A Quote by Helen Lawrenson

As for the topsy-turvy tangle known as soixante-neuf, personally I have always felt it to be madly confusing, like trying to pat your head and rub your stomach at the same time.

Helen Lawrenson

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Helen Lawrenson
American - Author
Born: 1907

I told my dad 'Yeah, I’m going to be a drummer', and he said 'Well, if you can rub your stomach at the same time as you pat your head at the same time you’re standing on one leg and kicking the other one out in a circle and say the pledge of allegiance'. And I did all that just like bam, you know?

Tre Cool

Dare to turn life on its end, and you may find that topsy-turvy is a truer perspective than turvy-topsy.

Robert Breault

Trying to execute that kind of intricate staging in the West Wing at the same time you're doing intricate dialogue - it's like patting your head and rubbing your stomach!

Rob Lowe

To be brutally honest, when you win a title like Miss Universe, your entire life turns topsy-turvy for one year.

Lara Dutta

Voiceover work definitely requires it's own specific muscle. And because you're not seeing what you're recording, and all these things are going on, you really have to use your imagination and stay focused and kind of be able to tap your head and rub your belly at the same time.

Keri Russell

If you feed your mind as often as you feed your stomach, then you'll never have to worry about feeding your stomach or a roof over your head or clothes on your back.

Albert Einstein

I always get a headache the first time I watch a movie I'm in. Because you're staring at the screen so hard, your brain is doing all this work trying to put things in context of what the day-to-day experience of making it was. And the timeline that's in your head of when it was made, and on what day, how you felt. And then you're also trying to grasp what it's been edited into.

John C. Reilly

People seem to be looking for discipline in a topsy-turvy world.

Gordon B. Hinckley

The world is such a blooming topsy-turvy, fragile, bleak place.

Mel Giedroyc

The fountains of sacred rivers flow upwards (i.e., everything is turned topsy turvy).

Euripides

What makes it difficult for people trying to follow a dream is that the whole time you feel like you're slamming your head against the wall. So it's nice to make a breakthrough and not kind of lying there with your head bleeding.

Lewis Black

Things went topsy-turvy when two of my dogs died all of a sudden due to a parvovirus attack.

Anupama Parameswaran

The right to private property meant at the same time the right and duty to be personally concerned about your own well-being, to be personally concerned about your family's income, to be personally concerned about your future. This is hard work.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky

As long as hope does not embrace and transform the thought and action of men, it remains topsy-turvy and ineffective.

Jürgen Moltmann

That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.

Seneca the Younger

You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you.

Frederick Buechner

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