“Look up to the sky
You'll never find rainbows
If you’re looking down.”
Charlie Chaplin (1889–1977) British comic actor and filmmaker
"Swing High Little Girl", opening song written and sung by Chaplin for the 1969 re-release of The Circus (1928) - Full text online http://www.charliechaplin.com/biography/articles/84-Swing-little-girl
“It’s no fun looking down on people if you can’t let them know you’re above them.”
Ben Aaronovitch book Moon Over Soho
Source: Moon Over Soho (2011), Chapter 13, “Autumn Leaves” (p. 273)
“They looked down on her; and she looked up through them.”
John Fowles book The French Lieutenant's Woman
Source: The French Lieutenant's Woman
Casey Stengel (1890–1975) American baseball player and coach
As quoted in Can't Anybody here Play This Game? (1963) by Jimmy Breslin; reproduced in "Rocene's Sport Jabs" by Ray Rocene, in The Missoulian (April 21, 1963), p. 11
Ken Kesey (1935–2001) novelist
Trip of a Lifetime (1999)
“There cannot be Ups in a roller-coaster ride unless there are Downs.”
Siddharth Katragadda (1972) Indian writer
page 9
Dark Rooms (2002)
Agatha Christie book The Mystery of the Blue Train
Miss Viner
Source: The Mystery of the Blue Train (1928)
Context: I was wrong about that young man of yours. A man when he is making up to anybody can be cordial and gallant and full of little attentions and altogether charming. But when a man is really in love he can't help looking like a sheep. Now, whenever that young man looked at you he looked like a sheep. I take back all I said this morning. It is genuine.
“Never give up on anybody. Miracles happen everyday.”
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (1940) American writer
Source: Life's Little Instruction Book: 511 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life
“Anybody ever tell you you’re a lunatic?”
Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga
“Not in this context.”
Chapter 5 (p. 80; Vorkosigan has just proposed to Cordelia)
Vorkosigan Saga, Shards of Honor (1986)
