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Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check. -- M. C. Escher
Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second. -- Robert Frost
I always performed when I was a child. My parents got very annoyed, because my brother and I had our little bedrooms upstairs, and I would plaster the house with posters with arrows pointing upstairs. -- Franka Potente
We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it. -- Tennessee Williams
The secret to a happy marriage is if you can be at peace with someone within four walls, if you are content because the one you love is near to you, either upstairs or downstairs, or in the same room, and you feel that warmth that you don't find very often, then that is what love is all about. -- Bruce Forsyth
I've always had great faith in the Man Upstairs. -- Wayne Newton
Maybe since I was 35 years old it was time to go upstairs. -- Wellington Mara
His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants' hall. -- James M. Barrie
When the road looks rough ahead, remember the 'Man upstairs' and the word HOPE. Hang onto both and 'tough it out'. -- John Wayne
Life itself, she thought, as she went upstairs to dress for dinner, was stranger than dreams and far, far more disordered. -- Nancy Mitford
As we celebrate mediocrity, all the boys upstairs want to see. How much you'll pay for what you used to get for free. -- Tom Petty
Never discuss the poem you contemplate writing. It's like turning on the outside spigot. It takes all the pressure off the upstairs bathroom. -- Robert Frost
I might be in the basement. I'll go upstairs and check. We adore chaos because we love to produce order. I don't use drugs; my dreams are frightening enough. -- M. C. Escher
Sometimes I thank God for unanswered prayers. Remember when you're talkin' to the man upstairs; that just because he doesn't answer doesn't mean he don't care. Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers -- Garth Brooks
I spend a lot of time working as a painter and in my studio I go from upstairs where I paint to downstairs where I play and record, so I get this thing crossing over. -- Andy Summers
There are people out there dying every day, so when you wake up, you just have to thank the Man Upstairs for another day on this planet. There's not much else we can ask for. -- Dikembe Mutombo
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 am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in solitude, distant noises of gurgling cisterns and pipes, and the noise of wind under the tiles. Also, of endless books. -- C. S. Lewis
I've done loads of things people have never seen - dramas on BBC4 and plays upstairs at the Royal Court and the Bush - and because I didn't go to drama school, they gave me an education. -- Rafe Spall
I write in the afternoon, from about 12 until 6 or 7. I use an upstairs room as my office. Once I get going I keep at it, and it usually takes about six months from the first blank screen until 'The End. -- Lee Child
I thought the only way you can get into things is... through the basement... exactly where my studio was ... I could creep upstairs and snatch at things, and bring them down with me... where I could munch away at them. -- Paula Rego
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
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
I tired the back door -- unlocked. Truley the Man Upstairs was smiling down on me. -- Maggie Stiefvater
I have not watched WAGs World, I have not watched the BBC's Upstairs, Downstairs, either. It would be Downton Abbey, I think. -- Theresa May
It makes me feel kind of weird, but obviously the Man Upstairs gave me something and it touches people, and I'm just so blessed. -- Eddie Van Halen
The women in 'Downton Abbey' don't compare to the women in 'Upstairs Downstairs.' Ours are stunning. We've got Laura Haddock, Keeley Hawes, Claire Foy... beautiful women. -- Neil Jackson
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
'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
Everyone loves a slice of period-drama-pie, but I think the success of Upstairs Downstairs is really down to the wonderful format that Jean Marsh and Eileen Atkins created. -- Ellie Kendrick
Everyone loves a slice of period-drama-pie, but I think the success of 'Upstairs Downstairs' is really down to the wonderful format that Jean Marsh and Eileen Atkins created. -- Ellie Kendrick
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. -- Ed Stoppard
I used to pride myself on being impervious to the sentimentalities of soap opera, but when that loveliest of actresses, Rachel Gurney, of Upstairs, Downstairs, perished on the Titanic, I wept so convulsively and developed such anorexia that I had to be force-fed. -- S. J. Perelman
Our skin colours may vary, but what's upstairs - there's certain things we've all got in common. -- Billy Gibbons
His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants hall. -- James M. Barrie
The man upstairs is pushing the buttons, and if your name happens to be on that button, well, thank you. -- Mario Andretti
