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Quotes About Upside-down

Of course drums weren't meant to be played other than sitting on the ground. When you're upside-down, your feet don't want to sit on the pedals.
~ Tommy Lee
The heart in misery has turned upside down. The blowing gentle breeze is on fire. O friend moonlight burns like the sun.
~ A.K. Ramanujan
The passionate are like men standing on their heads, they see all things the wrong way.
~ Plato
People are really upside down. They want a government they can trust. They want one that's not going to raise their taxes by $15 billion and not lay off one state employee.
~ Carl Paladino
It's this upside-down world that we live in where we afford political correctness to the most intolerant group of individuals on the planet.
~ Vince Flynn
What I do know is our state and country is currently backwards and upside-down, and we all are to blame in one fashion or another.
~ David Pratt
Shouldn't that be flipped right-side up?" I asked. "No," she said, eyes on the cards. After several moments of heavy silence, said, "You will destroy that which is undead." I waited about thirty seconds for her to continue, but she didn't. "Wait, that's it?" She nodded. "That's what the cards say to me.
~ Richelle Mead
I IS MAKING MYSELF A MARVELUS PAIR OF SUCTION BOOTS AND WHEN I PUT THEM ON I IS ABEL TO WALK STRATE UP THE KITSHUN WALL AND ACROSS THE CEILING. WELL, I IS WALKING UPSIDE DOWN ON THE CEILING WEN MY BIG SISTER COMES IN AND SHE IS STARTING TO YELL AT ME AS SHE ALWAYS DOES, YELLING WOT ON EARTH IS YOU DOING UP THERE WALKING ON THE CEILING AND I LOOKS DOWN AT HER AND I SMILES AND I SAYS I TOLD YOU YOU WAS DRIVING ME UP THE WALL AND NOW YOU HAS DONE IT.
~ Roald Dahl
He found himself, according to his ideas, in the land of Topsyturvydom. Everything was upside down. He had wished to escape from dying. He had come to the land of Perpetual Life with great relief and joy, only to find that the inhabitants themselves, doomed never to die, would consider it bliss to find death.
~ Yei Theodora Ozaki
À l'envers des nuages, il y a toujours un ciel.
~ Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
Dare to turn life on its end, and you may find that topsy-turvy is a truer perspective than turvy-topsy.
~ Robert Brault
He's wrong he's so he's so wrong he's more wrong than an upside-down rainbow.
~ Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me
The truth of the matter is that the whole world has already been turned upside down by the work of Jesus Christ
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I've spent three hours hanging upside down while fighting off dinosaur attacks. That was a lot of fun.
~ Jason O'Mara
I wonder if I shall fall right through the earth! How funny it'll seem to come out among the people that walk with their heads downwards! The antipathies, I think— (she was rather glad there was no one listening, this time, as it didn't sound at all the right word) —but I shall have to ask them what the name of the country is, you know. Please, Ma'am, is this New Zealand? Or Australia?
~ Lewis Carroll
lo mejor caigo a través de toda la tierra! ¡Qué divertido sería salir donde vive esta gente que anda cabeza abajo! Los antipáticos, creo...
~ Lewis Carroll
Comedians are innately programmed to pick up oddities like mispronounced words, upside-down books on a shelf, and generally undetectable mistakes in everyday life.
~ Bob Newhart
Grace is thickly counter-intuitive. It feels risky and unfair. It's dangerous and disorderly. It wrestles control out of our hands. It is wild and unsettling. It turns everything that makes sense to us upside-down and inside-out.
~ Tullian Tchividjian
The other characteristic trait of the spiritual man is that he is upside down. This means to say, firstly, that the "solid ground" under his feet is found above, whilst the ground below is only the concern and perception of the head.
~ Robert Powell
I never asked him if he screamed, or if there were upside-down mountain peaks visible through a window.
~ Salman Rushdie
The world is such a blooming topsy-turvy, fragile, bleak place.
~ Mel Giedroyc
Like IHOP," Toby said. "My cousins call it 'dohi,' since that's IHOP upside down. It gets in your head. You'll just see an upside-down dohi sign next time you pass one, trust me.
~ Robyn Schneider
Was he really insane? At a time when the world is upside down and it's thought insane to ask why you're being murdered, it obviously requires no great effort to pass for a lunatic.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
A man employs the full power of the state in his grief and ends up plunging his government into a fruitless and costly experiment. A woman who walks away from the promise of power finds the strength to forgive - and saves her friendship, her marriage, and her sanity. The world is turned upside down. - Chapter 8
~ Malcolm Gladwell