Quotes About The Top

#1. Last I checked, the album was #82 out of the top 200 on the Billboard charts thanks to you all. I pray that keeps moving up and with your help it will.

LaToya London

#2. The true order of learning should be first, what is necessary; second, what is useful, and third, what is ornamental. To reverse this arrangement is like beginning to build at the top of the edifice.

Lydia Sigourney

#3. I believe that change comes from the bottom, not the top.

Gloria Steinem

#4. Always waiting, waiting to go up to the front line, waiting in the trenches with the whizzbags and shells bursting all around you, waiting for the whistle to send you out over the top and across No-Man's-Land, waiting for the bullet that had name on it.

Michael Morpurgo

#5. Some magazines are run from the top down, where the editor-in-chief decides what every article is going to be and who's going to write them, and then they're doled out. My idea is to do it the opposite way, to do it from the bottom up.

Ruth Reichl

#6. Because afterward, you left me. For seven years." Austin kissed the top of my head. "Never again, Ladybug.

Dannika Dark

#7. If a married couple with children has fifteen minutes of uninterrupted, non-logistical, non-problem-solving talk every day, I would put them in the top 5% of all married couples. It's an extraordinary achievement.

William J Doherty

#8. Junction at the top of the stairs. She gave a curious glance down General Tilney's corridor, but she

Val McDermid

#9. At the top of the ramp, Holston saw the heaven into which he'd been condemned for his simple sin of hope.

Hugh Howey

#10. Of all the things and people she missed lately, it was odd to find herself at the top of the list.

Gayle Forman

#11. It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

Henry Ward Beecher

#12. It is a man's world at the top, at the bottom, and in between. Men are in the catbird seat as far as income, opportunity, status, and power are concerned. This is the way it always has been and, as far as men are concerned, it is the way it always should be.

Joyce Brothers

#13. Even trees are creative, rocks are creative. You are man, the very culmination of this existence. You are at the top, you are conscious. Never think with wrong beliefs, and never be attached to wrong beliefs, that you are uncreative.

Rajneesh

#14. I want to be remembered going off the front, not the other way. After winning my seventh king-of-the-mountains title and winning a stage on Bastille Day, I asked myself, 'What more can I do in cycling?' I want to go out at the top.

Richard Virenque

#15. At Shea Stadium, I saw the top of the mountain.

John Lennon

#16. If the world were an orange with 18 segments meeting at the top (the North Pole), roughly 8 of them would be in Russia, Canada would have 4, Denmark 2, and Norway, Sweden, and the U.S. just one apiece. Only a sliver of Alaska, on the Beaufort Sea, lies above the Arctic Circle.

Alex Shoumatoff

#17. I'm like a shark, right at the top of the food chain. I take what I want, when I want. I truly am the reflection of perfection.

Ricky Martin

#18. Let the League of Nations say whatever it pleases, let America offer whatever interference, let China decry Japan's action at the top of her voice, but Japan must adhere to her course unswervingly.

Sadao Araki

#19. I don't think we should really be judging on Chris Brown like that until we know what Rihanna did. We all got reasons for what we do. Look at me. I'm one of the top 10 performers of all-time. I had to beat this one mermaid ass in a seafood restaurant over some shrimps. No lie. You just never know.

Coolio

#20. Mastering an art is like reaching the top of the passion mountain ... at the top the passion dies out! So keep learning.

Siddharth Katragadda

#21. I am a little crazy but when I'm on-stage, then I really get to play it up and perform and be over the top and it's like an outlet. It's fun to 'wild' out.

Bonnie McKee

#22. Worry less about solutions from the top or the idea that there is a solution, but try to do whatever you can and instill in each action the values that you want to result.

Gloria Steinem

#23. I've seen shows on Showtime, and they're very provocative, if you will, but nothing to the point that's over-the-top or gratuitous.

Megalyn Echikunwoke

#24. Howdy-hi, she sings. As usual, she's over-the-top bubbly-like Mary Poppins

A.G. Howard

#25. Democracy virtually assures that only bad and dangerous men will ever rise to the top of government.

Hans-Hermann Hoppe

#26. The people at the top of the league think they need to rein me in so I don't become another Michael Jordan, somebody they aren't able to mold and shape and make their puppet.

