Quotes of: Ups-and-downs Keyword

I love going out dancing. There is nothing better than letting your hair down and staying up far too late, is there?

Liberty Ross

I let my feet spend as little time on the ground as possible. From the air, fast down, and from the ground, fast up.

Jesse Owens

Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: Pick 'em up and set 'em down Pyle!

Full Metal Jacket

Rick: Slow down, man. [Lou speeds up] Rick: That's too fast.

Nightcrawler

Porter: He is now [points up] Porter: in hell, or [points down] Porter: in heaven.

The Third Man

The trend of the market is up, not down. Shorting stocks puts you against that trend and thus makes it more difficult to make money.

Guy Spier

You can't have an up without a down, a right without a left, a back without a front - or a happy without a sad.

Harlan Coben

I ended up turning down a full scholarship of music at the conservatory to pay to go to cooking school.

Emeril Lagasse

I remember lying down for a nap one day at about 4:00 and walking up at 11:00 the next morning.

April Winchell

Since I've become a mom, I'm more about comfort and simplicity. I'm essentially a jeans girl, and I dress them up or down with accessories.

Jessalyn Gilsig

Racism tears down your insides so that no matter what you achieve, you're not quite up to snuff.

Alvin Ailey

To campaign against colonialism is like barking up a tree that has already been cut down.

Andrew Cohen

You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.

Abraham Lincoln

Social networking is about building people up in your network NOT tearing them down

Tasha Turner

If you can see everything in all directions, there is no such thing as up or down, left or right.

Life

The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up.

William Hazlitt

I dreamt that I took William Burrough’s penis and tied it up with piano wire. I hung him like a Chagall painting…In the next part J.G. Ballard swam through streets of female urine. The girls read his book Crash and then mowed him down with their ...

Empathy

Adin looked up at Donte, who was then in the middle of taking a sip of his wine. He took in Donte’s demonically beautiful face, long and angular, with its hooded eyes and high cheekbones, its wine-darkened lips. He watched as Donte savored it, imag...

Notturno

But the last one: the baby who trails her scent like a flag of surrender through your life when there will be no more coming after - oh, that's love by a different name. She is the babe you hold in your arms for an hour after she's gone to sleep. If ...

The Poisonwood Bible

She felt the glide of his hair as he lowered his head to study the zipper on her skirt. Her imagination supplied other places his hair could touch, and she drew in her breath. He carefully pulled down the zipper, then pulled it back up. After several...

The Pleasure Master

Harry Cooper: Look! You two can do whatever you like! I'm going back down to the cellar, and you'd better decide! 'Cause I'm gonna board up that door, and I'm not going to unlock it again no matter what happens! Tom: Now wait a minute, Mr. Cooper. Ha...

Night of the Living Dead