Quotes About Upstairs

#1. On the day the Grisha Examiners came, the boy and the girl were perched in the window seat of a dusty upstairs bedroom, hoping to catch a glimpse of the mail coach. Instead, they saw a sleigh, a troika pulled by three black horses, pass through the white stone gates onto the estate.

Leigh Bardugo

#2. Oh my God! Get out right now!"
Gio blinked, surprised at her sudden vehemence. "I was in here first."
"The upstairs is - "
"Off-limits. Yeah, I know. So were you, but that didn't stop me. In case you haven't noticed, I have serious issues with following rules.

Bethany-Kris

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. Between my leaping upstairs and my escalation on the stairs there is an intimate connection, think on your feet!

Sam Houssami

#6. Beckett, don't make me ask you to come upstairs and check in the closets. She laid her hands on his cheeks. Just come upstairs.

Nora Roberts

#7. He taught me everything I know. Every note I write I learned from that man upstairs. People rave over my arranging today, and I just think to myself, God bless Tommy Dorsey. If it hadn't been for him, I never could have done it.

Nelson Riddle

#8. When she went upstairs to dress, and looked into the looking glass, she noticed with joy that it was one of her good days, and that she was in complete possession of all her forces, - she needed this so for what lay before her: she was conscious of external composure and free grace in her movements.

Leo Tolstoy

#9. like the small votives they lit in church.) Sometimes the houses were deserted, even partially destroyed. Sometimes it seemed the families must still be upstairs. There were old bicycles in some, or baby carriages. A steamer trunk, once, filled with broken dishes. A jar of pickled cauliflower.

Alice McDermott

#10. 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.

Claire Messud

#11. Sometimes the light is on in his apartment upstairs and I get the urge to set the place on fire.

Colleen Hoover

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. In one of the buildings where April lived, the girls befriended the kids who lived upstairs. "At first it was nice; but other times, it just felt like every time we got home, they were knocking on the door. And it stopped having that sort of safe-haven feeling to it.

Bella DePaulo

#15. You guys keep her kid occupied while we get it on upstairs.

Bella Jeanisse

#16. 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

#17. My mother was in the bathtub crying and I was standing outside the door waiting, just in case she decided to slip her head under and keep it there. The other kids were upstairs. The problem was about money, of course. She was afraid she wouldn't have enough for us to eat.

Eula Biss

#18. The simple question 'What color do you want to paint that upstairs room?' might, if we follow things to their logical conclusions, be stated: 'How do I live, knowing that I will one day die and leave you?

Donald Antrim

#19. Go to bed, you fool," Calcifer said sleepily. "You're drunk."
"Who, me?" said Howl. "I assure you, my friends, I am cone sold stober." He got up and stalked upstairs, feeling for the wall as if he thought it might escape him unless he kept in touch with it. His bedroom door did escape him.

Diana Wynne Jones

#20. I have a picture of a rainy Paris street scene which I bought when I was 33 and on my first trip to Paris. I go past it when I go upstairs every night and it reminds me of that trip and makes me happy

George Clooney

#21. He knows that something somewhere has to break/He sees the family home now looming in the headlights/The pain upstairs that makes his eyeballs ache/
Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage/on the shore of a dark Scottish lake

Sting

#22. I tired the back door
unlocked.
Truley the Man Upstairs was smiling down on me.

Maggie Stiefvater

#23. Dinner was meat - not hunks of meat, as in Australia, but pathetic scraps of meat, as in Britain - which the girls upstairs transformed into edible dishes by heating it in secret ways and adding bits of stuff to it.

Clive James

#24. 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

#25. Well," Dan says after about thirty minutes of friendly talk. "Should we go upstairs?

Alessandra Torre

#26. Then the short man disappears through the huge doors. Minutes later, the aide-de-camp flings open the shutters of an upstairs window and gazes a moment across the rooftops before unfurling a crimson flag over the brick and securing its eyelets to the sill.

Anthony Doerr

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. Grace Taylor, I am going to kiss you right now and you are not going to run away from me, because you have no excuse now. Then you are going to go back upstairs to be and all you are going to think about are my fucking lips on yours and nothing else.

Christine Zolendz

#30. Silver Avalanche coming up the driveway," calls Jeffrey from upstairs.
"What are you, security?" I call back.