Dennis Rodman

#27. Letting go, of course, is a scary enterprise for those of us who believe that the world revolves only because it has a handle on the top of it which we personally turn, and that if we were to drop this handle for even a moment, well - that would be the end of the universe.

Anonymous

#28. I had a wonderful time playing Dr. Kaufman in Tomorrow Never Dies. It was a real Bond villain, over the top, almost laughable but dangerous.

Vincent Schiavelli

#29. The top threat that gets very little focus from Washington these days is what Adm. Mike Mullen identified as the biggest threat to the U.S.: the American debt.

Mark Sanford

#30. What I'd like is a lobotomy, a clean job, the top of my head neatly sawn off and designated contents removed.

Carol Shields

#31. You have to work hard to get to the top of your game. I think every writer has doubts! I still do all the time.

Rick Riordan

#32. I vaguely remembered hearing psychologists say there was a preponderance of psychopaths at the top - in the corporate and political worlds - a clinical absence of empathy being a benefit in those environments.

Jon Ronson

#33. The human body may need to receive sunlight through the tree canopy in order to be in a healthy state. I call this light "Interference Green Light" and it may be the top thing that you need to be receiving in order to be in good health and free of pain.

Steven Magee

#34. Just a rock, a dome of snow, the deep blue sky, and a hunk of orange-painted metal from which a shredded American flag cracked in the wind. Nothing more. Except two tiny figures walking together those last few feet to the top of the Earth.

Tom Hornbein

#35. But nobody had ever gone over the top shouting 'A Higher Standard of Living!' or 'Hot Showers and Electric Razors!

Jerry Pournelle

#36. Tom, Tom, Tom," I said, fingering the top of the knife bar, which was dusty; I'd take care of that later. "You lost the right to ask for sympathy about three minutes ago. Now get out of our home before I stab you again.

Camille Pagan

#37. I absolutely love doing games in Baton Rouge. Night games in Tiger Stadium are a spectacle and the food choices all around are fantastic! One thing is certain: if I ever choose to feature a tailgating spread for Taste of the Town, LSU will be at the top of the list.

Todd Blackledge

#38. Winning an NBA championship is the biggest thing that can happen professionally because it's the top. But representing your country-with more than 30 million people cheering for you and then seeing you up there on the podium-it's hard to find any more words to put on that.

Manu Ginobili

#39. The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Napoleon Hill

#40. One of the laws of the professional jungle is that every dog has their day. Everyone gets a shot at the top and at some point someone else gets their turn.

Carla Harris

#41. When I started surfing, you'd hear this neat rumbling sound when you took off and go for the drop, and when the wave is lipping up over the top of you, it makes this hissing sound.

Dick Dale

#42. Perhaps when we die our names are taken
from us by a divine magnet and are free
to flutter here and there within the bodies of birds.
I'll be a simple crow
who can reach the top of Antelope Butte.
(From: Hard Times)

Jim Harrison

#43. There is no one who likes a challenge more than Tom Cruise. Believe me, there was never any discussion of lip syncing or another voice or anything like that, because if the guy's going to hang out on the top of the Burj, he's not going to let anybody do his singing for him.

Adam Shankman

#44. I had set a goal with my team to try and get back to the top of the rankings, but I never thought with the depth in the game this year that I would have been able to get it back so quickly.

Roger Federer

#45. There's no way I can play for the Yankees, but I know they're going to come after me hard. It's definitely not the most important thing to go out there for the top dollar, which the Yankees are going to offer me. It's not what I need.

Johnny Damon

#46. The tax cuts enacted in 2001 and 2003 - and extended for two years in 2010 - in 2011 saved the richest 1.4 million taxpayers (the top 1 percent) more money than the rest of America's 140.89 million taxpayers received in total income.

Robert B. Reich

#47. Reaching the top 100 was always my goal since I started to play as a pro. In '05 I came quite close, reaching a ranking of No. 129, but then was stopped by a major shoulder injury.

Marco Chiudinelli

#48. As soon as I could talk, I was bellowing at the top of my lungs. My parents couldn't get over how weird I sounded - like an old man when I was just a toddler! But no one was gonna shut me up.

