Quotes About Upside Down

#1. Some people are like cats - if they're dropped upside down, they land on their feet. I get a little irritated about stories like that.

Peter Segal

#2. We must look to Mary's example to know how to deal with the glorious impossibilities of God. Look how she turned the world upside down by making one simple statement ...

Calvin Miller

#3. It is strange how interiors reflect their dark turbulent past, how in their stillness bygone history tries to be reenacted, how the same situations repeat themselves with infinite variations, turned upside down and inside out by fruitless dialectic of wallpapers and hangings.

Bruno Schulz

#4. Look at him. Whole life turned upside down, and he's in there making pizza rolls.

Rachel Hawkins

#5. 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

#6. Don't be timid. You're a writer, use your role, test it, make something of it. These are decisive times, everything is turning upside down. Participate, be present.

Elena Ferrante

#7. When a dragonfly flutters by, you may not realize, but it's the greatest flier in nature. It can hover, fly backwards, even upside down.

Louie Schwartzberg

#8. Juan Garcia began putting chairs upside down on the tables. Gathering Mr. Packard's spoon, cup, and saucer, Dynah watched the old man walk stiffly across the room. His arthritis was troubling him again.

Francine Rivers

#9. I stared down the wall, which did not stare back at me. I wouldn't let her rattle me. The cart barely had any books on it, and the ones there were just tossed on, upside down, disorganized. It hurt to look.

Nova Ren Suma

#10. She loved Manhattan and could not imagine living anywhere else, but her world was upside down now, and, well, there was nothing certain in her future.

John Grisham

#11. This is another thing about the world which is upside-down: all the friendly and likable people seem dead to me; only the haters seem alive. Down

Walker Percy

#12. I find you can often find humor just by turning something upside-down. Like a ... small child.

Emo Philips

#13. Ask no guarantees, ask for no security, there never was such an animal.And if there were, it would be related to the great sloth which hangs upside down in a tree all day, every day, sleeping its life away.

Ray Bradbury

#14. He had the air of a spy in a melodrama, missing nothing, liking nothing, looking forward to the great day when everything would be turned upside down.

Kurt Vonnegut

#15. The urge to travel feels magnetic. Two of my favorite words are linked: departure time. And travel whets the emotions, turns upside down the memory bank, and the golden coins scatter.

Frances Mayes

#16. When two people meet," he said, "and one is upside down, it isn't always easy to tell which of them is the right way up.

Jostein Gaarder

#17. Everything seems to have been turned upside-down, but in a good way.

Mark Roberts

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

Tibor Kalman

#19. The mundanes put their faith in their paper money, and when that turns to ash, the world will turn upside down.

Cassandra Clare

#20. On the Cross Christ wins through losing, triumphs through defeat, achieves power through weakness and service, comes to wealth via giving all away. Jesus Christ turns the values of the world upside down.

Timothy Keller

#21. Love is an abstract noun, something nebulous. And yet love turns out to be the only part of us that is solid, as the world turns upside down and the screen goes black.

Martin Amis

#22. All it takes is a second and your whole life can get turned upside down.

Jodi Picoult

#23. What if I have it all upside down? What if I'm the one who knows nothing of God, and the people in the world are actually interceding on my behalf with their ordinary daily struggles

Mark Salzman

#24. Truth is dangerous. Its so painful and unnecessary. But if you find the courage to face it - it will turn your world upside down and make you a better man.
M.K. Tasker

M.K. Tasker

#25. An entire tree swept past the door, upside down, its roots sprouting upward like horns. "You see that?" "Yeah. It's gonna wake up in the middle of the ocean, say, 'Wait a second. This isn't right.' "'I'm supposed to be over there.' "'Took me years to get that hill looking the way I wanted it.

Dennis Lehane

#26. Speech: 1. Tell the truth. Don't lie or turn the truth upside down. 2. Don't exaggerate. 3. Be consistent. This means no double-talk: speaking about something in one way to one person and in an opposite way to another for selfish or manipulative reasons.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#27. Grimly, she realized that clocks don't make a sound that even remotely resembles ticking, tocking. It was more the sound of a hammer, upside down, hacking methodically at the earth. It was the sound of a grave.

Markus Zusak

#28. If in all ideology men and their circumstances appear upside-down as in a camera obscura, this phenomenon arises just as much from their historical life-process as the inversion of objects on the retina does from the physical life-process.

Friedrich Engels

#29. He's wrong he's so wrong he's more wrong than an upside-down rainbow.
But everything he said is right.

Tahereh Mafi

#30. 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

#31. Each time I see the Upside-Down Man Standing in the water, I look at him and start to laugh, Although I shouldn't oughtter. For maybe in another world Another time Another town, Maybe HE is right side up And I am upside down

Shel Silverstein

#32. [Roger] Vadim became famous worldwide as a director, and I as an actress, but the other side of the coin was terrible. My life was totally turned upside down. I was followed, spied upon, adored, insulted. My private life became public.

