Quotes About Things Upside Down

#1. I like to turn things upside down, to watch pictures and situations from another perspective.

Ursus Wehrli

#2. The idea that laws decide what is right or wrong is mistaken in general. Laws are, at their best, an attempt to achieve justice; to say that laws define justice or ethical conduct is turning things upside down.

Richard Stallman

#3. It's amazing where a joke might come from. I find a lot of humour just by metaphorically turning things upside down or literally like my wife's cat.

Emo Philips

#4. When you see things upside down, the ego can be extraordinarily funny; it's absurd. But it's tragic at the same time.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

#5. I'm always trying to turn things upside down and see if they look any better.

Tibor Kalman

#6. Few poets have made a more interesting rhetoric out of just fooling around: turning things upside down, looking at them from under the sofa, considering them (and their observer) curiously enough to make the reader protest, That were to consider it too curiously.

Randall Jarrell

#7. When you think about Uber and Airbnb and the other companies that are turning things upside down, Uber isn't big 'cause they ran a lot of ads. They're big because someone took out their iPhone and said to their friend, watch this, and pressed a button and a car pulled up.

Seth Godin

#8. Modern nature-worship is all upside down. Trees and fields ought to be the ordinary things; terraces and temples ought to be extraordinary. I am on the side of the man who lives in the country and wants to go to London.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

Tom Waits

#10. In an upside down world, with all the rules being rewritten as the game goes on and spectators invading the pitch, it is good to feel that some things and some people seem to stay just as they were.

Kenneth More

#11. Learn to see things backwards, inside out, and upside down.

John Heider

#12. Our world spins upside down and sometimes we have to lose our grip on the things we value in this life in order to grab on to true life.

Jon Foreman

#13. I want to turn the whole thing upside down
I'll find the things they say just can't be found
I'll share the love I find with everyone
We'll sing and dance to Mother Nature's song
I don't want this feeling to go away.

Jack Johnson

#14. Everything starts out as just friends, right? Everything. But then things change and suddenly you're in love with someone and your whole world is flipped upside down ... But you always have good intentions. Everything always starts out as just friends.

Alysha Speer

#15. Life is a funny thing, the minute you think you've got everything figured out something comes along and turns it all upside down.

Zayn Malik

#16. Plato says: "Every king springs from a race of slaves, and every slave has had kings among his ancestors." The flight of time, with its vicissitudes, has jumbled all such things together, and Fortune has turned them upside down. Then

Seneca.

#17. And that was is. Life sometimes flips on you like that. One minute you're looking at your reflection in the water, not entirely sure you like what you see, and the next minute you are upside down, submerged in a world where even familiar things look new.

Vicki Pettersson

#18. For fools admire and love those things they see hidden in verses turned all upside down, and take for truth what sweetly strokes the ears and comes with sound of phrases fine imbued.

Lucretius

#19. I felt I could turn the earth upside down with my littlest finger. I wanted to dance, to fly in the air and kiss the sun and stars with my singing heart. I, alone with myself, was enjoying myself for the first time as with grandest company.

Anzia Yezierska

#20. Things that are back to front are often easier to comprehend if they are upside down as well. In life as in politics.

Terry Pratchett

#21. I don't really cook much. I'm more of a baker. My favorite things to bake that everybody loves, and I can only keep in the house for about ten minutes, are 7-Up cake and Pineapple Upside-Down cake.

Jada Pinkett Smith

#22. The harrowing of the soul can be like the harrowing of the soil; to increase the yield, things are turned upside down.

Neal A. Maxwell

#23. Why not touch things that we hate and turn them upside down and inside out?

Alber Elbaz

#24. 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.

Anna Deavere Smith

#25. Even if my songs are a bit low-spirited, they make me happy. I become happy when I hear sad songs. When you sing about sad things in a beautiful way, the atmosphere turns upside down

John Frusciante

#26. At some stage in most people's lives, things turn upside down, and nothing is as you expected it to be.

Susanne Bier

#27. In NASCAR, you can do a lot of banging around and get pretty serious and even get yourself upside down. All of those things can happen - and then you give an interview two seconds later.

Mario Andretti

#28. That's the only way to look at things, I always say," propounded the Duke. "Slantways, sideways, and upside down.

Catherynne M Valente

#29. They had none of the modern things that we have today, and yet they turned their world upside down,

David Frost

#30. I began to wonder if anyone still believed Jesus meant thos things He said. I thought if we just stopped and asked 'what if He really meant it?' it could turn the world upside down. It is a shame christians have become so normal.

Shane Claiborne

#31. I wish I could pick you up sometimes, turn you upside down, shake all the bad things out of your head, and put you back up the
right way again.

Alexander Masters

#32. When
things turns upside down, think it over and let new come apace

Oladosu Feyikogbon

#33. My art is not limited to the songs I create but also to the reaction it creates. I like to sit back and look at the whole thing as if it's a tornado that I'm controlling. It's creating chaos. When you create chaos, ideas are turned upside down, and everybody looks at things in a different way.

Marilyn Manson

#34. On stage, it is a tremendous thing to be able to make people laugh. But one of the things that I have always loved is when I am in shows where you can turn the audience upside down and make them cry or move them. That is when things are the most rewarding.

Roger Bart

#35. There are two Newman's laws. The first one is "It is useless to put on your brakes when you're upside down." The second is "Just when things look darkest, they go black.

Paul Newman