I don't have a formal home recording studio, but I can record tracks on my computer upstairs in my office. -- Huey Lewis
C'mon. He'd be embarrassing upstairs at the White House. So I think she'd have a hard time. I think a woman president would have to be very conservative to get elected. -- Chris Matthews
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
Sometimes we're at hotels, and I'll answer the phone. They'll say, 'Mr. Ripa, your breakfast is coming upstairs.' And I'm like, Is my father-in-law here? But, obviously, I'm proud either way - Ripa or Consuelos. -- Mark Consuelos
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
I write in the afternoon, from about 12 until 6 or 7. I use an upstairs room as my office. Once I get going I keep at it, and it usually takes about six months from the first blank screen until 'The End.' -- Lee Child
For every veteran who goes through a divorce, a wife goes through one, too. For every veteran alone in the basement, there is a wife upstairs, bewildered, isolated and in despair from the dark clouds of war that hangs over family life. -- Karl Marlantes
The house burned an hour before midnight on the last day of April. The wild, distant ringing of the fire bells woke George Hazard. He stumbled through the dark hallway, then upstairs to the mansion tower, and stepped outside into the narrow balcony. -- John Jakes
On the morning of Thanksgiving, I would wake up to the home smelling of all good things, wafting upstairs to my room. I would set the table with the fancy silverware and china and hope that my parents and grandmother wouldn't have the annual Thanksgiving fight about Richard Nixon. -- Debi Mazar
I remember, when I was a kid, watching my mother jam herself into her girdle - a piece of equipment so rigid it could stand up on its own - and I remember her coming home from fancy parties and racing upstairs to extricate herself from its cruel iron grip. -- Susan Orlean
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
The Exorcist' is absolutely my favorite horror film, and I watched it when I was, like, seven years old with my mother for the first time. I don't know why my mom let me watch that. I couldn't go to the bathroom by myself. I couldn't go upstairs by myself. I couldn't sleep. -- Odette Annable
It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself. -- Jack Straw
I started on 'Saturday Night Live' the same time Conan started on Late Night. We just had a relationship because I would be upstairs in the studio and whenever he couldn't get a guest - which was often back then since he was just starting out - he would just call me down to be a guest. -- Norm MacDonald
At home in Ghaziabad, everyone is a pure vegetarian. In fact, when I want to cook non-veg there, my mum shoos me out on the terrace where I have my cooking utensils. I'm told categorically that whatever non-veg or egg, etc., that I have to cook, I should do upstairs and not enter her kitchen at all. -- Suresh Raina
When we run out of them upstairs, I've been known to appropriate some from our greenroom, pocketing a few with one hand as I smile and greet our guests with the other. One time, Dave Zinczenko of 'Eat this, Not That!' fame, busted me in the act. The cookies apparently fall in the 'not that' category. I made a note of it. -- Lester Holt
Romance begins upstairs, then culminates downstairs. -- T.F. Hodge
Let's have some wine, go upstairs, and look at my money. -- David Letterman
I don't know nothing about that. I'm not the man upstairs. -- Cartier Martin
I might be in the basement. I'll go upstairs and check. -- M. C. Escher
The Greater Man upstairs know when it's my time. Right now isn't the time. -- LeBron James
Does somebody have an explanation why there's human flesh on the hall window upstairs? -- David Foster Wallace
Only men with intelligence, confidence and absolutely no empathy at all can progress upstairs. -- Carla H. Krueger
Those people upstairs think that Karl Marx was somebody who wrote a good anti-trust law. -- Warren Beatty
I don't have a photograph, but you can have my footprints. They're upstairs in my socks." -- Groucho Marx
I don't have a photograph, but you can have my footprints. They're upstairs in my socks. -- Groucho Marx
Silver Avalanche coming up the driveway," calls Jeffrey from upstairs."What are you, security?" I call back. -- Cynthia Hand
I've got allergy pills upstairs in my room, and it says 'For Cat Work' right on it. -- Mimi Kennedy
Silver Avalanche coming up the driveway," calls Jeffrey from upstairs."What are you, security?" I call back." -- Cynthia Hand
Music comes first from my heart, and then goes upstairs to my head where I check it out. -- Roberta Flack
When an elevator brings u upstairs, you better send it back down in order to bring others up! -- Dikembe Mutombo
When you go upstairs, go up with high spirit; when you go downstairs, go down with high spirit. -- Mehmet Murat ildan
I terminated the interview when I didn't know what he was talking about and went upstairs to lunch. -- Graham Kennedy
