Top Ten Quotes

#1. I was wildly out of style when that television theme song suddenly pushed its way onto the Top Ten. It was certainly not the record company trying to make that happen.

John Sebastian

#2. 85% of modern music doesn't have a damn thing to do with music. It has to do with looking good. Name me one woman on the top ten right now who isn't absolutely smoking hot. You think that's a coincidence?

Patrick Rothfuss

#3. Was this the stupidest thing I had ever done? Maybe, maybe not. Top ten, at least.

Dennis Liggio

#4. The harder road. Because she was a woman? Because she was short? Because her law school ranked top-ten but not top-five? "Hey.

Tara Conklin

#5. He was the organised traveller type. The type that has to know the top ten tourist spots in a country and the five best ways to get to them.

S.A. Tawks

#6. With four of the top ten most violent cities in America, Michigan will never fully flourish unless our governments can fulfill their basic task: protecting public safety.

Bill Schuette

#7. Bonnaroo has kind of become the granddaddy of all American festivals. The thing I love about it most is that it wasn't born out of picking the top ten bands off the Billboard chart and creating a festival around it.

Michael Franti

#8. If any of our songs ever did make it on the top ten, I'd disband the group immediately.

Robert Smith

#9. Piper had a new entry in her top-ten list of Times Piper Felt Useless.
Fighting Shrimpzilla with a dagger and a pretty voice? Not so effective.

Rick Riordan

#10. The Top Ten Things Every Girl Should Have the First Time
5. A guy who realizes it's a big deal for you, this time.
6. A guy who understands that it's a big deal every time.
7. A guy who tries to make it special. Every time.

Melissa Jensen

#11. 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.

Thomas Sowell

#12. There are plenty of bands who never get in the charts and it doesn't mean that they're not any good. Actually, a lot of the top ten is filled with stuff that just sounds the same. I could guess what's in there now - probably a bit of GaGa, Beyonce and some U.S. R&B males.

Ellie Goulding

#13. My Top Ten Reasons To Live
10. Stars in a really dark sky
9. Driving across the country
8. Nirvana
7. My mom
6. Our dog pack
5. Gay bingo
4. Mud fights
3. Kissing
2. Magic marker tattoos
1. Pink socks

Albert Borris

#14. The FBI's top-ten most-wanted list. Number

James Patterson

#15. We're not like pop musicians who have to perform the same top ten tunes every night of a tour.

Oscar Peterson

#16. This novel has it all
mystery, psychological insight, emotional truth, and
most important
characters whose lives matter. You'll fall in love with these families. Solti writes with such passion it is inescapable, lyrical, and profoundly moving. The Forgetting Tree goes on my top ten list.

Jonis Agee

#17. the top ten causes of death around the world can either be caused or exacerbated by stress.

Wallace J. Nichols

#18. Will resist. Thus, unlike Frank Shorter or Alberto Salazar, Rodgers was never ranked among the top ten in the 5000 meters or

Cameron Stracher

#19. 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

#20. Jenson Button is in the top ten, in eleventh position.

Murray Walker

#21. It would be unthinkable to have a top-ten list of multiple narrative novels that doesn't include David Mitchell. 'Cloud Atlas' is the most obvious choice, but I have opted for Mitchell's slightly lesser known debut, 'Ghostwritten.'

Susan Barker

#22. I hate the industry even more now, no bands get nurtured anymore. Labels only spend money promoting acts they know will be Top Ten. I find it offensive spending $2 million on a video.

Siouxsie Sioux

#23. In a mass-media world, there's less of everything except the top ten books, records, movies, ideas. People worry about losing species diversity in the rain forest. But what about intellectual diversity - our most necessary resource? That's disappearing faster than trees.

Michael Crichton

#24. Make a list of your food-centric passions, as well as the types of posts - reviews, top-ten lists, and interviews are

Kelly Senyei

#25. If you look at the top ten most reliable cars, as reported by thousands of people in all kinds of independent testing, there's only one American car in the top ten. It's the Buick.

Howard Fineman

#26. Top Ten lists make me insane. I just know they're going to change daily.

Bill Hader

#27. I want Wipro to be among the top ten IT companies in the world.

Azim Premji

#28. It's been amazing to watch, because for 'Thor', which was always a mid-selling book, to be in the top ten for every single issue since the reboot is just a great compliment.

J. Michael Straczynski

#29. A group photo of the top ten journalists in America on any given day would be a monument to human ugliness.

Hunter S. Thompson

#30. Eight of the nation's top ten soft drinks are caffeinated.

Murray Carpenter

#31. The end of my addiction to fame happened at the exact moment 'Roseanne' dropped out of the top ten, in the seventh of our nine seasons. It was mysteriously instantaneous!

Roseanne Barr

#32. Resolve to pay any price or make any sacrifice to get into the top ten percent of your field. That payoff is incredible!

Brian Tracy

#33. Dance with the sufis, celebrate your top ten in the charts of pain.

Tori Amos

#34. And yes, she had a laminated list of her top ten sexiest men who she apparently would always be allowed to sleep with even if she was married.

Natasha Boyd

#35. Edward: It wasn't the worst night of my life.
Jake: Did it make the top ten?
Edward: Possibly. But, if I had been able to take your place last night, it would not have made the top ten of the best nights of my life. Dream about that.

