Upright Position Quotes

#1. A slouching posture tends to suggest a certain laziness of character as well as a lack of interest in others. Whereas an upright position can confirm a sense of self-possession and a quality of engagement.

Amor Towles

#2. Nature or nurture? A talent needs both.

Fennel Hudson

#3. A cat can maintain a position of curled up somnolence on your knee until you are nearly upright. To the last minute she hopes your conscience will get the better of you and you will settle down again.

Pam Brown

#4. BIO'GRAPHER: A writer of lives; a relator not of the history of nations, but of the actions of particular persons.

Samuel Johnson

#5. If a woman earned a dollar by scrubbing, her husband had a right to take the dollar and go and get drunk with it and beat her afterwards. It was his dollar.

Lucy Stone

#6. Moral Education is the source of that spiritual equilibrium on which everything else depends and which may be compared to that physical equilibrium or sense of balance, without which it is impossible to stand upright or to move into any other position.

Maria Montessori

#7. The fact that you can't see how much you're worth makes you worth so much more." She opened her mouth once, her brow bunched, but nothing came out. She didn't know the words to ask. I continued. "A diamond doesn't know how much it's worth; it's just beautiful because it exists.

Shelly Crane

#8. Oh, thou clear spirit, of thy fire thou madest me, and like a true child of fire, I breathe it back to thee.

Herman Melville

#9. I have no plans to rock myself to sleep in my bath chair yet.

Bruce Forsyth

#10. IMPALE, v.t. In popular usage, to pierce with any weapon which remains fixed in the wound ... properly, to put to death by thrusting an upright sharp stake into the body, the victim being left in a sitting position.

Ambrose Bierce

#11. What inspired me to become an author? I think it was the snow in New York. I looked out the window and I said, 'Well, I have to get dressed every morning to go to teach, but if I write a book, I can stay home in my bathrobe, eat candy corn.'

Patricia Reilly Giff

#12. Thanks to my mother, people tell me I look younger than I am, especially without make-up. And I suppose my father had a part in making me more frugal with my money.

Dita Von Teese

#13. Dr. Vincent Gilbert lived in the heart of the forest. Away from human conflict, but also away from human contact. It was a compromise he was more than happy to make.

Louise Penny

#14. As a young guy from south London, I wanted to be able to make myself stand out.

Tinie Tempah

#15. There is only one position for an artist anywhere; and that is upright.

Dylan Thomas

#16. I tend to be pessimistic. I want to believe in hope.

Bruce Springsteen

#17. It is only people who show upright positions in standing for the truth that win at last.

Sunday Adelaja

#18. In these days, a man who says a thing cannot be done, quite apt to be interrupted by some idiot doing it.

Elbert Hubbard