Top 100 Notch'd Quotes
#1. Mark, how the ready hands of Death prepare: His bow is bent, and he hath notch'd his dart; He aims, he levels at thy slumb'ring heart: The wound is posting, O be wise, beware.
Francis Quarles
#3. Peter Principle
a brilliant and talented man promoted just one notch over his head.
Steven B. Sample
#4. It's about good copy and ensuring that cases can be made into top-notch documentaries on the telly. Public approval is the all-important currency these days, and police budgets ebb and flow on the back of circulation and viewing figures.
Jasper Fforde
#5. I hope one of those books is a primer on etiquette. You seriously need a refresher."
"You're not queen yet, Eadlyn. Take it down a notch." He walked away, and I was furious with
myself for not getting the last word.
Kiera Cass
#6. As if we didn't have enough weapons already. But that's human nature, we've always got to go one better, to increase the terror another notch.
Peter F. Hamilton
#7. Being a food show and being me, I always kicked it up a notch, which means I would always elevate the spice level or the complexity of a particular dish. So, it was always like we're going to kick this up a little bit.
Emeril Lagasse
#8. High Times magazine is a notch intellectually below Highlights for Children. I mean, they're both great to read when you're baked, but come on, ya know ...
David Cross
#9. Helen was beautiful in the way a supercomputer was beautiful: sleek with elegant but utilitarian styling, full of top-notch technological know-how, far too expensive for most people to possess.
Maggie Stiefvater
#10. I pull an arrow, whip the notch into place, and am about to let it fly when I'm stopped by the sight of Finnick kissing Peeta. And it's so bizarre, even for Finnick.
Suzanne Collins
#11. I didn't go into the NASA program to pick up rocks or to go the moon or anything else. I went in there because I was a military officer, and that was the next notch in my profession.
Jim Lovell
#12. Every time a woman leaves the workforce because she can't find or afford childcare, or she can't work out a flexible arrangement with her boss, or she has no paid maternity leave, her family's income falls down a notch. Simultaneously, national productivity numbers decline.
Madeleine M. Kunin
#13. People love to see public figures get taken down a notch, and by the same token, everyone loves to be the center of attention, even when there's a target on their forehead.
Jeff Ross
#15. When I first went to work ... I had over me an impetuous, hustling man. It was necessary for me to be up to the top notch to give satisfaction. I worked faster than I otherwise would have done, and to him I attribute the impetus that I acquired.
Charles M. Schwab
#16. Of the necessary equipment to invent really top-notch
Lemony Snicket
#17. If you get earaches, I'd turn my volume down a notch or two for you. Cause I will do anything for you.
Alice Cooper
#18. Ben sighed loudly. "Can you help Tory or not?"
Jason's cool slipped a notch. "If you don't need anything, why are you here?"
"I'm studying jerkoffs in the wild," Ben answered dryly. "This seemed like a good chance to observe one up close.
Kathy Reichs
#19. If I ever have a chance to become a top-notch guy on a top team, I think that's more valuable than anything else.
Jason Spezza
#20. The gears of life had moved ahead a notch with a loud ker-chunk, and Junpei knew that they would never turn back again.
Haruki Murakami
#21. I love you, Lauren Lindsay. I want to kiss you more than I want to breathe, but I don't want you to think you're just another notch in my belt. You're not. You're it for me. I want you to have everything and I want to make sure I'm good enough for you. You deserve more than who I was.
Lily Paradis
#22. I just gave you permission to fuck me, but be clear: I'm not another notch on your belt. You're a notch on mine.
Lisa Renee Jones
#23. Your self-esteem is a notch below Kafka.
Woody Allen
#24. Your self esteem is like a notch below Kafka's.
Woody Allen
#25. If we could do high-speed rail in California just half a notch above what they've done on the Shanghai line in China, and if we had a straight path from L.A. to San Francisco, as well as the milk run, at least that would be progress.
