The Bottom Quotes

The bottom has fallen out of America's wage floor. And the erosion of the minimum wage has lowered pay and working standards for all of us.

In the spiritual life, you must take one step forward each day in a vertical line, from the bottom up.

Change in the societies at the very bottom must come predominantly from within; we cannot impose it on them.

What Mach calls a thought experiment is of course not an experiment at all. At bottom it is a grammatical investigation.

Lovers of literature will look for the remains of the golden treasure in that shipwreck on the bottom of the sea of criticism.

You might drop your heart into me and you'd never hear it touch bottom.

I'm from the bottom, I understand what it's like to have and to not have. My perception on giving is to put yourself in those people's shoes and go from there. So that's what I did.

Sailing is just the bottom line, like adding up the score in bridge. My real interest is in the tremendous game of life.

The bottom line is that these athletes tend to be safer investments because they really value their marketing opportunities. They don't make as much money as during their active careers.

Is there no pity sitting in the clouds, That sees into the bottom of my grief?

When my shoes are killing me, I take a maxi pad and put it in the bottom of my shoe. It is better than any Dr. Scholl's insert. That fashion tip has saved me through some long nights.

There's no way we can get to the bottom of Benghazi without David Petraeus.

I exercise daily to keep my figure. I keep patting my hand against the bottom of my chin. It works too. I have the thinnest fingers in town.

The work to me is everything, and I would throw every rule overboard and send them to the bottom of the sea tomorrow, if I felt there were a more excellent way.

We have no Arab intellectuals of international stature because we live in a state of generalized mediocrity. We are suspended in the pit without touching the bottom.

No reform ever came from the bottom, and it was always people who understood how the ruling class worked who turned out to be the reformers.

I want [my daughter] to look at the world through the underside of a glass-bottom boat, to look through a microscope at the galaxies that exist on the pinpoint of a human mind.

We who live in free market societies believe that growth, prosperity and ultimately human fulfillment, are created from the bottom up, not the government down.

You've got the top 400 Americans owning more wealth than the bottom 150 million Americans. Most folks do not think that is right.

I also am not particularly risk-averse - I don't mind jumping off a cliff if I trust the people who've told me they'll catch me at the bottom.

I always look in the Sunday paper to see where Everton are in the league - starting, of course, from the bottom up.

All this new stuff goes on top turn it over, turn it over wait and water down from the dark bottom turn it inside out let it spread through Sift down even. Watch it sprout. A mind like compost.

If our culture is to be transformed, it will happen from the bottom up - from ordinary believers practicing apologetics over the backyard fence or around the barbecue grill.

The bottom of the soul may be in repose, even while we are in many outward troubles; just as the bottom of the sea is calm, while the surface is strongly agitated.

Dude, the place is filling up," I say. "It feels like we're living in the bottom half of an hourglass." Like somehow we're running out of time.

The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.

I am a very bottom-up thinker.

Nature . . . has buried truth deep in the bottom of the sea.

The bottom line is that Dennis Brown is alive and well, and he's got two lungs and they're kicking and I'm still spitting out them notes.

I have made the tough decisions, always with an eye toward the bottom line. Perhaps it's time America was run like a business.

Religion is, as it were, the calm bottom of the sea at its deepest point, which remains calm however high the waves on the surface may be.

It would be against all nature for all the Negroes to be either at the bottom, top, or in between. We will go where the internal drive carries us like everybody else. It is up to the individual.

Most people are robust. If a man puts his hand on a woman’s bottom, any woman worth her salt can deal with it. It is communication. Can’t we be friendly?

All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery.

With bass, especially bottom end, the vibration has to happen on stage otherwise the feel is wrong. This is why you can't scale the equipment down too far.

I think the bottom of the barrel is where the answers are.

The Very Big Stupid is a thing which breeds by eating The Future. Have you seen it? It sometimes disguises itself as a good-looking quarterly bottom line, derived by closing the R&D department.

Nature has concealed at the bottom of our minds talents and abilities of which we are not aware.

If Roman Abramovich helped me out in training we would be bottom of the league and if I had to work in his world of big business, we would be bankrupt!

The bottom line is that people are seeking answers and direction, not messages or sales pitches.

Studying consciousness tells us more about how the world is fundamentally strange. I think we have a few revolutions to go yet before we get to the bottom of it.

What do you call 500 lawyers lying on the bottom of the Ocean? A good start.

As soon as you move one step up from the bottom, your effectiveness depends on your ability to reach others through the spoken and written word.

So, all of us would do well to stop fighting each other for our space at the bottom, because there ain't no more room.

I'm very pleased when the smartest people come [to the U.S.] and almost never pleased when the very bottom of the mental barrel comes in.

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.

There are MAYBE 30 years worth of ideas out there... watch for the feature version of ER in about 25 years... Hollywood has become hopelessly chained to the bottom line.

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

Greed is at the bottom of most of the wrong-doing with which government has to deal.

If all my friends jumped off a bridge, I wouldn't jump with them. I'd be at the bottom, hoping to catch them.