Quotes of: Ups-and-downs Keyword

Art work is inconclusive. It opens your mind up. At least, that's what I hope it does. And advertising, using exactly the same photograph, closes things down. It makes it conclusive. It sells a product, and that is its primary function.

Alison Jackson

So everything lets us down, including curiosity and honesty and what we love best. Yes, said the voice, but cheer up, it's fun in the end.

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Isn't it kind of silly to think that tearing someone else down builds you up?

The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective Teens

Keep your chin up. Eventually, you will meet someone who cares about your opinion. I'm so sorry I'm not her.

All Fall Down

This is laid down with a groove funkier and blacker than anything Prince of Michael Jackson--or any other black artist of the recent years for that matter--has come up with.

American Psycho

...maybe you think up North is way different from down South. Don't believe it and don't count on it. Custom is just as real as law and can be just as dangerous.

Home

If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character...Would you slow down? Or speed up?

Invisible Monsters

The sun was up - stuck like half a tinned apricot on a sky awash with all the colours of a fading bruise. Down below the living dead were forming their complaining queues at bus stops.

Jack and Jill

It was the secret to winning any contest, he said, in life or in the boxing ring – you just had to get up more than you fell down.

Rapture

You can't stop time. You can't capture light. You can only turn your face up and let it rain down.

The Memory Keeper's Daughter

That's the beauty of the summer holidays. It's as if life is just a big Etch-a-Sketch, and once a year you get to shake it vigorously up and down and start again.

Model Misfit

↑ top up position down ↓ bottom “The corruption of religious leaders, who were expected to be the source of spiritual force and regeneration, is the last step in the decay of a community.

Major Themes of the Qur'an

So fine was the morning except for a streak of wind here and there that the sea and sky looked all one fabric, as if sails were stuck high up in the sky, or the clouds had dropped down into the sea.

To the Lighthouse

There were corpses here and there and pools of blood. I remember seeing a butterfly flutter up and down that street. Summer does not abdicate.

Les Misérables

I don’t know what it is, but he makes me want to knock down all the walls I’ve put up and let him inside. And it scares the shit out of me.

Tag Chaser

The way he looked me up and down made a part of me burn with desire. Fire and electricity. Flames and sparks. Needing and wanting. Tempting temptation.

Pieces of Truth

He who perseveres like an infant that falls down and keeps getting up, shall eventually find the way.”~ Amunhotep El Bey

The Quotations Book of life and Death

He rubbed his hands up and down, warming her. “Then that’s all you need to know. I have you. If there are beasties in the dark, they have to get through me

Romancing the Duke

I won’t put up with a woman who tries to put me down. But I might put out if she lets me put it in.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

We need more upright citizens in this country. Everybody is just lying down as if asleep to the issues. And those who are up and moving are merely sleepwalking.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

I’m up for the Julius Caesar Author of the Year Award this year. I’m tremendously proud, considering Caesar is the guy who burned down the Library of Alexandria.

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