A Quote by Lynda Barry

If I could only turn the etch-a-sketch of my life upside down. — © Lynda Barry
If I could only turn the etch-a-sketch of my life upside down.
I’ve always assumed that the abstract qualities of [my] photographs are obvious. For instance, I can turn them upside down and they’re still interesting to me as pictures. If you turn a picture that’s not well organized upside down, it won’t work.
The whole world turns upside down in ten years, but you turn upside down with it.
I call it the Etch A Sketch life. Every few years, you should shake that thing up.
I call it 'the Etch A Sketch life.' Every few years, you should shake that thing up.
While no inference is intended here, it is worth noting, in connection with Milton Friedman's comment that "Kelso just turned Marx upside down," that it is not necessarily amiss to turn a fellow upside down if that in fact straightens out his thinking.
Instead of resisting to changes, surrender. Let life be with you, not against you. If you think ‘My life will be upside down’ don’t worry. How do you know down is not better than upside?
Sketch comes from everyday life. You can see someone on the street, and it can turn into a five-minute sketch.
If the world was an etch-a-sketch, glaciers are the big shake.
I think President Obama could have handled politics and policies differently. But he has been decisive, strong, and consistent - important qualities in a president. Mitt Romney is indeed an Etch A Sketch, the antithesis of leadership.
I sketch the faces upside down because it's like drawing from the left side of the brain or the right side of the brain. I never took an art lesson in my life.
Here in Hollywood you can actually get a marriage license printed on an Etch-A-Sketch.
I saw at a young age that one bad break can turn a family's financial life upside down. And it has affected everything in my life since then.
There is no better news, than the fact that Jesus can actually turn a life upside down and save it.
Gas Attendant: "Thata ain't no etch-a-sketch. Thats one doodle that can't be un-did home skillet.
There is no means of testing which decision is better, because there is no basis for comparison. We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always like a sketch. No, "sketch" is not quite a word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch for nothing, an outline with no picture.
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.
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