Elon Musk
#26. Being in New York, a lot of people I knew were top-notch copy editors or photo retouchers, so I had a good community around me that knew how to do the specialized stuff.
Ian Christe
#27. "I am not just another notch on your belt?" she asked him. "Of course not." he said as he put a mark on the chalkboard.
Jay Leno
#28. Somewhere along the line, many Americans relegated the media to a notch on the morality scale only slightly above that of child molesters.
Gregory Kane
#29. If only you could talk to girls in equations."
There was a long silence, and then, eyes trained on the notch they'd created in the link, Wylan said, "Just girls?
Leigh Bardugo
#30. The secret of being a top-notch con man is being able to know what the mark wants, and how to make him think he's getting it.
Ken Kesey
#31. In this ever-changing world, it's more important than ever that our top-notch military continues to receive the resources needed to serve and protect our country.
Max Baucus
#32. Antiques to Die For sets the gold standard for the classic contemporary cozy. Agatha-finalist Jane K. Cleland's writing is top-notch; her plotting and pace smooth and assured. This antiquing series is in mint condition!
Julia Spencer-Fleming
#33. I'm not quite as limber, but for my peers and my age group, I'm still top notch!
Portia De Rossi
#34. There is nothing more important to our Nation's future, to our homeland security, and to our economy than ensuring we have a top-notch educational system that is the envy of the world.
Jim Jeffords
#35. I wanted other people who have curiosity to understand they can kick it up a notch and it's a superpower.
Brian Grazer
#36. Why, the top-notch gentleman visits his hatter every few days just to have his hat ironed!
Michel Faber
#37. In a lot of ways, I'm seeking some sort of peace of mind for myself. I'm a fairly emotionally petty, resentful guy who has an inflated sense of himself, and I needed to take that down a notch.
Marc Maron
#38. I really got into Osho's books. I have always loved his books. They were top notch.
Marianne Williamson
#39. I would have made her a part of me. If I could, I would have had a notch cut in my already aging side and a slip of her, my young rose, inserted there and lashed to me with twine.
John Banville
#40. Insight: if a guy I had sex with ever carved a notch into his bedpost, I'd tell him to carve one into mine too - and then to go make me a fucking sammich.
Kresley Cole
#41. With the newspapers cheering, Lieutenant Colonel Roosevelt chose a top-notch regiment of more than 1,250 men. They were first called Teddy's Texas Tarantulas and went through three or four other monikers until Roosevelt's Rough Riders stuck.
Douglas Brinkley
#42. I hired top-notch people, trusted them to do their jobs, and then came to grips with the fact that I wouldn't be coaching as much.
Tony Dungy
#43. I love classic rock, rock and roll, that's the top notch. I love soul - bluesy music as well.
Haley Reinhart
#44. In general, we need America to take its game up a notch when it comes to broadband. It's important to acknowledge the billions and billions of dollars of investment in fiber. But we need more.
Julius Genachowski
#45. I guess people feel like they kind of know me. The game developer me, or the Twitter persona, that's Notch. It's a censored version. The real me is Markus.
Markus Persson
#46. You will be competing against athletes from many nations. But, most important, you are competing against yourself. All we expect is for you to do your very best, to push yourself just one second faster, one notch higher, one inch further.
Ronald Reagan
#47. No matter what you do in the offseason, you can't simulate putting spikes on and standing in the grass and being around your teammates. When you're around your teammates, you step it up a notch. It's just kind of instinctive you do that.
Jon Lester
#48. A Kiss concert experience is like sex or anything else that's done with more that one person. It's the give and take that makes it so great. When the audience takes it to the next level, we can kick it up another notch.
Paul Stanley
#49. Virginius Pass, go across the Talus slope and pick up the route through the notch, it is steep, slippery, brutal.
Karl Meltzer
#50. As the clockwork of the millennia moved a notch in front of their eyes, it had taken their thoughts from small things and reminded them of how vulnerable they were to time.
