Quotes About Hanging Upside Down

#1. Writers get ideas all day every day. The FedEx guy delivers a package from Sears and the writer is thinking how it could actually be a ticking time bomb.

Dan Alatorre

#2. If you remove Al Sharpton's blackness, he disappears. He's transparent. There's nothing there because he bases his whole life on his blackness. Me, I'm a black man; but my blackness has submission to my Christianity.

Ken Hutcherson

#3. It's always mildly unnerving when you're hanging upside down 70 feet in the air.

Reeve Carney

#4. Sometimes I get the sense that it's all "internal" ... Maybe that's why I lived alone and did nothing for three years ... (The man hardly ever washed, he didn't need a typewriter, all he had to do was sit in that shabby armchair for things to flee of their own accord)

Roberto Bolano

#5. The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way, you can break the ice. It's crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.

Adam McKay

#6. Ah, that we lack the courage of our romantic convictions; and thereby miss the wine of life, forgoing the very thing that makes living worthwhile.

Hunter S. Thompson

#7. The Mother's knowledge of unity, her powers of sensitivity, humility, and balance, and her infinite respect for the miracle of all life have now to be invoked by each of us and practiced if the 'masculine' rational imbalance of our civilization is to be righted before its too late.

Andrew Harvey

#8. AHA!" screamed a voice from overhead ... Peeves was hanging upside down from a chandelier and grinning maliciously at them.
"Potty asked Loony to go to the party! Potty lurves Loony! Potty luuuuurves Looooooony!"
And he zoomed away, cackling and shrieking, "Potty loves Loony!

J.K. Rowling

#9. 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.

John Astin

#10. Watch out for intellect, because it knows so much it knows nothing and leaves you hanging upside down, mouthing knowledge as your heart falls out of your mouth.

Anne Sexton

#11. Almost the first thing you see after entering the Houdini exhibition at the Jewish Museum is a large-screen film of Harry Houdini hanging by his ankles upside-down from a tall building, high over a sea of men in fedoras, and thrashing his way out of a straitjacket.

Robert Gottlieb

#12. I open my eyes and see a head hanging upside down. Grinning at me.

Margarita Morris

#13. It is much easier to drive without having an accident.

Alec Issigonis

#14. Praise be to Him who brings our loved ones home from el ghurba (exile)

Susan Abulhawa

#15. I put the carpetbag on a ledge, and then, hanging upside down by my razor-clawed feet, slept until sunset. A first for me, and actually quite comfortable.
Lord help me.

J.R. Rain

#16. Do you mind?" I looked at him from my upside-down position. The rope tight around my ankle, hands fought a losing battle with gravity over my t-shirt.
"What are you doing here?" He kneeled, hand rested on the crossbow while he dug his mismatched eyes into me.
"Oh, you know... just hanging.

Isabelle Crusoe

#17. It was a woman. Hanging upside down.

Lucian Bane

#18. I've spent three hours hanging upside down while fighting off dinosaur attacks. That was a lot of fun.

Jason O'Mara

#19. Ignorance, arrogance, and racism have bloomed as Superior Knowledge in all too many universities.

Alice Walker

#20. As difficult as it was to decipher Two's expression when she was on the ground, it was next to impossible when she was at her ease hanging upside down in her office.

Susan R. Matthews

#21. I'm willing to forgive the press, or forgive anybody,I was taught to love and forgive,which I do have in my heart,but please don't believe these crazy, horrifying things.

Michael J. Jackson

#22. Creatures that hang themselves up like an old rag, to sleep;
And disgustingly upside down.
Hanging upside down like rows of disgusting old rags
And grinning in their sleep.
Bats!

D.H. Lawrence

#23. I am like a dead begonia hanging upside down because like a dead begonia I don't give a f**k.

David Levithan

#24. 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.

Neal Shusterman

#25. The more gross the fraud the more glibly will it go down, and the more greedily be swallowed, since folly will always find faith where impostors will find imprudence.

Charles Caleb Colton

#26. I will tell you what is poetry ...
It is a remote electronic claw picking up a stuffed bunny rabbit ...

Chelsey Minnis

#27. I put my life in danger every time I do some of these demonstrations, whether it's in the audience hanging upside down or on the stage. We now have a lot of dangerous stunts where anything can go wrong. In fact, I have fallen two stories and landed on the stage, so I am well aware of the dangers.

Criss Angel

#28. The figure hanging upside down at the top of the great hall had 'f'n had it' with the corpulent little blood dumplings! - Bats

Fred Barnett

#29. It might if you were male, hanging upside down naked and got nervous, then whizzed all over yourself. Gravity is not your friend at that point. (Josie)
Eww. Save those tidbits for when you're in the men's room ... updating your contact information. (Terri)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#30. Men of your age don't bounce. They splat.

David Mitchell

#31. That becomes the revolution, to be idealistic enough that you think you can change the world, and what you find is you can't change anything but yourself.

Marilyn Manson