Top Quotes

Never look for the story in the 'lede.' Reporters are required to put what's happened up top, but the practiced pundit places a nugget of news, even a startling insight, halfway down the column, directed at the politiscenti. When pressed for time, the savvy reader starts there.

Every film you work on is different, and that's part of what it's like for anybody who works on a film, is to learn how to work with others. Learn from top to bottom. Actors have to learn how to work with the director and the director has to learn how to work with actors, and that's not just those two departments.

My saddlebags are why Spanx exist! Now that I have a baby I also have a muffin top.

I'm a big rock star, I got a beautiful girl, and they still call me a fag. Its' like high school never ends - the jocks are always on top.

People say you should go out at the top but I was enjoying my football so much. Robbie Fowler's exactly the same: he's not playing for money any more, he's playing for enjoyment. Why go out at the top if it's going to make you miserable? I just wanted to play as long as I could.

Certain things should be yours to have when you work your way to the top.

There's no reason the Rangers can't get to the top.

Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of shape from toe to top.

You've got no chance of reaching the top if you're just playing for money.

Tennis has to become everything to you if you're going to make it to the top. You have to live it.

Some people need to stay at the top. They are afraid to re-start from zero because they fear the critics.

I've always wanted a C trumpet on top, to have that same kind of facility without shouting.

I always wanted to be a musician from when I was kid. It was always a massive dream of mine. School was also really really important to me and having an education was top of my priority. So I really wanted to have a degree before I tried anything in the music industry.

Positive, adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice.

I was a stock broker once. I think there is an absolute place for market investments. But they should never be the basis of one's retirement. They should be an additional piece on top of a basic, secure, guaranteed retirement benefit.

Study the public behavior of top stars and you can detect a keen attentiveness to brand value.

That strategy of racing for the top five and racing for the win is where everybody wants to be.

I was terrified. My first week, walking around in a teeny bikini, I kept crossing my arms over my chest because I was afraid I was going to fall out of the top of the suit. And I didn't know anything about technique or lighting.

I cut the feet out of my control top pantyhose to wear under these white pants and that was the ah-ha moment that started Spanx. My own butt was my own inspiration!

Also at the top of the list was my three day appearance on 'Press Your Luck'. In addition to the intense competition of each of those games, it slowly started to dawn on me in the minutes between tapings that I was winning some serious money.

Creating a top team and being in a position to win the Tour de France will give me a nice feeling. But I know it is not easy to create a top team from zero. You need good riders, good staff, a lot of preparation and, most important, a lot of sponsors.

The cliche is that life is a mountain. You go up, reach the top and then go down.

I lost more then 6 kilograms when I ceased with the top sport. That were all muscles. They are now gone.

We don't suggest that because San Francisco lies on top of an earthquake fault that it should be moved.

In St. Louis, some people were hurt seriously when some fans got on top of a roof that was where other fans were underneath it, at a park somewhere, and it collapsed.

I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.

I love the percussion. It's a right brain, left brain thing. There are different beats, but cooperating together. It's your whole body doing it, you're doing the snare drum and the high top with your hands and the bass drum with your foot. You're this whole motion machine.

Driving at high speed where safe and legal is part of my life. As well as a higher top speed I wanted even better stability in my FX and that meant work on the aerodynamics.

Most of the hits I take come on top of the shoulder pads.

I've always been somewhere down from the top, so I've never had to suffer being knocked off the top.