Notches Quotes

#1. She had become the demon, only too much, and too fast. I had an incredible urge to knock her on her ass, take her down a few notches. Turning her just got higher on the priority scale. That's if I didn't kill her first.

L.J. Kentowski

#2. I mean, horror films in general put humans in these awful supernatural or horrible situations, but 'Cabin In The Woods' cranks it up a few notches and becomes outrageous and totally bizarre.

Fran Kranz

#3. The real killers in the business world aren't the ones who aim for the top, it's the ones who aim for two notches below the top.

Douglas Coupland

#4. Oh, we're all sluts. I'm liberated enough to cut me some notches on my bedpost, if you catch my drift? No, those girls are shallow. It's why they have to work in a flock. They can't go solo because their fragile egos can't handle the stress. I have no patience for weak girls

Bijou Hunter

#5. To get it all done I have to dim my brain, turn it down by notches like the flat-turn knob on a gas lantern, leaving only a nub of flame.

Christina Baker Kline

#6. I was single long enough, and when I was, it wasn't about putting notches in the bedpost.

Joe Manganiello

#7. There were three thin wrinkles at her neckline, sharply etched, like notches on the road of life. Or maybe they were marks to commemorate when three wishes had come true - though Ushikawa had serious doubt that this had ever happened.

Haruki Murakami

#8. If you are seizing on a new business opportunity, deliberately move your customers' expectations up a few notches and consistently over-deliver on your promises - you will leave your competitors struggling to catch up.

Richard Branson

#9. Love was like notches on a speaker that could be cranked up and down, the decibels of desire, the frequencies of feeling. Sometimes she thought that she might have cranked it all the way up and broken the dial before the music had even started.

Alice Pung

#10. It's a lot harder to get people to 'ooh' and 'aah' over beets and carrots than it is to get them to 'ooh' and 'aah' over artichokes or asparagus, and I enjoy being able to take these humble, 'lowbrow' foodstuffs up a few notches and serve them with great exuberance.

Charlie Trotter

#11. I collect firearms, and I've got a Winchester, an Indian rifle. It has tacks for every warrior that was shot, like notches on a pistol, and it's got feathers and beads hanging off it. It's like a work of art.

Joe Perry

#12. I get it, you know. I'm operating on privilege too. It may be a number of notches down from yours but it's every bit as unearned. I think the trick is to never forget it.

Sabrina Vourvoulias

#13. I do a chimichurri sauce with garlic, parsley, olive oil, and red and black pepper. You just mince the garlic and the parsley and mix it all together. Brush a little of that on a steak and it kicks it up, like, 10 notches.

Julie Gonzalo

#14. Wouldnt it be nice to be like men and get notches in your belt ... and not get emotionally involved?

Marilyn Monroe

#15. The lemming types came out of their houses with flashlights. Going to light up the world with those flashlights, I guess." He laughed. "I stopped them all from watching Happy Days. Forced their IQs up a couple notches.

Chris Fuhrman

#16. On any measure, Spain's bank rescue has been a disaster. A hundred million euros have been added to the national debt, ten-year bonds are at a record high and the country's credit rating has been downgraded three notches.

Daniel Hannan

#17. Songs that aren't even remotely connected to Christmas are now officially canonized Christmas tunes. 'Frosty the Snowman,' 'Jingle Bells' and 'Winter Wonderland' never mention anything religious but are still notches in Christmas' belt of musical dominance.

Matisyahu

#18. Together, we created the STACKED brand and have really taken the product up two or three notches.

Tim Page

#19. I wished God were like He used to be, a few notches lower. I wanted Him to be lofty enough to help me but not so uncontrollable. I longed for His warm presence, times when He seemed more ... safe.

Joni Eareckson Tada

#20. I'm very accepting with my age. It's like notches on your belt: experience, wisdom, and a different kind of beauty. There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin.

Zoe Saldana

#21. It was painful looking at the man you wanted more than a cake pop and knowing you'd never have him, because to do so would mean becoming one of many other notches on his bedpost.

L.A. Fiore

#22. I moved to New York last year and I love it. It's a huge change and I've always wanted to spend time there. It's like a more intense London, and everything's up a few notches. The lights are brighter, the pace is faster and the food's better.

Rachel Weisz

#23. I always feel bad laughing at people who act crazy. But sometimes the things they do are so damned funny. I wonder what I'd look like if I slipped a few notches on the mental-health index.

Martha Manning

#24. Dex isn't a big guy by any means. He's on the short side and toned but still thin. But he has unpredictable pit-bull tactics and one hell of a lippy attitude with strangers. For heaven's sake, never give that man a shovel.

Karina Halle

#25. It is a new world, and we must decide how we are to end this old one and begin it anew.

Sarah J. Maas

#26. But it's the hope of something better that keeps us going

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#27. I spend a lot of time in L.A., and when it rains there you get the entire rainfall for the year in two days, raindrops the size of mangoes. And in Barcelona, the Mediterranean storms come up from the sea, thunder and lightning; it's like the end of the world.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#28. I wanted other people who have curiosity to understand they can kick it up a notch and it's a superpower.

Brian Grazer

#29. I really got into Osho's books. I have always loved his books. They were top notch.

Marianne Williamson

#30. "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

#31. This moment here is the only observable time and place for us in our universe.

Frank Herbert

#32. I think everyone has some sort of connection to Gatsby as a character ... he's created himself according to his own emotions and dreams and lifted himself by his bootstraps from a poor kid in the Midwest and created this image that is The Great Gatsby and it's a truly American story in that regard.

Leonardo DiCaprio

#33. A volley of hailstones began abruptly, filled the woods with a frenzied percussion & ended on the sudden.

David Mitchell

#34. Virginius Pass, go across the Talus slope and pick up the route through the notch, it is steep, slippery, brutal.

Karl Meltzer

#35. Pleading with those eyes, it's obvious what I'm meant to do. I embrace the beauty and kiss it deeply.

Patrick Bryant

#36. She was just another notch on my guitar.

Robert Cray

#37. One thing governors feel, Democrats and Republicans alike, is that we have a health care system that, if you're on Medicaid, you have unlimited access to health care, at unlimited levels, at no cost. No wonder it's running away.

Mike Huckabee