- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Downstairs Quotes
The rooms below, and what they hold onto.
This downstairs quotes collection gathers memories tied to specific rooms and spaces, from a piano lugged into a basement venue to music drifting through a childhood home. For more on shared spaces, see our Family quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are times when we look back and think, 'Do you remember when we had to lug a piano downstairs to a basement of some venue to play for five people?' We do a lot of reminiscing. It helps us keep our heads on straight.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm friends with Criss Angel. Criss has offered me a million times to go downstairs and see the setup. I don't want to see it. I just want to go, 'God, how did you do that?'
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
With 'Titanic,' you have all the first-class passengers interwoven with wonderful stories about the maids and the engineers, the people downstairs in the galleys.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have to make myself write, sometimes. In the space between poems, you somehow forget how to do it, where to begin. It was good to be task - based for a while. I just came downstairs each day, picked the one I was going to do that day, and wrote.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing makes a man feel older than to hear a band coming up the street and not to have the impulse to rush downstairs and out on to the sidewalk.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being with the family, running downstairs and opening presents, it was always fun with my brothers.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
At last, someone came to tell me I'd been selected as commissioner, which gave rise to the line that I took the job with clean hands. I was then taken downstairs to a press conference, and the reporters were as surprised as I was.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I come from a very working-class background, so my family would have been downstairs in the past, as opposed to upstairs. People are often quite surprised to hear that, that I'm not actually posh.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It just seemed too weird to me. I don't know, maybe they were smoking a joint in the car downstairs from their parents' apartment. I had to go that far to put together a scenario of how they could have possibly recognized me.
- Nov 07, 2020
When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reggae was always playing at home in East Ham when I was growing up. Loud music would be coming from the bedroom, and downstairs all you'd hear was the bass. My uncles had sound systems and we used to go to Jamaica a lot as a family.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I buy 1920s iridescent Scottish glass. I love the way the sun hits it every morning. You touch something and you know. To me, people should buy something they love. Buy something you'd want to come downstairs and stroke.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was actually born in the front bedroom while my dad sat on the wall outside, feeling sick. Twenty minutes after my mother gave birth, she went downstairs and made my old man a cup of tea.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mom was a big 'Smurfs' fan, so she would force me to watch every Saturday morning. I had no choice in the matter. I would jump downstairs on Saturday morning, 'Hurray, cartoons!' and she would say, 'Smurfs! That's what you're watching.'
- Hot
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first experiences of Colorado travel have been rather severe. At Greeley, I got a small upstairs room at first, but gave it up to a married couple with a child, and then had one downstairs no bigger than a cabin, with only a canvas partition. It was very hot, and every place was thick with black flies.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
When my dad needed a shirt ironed, he would yell downstairs to my mother, who would drop everything and iron his shirt.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020