Mark Helprin
#52. Periodically I just notch up. And everyone among my colleagues thinks that Perfidia - in its accessibility, its big throbbing heart - will be the biggest notch up yet. We'll see what happens. It's on my ass.
James Ellroy
#53. I don't commit to things unless I have my A-team to do it. And I'm not trying to be cocky, but that shows in my productions. They are top notch!
Cameron Mackintosh
#54. The nature of show business is people within the business feel that if someone else fails, they move up a notch.
Tom Arnold
#55. I have one top-notch baby with whom I am in love. It's a head-over-heels "first love" kind of thing, because I pay for everything and all we do is hold hands.
Tina Fey
#56. Oh, hell, no. I saw you with the rifle." He glanced over at her, and his voice went a notch deeper. "It was fucking hot. I love a badass female.
Larissa Ione
#57. I absolutely love this. Top notch art and scripting encapsulating a brilliant idea.
Leinil Francis Yu
#58. Mick Jagger also a music connoisseur and knows everything about that era. So, you knew the music side was going to be top-notch. It's HBO. On Men of Certain Age, if we wanted a song, it would break the bank. But, Vinyl can go all-out.
Ray Romano
#59. Yet one more item is needed to complete success, and that is the rendering of service to others in the community. Without this the mere satisfaction of selfish desire does not reach the top notch.
Robert Baden-Powell
#60. How very lovely she was, with the muted light of the afternoon falling over her shoulder like a veil! How gorgeously the shadow filled that notch beneath her lip!
Eleanor Catton
#61. Fairy Princessfuckingrella is kicking her slutting up a notch.
He saw Livia tense out of the corner of his eye. Shit. Kyle's going to ruin their night together.
Debra Anastasia
#62. He smirks and cranks his glorious smile up another notch so it's in full HD IMAX.
E.L. James
#63. I'm not a notch on a belt."
"You could never be a notch, London Chantelle. You're the whole belt, sugar.
Elizabeth SaFleur
#64. The tension between us kicked up a notch, and I realized that along with our bodies being nearer, so were our lips.
Richelle Mead
#65. Schweitzer is where I found snowboarding; it will always have a special place in my heart and is a top-notch ski resort. It has some of the best bowl tree skiing in the world and breathtaking views of Sandpoint and Lake Pend Oreille.
Nate Holland
#66. This was supposed to be a trip about finding my own answers (and maybe finding some great shoes along the way), not about being a notch in the bedpost of Captain Freelove, no matter how fuckably handsome he was.
Penelope Ward
#67. It's just another notch in the good ol' fucked up, modern America belt.
S.L. Jennings
#68. What I'm saying is that until somebody steps up and actually has a forceful attack on Donald Trump and actually takes him down a notch, Donald Trump is just going to keep plowing through.
Sean Hannity
#69. Investing is not as tough as being a top-notch bridge player. All it takes is the ability to see things as they really are.
Warren Buffett
#70. I certainly found most of the Marines and soldiers I worked with to be top-notch. You had your exceptions - but then you have your exceptions in the Navy, too.
Chris Kyle
#71. Colin Morgan gives a stunning performance in Parked; he plays Merlin in the BBC TV show and he says the two characters are like night and day. Watch him. He's got everything it takes to be top notch.
Colm Meaney
#72. There's always one more notch and four more aces Billy, and you're playin' all alone.
Bob Dylan
#73. There are a lot of top-notch shows in Canada.
David Alpay
#74. Really top-notch directors, I've often worked with them just to see how they work.
Alan Alda
#75. I look at each day as a chance to move one notch above yesterday - whether it's in service quality, delivery, speed, or any other aspect of the business.
Daniel Snyder
#76. Regret is pointless. I never do anything without first deciding to do it based on facts and feelings, and if it doesn't work out how I hoped, oh well - there's another notch on my experience belt.
Isaac Marion
#77. Of course, rivals do affect athletes mentally, but if you are competing with top-notch athletes, you will push each other, you will encourage each other.