We depend a lot on the guy upstairs in dire times, in addressing our concerns and looking for help. -- John Sweeney
Sometimes I work upstairs projecting the movies, and the rest of the time I'm just selling tickets or popcorn. -- Kyle Parker
I do have one slightly crooked wheel upstairs, but everything else is ticking along just four-o, thank you very much. -- Stephen King
Shut up!" Eve yelled from somewhere upstairs. "Jackass!" "You know, when people say that, I just hear the word awesome, -- Rachel Caine
Old habits cannot be thrown out the upstairs window. They have to be coaxed downstairs one step at a time. -- Mark Twain
In my house on the ceilings I have paintings of the rooms above... so I never have to go upstairs. -- Steven Wright
Wait a minute, words in the prompter, script on my desk, vending machine upstairs out of Funyuns... the writers are back! -- Jon Stewart
I found that things weren't going well upstairs. Carter was a crumpled heap of chicken warrior on the slope of the pyramid. -- Rick Riordan
My name is Luka I live on the second floor. I live upstairs from you, yes, I think you've seen me before. -- Suzanne Vega
Glory never arrives through the front door. She sneaks in uninvited round the back or through an upstairs window while you are sleeping. -- Stephen Fry
When we got married, we agreed on a boy for me, and a girl for you. Mine's upstairs sleeping. Good luck with yours! -- George Lopez
To go upstairs in the word house is to withdraw step by step; while to go down to the cellar is to dream -- Gaston Bachelard
Yes, she's bleeding to death upstairs, but I thought I'd avoid telling you right away, because I like to draw the suspense out. -- Cassandra Clare
I know that atmosphere of the Parisian apartment building, with the twin menaces of the concierge on the ground floor and the landlord upstairs. -- Roman Polanski
It is not surprising that prayer malfunctions when we try to make it a domestic intercom to call upstairs for more comforts in the den. -- John Piper
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
Got that gun?" Peter says to Tobias. "No," says Tobias, "I figured I would shoot the bullets out of my nostrils, so I left it upstairs. -- Veronica Roth
The smoke alarm went off in the hallway upstairs, either to let us know the battery had just died or because the house was on fire. -- Don DeLillo
The worship of God....should be free at table, in private rooms, downstairs, upstairs, at home, abroad, in all places, by all peoples, at all times -- Martin Luther
It's all in her walk, a cartoon swagger. Part Jayne Mansfield, part Muhammad Ali. Men never know if it's an invitation upstairs or an invitation outside. -- Emma Forrest
I think people are always going to be fascinated about the haves and have nots - about the divide between the servants and the rich families upstairs. -- Neil Jackson
Even now, Dickon was upstairs, writing sonnets to his new love, while back at Seadown House, Marianne was writing 'Ella' on scraps of paper and then burning them. -- Jessica Day George
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
You have to stop thinking about us or I won't be able to stop myself from throwing you over my shoulder and hauling your sexy ass upstairs to bed. -- Laura Wright
I'm not like a religious exerciser. My parents go down to the gym everyday now, and I'm the one that stays upstairs. But I definitely need to start exercising. -- Mark Indelicato
It's so great to be able to write from home. My bread is rising downstairs, and I'm upstairs writing. I have a writing room that my grandchildren consider one of their playrooms. -- Cynthia Voigt
My ceiling's broken, my car's got a puncture and we've just lost two matches. But I've got my health and I'll ask the big man upstairs why he didn't give us a point. -- Ian Holloway
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. -- Ross MacDonald
One gets tired of the role critics are supposed to have in this culture: It's like being the piano player in a whorehouse; you don't have any control over the action going on upstairs -- Robert Hughes
One gets tired of the role critics are supposed to have in this culture: It's like being the piano player in a whorehouse; you don't have any control over the action going on upstairs. -- Robert Hughes
I come from a very working-class background, so my family would have been downstairs in the past, as opposed to upstairs. People are often quite surprised to hear that, that I'm not actually posh. -- Michelle Dockery
Standing is stupid, Crawling's a curse, Skipping is silly,Walking is worse.Hopping is hopeless,Jumping's a chore,Sitting is senseless, Leaning's a bore.Running's ridiculous,Jogging's insane-Guess I'll go upstairs andLie down again. -- Shel Silverstein
Today Google celebrated its 13th anniversary.... That's right, Google turned 13 years old. Which explains why today when I searched for something, Google was just like, "I don't know. Stop asking me questions! I'm going upstairs. -- Jimmy Fallon

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