Top 99 Upside Quotes

Netflix is a better company with more upside than we had given it credit for than when we shorted it.

The business is so upside down now. It’s not just about the bling-bling.

There is no upside to making a disparaging remark about a colleague. If your remark is accurate, everybody already knows it, so there’s no need to point it out. If your remark is inaccurate, you‘re the one who ends up looking like a jerk.

The booming popularity of alligator hunting, sparked by reality shows like the History Channel‘s ‘Swamp People,’ is easy to understand: It’s an exotic blast of adrenaline. But there’s a culinary upside as well, with gator boasting a delicate light-pink meat that, to me, falls somewhere between veal and wild turkey.

Professionally, the first time I sang was on ‘Alice Upside Down.’ It was the first movie that I did, and I had this little mini singing part.

You would hear stories of people that lost their houses. I remember people who had their whole lives turned upside down. I think people did learn lessons from the ’80s.

Saying it now sounds obvious, but that can be really hard to remember when you’re a trans kid who feels like your world‘s been turned upside down. Just having someone to see in the media is so empowering and validating.

We’re a part of the insurrection, trying to turn Christianity upside down. We’re an experimental church: God‘s research and development arm.

I’ve said all along that we’re building Axovant as a lasting company for the long run, not to hand over that upside to a pharma company in the future.

An abnormality on a mammogram can turn a woman‘s life upside down, even if no cancer is ultimately found. At the very least, she will have to undergo more tests, usually with a biopsy as a first step. The procedure takes its toll in time and money and even more so in the stress it introduces into a woman’s life.

Why not touch things that we hate and turn them upside down and inside out?

I was offered the Gene Hackman role in ‘The Poseidon Adventure‘ four times, and I turned it down four times. I didn’t want to do that movie. I called it the upside down boat.

In dreams, anything can be anything, and everybody can do. We can fly, we can turn upside down, we can transform into anything.

I think the office place is always seen as such a professional, sterile environment, so there’s something unusually thrilling about taking that well-behaved, polished environment and turning it upside down and shaking it up.

I like to turn things upside down, to watch pictures and situations from another perspective.

You look at 1968 and it was truly the year that shook the world. The world was really completely upside down.

When you see things upside down, the ego can be extraordinarily funny; it’s absurd. But it’s tragic at the same time.

There is no upside for the U.K. in Brexit. Only costs that can be avoided and advantages to be seized by remaining in Europe. No one should have to pay the Brexit tax.

Who are benefits promised to, overwhelmingly? Well, they’re promised to older people. And if you have a society like Europe that is upside down where there are a lot more older people than younger people, you have economic calamity.

The upside to anger? Getting it out of your system. You got to express your anger. Then you have room for more positive things. If I hold something in a long time, and then I speak it, it’s amazing how the light shines so much brighter.

When you turn your team upside down and try to figure out what the culture of the team is, you take the greatest risk a team can take.

I am becoming more recognisable in some ways, and some aspects of my privacy are going. But there’s an upside: I have more opportunity to tell bigger stories and connect with more people. And I really relish that responsibility.

It’s often said that doves provide valuable practice for duck season, but this strikes me as upside down. With their tiny profiles, wicked speed, and fighter-plane acrobatics, doves are more difficult to take down.

In rock stardom there’s an absolute economic upside to self-destruction.

A film that I love is ‘Deliverance‘ from back in the day. You start out with these archetypal characters – the hero, the bookworm, the pacifist – and by the end, it’s all turned upside down. I love that.

I was the first African-American woman to play Maggie in ‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.’ It was at the Virginia State Theatre, and we turned Richmond upside down.

They say that a kingdom is like a pyramid: the king on top and the people below. But in this country, it’s upside down.

The world has flipped upside-down. It used to be a pyramid of authority; now it’s upside down. The influence actually rests with the mid-level people, who speak peer-to-peer. If they’re for you, you win.

It’s not like I ride a broom into interviews. I don’t hang upside down with a cape on.

It’s fun to see how the G League has grown and I’m excited to be a part of its upside and continued development.

The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same.

I don’t act because I love doing it, I act because it’s my job. At the end of the year, I gotta pay my taxes, bills, doctors, insurance, car insurance, the occasional vacation. It’s a wonderful job. The upside is that it is exciting and different… the downside is that it is an extremely insecure job.

The upside to doing commercials is you have to work in a lot of different genres and make stuff that you never thought you’d be making.

From a plot perspective, what I finally found for my touchstone was that I consider ‘Upside’ to be a loose telling of Jane Austen‘s ‘Emma,’ or ‘Clueless.’

Sometimes it was tough doing take after take upside down! I did a lot of that sort of thing.