Liu Xiang
#78. Spain has some of the richest culinary traditions and truly appreciates food that is simply prepared with top-notch ingredients.
Emeril Lagasse
#79. The simple things come back to us. They rest for a moment by our ribcages then suddenly reach in and twist our hearts a notch backward.
Colum McCann
#80. Ash is going to kick your ass, Daemon."
Daemon's grin went up a notch. "Nah, she likes my ass too much for that.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#81. I loved seeing my name in print, I loved seeing my words in print. I felt really privileged to be in the kind of company I was in at Esquire, but I didn't think it was going to launch a career as a top-notch journalist. It's just not what I wanted.
Laurence Shames
#82. I don't have the relationship that I thought I did with my fans. Maybe I did early on when I had a couple thousand fans, but it's not like us anymore. It's the idea of Notch and the 'Minecraft' community.
Markus Persson
#83. You need to check that tone, boy. Remember, I used to kill people for a living, and I ain't been up long enough to have much tolerance right about now. knock it down a notch before I forget I'm supposed to actually like you.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#84. I don't want a boyfriend just for the sake of it. I don't trust most people out there. There's too much at risk and I don't need to be a notch on somebody's bedpost. I'll flirt with you all night long, but then it's buh, bye!
Mariah Carey
#85. Jamie," I panted. He pushed his kilt out of the way and pressed my hand against him.
"Bloody Christ," I said, impressed despite myself. My sense of propriety slipped another notch.
"Fighting gives ye a terrible cockstand, after. Ye want me, do ye no?
Diana Gabaldon
#86. She was just another notch on my guitar.
Robert Cray
#87. There was only one thing to do, and he did it. Ignoring Bomazine's leering face, Ike reached down and took up a notch in his belt.
Phyllis R. Fenner
#88. The human mind demands intellectual expansion and expression.
Brandon Notch
#89. Back off, perv! I have a black belt in taekwondo
and I will fuck you up if you take another step toward
me."
Chase raised his hands in surrender, trying really,
really hard to keep his eyes on hers. "Whoa, there,
crouching tiger. Let's just take this down a notch.
Lorelei James
#90. I'm just a notch on your bedpost but you're just a line in a song.
Fall Out Boy
#91. After conscientiously tasting fritters every day for a month Lola had put on two pounds! Her little belt bore witness to the disaster, she found herself obliged to move on to the next notch. She burst into tears.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
#92. You'd been petting a stuffed dog?' she said 'A dead one?'
'It was a really well stuffed dog' I clarified. 'I have seen some bad taxidermy. This was top-notch work. It would have fooled anyone.
Maureen Johnson
#93. In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and notch it on my stick too; to stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and future, which is precisely the present moment; to toe that line.
Henry David Thoreau
#94. Top notch! Everyone needs to be warned about Hell so that they can avoid going there.
C. Matthew McMahon
#95. I come from a long line of body snatchers, probably the top-notch body snatchers in America. No make that the world. Some people might think it's gross digging up bones or corpses, but who asked them? It's no big deal, but then I've been doing it since I got out of diapers.
Minda Webber
#96. There's no room for failure performing [stand-up] for a black audience. If you don't get them right away it's tough winning them back even if you're doing top-notch material. If you didn't win them right when you walked out there, it's tough.
Hannibal Buress
#97. Rush has done some top-notch quality work, and we're very, very pleased with them. We really enjoy working with them. They are on time and on budget, which makes me happy.
Mark Russell
#98. Before I put another notch in my lipstick case, you better make sure you put me in my place.
Pat Benatar
#99. I think I'd have to say my favorite IWC. They have been around for so long and the craftsmanship is top notch. A watch maker that has been in business over 100 years has to know what they are doing.
Brian McKnight
#100. We stand against fate, as children stand up against the wall in their father's house, and notch their height from year to year. But when the boy grows to a man, and is master of the house, he pulls down that wall and builds it new and bigger.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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