Brigitte Bardot

#33. If you're great, you can stay that way and people will believe in you, swear by you, turn the world upside down for you. But, if you're only partly great, or just a nobody, then what happens to you is lost. (Read by Henry Miller)

Henry Miller

#34. Mikhail stretched out on the bed, his head in her lap. "You are going to turn my well-ordered world upside down, are you not?"
She tunneled her fingers in his hair, enjoying the feel of its silky thickness against the bare skin of her hips and thighs. "I certainly intend to do my best.

Christine Feehan

#35. 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

#36. I'm not a fussy eater, but when I'm travelling, I try to stick to the same regime and just have my chicken and my mash and broccoli. Otherwise, you start eating all these funny delicacies, and it makes your tummy turn upside down.

Ella Henderson

#37. Mother Dear, one day I'm going to turn this world upside down.
From My Brother Martin, by Christine King Farris

Martin Luther King Jr.

#38. The world that we all knew before, could wake up in feeling safe ... now it seems that everything has been turned upside down.

Tori Amos

#39. Going through that traumatic time of being heartbroken and then being pregnant turned my whole life upside down and inside out and just knocked the wind out of me. But I got so much out of that.

Bridget Moynahan

#40. Ever since the first day I'd seen Drew, none of my thoughts made sense. My entire world had turned upside-down, and I had no explanation why.

Michelle Madow

#41. No one recorded what those marches were, though decades later there was an apocryphal and later-debunked story the one of the songs the British played was the on-the-nose The World Turned Upside Down.

Sarah Vowell

#42. Reading is almost exactly like a cartwheel; it turns the world upside down and leaves you breathless

Katherine Rundell

#43. You're not a nuthatch, Laurie."
"Oh, but I am. I'm totally upside down. I'm a very backward kind of guy.

Leslea Tash

#44. You are indestructible .J
For some reason I felt light-headed when I finished writing and looked up at her, like I'd stood up too fast or the oxygen had left my brain. Oh pulled her arm back, looked thoughtfully at the words, and replied, It's upside down, but I like it. You done good, Jacob.

Patrick Carman

#45. While no inference is intended here, it is worth noting, in connection with Milton Friedman's comment that "Kelso just turned Marx upside down," that it is not necessarily amiss to turn a fellow upside down if that in fact straightens out his thinking.

Louis O. Kelso

#46. It certainly seems too simple to say what I am going to say, yet it is almost as if you would be better off turning the entire rational approach upside down, taking it for granted that all of its assumptions were false, for they are indeed more false than true.

Seth

#47. The world is wrong side up. It needs to be turned upside down in order to be right side up.

Billy Sunday

#48. People really feel that, when they go to the gas pump now, that the oil cartel is holding them by the legs and tipping them upside down and shaking money out of their pockets.

Ed Markey

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

David Levithan

#50. He sighed, wondering how his life had been turned upside down by this woman in less than forty-eight hours. Correction: by this woman, a pig, and a rabbit.

Julia Quinn

#51. You look at 1968 and it was truly the year that shook the world. The world was really completely upside down.

Emilio Estevez

#52. It was no great gift, for there was mighty little wine left; but Signor Cavalletto, jumping to his feet, received the bottle gratefully, turned it upside down at his mouth, and smacked his lips.

Charles Dickens

#53. I learned in English class about surrealists. It was the first time I wanted to throw myself up so I could be marked present. Surrealism turns the whole world upside down.

A.S. King

#54. Bottom is bottom, even if it is turned upside down.

Bill Vaughan

#55. 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

#56. Despite the fact that my household had been turned upside down by my stupidity, this fool was holding my daughter hostage.

Jessica N. Watkins

#57. In her crazy, upside down world, she needed someone like that. A rock that would keep her going, an anchor to keep her from drifting away. Instead, she was alone

Kayla Krantz

#58. 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

#59. My world had turned upside down again and again, which should mean it's right side up now, but it isn't. Everything's different, everything's the same.

Jael McHenry

#60. The next day on the far side of the mountain we encountered the two lads that had deserted us. Hangin upside down in a tree. They'd been skinned and I can tell ye it does very little for a man's appearance.

Cormac McCarthy

#61. The mind wraps itself around a poem. It is almost sensual, particularly if you work on a computer. You can turn the poem round and about and upside down, dancing with it a kind of bolero of two snakes twisting and coiling, until the poem has found its right and proper shape.

Marge Piercy

#62. The normalcy of it almost kills me. Even in a world turned upside down, a world of war and insanity, people hang their clothing; they fold their pants; they make their beds.
It is the only way.

Lauren Oliver

#63. I'll tell you what's fun - finding the right stewardess and turning her upside down in the back of a plane.

Steven Tyler

#64. I am no longer satisfied with attending or participating in a meeting called revival. I want to live revival reality and carry His glory into the darkness. Our goal is nothing less than lives and communities transformed from the inside out and turned upside-down by love. That is revival.

Michele Perry

#65. 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

#66. But when your situation is hopeless, all you can do is turn the world upside down, transform it according to your wishes, and create anew.

