Quotes About Upside-down

Everything here at St. Aggie's is upside down and inside out. It's our job not to get moon blinked and to stand right side up in an upside down world. If we don't do that we'll never be able to escape. We'll never be able to think. And thinking is the only way we'll be able to plan an escape." -Gylfie

We must look to Mary's example to know how to deal with the glorious impossibilities of God. Look how she turned the world upside down by making one simple statement ...

I find that I am also shedding tears of happiness and relief that something good can still happen in this upside-down world.

Your hair looks funny, Lief said, as soon as the Ugloids left. It stands straight up! No, said Nick, intensely irritated, It's hanging straight down. Lief just gave him an upside-down shrug. Up is down in China and you're part-Chinese.

The fault was lying on its' back...

Sometimes you have to turn the world upside down to see it right side up.

Are the angels of her bed the angels who come near me alone in mine? Are the green trees in her window the color is see in ripe plums? If she always sees backward and upside down without knowing it what chance do we have? I am haunted by the feeling that she is saying melting lords of death, avalanches, rivers and moments of passing through, And I am replying, Yes, yes. Shoes and pudding.

Ripples in the upside-down lake of the void, is what I should have said. The bottom of the world is gold and the world is upside down.

Gender is the remaining caste system that still cuts deep enough, and spreads wide enough, to be confused with the laws of nature. To uncover the difference between what is and what could be, we may need the "Aha!" that comes from exchanging subject for object, the flash of recognition that starts with a smile, the moment of changed viewpoint that turns the world upside down.

It was almost as if a 3 a.m. religion existed, one that was self-reliant and relished how the world can be lived upside-down but still lived to its fullest potential.

By this paradox, the usual logic of equality is turned upside down.

Entonces se produjo el momento más exquisito de su vida, al pasar junto a una hornacina de piedra con flores. Sally se detuvo; cogió una flor; la besó en los labios. ¡Fue como si el mundo entero se hubiese puesto boca abajo! Los demás desaparecieron; ahí estaba ella a solas con Sally.

and if I had turned myself upside down before drinking, the wine could not have gone more direct to my head.

Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.

Hatred strikes me as one of the few signs of life remaining in the world. This is another thing about the world which is upsidedown: all the friendly and likable people seem dead to me; only the haters seem alive.

Auto racing is boring except when a car is going at least 172 miles per hour upside down.

I guess I've always lived upside down when I want things I can't have.

They say that a kingdom is like a pyramid: the king on top and the people below. But in this country, it's upside down.

I'm interested when things are upside down - because there are so many possibilities in that one moment. There is a lot that is exposed.

I mean, I think that - as an actress, in particular, I'm basically a fool, and I see the world upside down.

There was one where Gomez was on a Trapeze hanging by the legs upside down. I remember how much the backs of my knees would hurt until I got used to it. It was hard.

The world has flipped upside-down. It used to be a pyramid of authority; now it's upside down. The influence actually rests with the mid-level people, who speak peer-to-peer. If they're for you, you win.

Becoming a mother has turned my world upside down, but in a really good way - it's the best.

In my world, I read resumes upside down, so I start with personal interests. So if somebody doesn't have believable, interesting interests, they're not going to work in a creative business.