Love is also a very violent thing. Totally violent. Suddenly, you are, like, at this party your friends invite you to, and you meet this person, and your life is turned upside down, and the next day you can’t stop thinking about them. That’s violent. Hopefully, it’s for the better, but it’s a violent thing.

When a dragonfly flutters by, you may not realize, but it’s the greatest flier in nature. It can hover, fly backwards, even upside down.

I am the reassurance that they have not changed. In an upside down world, with all the rules being rewritten as the game goes on and spectators invading the pitch, it is good to feel that some things and some people seem to stay just as they were.

We were living in a tumultuous time, when the world was upside down. Freeman produced a show that was black and white, the good guys versus the bad guys.

I find as long as I acknowledge the truth of something, then that’s it. I know what it is and then I can operate. But if I overestimate the downside of something or the challenge of something and I get too obsessed about the difficulty of it, then I don’t leave enough room to be open to the upside, the possibility.

Having fewer unhealthy days and, in turn, more days when you have the energy to get things done is probably the global constant through which businesses and individuals can think about the quantifiable upside of increasing wellbeing.

We spent a year touring the world and it wasn’t until it was over that we truly appreciated the upside and downside of our success.

People really feel that, when they go to the gas pump now, that the oil cartel is holding them by the legs and tipping them upside down and shaking money out of their pockets.

Anyone can lose their home and find their life is turned upside down.

When my time on earth is gone, and my activities here are passed, I want they bury me upside down, and my critics can kiss my ass!

I’m probably my biggest critic. I worry that if you spend any quality time reveling in good things then karma will slap you upside the head, so I try to stay as even keel as I’m able.

My whole life turned upside down once I became a mother.

I’m interested when things are upside down – because there are so many possibilities in that one moment. There is a lot that is exposed.

All I want to do is what I do best: go out there and put a hand or a foot upside somebody‘s head.

I spend a lot of time upside down. It increases the blood flow to the brain, so it really helps your creativity.

When I got on court I felt really confident, really good but I also felt like there was no pressure. No-one expected to me to win so I tried to see it as there’s only an upside.

At some stage in most people’s lives, things turn upside down, and nothing is as you expected it to be.

While turning pro had a lot of upside, for me, it could also have turned out to be a disaster.

I learned everything by ear and played all the different instruments. So then I was able to find a guitar. That was, like, in the seventh grade. And then I didn’t know how to put my fingers on all the different strings, so I had to figure out how to do it upside down and backwards, and I still play that way today.

New York State is upside down and backwards; high taxes and low performance. The New York State government was at one time a national model. Now, unfortunately, it’s a national disgrace. Sometimes, the corruption in Albany could even make Boss Tweed blush.

There was one where Gomez was on a Trapeze hanging by the legs upside down. I remember how much the backs of my knees would hurt until I got used to it. It was hard.

I guess I’ve always lived upside down when I want things I can’t have.

It is a tenet of my investment style that, on the subject of common stock investment, maximizing the upside means first and foremost minimizing the downside. The deleterious effect of permanent capital loss on portfolio returns cannot be overstated.

What kind of world is it if we allow people who are violent and do terrible things off the hook? What does that say about the world we’re living in – it’s like a world upside down, right?

Because I’ve been so bad at looking after myself, how would I ever look after a kid? But the old cliche applied: they handed her to me, and my world turned upside down – and I realised I was now going to be vulnerable in more ways than I expected.

Yes, you can lose somebody overnight, yes, your whole life can be turned upside down. Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind.

It’s a bit startling to achieve global recognition before the age of 30 on account of your sister, your brother-in-law and your bottom. One day I might be able to make sense of this. In the meantime I think it’s fair to say that it has its upside and its downside.

Who on earth would expect a band such as Nightwish, to give you, of all people, the phone call, ‘Hey, can you come and join us now?’ Yeah, that turned everything upside down.

Working on Ethereum could be similar to working at a Google: lower risk with broad impact right away. Working on a token is similar to working on a startup: higher risk and lower initial impact but higher upside potential.

In NASCAR, you can do a lot of banging around and get pretty serious and even get yourself upside down. All of those things can happen – and then you give an interview two seconds later.

No disrespect to Kyle Orton, who’s been solid and stable for both the Broncos and the Bears, but I think the upside for Tim Tebow is greater right now.

You have to be aware of what the audience‘s expectations are, and then you have to pervert them, basically, and hit them upside the head from a direction they weren’t looking.

Credit-default swaps remedied the problem of open-ended risk for me. If I bought a credit-default swap, my downside was defined and certain, and the upside was many multiples of it.

We are just interested in dealing with the people we’re paying every day. We know federal law allows them to vote in a union at anytime, but we think we can resist that by talking to our own people and giving them enough upside.

The big upside to being captain is it’s a huge honour, but the downside is that there is definitely extra pressure.

