Quotes of: Ups-and-downs Keyword

I definitely shut down sometimes. I always just go into my own little cocoon and write, and I surround myself with as much music as possible. The last girlfriend I had, when we broke up, I remember being in a room for days on days on days with my mus...

Tristan Wilds

I thought I was Superman until I experienced that life-changing anaphylactic shock. I was eating lunch and gobbled down a couple of bowls of gumbo. Then, 15 minutes later, I'm in my dorm room resting up. My eyes started itching and my throat was swel...

Adrian Peterson

At the high school a pretty girl strolled across the parking lot to her black stallion, let her cigarette dangle from her lips while she put on her helmet, adjusted her goggles. Throwing a slender white leg over the side she jacked her little backsid...

Wall to Wall

I wanted to pull down a book, open it proper, and gobble up page after page

Chains

If there were an international butt competition, Eric would win, hands down—or cheeks up.

Dead to the World

They say well begun half done; but Perseverance on the way down takes you up to a great end.

GWG

The old bitterness came up in him and he did not have time to cogitate and push it down.

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

She picked up the stout and took a sip. It slid down her throat like silk.

British Bulldog

I think the attraction of 'American Idol' is about the basic human nature attitude that is, 'We can put you up there. But we can take you down.'

Quincy Jones

You can really do amazing things in a wheelchair. It's very dangerous if you don't know what you're doing, but you can even go up and down stairs in a wheelchair.

William Forsythe

Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.

Ernest Hemingway

Other men look up and down, left and right; but men like us are different. We are visionaries.

Airman

Grief is like a roller coaster. Somedays we feel up and other days we feel down.

Journey to the Rainbow

Before I could turn to look up, a voice boomed from the heavens: "What the heck is going on down there?

Rip Tide

In life, redemption was walking up the down escalator: stop to congratulate yourself, and back you slid.

The Submission

When the Brooklyn rain comes down hopefully it will be to fuckin' wake you up

My Arrival is Marked by Illuminating Stains

Give people the power of the gods, and they'll eventually run down like wind-up toys for lack of reasons to go on.

Lockstep

You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.

Song of Solomon

The inspector sat down on a stair, fired up a cigarette, and entered an immobility contest with a lizard.

The Snack Thief

I saw everything in the world build up and then everything in the world fall down again.

The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories

You look down when you talk to a headstone! When you talk to a live person, you look up! I'm still alive! So treat me like it! Look at me!

Wild Adapter, Volume 5