Bottom Quotes

Why does the New Italian navy have glass bottom boats? To see the Old Italian Navy!

There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.

I was born upon thy bank, river, My blood flows in thy stream, And thou meanderest forever, At the bottom of my dream.

At the bottom of every leaf-stem is a cradle, and in it is an infant germ; the winds will rock it, the birds will sing to it all summer long, but the next season it will unfold and go alone.

Man is at the bottom an animal, midway a citizen, and at the top divine. But the climate of this world is such that few ripen at the top.

A Christianity which will not help those who are struggling from the bottom to the top of society, needs another Christ to die for it.

Do not go to the bottom of things, or you will go to the bottom yourself.

Wise were the kings who never chose a friend till with full cups they had unmasked his soul, and seen the bottom of his deepest thoughts.

No matter how you have searched, there will always be one teaspoon left at the bottom of the washing-up water.

In every other science fiction series, humans are at the top of the food chain. In the 'Babylon 5' universe, they're in the bottom third.

Write what you want bottomless from bottom of the mind.

I'm not interested in the ego trip of creating or not creating. I'm interested in selling a magazine. Rock-bottom, I sell magazines. I'm a thorough professional who does his job.

Failing to differentiate among employees — and holding on to bottom-tier performers — is actually the cruelest form of management there is.

The bottom line is that it's better to run a workforce on security than insecurity.

As the monkey climbs the tree, more people can see his bottom.

Too much of our political debate...has become a race to the bottom. An exchange of insults and slanders more appropriate to reality television than a legislature.

You might be a redneck if you have to check in the bottom of your shoe for change so you can get Grandma a new plug of tobacco.

It couldn't pull a greased stick out of a pig's bottom

We measured our success not just by how much money we made, but by how much we contributed to the community. It was a two-part bottom line.

The wealth of a society isn't measured at the top, but at the bottom

I would have had a clause in my contract; I would've definitely put some fine print in my contract that said, "If the president leaves, I'm leaving." That'd be the bottom line.

Every fat (vat) must stand upon its bottom.

The advertiser's logotype at the bottom of the ad can be considered as part of the headline. After reading the headline, the reader instinctively looks down at the logotype to see the company name.

Though with those streams he no resemblance hold, Whose foam is amber and their gravel gold; His genuine and less guilty wealth t' explore, Search not his bottom, but survey his shore.

Corporations today, by their razor sharp focus on the 'bottom line' and quarterly earnings, have lost their ability to innovate.

The tide of visitors will float slowly about the bottom of the valley as harmless scum collecting in hotel and saloon eddies, leaving the rocks and falls eloquent as ever.

I've never got to the bottom of streaking

Faith is almost the bottom line of creativity; it requires a leap of faith any time we undertake a creative endeavor, whether this is going to the easel, or the page, or onto the stage.

There's scarce a case comes on but you shall find A woman's at the bottom. [Lat., Nulla fere causa est in qua non femina litem moverit.]

Bottom Line: It's better to give before you receive. And never keep score. If your interactions are ruled by generosity, your rewards will follow suit.

Each time you decide to grow again, you realize you're starting at the bottom of another ladder.

Managing bottom-up change is its own art.

The cocktail party - as the name itself indicates - was originally invented by dogs. They are simply bottom-sniffings raised to the rank of formal ceremonies.

Somehow we are going to have to develop a concept of enough for those at the top and at the bottom so that the necessities of the many are not sacrificed for the luxuries of the few.

The bottom line in love is not whether someone loves you, but whether someone chooses you.

We need to change society's ordering principle from economic to humanitarian values, from money as the bottom line to love as the bottom line.

I don't think making love the new bottom line is naïve; I believe that thinking we can survive the next hundred years doing anything less, is naïve.

The biggest problem is our lack of "response-ability." That’s what happens when money rather than love is the bottom line. People act like idiots.

We need more than new policies. We need a new worldview, and a new bottom line. We need to replace economic values as our ordering principle, with humanitarian values as our ordering principle.

It is sometimes best to slip over thoughts and not go to the bottom of them.

My faith in man is, at bottom, a faith in God.

If we agree that the bottom line of life is happiness, not success, then it makes perfect sense to say that it is the journey that counts, not reaching the destination.

Pulling yourself up again is the most important part of your life. Getting out of the bottom that you put everything into - yourself!

You always have the memory of the bottom, and fear of the bottom. And when you start going to the bottom you panic.

Childhood memories are sometimes covered and obscured beneath the things that come later, like childhood toys forgotten at the bottom of a crammed adult closet, but they are never lost for good.

I paint very directly. I go from top to bottom. When I get to the floor, the painting is finished.

Because publishing is becoming more business-oriented each day with more examination of the bottom line, it's harder to break out than ever.

Musicians are at the bottom of the creative pyramid and authors are at the top, and many people think it's unacceptable for someone to attempt to jump from the bottom to the top of the pyramid.

I'd like to thank the press from the heart of my bottom.

For the first few years we lived in a tiny rented cottage at the bottom of a friend's garden. We often joked that there was plenty of film in the fridge, but not too much food!