Cynthia Hand

#31. As soon as we got back I ran upstairs and told everyone the story, thus telling everyone the alarm code, thus breaking one of the Ten Commandments when I lied and said I'd keep the code a secret. As I've known for a long, long time now, hell is going to be totally fucking worth it.

Sarah Royal

#32. I'm taking fifteen, and we're moving this discussion upstairs."
"You can have here! I will not listen."
"You will listen," Mallory said, "and you'll tell your book club exactly what you heard."
"But is like Twilight in real life!" Berna protested. "Sparkles!

Chloe Neill

#33. I bit her. I sunk my teeth into her lips so deep I could feel the blood spurt into my mouth. It was running down her neck when I carried her upstairs.

James M. Cain

#34. I am afraid of Mr. Powell. I am more afraid of him than I have ever been of shadows or the thunder or when you look through the little bubble in the glass of the window in the upstairs hall and all of the out-of-doors stretches and twists its neck.

Davis Grubb

#35. I want you to take your clothes off. I want you to come upstairs with me. I want to fuck you, Ms. Riley. I desperately want to feel you from the inside. I want to revel in you tightening around me," he whispered, pressing himself against me.

Yolanda Olson

#36. 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

#37. I don't have a formal home recording studio, but I can record tracks on my computer upstairs in my office.

Huey Lewis

#38. Does somebody have an explanation why there's human flesh on the hall window upstairs?

David Foster Wallace

#39. I was so afraid that I'd never be able to love anyone, and here I was, holding a child I desperately wanted to call my own and upstairs was a woman I would give my life for.
Turns out I was always capable of love, I just hadn't found it yet.

J.L. Berg

#40. In taking our marital arguments upstairs to avoid exposing the children to strife, we accidentally deprived them of chances to witness how two people who care about each other can work out their differences in a calm and reasoned way.

Po Bronson

#41. Something rippled round the table: a loosening, a settling, a long sigh too low to hear. Un ange passe, my French grandfather would have said: an angel is passing. Somewhere upstairs I heard the faint, dreamy note of a clock striking.

Tana French

#42. Oh, come on. Wouldn't you rather go upstairs and lick your wounds? Maybe make an ice pack for your crotch?

Rachel Vincent

#43. 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

#44. If I could go upstairs and write every day, I would be happy. I don't need recreation.

Henry Petroski

#45. 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.

Bill Bryson

#46. 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

#47. His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants hall.

James M. Barrie

#48. We do two shows a night for five weeks. A lotta times we'll go upstairs and sing until daylight - gospel songs. We grew up with it ... It more or less puts your mind at ease. It does mine.

Elvis Presley

#49. Maybe since I was 35 years old it was time to go upstairs.

Wellington Mara

#50. 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

#51. During all of dinner the singing went on upstairs, and no one said a word.

Shirley Jackson

#52. Whatever wind fails to escape the Volroy through its many upstairs windows falls down into the cells to rot.

Kendare Blake

#53. 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

#54. 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

#55. It's the silliness
the profligacy, and the silliness
that's so dizzying: a seven-year-old will run downstairs, kiss you hard, and then run back upstairs again, all in less than 30 seconds. It's as urgent an item on their daily agenda as eating or singing. It's like being mugged by Cupid.

Caitlin Moran

#56. Our skin colours may vary, but what's upstairs - there's certain things we've all got in common.

Billy Gibbons

#57. That below the main stage were unknown others on which different dramas played out, secretly affecting the lives of everyone upstairs? She

Dean Koontz

#58. When John Knox went upstairs to plead with God for Scotland, it was the greatest event in Scottish history.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#59. [ ... ] I want to wake up with you in the morning, I want to fight with you in the afternoon, and I want to make love on any and every available surface in this place. And then I want to do it all over again. Come upstairs with me, Sophie. I'll keep you warm. I'll keep the darkness away.

Anne Stuart

#60. (If you're in a public place and your child is disturbing everyone around you, it may be necessary to take him outside while you attempt to appeal to his upstairs brain.)

Daniel J. Siegel

#61. Michaels went upstairs to start cooking while Judge walked and catered to his dog. It felt oddly domestic. He smiled without even realizing it. Maybe he did like the idea of settling down, just had to have the right guy put those thoughts there. Judge chewed on his cane.

A.E. Via

#62. 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

#63. The last swimmers have come in from the beach now and are dressing upstairs; the cars from New York are parked five deep in the drive, and already the halls and salons and verandas are gaudy with primary colours, and hair bobbed in strange new ways ...