Stephenie Meyer

#36. I was in the top ten percent of my law school class. I am a Doctor of Juris Prudence. I have an honorary Doctor of Laws. So, would somebody please tell me why I spent four mortal hours today conversing with a person named Dizzy Dean.

Branch Rickey

#37. I thought about being a teacher for three thousand years. It wouldn't have made my Top Ten Things to Wish For list.

Rick Riordan

#38. Well, (Michael) Jordan was definitely one of the kings of the game. There's no question that he was one of the more dominant figures. If you look at the top ten players of all time, he was certainly one of the most dominant guys.

Dominique Wilkins

#39. Call me close-minded, but hearing my girlfriend talk like a five-thousand-year-old male god was not on my top ten list of Things I Find Attractive.

Rick Riordan

#40. My second husband believed I had such a fickle attitude to friendship that each Friday he would update the list of my 'Top Ten' friends in the manner of a Top Of The Pops chart countdown.

Julie Burchill

#41. A day can start out ordinary and end up being in the top ten. - Joe Bunch

James Howe

#42. You know those lists that get put together? 'Top Ten Companies to Work For' and that kinda thing? Yeah, you are so not helping this be one of those places.

Lauren Gilley

#43. For a few years when I was at Cleveland Clinic, it was on the top ten U.S. News list for geriatric medicine even though we didn't even have a geriatrics department! This

Eric J. Topol

#44. In one survey, respondents listed Princeton as one of the country's top ten law schools. The problem? Princeton doesn't have a law school

Alexandra Robbins

#45. Now I'm 'Blake Lewis' to the world, but I will always still be Bshorty from Bothell ... I've never looked at it like a competition so I think I've won regardless. I won when I got to the top ten; I've already reached my goal.

Blake Lewis

#46. Being asked out by a Shadowhunter had been among the top ten strangest and most unexpected things that had ever happened to Magnus, and Magnus had always endeavored to live a very unexpected life.

Cassandra Clare

#47. When the history of guilt is written, parents who refuse their children money will be right up there in the Top Ten.

Erma Bombeck

#48. Among the top ten things I've learned in life: when your hair stylist is having a bad day, reschedule.

P.M. Terrell

#49. Lesson learned? Don't have sex on the top bunk in a dorm room. It doesn't matter if the girl weighs a buck-oh-five and you know you plan on only lasting for ten minutes tops. Those bunk beds are made out of sticks.

Monica Murphy

#50. We've ceased making progress at the top in any industry anywhere in the world . In the United States, women have had 14% of the top corporate jobs and 17% of the board seats for 10 years. Ten years of no progress.

Sheryl Sandberg

#51. When a man's in love, he at once makes a pedestal of the Ten Commandments and stands on the top of them with his arms akimbo. When a woman's in love she doesn't care two straws for Thou Shalt and Thou Shalt Not.

W. Somerset Maugham

#52. It would be impossible for me to give you a list of the top 10 songs that shake my life. Far more music went in to it than just ten.

Seymour Stein

#53. Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.

Barbra Streisand

#54. There are ten commandments, right? Well, it's like an exam. You get eight out of ten, you're just about top of the class.

Mordecai Richler

#55. Only Heaven will reveal the top part of God's tapestry

Corrie Ten Boom

#56. I had a .200 lifetime batting average in the major leagues, which tied me with another sports great averaging 200 or better for a ten-year period: Don Carter, one of our top bowlers.

Bob Uecker

#57. I'm not driven to get back into politics. It's not on my top five things to do before I die, but saying that, I may be in politics in the next year or the next ten years. I've been on the front line for 12 years, four in state government, eight on the national level.

J. C. Watts

#58. There, gleaming in the glow, was that ten-horsepower rotary engine under a seat. A key glistening in the ignition. I imagine the top speed for that old mower was five miles per hour. It might have taken an hour and a half or more for me to get to the liquor store, but get there I did.

George Jones

#59. They were probably fifty feet away from each other. How far is fifty feet? To the top of the tallest tree? From one lip of a volcano to the other? As far as a man can go in ten seconds, striding briskly? As far as a man can go in five seconds, falling over himself in enthusiasm?

Lydia Netzer

#60. In exchange for ten years of being on top, I'm gonna end up in prison or I'm gonna end up dead, and there's something fascinating about that.

Brian Helgeland

#61. Screw-top wine has improved the quality of life by about ten percent, wouldn't you say?

Martin Amis

#62. Ucho w liczbach: A youthful ear can hear ten octaves of sound, spanning a range from about thirty to twelve tousand vibrations a second. The avarege ear can distinguish sounds a seventeenth of a tone apart. From top to bottom we hear about fourtheen tousend discriminable tones.

Oliver Sacks

#63. In a girl I look for honesty above all, someone who I can carry on a conversation with, someone who has a good sense of humor, someone who's true to herself, and to top it, someone who can get ready for a date in less than ten minutes.

Erik Von Detten

#64. We are not really privy to all that crazy stuff that goes on in the show. I go to work, eat, and talk about food. The wild things happen when we aren't around. I expected Top Chef to last three or four seasons and we are now shooting season ten.

Tom Colicchio

#65. Vodka. Top shelf." He slaps his hand on the bar top like he's been waiting ten hours to be served.

Ruby Dixon

#66. Most of the top actors and actresses may be working in ten or twelve films at the same time, so they will give one director two hours and maybe shoot in Bombay in the morning and Madras in the evening. It happens.

Satyajit Ray