Upstairs Quotes - Page 5

• 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 bite back a laugh at the words Extra Virgin. That about summed it up.

  Josh Lanyon

  Oil, Laughing, Gold

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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 I hurt her and how I said the wrong things and how I got angry and how I wasn't the man she hoped I'd be. I see that in her face and I see she's going to die with that. You think I'm not preoccupied?

  Stephen Dobyns

  Hurt, Memories, Thinking

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• I tired the back door -- unlocked. Truley the Man Upstairs was smiling down on me.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Tired, Men, Doors

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• In my house on the ceilings I have paintings of the rooms above... so I never have to go upstairs.

  Steven Wright

  Divertido, Humor, Casa

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• Como me explicó sin rodeos un joven diseñador: "Todos los de arriba son tontos", refiriéndose a la planta de arriba de la guarida de ingenieros de la oficina de la Universidad 156, donde se sentaban el servicio de atención al cliente, los administradores y los vendedores. Mi primer impulso fue reírme de su ridículo y alegre desprecio, hasta que me di cuenta de que no tenía mucha gracia.

  Katherine Losse

  Engineering, Laughing, Office

  Katherine Losse (2012). "Los niños reyes: Un viaje al corazón de la red social", p.77, Simon and Schuster.

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• I have the ordinary experience of having the blender bottom come off in my room upstairs. I have the ordinary experience of being anonymous when I'm in an airplane talking to air-traffic control, and they don't know who they're talking to. I have a lot of common experiences. What's important is to be able to see yourself, as having commonality with other people and not determine, because of your good luck, that everybody is less significant, less interesting, less important than you are.

  Harrison Ford

  Airplane, Good Luck, Talking

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. January 20, 2010.

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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 stories around a campfire, and I want to scare you.

  Patricia Briggs

  Ghost Stories, Scare, Want

  Patricia Briggs (2009). “Bone Crossed”, p.208, Penguin

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• Does somebody have an explanation why there's human flesh on the hall window upstairs?

  David Foster Wallace

  Doe, Flesh, Window

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• Those people upstairs think that Karl Marx was somebody who wrote a good anti-trust law.

  Warren Beatty

  Trust, Thinking, Law

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• Un casero está enseñando un piso a una pareja. El marido mira hacia arriba y dice: "Un momento. Este piso no tiene techo'. El casero responde: "No pasa nada. La gente de arriba no camina mucho'.

  Gilbert Gottfried

  Pareja, Esposo, Personas

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• My mom's whole side of the family, they're all Packers fans. My mom's a Bears fan. My stepdad is a Vikings guy. So that gets ugly. My mom sits upstairs watching the Bears game; he sits in the basement. They can't watch it together. Football's a violent anger in our family dynamic.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Mom, Football, Games

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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 more arrogant than the fifteen of us, but there they are, right upstairs in the Blue Room.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Taken, Thinking, Blue

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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

  Four, Wheels, Crooked

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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 didn't know who I was - I was far away from home, haunted and tired with travel, in a cheap hotel room I'd never seen, hearing the hiss of steam outside, and the creak of the old wood of the hotel, and footsteps upstairs, and all the sad sounds, and I looked at the cracked high ceiling and really didn't know who I was for about fifteen strange seconds. I wasn't scared; I was just somebody else, some stranger, and my whole life was a haunted life, the life of a ghost.

  Jack Kerouac

  Wisdom, Home, Tired

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.124, Penguin

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• Vete a la cama, tonto", dijo Calcifer con sueño. "Estás borracho". "¿Quién, yo?" dijo Howl. "Os aseguro, amigos míos, que soy un cono vendido". Se levantó y subió las escaleras, tanteando la pared como si pensara que podría escapársele a menos que se mantuviera en contacto con ella. La puerta de su habitación se le escapó.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Pared, Puertas, Borracho

  Diana Wynne Jones (2002). "El castillo del mago"

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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

  Dream, Dresses, Dinner

  Nancy Mitford (2013). “Christmas Pudding and Pigeon Pie”, p.192, Vintage

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• In retrospect, I went to Jane Fonda for literally everything. During Mermaids, we were staying in the same building, so she was right upstairs from me. I was in my first relationship, so I got all sorts of advice. She became famous in her late teens.

  Winona Ryder

  Advice, Mermaid, Teens

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• After my family leaves in the morning, I'll make my first coffee of the day and then I head upstairs to go to work. At least, that's my plan. I'm not going to check email. I'm not going on Facebook, or sneaking a glimpse at my Instagram feed. No. I'm not going to down that road. But with multiple devices, by the time I get upstairs [to my study] I may well have heard my iPhone ding and - it's Pavlovian.

  Dani Shapiro

  Morning, Coffee, Iphone

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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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 Christmas. He pocketed it to use on Fluffy — he didn’t feel much like singing.

  J. K. Rowling

  Eye, Dark, Singing

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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 salutes on the feast day of the local patron saint, or furniture being moved by the slime-buckets living upstairs, and go right on sleeping soundly. But the ringing of the telephone, the triumphal march of the cell phone, or the doorbell, no: Those are all sounds of summons in response to which the civilzed man (ha-ha!) has no choice but to surface from the depths of slumber and answer.

  Andrea Camilleri

  Country, Mistake, Sleep

  Andrea Camilleri (2009). “August Heat”, p.11, Penguin

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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 fish for me.

  Maureen Johnson

  Teeth, Gone, Gross

  John Green, Lauren Myracle, Maureen Johnson (2009). “Let It Snow: Three Holiday Stories”, p.10, Penguin

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• Uno se cansa del papel que se supone que tienen los críticos en esta cultura: Es como ser el pianista en una casa de putas; no tienes ningún control sobre la acción que ocurre arriba.

  Robert Hughes

  Música, Cansado, Reproductor

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• Evidentemente, Calpurnia recordaba un domingo lluvioso en el que nos quedamos sin padre y sin maestro. Abandonada a su suerte, la clase ató a Eunice Ann Simpson a una silla y la colocó en la sala de calderas. Nos olvidamos de ella, subimos a la iglesia y estábamos escuchando tranquilamente el sermón cuando un espantoso golpeteo salió de las tuberías del radiador, persistiendo hasta que alguien investigó y sacó a Eunice Ann diciendo que no quería seguir haciendo de Shadrach -Jem Finch dijo que no se quemaría si tenía suficiente fe, pero hacía calor allí abajo.

  Harper Lee

  Domingo, Juego, Clase

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• What daughter thinks of her parents in flagrante delicto? Yet, my mother, even after years with him, dropped hints such as, 'You know, your father enjoys his matinees.' I never even saw them go to the movies together. What could she mean? All those afternoons, I thought she was upstairs listening to La Traviata, and those high notes apparently were not coming from the radio.

  Joy Behar

  Daughter, Mother, Sex

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• I was born imagining myself with an apron on, with pies cooling on the window sill and babies crying upstairs. I thought that all that stuff would somehow anchor me to the planet, that it was the weight I needed to keep from just flying off into space.

  Carrie Fisher

  Baby, Anchors, Pie

  Carrie Fisher (2011). “Postcards From the Edge”, p.90, Simon and Schuster

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