Fatema Mernissi

#67. But there's also an upside-down sort of happiness, a black happiness, that comes from doing evil to others.

Amos Oz

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

Lucian Bane

#69. Your irritation is important to us," Cassie droned, looking at me upside down with her head tipped backwards over her headrest, "and will be exacerbated in rotation. Thank you for holding.

Tana French

#70. Life has typhoons. They come and turn everything upside down. But you still have to standup because the next storm may be around the corner.

Nadia Hashimi

#71. It was almost as if a 3 a.m. religion existed, one that was self-reliant and relished how the world can be lived upside-down but still lived to its fullest potential.

James Altucher

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

Jason O'Mara

#73. The voice on the telephone seemed to be sharp and peremptory, but I didn't hear too well what it said, partly because I was only half awake and partly because I was holding the receiver upside down

Raymond Chandler

#74. Thing is,' Sis confided, 'all the important people here look ordinary and the really fancy ones are usually broke or on the make. I'll tell you, you're in an upside-down world now,' she said, shaking her head. 'Takes a while, but you'll get used to it.

Kathleen Tessaro

#75. Suddenly, I saw ocean again - then another horizon line - but this time the deep blue sky was on the wrong side of the line ... the Holy crap, we're upside down side.

M.A. George

#76. I was the first African-American woman to play Maggie in 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.' It was at the Virginia State Theatre, and we turned Richmond upside down.

Tamara Tunie

#77. Of course drums weren't meant to be played other than sitting on the ground. When you're upside-down, your feet don't want to sit on the pedals.

Tommy Lee

#78. Professionally, the first time I sang was on 'Alice Upside Down.' It was the first movie that I did, and I had this little mini singing part.

Bridgit Mendler

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

John Heider

#80. Newman's first law: It is useless to put on your brakes when you're upside down.

Paul Newman

#81. I never asked him if he screamed, or if there were upside-down mountain peaks visible through a window.

Salman Rushdie

#82. It was a map. A really crudely drawn map of trees, mountains that looked like upside-down Vs, and stick people. Apparently, drawing was not one of Athena's skills.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#83. Afterward, there was that long, crowded pause in which everyone decides that although they are very shaken, and possibly upside down, they are, to their surprise, still alive.

Terry Pratchett

#84. Our family life, before figure skating turned it upside down, seemed normal. Our town of Riverside, Connecticut, was part of Greenwich, and we had the advantage of their wonderful community, with great beaches and beautiful parks.

Dorothy Hamill

#85. As much as I love to dive into the action early, I think the hero's journey is important - the idea that the reader needs to experience the protagonist's everyday life before you turn that world upside down.

Kami Garcia

#86. The world isn't that easily turned upside down, Haida replied. It's people who are turned upside down.

Haruki Murakami

#87. We need to be politically engaged, but peculiar in how we engage. Jesus and the early Christians had a marvelous political imagination. They turned all the presumptions and ideas of power and blessing upside down.

Shane Claiborne

#88. Pranking is ultimately turning the world upside down. It's in good fun.

Jory John

#89. I knelt by the design. Yes, there was the sun rising. But the white form I had always thought to be a cloud was a bear. I could see it now, upside down. White bear, isbjorn, stood for north. Father had not been able to help himself. The truth was there, too. Truth and lie, side by side.

Edith Pattou

#90. We Abolition Women are turning the world upside down.

Angelina Grimke

#91. 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

#92. Turning something upside-down elicits a reversal of content and pointing a steeple into the ground directs it to hell as opposed to heaven.

Dennis Oppenheim

#93. Because I've been so bad at looking after myself, how would I ever look after a kid? But the old cliche applied: they handed her to me, and my world turned upside down - and I realised I was now going to be vulnerable in more ways than I expected.

Ken Bruen

#94. 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

#95. I am tired of fighting, of hitting and being hit. This is the strange way of the world, that people who simply want to love are instead forced to become warriors. It's the upside-down nature of life.

Lauren Oliver

#96. NO!" Raffe grips me as if he can bind my soul to my body. An upside-down view of the doorway shows up in my field of vision. Smoke waft through it.
Although the pain obscures Raffe's warmth, I feel the presure of his hug, the rocking of our bodies back and forth as he repeats the word, "No.

Susan Ee

#97. While I was in London it was completely upside-down. I got a whole new life and it was a challenge to keep in touch with my life in Ireland, but it was great fun. Now though, I've been back home since November and gradually all connections with my HP life have been fading.

Evanna Lynch

#98. The link between animals and words goes way back. (Did you know that our letter A began its life as a drawing of the upside-down head of a bull? The two bits at the bottom that the A stands on, those were originally horns. The pointy top bit was its face and nose.)

Neil Gaiman

#99. Someday this upside-down world will be turned right side up. Nothing in all eternity will turn it back again. If we are wise, we will use our brief lives on earth positioning ourselves for the turn.

Randy Alcorn

#100. Auto racing is boring except when a car is going at least 172 miles per hour upside down.

Dave Barry