Top Quotes

Letting go of things and not being afraid of being ridiculous or over the top - I think that's the main thing for me to work on.

The charts are only relevant when you're top of them!

Whether it's on top of a phone booth or a $200 million soundstage, it's about stories.

In the East there is a gap between the top of a wall and underside of a roof; it acts as a screen, and the Chinese were able to use it as they wished.

I've realised that at the top of the mountain, there's another mountain.

It's lonely and cold on the top... lonely and cold.

We don't take care of our teachers and our cops and our firemen. They should be at the top of our list.

Is it security you want? There is no security at the top of the world.

Anytime you see a turtle up on top of a fence post, you know he had some help.

The biggest barriers to strategic renewal are almost always top management's unexamined beliefs.

They've pushed me down a big ravine, but I'll get back up to the top.

It is more difficult to stay on top than to get there.

Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.

Everybody starts at the top, and then has the problem of staying there. Lasting accomplishment, however, is still achieved through a long, slow climb and self-discipline.

There is always room at the top - after the investigation.

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

The kind of people I look for to fill top management spots are the eager beavers, the mavericks. These are the guys who try to do more than they're expected to do - they always reach.

There are artists who think they have to be on top all the time. I think that would be exhausting.

People feel they are not participating in the decision-making process. Decisions are exclusive to those at the very top. You have grown up with crony capitalism and it creates ever more resentment.

Those who suffer are not those at the top, but are the less privileged members of society.

Remember that the pharynx is at a crossroads from which leads off, at the top, the passage to the mouth cavity and the passage to the nasal cavity, and below, the passage to the larynx.

Financial regulatory reform is one of the top legislative priorities of the Obama Administration.

For stage wear and gowns, Julien McDonald, who is a friend of mine. I love that he can be totally over the top for stage wear!

For girls, something that accentuates the curves looks sexy. It can be a dress, it can be jeans, it can be a tank top, who cares!

One of the symptoms of a losing streak is a turnover of top executives. It's a revolving door.

I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.

I don't know if he was the fourth man or the fifth, but he was certainly in the top 10.

There's only so far you can take a relationship before you got to get into things that are too serious or over the top.

During the course of filming 'Top Chef,' I gain 15 lbs., so I'm used to needing two dress sizes.

I grew up in a household where everybody lived at the top of his lungs.

Whatever success I've had, I always like to top it.

It was necessary to organize my career to remain at the top level until Salt Lake City.

We will stomp to the top with the wind in our teeth.

I don't want to see that two-tier Senegal, that two-tier Africa, when you have those at the top and those at the bottom, people who are hungry, people who do not have enough to eat.

Vicksburg lies on top of a bluff on the east side of a large tongue of land jutting out into the Mississippi.

Clearly, border security has been the top domestic issue of the year, and rightly so. Securing our borders is an essential aspect of our national security.

In this industry, there are only two ways up the ladder. Rung by rung or claw your way to the top. It's sure been tough on my nails.

The UK has a poor investment record. According to IMF data, we have come seventh out of the top seven industrialised countries since 1999.

If there is a small rocket on top of a big one, and if the big one is jettisoned and the small one is ignited, then their speeds are added.

If you're really on top, you probably didn't do that great, 'cause you have to water it down a bit for it to get that mass appeal.

I don't like touring and it seemed to be getting on top of me in a big way.

The test of success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Twenty-five percent of search results for the world's top 20 largest brands are links to user generated content and thirty-four percent of bloggers post opinions about products and brands.

I have an American top hat that's collapsible and works as a frisbee.

Nothing will ever top 'The Wire.' It was historical. It was black cinema.

It was necessary to have an even depth of corn on the top compared to the sides, so the air would not take the easiest route and not evenly dry the stored corn.

I am a positive person and do not allow things to get on top of me.

A gastronomical supermeal didn't necessarily have to involve the things I had brought from other top kitchens.

Our natures are a lot like oil, mix us with anything else, and we strive to swim on top.

I lost more then 6 kilograms when I ceased with the top sport. That were all muscles. They are now gone.

Over the last 10 years, women have stalled out at the top.

You've got the top 400 Americans owning more wealth than the bottom 150 million Americans. Most folks do not think that is right.

Some people are at the top of the ladder, some are in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot more don't even know there is a ladder.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but at MIT this puts them in the bottom ten percent of the class.

Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.

I want to top expectations. I want to blow you away.

An athlete must have ability to reach the top, but many who have ability and who do not live clean lives never have and never will be champions for obvious reasons.

I think she was ready to go. Not to be kicked out. Go at the top. Undefeated.

People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

I think my top salary was maybe in 1966. I made $17,000 and 11 of that came from selling other players' equipment.

People who reach the top of the tree are only those who haven't got the qualifications to detain them at the bottom.

I have an independent record label called Favored Nations on which I released an album by an artist called Johnny A, who plays an arch top Gibson through a Marshall, but the tone is all in his fingers.

I attract a crowd, not because I'm an extrovert or I'm over the top or I'm oozing with charisma. It's because I care.

Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel.

Because we believe that you got to build the economy from middle out and not from the top down.

I went to the top of the Cotton Bowl by myself, sat down and cried.

Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent.

If producing a regular column is living out loud, then keeping a daily blog is living at the top of your lungs. For a couple of months there, I was shrieking like a banshee.

I started at the top and worked my way down.

The bulk of extra supplies that could be put into the market come from two places. One, they come from other Persian Gulf suppliers, of which Saudi Arabia is at the top of the list.

Punishing abuse in Iraq should not return the U.S. to Sept. 10, 2001, in the way it fights al Qaeda, while Osama bin Laden and his top lieutenants remain at large and continue to plan attacks.

Merlin really taught me how to concentrate, that you play each play as if it were the only play. And if you put all the plays together like that, then you'll come out on top.

There is no neat distinction between operating system software and the software that runs on top of it.

At USC, if you're running back there, and you do gain you over 1,500 yards, people see you as a candidate, but not one of the top ones.

The blues is the foundation, and it's got to carry the top. The other part of the scene, the rock 'n' roll and the jazz, are the walls of the blues.