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Quotes About Upstairs

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
A landlord is showing a couple around an apartment. The husband looks up and says, 'Wait a minute. This apartment doesn't have a ceiling.' The landlord answers, 'That's OK. The people upstairs don't walk around that much.'
~ Gilbert Gottfried
She's both striking and practical, somehow, like the string of rope lights around the banister that dangles and loops and steers you upstairs to a nighttime party. This
~ Darin Strauss
with three extra bedrooms upstairs
~ David Archer
His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants' hall.
~ James M. Barrie
Darting a glance to either side, Danny Hislop had a sudden feeling that the whites of his eyes were beginning to show. 'Suppose we go upstairs?' said Sybilla comfortably. 'I think the steward is waiting to take us. That is, if you really want to hear us talk about our intimate family affairs in your presence. Otherwise I am sure they will make you very welcome elsewhere.' She was like her bloody son.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
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
I finally figured it out, I finally figured out how to find some peace and happiness. I sure would hate for the man upstairs to take me now. But at least I did figure it out.
~ Lewis Grizzard
I don't believe that raising my voice in song is going to be pleasing to a God who is sitting upstairs somewhere, waiting to be pleased.
~ Andrew Solomon
'Upstairs Downstairs' and 'Downton Abbey' appeal to people because they're about our history, they look so beautiful, are written by amazing writers and have high production values.
~ Keeley Hawes
In my house on the ceilings I have paintings of the rooms above... so I never have to go upstairs.
~ Steven Wright
He expressed appreciation for the information I provided, taking a dozen pages of notes in his small neat hand, and asking plenty of questions, not to challenge but just to elucidate. He did offer a pointed comment about what he called our dodge with Helmar, with his ward upstairs, and I rebutted.
~ Rex Stout
He let the light from the upstairs world enter him and fill him. He gasped aloud with the wonder of it.
~ Kate DiCamillo
The rat called Chiaroscuro did not look away. He let the light from the upstairs world enter him and fill him. He gasped aloud with the wonder of it.
~ Kate DiCamillo
How about outside?" Rafe whispered. He caught my look and said, "Just on the porch or something." "I think that's where Daniel and Nicole went. I have an idea." I led him upstairs. As I pushed open the door to Daniel's bedroom, I said, "It's a way station not a destination." Rafe chuckled. "Damn.
~ Kelley Armstrong
What's he saying?" Buggy asked, her voice shaky. "That there's something up in the attic that we should be careful of because it could be dangerous. "Oh, uh-uh, I'm not going up there," Buggy said, You can send Shaundelle up there, but I'm keeping my little white ass down here.
~ Deborah Leblanc
Smote.' I haven't gotten to use that word since my days upstairs. I kind of miss it. Lots of pomp and circumstance in a word like that." He tapped his chin as the smile became sly. "Downstairs we just say slaughter or massacre or team-building exercise.
~ Rob Thurman
And yet death was not something you could ignore. It had its weight. It was a dead man lying upstairs, not a man who was sick. It seemed to her she had better not form the practice of ignoring death. If she tried it, death would find a way to answer back—it would take another of her loved ones, to remind her to respect it.
~ Larry McMurtry
New Brunswick, New Jersey, where I had to cut off two of its feet to get it upstairs to my third-floor office at 16 Stratford Place. There, for all I know, it remains to this day.)
~ Lawrence Block
And in a minute the loudest Yankee voice I ever heard in my life yells out, OE'm Pop-OE the Sailor-r-r-r Ma-a-an! and then somebody jumps up and down in the upstairs hall. In another second the house would of fallen down.
~ Eudora Welty
David!" Xander yelled, because he had to yell something. His eyes snapped back to the figure in the upstairs doorway, but it was gone. "What do you want?" David asked. "I...were you just upstairs?" "I haven't looked up there yet." "But I just saw you up there.
~ Robert Liparulo
They sat in the upstairs living room, a place furnished, one way or another, from the stages of Dublin, so you were always sitting in character, you were just not sure which one.
~ Anne Enright
Or we can go upstairs and play with the laughing gas. The dentist tells me he does nitrous with the hygienist.
~ Lisa Scottoline
Stop gibbering. The Countess took his arm, and began more-or-less frog-marching him upstairs. Roic made a mental note of her technique, for future reference. She glanced over her shoulder and gave Roic a reassuring, if rather unexpected, wink. The
~ Lois McMaster Bujold