The Top Quotes

They say it's lonely at the top. It must be even lonelier at the tippy top.

The Macintosh may only have 10% of the market, but it is clearly the top 10%.

Writing a novel in general is like trying to reach a mountain top you'll never quite reach - so you try again and maybe get a little closer.

Most of the things are either not communicable through human expression or they're top secret. Also I'm working on being a better person, and becoming more disciplined.

Goodness cannot be imposed externally, from the top down; it must grow internally, from the bottom up.

I used to be terribly shy, so I was either shy or over the top, and I always had a difficult time.

I actually don't miss modeling and I think the reason why is because of America's Next Top Model.

Sometimes I feel like I'm on top of the world, and other mornings I feel like crap.

Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.

The way the Democrats go about seeking equality is to lower people at the top.

An embellished top with slim pants is great, even for a wedding.

Really top-notch directors, I've often worked with them just to see how they work.

If I'm serious about patients and their GPs being able to have more control of their health care, I can't have a top-down system that imposes restrictions on the services they need.

We can't afford more top-down economics. What we need are policies that will grow and strengthen the middle class.

So we don't need more top-down economics. We've tried that theory. We've seen what happens. We can't afford to go back to it.

I was elected because I believed in what we call "grassroots politics," politics from the bottom up, not the top down.

I don't expect to get 100 percent of what I want, but what we can't do is go back to the kind of top-down economics that doesn't work.

As a healthy person, my breakfasts are very bland and boring. Think kind of a white pasty gruel. Or there can be an occasional banana over the top.

I am a little crazy but when I'm on-stage, then I really get to play it up and perform and be over the top and it's like an outlet. It's fun to 'wild' out.

I was a professional tennis player in my teens. I played mostly in Europe. I was top 10 in the world in juniors, and then I messed up my back. I had three herniated discs and that put a stop to it.

The difference between the top performers and the average or mediocre performers is not a great, massive difference. It is just a tiny difference because the top performers do things just a tiny bit.

I like everything loud, over the top, dramatic.

I am genuinely not an over-the-top kind of person about politics or anything else.

Let's not forget, Sarah Palin may not have a golden touch, but she gave Christine O'Donnell candidate a big touch that got her over the top.

Through everything I've gone through- and I've been everywhere, at the top of the world, in jail, hung over drunk - I never gave up my dream of winning a gold medal in the Olympics.

When I first hit the scene, it was just a lot of go, go, go, go, go. I have a lot of natural energy anyway, but it was over the top.

Would you not like to be, sittin' on top of the world with your legs hanging free?

Military inclusion has never been a central demand from trans populations, who consistently name criminalization, immigration enforcement, poverty and joblessness as top priorities.

I like to keep things classic, not lavish or blinged out. I don't even say that word. The last thing I want to be is over the top.

I'm planning to be the youngest contestant in the Top 32, and I'm planning to be the youngest person in the Top 10.

... the top 10 percent of incomes pay 70 percent of the income taxes and cast about 25 percent of the vote.

Raising wages is one of my top priorities.

[Ryan Reynolds] is my favorite [ on Top Gear] - I think he's the most hilarious actor who just has not been able to catch a break in terms of being known as the most hilarious actor.

People increase their use of the term 'sir' when their angry. Little do they know, it only causes me to feel more like I'm wearing a top hat.

I love watching reality shows - I'm up to date with 'America's Next Top Model' and I love 'Project Runway.' But the shows where they're just sitting in a house aren't as fun to me!

Top Model' is pretty good, because it gives these girls an opportunity to chase their passion and possibly get a contract.

I wear no makeup in real life. I'm very simple. That may be why I go over the top for the red carpet. But otherwise, I'm very plain. I should make more of an effort, actually.

When I reached C Company lines, which were at the top of the hill, I paused and looked back at the camp, just coming into full view below me through the grey mist of early morning.

I hear a lot of Top Model girls say they are dismissed by clients because they recognize them, but it never happened to me.

I'm following the players, and it's great. We've never had so many Top 10 big players like now. There's so many out there that are very close.

It's lonely at the top - if you don't like that, then you don't start a company.

[P]rogressivism is a top-down, continent-wide tissue of taxes, mandates, and other coercions.

The top 10 per cent of the US population appropriated 91 per cent of income growth between 1989 and 2006, while the top 1 per cent took 59 per cent.

On the PGA Tour, guys finish in the top 10, make a ton of money and think they're great players. In my era, you had to win. We didn't settle for anything else.

In reality, that was going to be very messy from an antitrust standpoint and meet a lot of resistance from the top management at Hasbro. That was a whole different story.

What I am proposing is that we invest from the middle out and the ground up, not the top down. That is not going to work.

To be counted in the world's top 10 of anything I guess gets eyeballs.

Family is 100 per cent my top priority.

Howard Dean was endorsed by Al Gore. Now, if Dean could get Gray Davis to campaign for him, that would put him over the top.

I watch America's Next Top Model in the gym and go, 'If I stay an extra 15 minutes, I will look like that girl!'