Top Quotes

Bach was a top harmonist geezer, which is why the jazz cats love him.

I think that the best training a top manager can be engaged in is management by example.

My dad said if you become a tennis professional just make sure you get into the top hundred, because you have to make a little bit of money. You make a living so you can pay your coaching and, you know, your travels.

Martin Luther King took us to the mountain top: I want to take us to the bank.

Value will always be on top of everyone's lists now, right along with safety.

I would like my album to be on the pop side with a little bit of soul. I would like to make music that is on the top of the charts right now.

No company can afford not to move forward. It may be at the top of the heap today but at the bottom of the heap tomorrow, if it doesn't.

What I look for in a script is something that challenges me, something that breaks new ground, something that allows me to flex my director muscle. You have got to think fast in this business, you've got to keep reinventing yourself to stay on top.

There is no top. There are always further heights to reach.

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

You can't imagine how much detail we know about brains. There were 28,000 people who went to the neuroscience conference this year, and every one of them is doing research in brains. A lot of data. But there's no theory. There's a little, wimpy box on top there.

I don't feel that rap has been respected as an art form. Because people have seen rappers rap off the top of their heads, they don't think it is difficult.

You can't very well live in a castle while your kin is on the poor side of town and barely have enough food. Some want you to get to the top and rely on you making it for them, too.

There is no spray can called 'Instant Stardom,' only talent can keep you at the top.

A relationship isn't going to make me survive. It's the cherry on top.

Ulysses could have done with a good editor. You know people are always putting Ulysses in the top 10 books ever written but I doubt that any of those people were really moved by it.

And on top of that, when we work together we have a wonderful working relationship we push each other we challenge each other we laugh 80% of the time that we are together we're very fortunate.

You start way down on a low B flat on the tuba and you have a chromatic scale; you can match the colours all the way up, till you get to the top of the trumpet.

It is much harder to retain your position at the top than to get to the top.

I've been screaming at the top of my lungs at my family, 'Work out! Work out! Old age is coming!'

Right now, my career is in three directions: as a performer, as an arranger, as an author - and I don't give any one of them true precedent, or true top marks, as opposed to the other two.

Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

I do think there is room at the very top for marginal tax changes.

My first taste memory is pickle. Even as a kid, I was really weird. I liked chillis. I used to climb up the shelves in my grandmother's pantry. The pickle jar was kept right at the top. One time, I dropped the jar and it broke. I was totally busted.

The top players talk more now, and we have more meetings. We're just trying to get things better. But we still need somebody who could make a difference.

In New York there isn't that weird palpable competitive thing where it's friendly but everyone isn't trying to top one another with jokes when you're just hanging around.

In 1969, when I graduated from Harvard Law School, women and minorities made up a tiny fraction of the first year associates accepted by top law firms.

My mom is always telling me it takes a long time to get to the top, but a short time to get to the bottom.

I had no experience with broadcasting basketball games, so I took a tape recorder and went to a playground where there was a summer league, and I stood up in the top of the stands and I called the game.

The great thing about rock-n-roll is you realize the top of the mountain is big enough for more than one band.