F Scott Fitzgerald

#64. The city, thinks Marie-Laure, is slowly being remade into the model upstairs. Streets sucked empty one by one.

Anthony Doerr

#65. When the road looks rough ahead, remember the 'Man upstairs'
and the word HOPE.
Hang onto both and 'tough it out'.

John Wayne

#66. When an elevator brings u upstairs, you better send it back down in order to bring others up!

Dikembe Mutombo

#67. 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

#68. I don't watch scary movies. I mean it. Not ever. They make me scared. Scared of being alone in the house. Scared of being alone upstairs at night. Scared of walking home from work in the dark.

Laura Buzo

#69. Where are you flying off to?' inquired Viola, rather sulkily; few sights are more annoying when we feel lazy than that of somebody bounding upstairs.

Stella Gibbons

#70. 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

#71. The upstairs was hopeless: all her clothes, Dale's suits, everything belonging to the boys. And everywhere the powerful, sickening smell of ashes and water.

Darcy O'Brien

#72. Thoughts of some special people are like the stairs, they take you up to the upstairs floors; some are like the wings, they take you up to the skies and some are like the light itself, they take you right to the stars and the beyond! And such are the thoughts of Buddha!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#73. If you use the word 'halt,' I will hit you." "Not halt," he breathlessly said. "Upstairs. Now.

Chloe Neill

#74. 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

#75. This is the beginning of what we will come to call the Upstairs-Downstairs, Linga-Singha wars.

Nayomi Munaweera

#76. 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

#77. '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

#78. 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

#79. Upstairs, in the cupboard, he had a box of things he had saved as a boy and a young man. He hadn't looked into it in twenty years or more. Nothing fancy or valuable, but things that had meant something to him at one time. He found it, and found the key, and carried it downstairs without opening it.

Jane Smiley

#80. Rachel's face was still looking at Mathilde from the dark when she went back upstairs. The marital suite, the bed obscene in its empty enormity. In her absence, the sheets had been changed. When she climbed in again, they were cool and smelled like lavender and brushed her skin like accusations.

Lauren Groff

#81. Romance begins upstairs, then culminates downstairs.

T.F. Hodge

#82. Talking to a programmer type about the trading business was a bit like talking to the house plumber at work in the basement about the card game the Mafia don was running upstairs.

Michael Lewis

#83. Stupid girls run upstairs, stupid girls run upstairs," she's saying to herself, turning to pull Ben with her up the aluminum steps, Billie Jean just feet behind them

Stephen Graham Jones

#84. President Bartlet:
There's a delegation of cardiologists having their pictures taken in the Blue Room. You wouldn't think you could find a group of people more arrogant than the fifteen of us, but there they are, right upstairs in the Blue Room.

Aaron Sorkin

#85. If someone is robbing us, come back after buisness hours! Calla's voice came from upstairs.

Maggie Stiefvater

#86. 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

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

Hilary Mantel

#88. 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

#89. I might be in the basement. I'll go upstairs and check.

M.C. Escher

#90. The dog upstairs won't shut up, but I can't hate him, he's up there alone all day, making noise must be the only way he knows he's not a ghost.

Danez Smith

#91. Peter: Got that gun?
Tobias: No, I figured I would shoot the bullets out of my nostrils, so I left it upstairs.
Peter: Oh, shut up!

Veronica Roth

#92. Called her a whore and attacked her walls, tearing down her posters and throwing her books everywhere. I found out because some whitegirl ran up and said, Excuse me, but your stupid roommate is going insane, and I had to bolt upstairs and put him in a headlock.

Junot Diaz

#93. Burglars are getting very clever these days. Last night, my wife woke me up, "Darling! Darling! There's a burglar downstairs!!" So I go down, check every room and don't find anyone. Then I realized I don't have a wife and when I went back upstairs my bed and TV were gone.

Steve Evans

#94. 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

#95. 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

#96. 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

#97. The writing was so clearly written on the wall about me, but I didn't see it. I had no role models. I didn't know there was even a possibility of being gay. I battled with it, but this was the way God made me. If you have a problem with it, take it up with the man upstairs.

Bryan Batt

#98. In my house on the ceilings I have paintings of the rooms above ... so I never have to go upstairs.

Steven Wright

#99. I've always had great faith in the Man Upstairs.

Wayne Newton

#100. I don't have a photograph, but you can have my footprints. They're upstairs in my socks.

Groucho Marx