Top Quotes

There are so many things to take into account - your ambition, your ego, the press, the consumers. You can never be sure that you'll be on top of the pile again.

Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.

Living here in southern California, I'll miss hearing Rocky Top for an entire week at the end of December. I was actually looking forward to it. Tennessee has a better fight song than Nebraska.

When you're on top and you lead the parade, everyone's there throwing lilies and lilac water on your head. But when those parades have gone by and there's a storm in your heart, there are very few people that are going to sit there and listen to you bemoan life.

The outstanding people realized that the job involved more than just writing a good strategic plan. It was also important that top management should understand the plan and be prepared to adopt it.

My mother and I, our favorite part of any baked pasta is the top, where the cheese gets crusty.

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.

And you cannot have a socialist revolution commandeered from the top, ordered around by some omniscient leader or group of leaders.

Education, in K-12, technical college and universities needs to be a top priority in Wisconsin.

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

I gotta tell you, right at the top of my list would be taking vitamins. I know that over the years doctors have said they're ridiculous and all that. But I started taking my vitamins at an early age. And I take them every day. Every bloody day! So I think that's number one. For whatever reason, I feel active and pretty good at my age.

I love classic rock, rock and roll, that's the top notch. I love soul - bluesy music as well.

I feel like we're a very good top-10 car, but we really have to work hard and find a unique way to get these top fives.

I feel like I have to top myself every film I do, and it gets hard.

People hate cardio. I hate cardio. But pick the five top songs that you love. Do your cardio during these songs, and you're done. I'd say 95 percent of the time you don't even know you just did it.

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.

When you get to the top, stay there and make sure other women join you.

I've just gone through so much in my life that pulling my top up just doesn't seem like that big a deal.

I believe in an America in which the fruits of productivity and prosperity are shared by all, by workers as well as owners, by those at the bottom as well as those at the top; an America in which the sacrifices required by national security are shared by all, by profiteers in the back offices as well as volunteers on the front lines.

Of course it's difficult to top a box office success like Emmanuelle, so it will always be my most important work. But that's nothing to be ashamed of.

The American people are screaming at the top of their lungs to Washington, 'Stop! Stop the spending, stop the job-killing policies.' And yet, Democrats in Washington refuse to listen to the American people.

I think about what I say. I don't give stock answers. I'm not trying to cultivate an image with the public, like several of the top players do.

Is bankrupting this great country the top priority of this administration?

So I'll set a cycle in motion and pop it into record and I'll lay down a drum pattern, a bass line, a keyboard and guitar part, and once the groove is going I launch into the song and sing my song over the top.

I blame my mother for my poor sex life. All she told me was 'the man goes on top and the woman underneath.' For three years my husband and I slept in bunk beds.

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

The only way to ensure a film is going to sell is put Will Smith in it and you open it in 3,000 theaters and make sure we have all the top promotional spots in each venue.

Mountain hikes instilled in me a life-long urge to get to the top of any inviting summit or peak.

Systematically identity top designers as early as possible. The best are often not the most experienced.

I have a box of evidence that's going to a certain person should anything happen to me, so if you top me off, it's still going to that person, and the truth will come out.