me something and it touches people, and I'm just so blessed.
Eddie Van Halen

Blessed, Makes, Weird

I write in the afternoon, from about 12 until 6 or 7. I use an upstairs room as my office. Once I get going I keep at it, and it usually takes about six months from the first blank screen until 'The End.'
Lee Child

End, Keep, Write

C'mon. He'd be embarrassing upstairs at the White House. So I think she'd have a hard time. I think a woman president would have to be very conservative to get elected.
Chris Matthews

Time, Woman, Hard

His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants' hall.
J. M. Barrie

Equality, May, Equal

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.
Al Green

Love, Music, Happiness

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.
Vanessa Carlton

Time, Mom, Give

I don't have a formal home recording studio, but I can record tracks on my computer upstairs in my office.
Huey Lewis

Home, Office, Computer

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

Time, Play, Working

Our skin colours may vary, but what's upstairs - there's certain things we've all got in common.
Billy Gibbons

May, Common, Skin

I've always had great faith in the Man Upstairs.
Wayne Newton

I get up around 8 o'clock, which gives me enough time to walk dogs and feed chickens and horses. Then I get to work in my home office upstairs, and basically, I don't stop until I've written 2,000 words and/or the Stephen Colbert show is over.
Lisa Scottoline

Work, Time, Home

We depend a lot on the guy upstairs in dire times, in addressing our concerns and looking for help.
John Sweeney

Help, Times, Looking

As I stood there absorbing Hammett's novel, the slot machines at the back of the shop were clanking and whirring, and in the billiard room upstairs the perpetual poker game was being played.
Ross MacDonald

Game, Room, Played

I always performed when I was a child. My parents got very annoyed, because my brother and I had our little bedrooms upstairs, and I would plaster the house with posters with arrows pointing upstairs.
Franka Potente

Parents, Child, Brother

Maybe since I was 35 years old it was time to go upstairs.
Wellington Mara

Time, Old, Since

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.
Karl Marlantes

Life, Family, War

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.
Mark Consuelos

Sometimes, Proud, Here

I terminated the interview when I didn't know what he was talking about and went upstairs to lunch.
Graham Kennedy

Talking, Lunch, Interview

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 quite surprised to hear that, that I'm not actually posh.
Michelle Dockery

Family, Past, Often

The house burned an hour before midnight on the last day of April. The wild, distant ringing of the fire bells woke George Hazard. He stumbled through the dark hallway, then upstairs to the mansion tower, and stepped outside into the narrow balcony.
John Jakes

Fire, Through, Before

I was asleep, in the upstairs bedroom, in the rear of the house. There was this tremendous crash, there was a terrible wind force hitting my body, and then I blanked out.
Larry Miller

Wind, Body, House

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