Valerie June

#49. The top salesperson in the organization probably missed more sales than 90% of the sales people on the team, but they also made more calls than the others made.

Zig Ziglar

#50. Here there is left a tenuous subterfuge, 875 which Anaxagoras seizes: think of things as mixtures of everything, all concealed but one that shows - the one that's mixed in largest measure and close to the surface and placed right at the top.

Titus Lucretius Carus

#51. I decided to become a community organizer ... Change won't come from the top, I would say. Change will come from a mobilized grass roots.

Barack Obama

#52. I'll meet you outside," I said. No way was I actually doing to shout 'I have to pee' at the top of my lungs.

Stella Lennon

#53. There have been many articles about the top regrets that people have when they're dying. They are always, "I missed the ordinary moments." We miss those ordinary moments, and yet, that's what we're trying to distract ourselves from at the same time.

Geneen Roth

#54. When we look at life from the top of the mountain, there is no limitation

Hazrat Inayat Khan

#55. The terrible thing about having New York go stale on you is that there's nowhere else. It's the top of the world.

John Dos Passos

#56. Hope is a Ferris wheel-
It takes Low and High;
And when you reach the Top,
It's like you can touch The Sky!
And when it takes you Down-
Hope becomes A Thing
That, When you're getting Off,
You take With you to Bring.

Robin Herrera

#57. I used to do my own make-up. I used to have this doll that had those big eyelashes on the top and bottom, and I think I copied her when I was doing my eyes, putting false eyelashes on the bottom as well as the top. So I came up with that look myself.

Twiggy

#58. It shows a mediocre architect at the top of his game [on the Beetham Tower in Manchester]

Owen Hatherley

#59. I like to keep things classic, not lavish or blinged out. I don't even say that word. The last thing I want to be is over the top.

Dhani Jones

#60. Creativity is an inherently human trait that allowed us to dominate our environment and make our way to the top of the food chain.

Harry Hoover

#61. If I'm going to be out there, I want to be in the top 10 and really have a chance of winning a Grand Slam.

Stefan Edberg

#62. I think with animation there's a certain freedom that you're given. You don't have a thought at the back of your mind, that worry that you'll have to cut and go back to the top of the scene. You're not working with anyone else from the cast. It's just you.

Ryan Potter

#63. There are three or four places in the country where people think of fashion: One is L.A., obviously. Another is New York. And I think Atlanta has to be in the top five cities where fashion is very big.

Cam Newton

#64. There is nothing more exciting in sport when the top two countries in the world are battling for the Ashes.

Ian Botham

#65. If you look around, there are very few really super quarterbacks. There are just very few. If you're lucky enough to have one, lucky enough that one of these Andrew Lucks is available when you have the top pick, then that's just a matter of luck. You can't attribute that to anything else.

Bob McNair

#66. I'm not an extravagant guy ... I don't like going over the top on anything. I have what I need and I try to keep it that way.

Jose Bautista

#67. When I come over the top of the dune I see the ocean and I feel like I'm seeing it for the first time.
Today it's blue, straight and simple. Raw blue.

Kirsty Eagar

#68. One half of my head, from the top of my skull to the cleft of my jaw, hammers, bangs, sizzles while the other half, serene and content, looks on at the agony next door.

Rudyard Kipling

#69. The editor sat in his sanctum, his countenance furrowed with care, His mind at the bottom of business, his feet at the top of a chair, His chair-arm an elbow supporting, his right hand upholding his head, His eyes on his dusty old table, with different documents spread.

Will Carleton

#70. But in a turbulent environment the change is so widespread that it just routes around any kind of central authority. So it is best to manage the bottom-up change rather than try to institute it from the top down.

Kevin Kelly

#71. But he got right to the top. And I heard harps in the air. My - my master builder!

Henrik Ibsen

#72. It's one of the best leagues in Europe in football. Benfica in my opinion is one of the top 10 biggest clubs in the world.

Freddy Adu

#73. People say the top part of my face looks like my dad's and the bottom part like my mom's. I have his eyes and her nose and mouth.