I started going to yoga classes as I thought that would be a good place to meet girls, but it is hard to chat to someone when you are balancing upside down.

I just always believed we would succeed. Even when everyone else said my ideas were ridiculous. Even when we were almost out of money. Even when the metrics were all upside down. I always have confidence that I’ll figure something out. I just have that confidence that things are going to work out fine.

One way to test a picture‘s integrity is to turn it upside down – a technique used not only by connoisseurs but also by artists trying to see their work with a fresh eye.

I’ve always considered myself a workaholic… The way I work, I have to turn myself upside down and hang myself by my ankles and wring myself out like a wet sweater, and I have to do that with other people, too, because I think that’s where something good comes out.

We turned Cambridge theatre upside down, using odd spaces and devising everything collaboratively. It eventually blew apart, but I’m still proud of some of what we achieved. The style was very disciplined, and we had the sense to keep things short.

Going through that traumatic time of being heartbroken and then being pregnant turned my whole life upside down and inside out and just knocked the wind out of me. But I got so much out of that.

If you sell a physical product, you have a lot of Q4 upside and unpredictability, but now you have to manage your cash to get to Q4 so that you can invest in building inventory to over-perform.

When BP was not moving fast enough on claims, we told BP to set aside $20 billion in a fund – managed by an independent third party – to help all those whose lives have been turned upside down by the spill.

Hendrix was the bass player for Little Richard. We were both left-handed, but we would use a right-handed guitar held upside down and backwards. He developed my slides and my riffs. In fact he used to say, and this is documented, ‘I patterned my style after Dick Dale.’

‘The Talk-Funny Girl’ opens with a glum picture of a desperately poor rural New England family. Poverty has so brutalized the family that the ordinary laws and rules governing humanity have eroded, turning systems of behavior upside down.

Becoming a mother has turned my world upside down, but in a really good way – it’s the best.

At the time the world was all upside down. The American people were beginning to move around a lot. The old hometown ties had been pretty much broken. The theme of Farmer Takes a Wife appealed to people. Everybody was homesick. And it sold and sold and sold.

Playing upside down is insane. It’s two or three times more difficult than what’s normal. Your feet want to come off the pedals, your arms want to drop down – all of your body is fighting gravity.

If you look at companies with upside potential, Twitter‘s right there. They’ve established a brand in a world where it’s extremely difficult to establish a brand. It’s a global brand, people recognize it, people want to let you know what their Twitter handles are, etc.

I don’t know how, where, and why the idea for ‘Defending Your Life’ began; the idea had been bouncing around for a while. Stories like that sort of have to bounce. They don’t come out of nowhere. I went through my own period of life with sort of everything turning upside down, and wondering, ‘Why is it this way?’

The television business, by virtue of what’s happened to streaming, it’s really turned the traditional television business upside down.

There’s a lot of ‘Silent Hill‘ in the Upside Down, which people have noticed.

Cancer is just one little word but, when you hear it, it turns your whole life upside down.

In an upside down world, with all the rules being rewritten as the game goes on and spectators invading the pitch, it is good to feel that some things and some people seem to stay just as they were.

The upside of a downward spiral into despair and defeat in young adulthood is that pretty early on, I was forced to face not only the foolish things I had done but also the stark realization that there was likely no end to what I was capable of doing.

I have no system of writing. It’s chaos. I could be upside down on my bedroom floor; I’ll be scribbling on a pad that I’ll then lose. I’ll be on the toilet with my laptop on, sitting in the pub with my iPad.

I think a lot of personnel decisions come down to who’s the best player today, like if we had to throw ’em in a game today versus what could their upside be 18 months from now. A lot of times, those are two different answers. That’s the difficulty of player personnel.

Art is going to make a bigger comeback than ever. That’s the upside to things getting challenging.

The best way to achieve a great style without a blow-dryer is, after washing your hair, take a towel and flip your head upside down, wrapping it up in a twisted towel for 15 minutes. Once you take it down, a lot of the excess water will have been absorbed by the towel.

I was so excited to play Will. He goes into the Upside Down, and he has some pretty crazy experiences.

On a more serious note, my challenges with hearing loss are certainly an interesting journey. The surprising upside is that my difficulties in hearing have motivated me to know my guitar fretboard better. My playing has become much more melodic and intentional as a result.

The world that we all knew before, could wake up in feeling safe… now it seems that everything has been turned upside down.

I want to make movies like ‘The Upside of Anger,’ ‘Maria Full of Grace,’ old-school films like ‘Some Kind of Wonderful’ or ‘Vision Quest‘: movies you remember songs and lines from.

Your goal is to achieve the best results by following their wishes. If they want you to build a house upside down standing on its chimney, it’s up to you to do it.