Quotes About Upstairs

Whatever the losses in warmth and comfort, the gains in space proved irresistible. So the development of the fireplace became one of the great breakthroughs in domestic history: they allowed people to lay boards across the beams and create a whole new world upstairs.

His ward upstairs was full of whining old military retirees too afraid to die.

When I hear the doorbell, I push myself to a standing position and head upstairs. "Coming!" I yell while dancing to an unidentifiable beat that's obviously not coming out of the speakers. This is just one more reason I like wine.

clogged up the toilet, too), then deals with the receipts, a task as depressing as it sounds. Finally, he goes upstairs to the attic apartment where he lives. He pops a carton of frozen vindaloo into the microwave. Nine minutes, per the box's instructions. As he's standing

She feels very sorry for her mother because people who don't wake up can't go downstairs to the bookstore in the morning.

As we celebrate mediocrity, all the boys upstairs want to see. How much you'll pay for what you used to get for free.

George learned from the woman's daughter that she was having her midday meal and a rest in her room upstairs. "But Mother will be down in a little while," she said. "Would you like to wait?

The main stairs were carpeted

Jon:'What are you doing up there? Why aren't you at the feast?' Tyrion: 'Too hot, too noisy, and I'd drunk too much wine', the dwarf told him. 'I learned long ago that it is considered rude to vomit on your brother.

My motivation, even in anticipated shame, lay always in others. You can take the woman out of the upstairs, but you can't take the upstairs out of her.

Perhaps the House had heard Harvey wishing for a full moon, because when he and Wendell traipsed upstairs and looked out the landing window, there--hanging between the bare branches of the trees--was a moon as wide and as white as a dead man's smile.

The division in our lives was curious. Downstairs there was pure convention; upstairs pure intellect. But there was no connection between them.

Debating where to go on holiday this year. I think maybe upstairs.

We grew up in Islington, north London, in a Georgian terraced house that nowadays would be split into flats. Our grandparents lived upstairs, there was another tenant living up there and downstairs was the office where people in the area paid their rent.

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.

'Upstairs Downstairs' somehow bestrode the different genres that had come before it to create a new drama entity. I suppose that's one of the reasons why it became so instantly popular.

I've got allergy pills upstairs in my room, and it says 'For Cat Work' right on it.

I remember when I was walking upstairs to sign for Newcastle, seeing some of the things going up that I saw outside was a bit of a dream come true for me. When St James' Park is fully packed I will be a bit shocked in those first few games, but this is a great club and I am looking forward to it.

I hear in the chamber above meThe patter of little feet.

scene upstairs with

Where is Richard, do you know?" "Chopping onions on the back step. Oh, you mean Master Richard? Upstairs. Eating. Where's anybody?

Hey, Hazel?" he called softly in the upstairs hall, and she turned. "What did he kiss like?" There was a confusion of emotions on his face—longing and maybe a little jealousy and a whole lot of curiosity. She snorted a surprised laugh, her bad mood dissolving. "Like he was a shark and I was blood in the water." "That good?" he asked, grinning.

would have to be told about this, that Liam would have anything to do with it, or be in any way affected. Liam, who was upstairs right now,

Sometimes I work upstairs projecting the movies, and the rest of the time I'm just selling tickets or popcorn.