Quotes of: Upside-down Keyword

Nobody's perfect. We're all just one step up from the beasts and one step down from the angels.

Half Broke Horses

Oh, of course," said Ron, clapping a hand to his forehead. "I forgot we'll be hunting down Voldemort in a mobile library.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

There's this small flicker in time when you're looking down the barrel of a gun and instead of your life flashing before your eyes, it’s all the moments you missed out on.

Holding on to Heaven

There was a brief silence in which the distant echo of Hagrid smashing down a wooden front door seemed to reverberate through the intervening years.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

All of us take pride and pleasure in the fact that we are unique, but I'm afraid that when all is said and done the police are right: it all comes down to fingerprints.

Holidays on Ice

There you go again, declaring the exact inverse of your experience. You human pups are so full of the things you're sure of. Sit down and listen for a change.

Her Unwelcome Inheritance

People decide how to live their own lives! A scum bastard doesn't have the right to chain anyone down!" -Sven to Torneo

Black Cat: Creed, Vol. 2

If I still need someone to calm my anger down, then I surely need a scapegoat who enrages me.

Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza

English does not distinguish between arrogant-up (irreverence toward the temporarily powerful) and arrogant-down (directed at the small guy).

The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

Don't pretend to comfort me, my friend. I might also pretend to not let you down.

Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza

My book sales are way down today. Also, I've received two scathing reviews. One of them calls me “a purveyor of insipid wet-dreams.

Bound to Accept

A city isn’t so unlike a person. They both have the marks to show they have many stories to tell. They see many faces. They tear things down and make new again.

Broken Abroad

But what is a memorial, when you come right down to it, but a commemoration of wounds endured? Endured, and resented. Without memory, there can be no revenge.

The Blind Assassin

A brick could be fired out of a cannon, in an attempt to bring down a brick wall, just as index fingers could be severed and flicked at politicians, to try to correctly redirect blame. 

Brick and Blanket

For loose teeth the tooth fairy recommends tying your tooth to a brick and throwing said brick down the stairs.

A bit of rubbish about a Brick and a Blanket

You know," I said to Michael, "my girlfriend took him down with a broken tree branch." "Too bad she isn't here," he said.

Bitter Blood

Well? Is it true? Did she?" "Did she what?" "You know. Fall outta the crazy tree and hit every branch on the way down?

Beautiful Creatures

Do me a favor, okay? Tell my parents that I fought well today. And tell them that I... that I... that I fought hard.

Black Hawk Down

I was going to tell you that you look beautiful with your hair down. That's all I was going to say.

Before I Fall

A brick could be used as a paperweight, if the words you wrote weren’t weighty enough to hold it down. 

Brick and Blanket Test in Brick City (Ocala) Florida

Democracy was supposed to champion freedom of speech, and yet the simple rules of table decorum could clamp down on the rights their forefathers had fought and died for.

Brushstrokes of a Gadfly