Bottom Quotes - Page 2

• All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into that vacancy of oblivion I call my mind.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Life, Mind, Vacancy

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• Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Media, Bird, Cages

  "The Amazing Success Story of ‘Spiri Who?’" by Arthur Schlesinger Jr., www.nytimes.com. July 26, 1970.

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• The economy is not governed with the bottom half in mind.

  William Greider

  Mind, Half, Economy

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• At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

  Booker T. Washington

  Education, Race, Independence

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• Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.

  Aldous Huxley

  Writing, Individuality, Literature

  "Stories, Essays, & Poems".

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• I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it.

  Bryan Adams

  Adversity, Rude, Police

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I utter this word with deepest affection and from the very bottom of my heart.

  Giuseppe Garibaldi

  Heart, Affection, My Heart

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• When you're average, you're just as close to the bottom as you are the top.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Average

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• I need someone physically stronger than me.... I am always on top. It's really unfortunate. I am begging for the man that can put me on the bottom. Or the woman. Anybody that can take me down.

  Angelina Jolie

  Men, Stronger, Needs

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• What a man is ashamed of is always at bottom himself; and he is ashamed of himself at bottom always for being afraid.

  Robin G. Collingwood

  Men, Shame, Being Afraid

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• We're first on executions. We're 49th in funding public education. We're in a race with Mississippi for the bottom, and we're winning.

  Kinky Friedman

  Winning, Race, Firsts

  "Kinky Friedman Talks with Bill O'Reilly About Why He Wants to be Governor of Texas". The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. March 14, 2005.

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• I'd come from the bottom of the barrel. Just Owen Hart getting out of the shadow of Bret Hart's little brother. Everyone figured, this is a joke, Owen's going to get squashed.

  Owen Hart

  Brother, Squash, Bottom Of The Barrel

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• The real literary editors have mostly been fired. Those that remain are all 'bottom line' editors; everything depends on the money.

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  Real, Editors, Lines

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• Jesus picked up twelve men from the bottom ranks of business and forged them into an organisation that conquered the world.

  Bruce Barton

  Jesus, Business, Men

  Bruce Barton (2000). “The Man Nobody Knows: A Discovery of the Real Jesus”, Ivan R Dee

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• I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top.

  Frank Moore Colby

  Integrity, Men, Ethics

  Frank Moore Colby (1926). “Tailor blood and other notes and comments”

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• When you're on the road, you have to be louder and you have to communicate. That's really the bottom line.

  Vinny Testaverde

  Talking, Lines, American Football

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• To hit bottom is to fall from grace.

  Douglas Horton

  Fall, Grace, Falls From Grace

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• 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

  Technology, Class, Massachusetts

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• Very good coaches for ski jumpers stand at the top of the slope and watch the jumpers prepare, rather than standing at the bottom and watching them land.

  Roland Joffe

  Land, Watches, Good Coaches

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• The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Inspirational, Eye, Leader

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• Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Leadership, Eye, Horizon

  Warren G. Bennis (1997). “Managing People is Like Herding Cats”, Executive Excellence Pub

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• At age 10 or 12 he's going to boarding school in the Isle of Wight. The Isle of Wight is, of course, down at the bottom of England just off South Hampton.

  Jeremy Irons

  School, Age, England

  "Oscar, Tony, and Emmy Award-Winning Actor". Academy of Achievemnt Interview, www.achievement.org. October 27, 2000.

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• There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies?

  Richard Dawkins

  Respect, Atheist, Learning

  Speech at the Edinburgh International Science Festival, April 15, 1992.

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• Every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.

  John Buchan

  Believe, Heart, Men

  John Buchan (2016). “SIR EDWARD LEITHEN Complete Collection – 6 Titles in One Premium Edition (Mystery & Thriller Series): The Power-House, John Macnab, The Dancing Floor, The Gap in the Curtain, Sick Heart River & Sing a Song of Sixpence”, p.17, e-artnow

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• He said 'I'm going to chop off the bottom of one of your trouser legs and put it in a library. I thought, "That's a turn-up for the books".

  Tommy Cooper

  Funny, Book, Humor

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