quotes about Upside Down
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It's not easy, though, singing upside down in a headstand on a raised platform with your unfettered breasts hitting you in the chin.
-- Adrienne BarbeauSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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New York State is upside down and backwards; high taxes and low performance.
-- Andrew Cuomo -
We Abolition Women are turning the world upside down.
-- Angelina Grimke -
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 -
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It's your birthday today, so what would you say, if we turned that frown upside down
-- Billie Jean King -
A Christianity without a passion to turn the world upside down is not reflective of apostolic Christianity
-- Carl F. H. HenrySource : Carl F. H. Henry (2003). “The Uneasy Conscience of Modern Fundamentalism”, p.16, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
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I'm always hiding the books in my closet, and my art's always turned upside down in my drawer.
-- Daniel Clowes -
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 -
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This is stolen? We're in a stolen jet?" "Not stolen," said Donegan Bane from the co-pilot's seat. "Almost stolen," Grascious corrected. "Semi-stolen," said Donegan. "Quasi stolen," said Grascious. Aurora's frown did not turn upside down. "So is it stolen or not?" Donegan and Grascious hesitated. "Yes,"they both said toghether.
-- Derek Landy -
If the world is upside down the way it is now, wouldn't we have to turn it over to get it to stand up straight?
-- Eduardo Galeano -
Some of us aren't meant to belong. Some of us have to turn the world upside down and shake the hell out of it until we make our own place in it.
-- Elizabeth Lowell -
I find you can often find humor just by turning something upside-down. Like a... small child.
-- Emo Philips -
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I hang my work upside down to emphasize surface.
-- Georg Baselitz -
An object painted upside down is suitable for painting because it is unsuitable as an object.
-- Georg BaselitzSource : Georg Baselitz (2010). “Georg Baselitz: Collected Writings and Interviews”
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Comedy is a socially acceptable form of hostility and aggression. That is what comics do, stand the world upside down.
-- George Carlin -
The coming of the printing press must have seemed as if it would turn the world upside down in the way it spread and, above all, democratized knowledge.
-- James E. Burke -
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Sometimes it was tough doing take after take upside down! I did a lot of that sort of thing.
-- John Astin -
In seven days God had created the Earth. In a single day mankind had turned it upside down.
-- Kristina McMorrisSource : Kristina Mcmorris (2012). “Bridge of Scarlet Leaves”, p.82, Kensington Publishing Corp.
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Here at the bottom of the world, everything was upside down.
-- Lesley Howarth -
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The world is upside down, it's going to take a lot of hands to turn it right side up.
-- Leymah Gbowee -
The best path between two points is upside-down, between, then inside-out and round again.
-- Lulu -
If I could only turn the etch-a-sketch of my life upside down.
-- Lynda Barry -
Historians are dangerous and capable of turning everything upside down. They have to be watched.
-- Nikita Khrushchev -
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Even when they call us mad, when they call us subversives and communists and all the epithets they put on us, we know we only preach the subversive witness of the Beatitudes, which have turned everything upside down.
-- Oscar Romero -
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 -
The world of the commodity is a world upside-down, which bases itself not upon life but upon the transformation of life into work.
-- Raoul Vaneigem -
It's always mildly unnerving when you're hanging upside down 70 feet in the air.
-- Reeve Carney -
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All girls should have a poem written for them even if we have to turn this ***** world upside down to do it.
-- Richard BrautiganSource : Richard Brautigan (2016). “C'est tout ce que j'ai à déclarer: Brautigan-Œuvres poétiques complètes”, p.281, Le Castor Astral éditeur
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Instead of resisting to changes, surrender. Let life be with you, not against you. If you think ‘My life will be upside down’ don’t worry. How do you know down is not better than upside?
-- Shams Tabrizi -
I'll tell you what's fun - finding the right stewardess and turning her upside down in the back of a plane.
-- Steven Tyler -
And we are quotation marks, inverted and upside down, clinging to one another at the end of this life sentence. Trapped by lives we did not choose.
-- Tahereh Mafi -
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The business is so upside down now. It's not just about the bling-bling.
-- Tim Reid -
In dreams, anything can be anything, and everybody can do. We can fly, we can turn upside down, we can transform into anything.
-- Twyla Tharp -
I like to turn things upside down, to watch pictures and situations from another perspective.
-- Ursus Wehrli -
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 -
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A lot of what I do in my work is taking a thing and either washing it off, scraping it, covering it, scraping it and then washing it, turning it upside down. Making it somehow blind.
-- Amy Sillman -
Learn to see things backwards, inside out, and upside down.
-- John HeiderSource : John HEider (2015). “The Tao of Leadership: Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching Adapted for a New Age”, p.36, Green Dragon Books
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Pranking is ultimately turning the world upside down. It's in good fun.
-- Jory JohnSource : "Mac Barnett & Jory John Talk with Roger". Interview with Roger Sutton, www.hbook.com. February 3, 2015.
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history ... a sort of immortality turned upside down. Her life stretched backwards through ten centuries.
-- Marthe Bibesco -
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Learning about ourselves is rather inconvenient because it turns the world we live in upside down.
-- Peter Kingsley