River Viiperi

#74. Communication can't always follow the top-down model. With the fluidity of information in business today, leaders need to be masterful listeners; they need to be able to receive as well as send.

Joseph Badaracco

#75. You're falling into the trap of believing everything that's in the political handbook, and at the top of the list it says you can't do anything without money. [Donald] Trump has.

Rush Limbaugh

#76. Pyramiding instructions appear on dollar bills. Add smaller and smaller amounts on the way up. Keep your eye open at the top.

Ed Seykota

#77. I then realized my appearance was a bit odd. My right leg was no longer with me. It had caught somewhere in the top of the cockpit as I tried to leave my Spitfire.

Douglas Bader

#78. You're at the top of the world - you're the most powerful thing on the sea when you're serving under her - but there's a cost. There's always a cost.

Emily Skrutskie

#79. How does it happen that the most intractable types always rise to the top?

Jack McDevitt

#80. My life is very exciting now. Nostalgia for what? It's like climbing a staircase. I'm on the top of the staircase, I look behind and see the steps. That's where I was. We're here right now. Tomorrow, we'll be someplace else. So why nostalgia?

Jeanne Moreau

#81. It is the woman who sheaths her claws and waits for the perfect opportunity who ends up with the cream from the top of the pail.

Vivienne Lorret

#82. Choose your 'friends' wisely, There are some who would push you to the top, and then there are others who would keep pushing you on over the Cliff.

Andrea L'Artiste

#83. My eyes were still closed when Damian grabbed my left hand, forced it palm-down on the cutting board and WHAM! He severed the tip of my pinky finger off, sliced the top third - nail, bone and all - clean off,

Leylah Attar

#84. Total fucking perfect beauty. After a second orgasm brought her shuddering underneath my tongue, she pressed a hand to the top of my head. I knew what that meant. She was ready for some cock.

Anonymous

#85. I'm much closer to the people at the bottom than the people at the top, and the latter won't forgive me for it.

Princess Diana

#86. It is most important that top management be quality-minded. In the absence of sincere manifestation of interest at the top, little will happen below.

Joseph M. Juran

#87. It (her wedding dress) was the kind of dress that both Scarlett O'Hara and Princess Diana would have deemed 'over the top'.

Jenny Lawson

#88. There may be a certain amount of pleasurable excitement in running up to the top of a hillock in the hope of seeing your ball near the flag, but this kind of thing one gets tired of as one grows older.

Alister MacKenzie

#89. He broke me down past the flesh, past the muscle, past the bone, down to my soul and in a loud provocation, he asked, "What are you made of?"
After I gathered the broken bits and pieces of my life together, I shouted at the top of my lungs, "HOPE! Unbreakable, undeniable, irrevocable hope!

Jay Grewal

#90. When you are at the top then is only one way to go and thats Down

Irshad Kaukab

#91. Life wasn't about freeing up human souls. It was about creating obedient slaves in the hierarchical construction of the society - with God at the top, then the king and then the father.

Ingmar Bergman

#92. Bond's introduction: "Bond. James Bond." Repeated in 17 subsequent Bond films. Number One in the Top Ten Most Famous Movie Quotes. -The Guinness Book of Film

Sean Connery

#93. Of the things I know to be true in life, right at the top of the list of irrefutable truths is, "No one ever listens to anyone." It might even be No. 1.

Merrill Markoe

#94. For every mountain there is another one. The big question is if you reach the top of the mountain, what then? What do you do then? I suppose you die.

Frank Lowy

#95. I don't know how I got over the hill without getting to the top.

Will Rogers

#96. If you look at anyone at the top of their profession, there has to be something a little bit different. Some of the top musicians are quirky aren't they, to say the least. You have to be driven, cold, hard and mentally tough as iron. My missus thinks I'm a bit weird.

Michael Owen

#97. The only time you start at the top is when you're digging a hole.

Sam Chand

#98. No man can run up the natural line of Evolution without coming to Christianity at the top.

William Henry Drummond

#99. In New York, after that famous home run, they expected me to be up there every year. That homer raised me to a high level, with the top guys in the game.

Bobby Thomson

#100. Violent revolutions usually only mean a change of personnel at the top.

Petra Kelly