Bottom Quotes
1845 quotes by 1453 authors
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In fact, once he is motivated no one can change more completely than the man who has been at the bottom. I call myself the…
— Malcolm X
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But the plans were on display…†“On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.†“That’s the display department.†“With…
— Douglas Adams
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She waited for the train to pass. Then she said, "I sometimes think that people’s hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what’s at the…
— Haruki Murakami
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The complete bottom has fallen out of my life.
— Beatrice Sparks
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...if you're trying to show off for people at the top, forget it. They will look down on you anyhow. And if you're trying to…
— Mitch Albom
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What he says, even on his knees, about his own sinfulness is all parrot talk. At bottom, he still believes he has run up a…
— C.S. Lewis
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[A]t bottom, and just in the deepest and most important things, we are unutterably alone, and for one person to be able to advise or…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.
— P.G. Wodehouse
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This fall I think you're riding for—it's a special kind of fall, a horrible kind. The man falling isn't permitted to feel or hear himself…
— J D Salinger
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Follow, poet, follow right To the bottom of the night, With your unconstraining voice Still persuade us to rejoice; With the farming of a verse…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Yes, here I am returning, the woman who bore herself to the bottom and back. Who wanted to swim like dolphins, leaping waves and diving.…
— Sue Monk Kidd
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It is cheerful to God when you rejoice or laugh from the bottom of your heart.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Most hatred is based on fear, one way or another. Yeah. I wrapped myself in anger, with a dash of hate, and at the bottom…
— Laurell K. Hamilton
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I smoked and looked down at the bottom of Pittsburgh for a little while, watching the kids playing tiny baseball, the distant figures of dogs…
— Michael Chabon
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If you looked down to the bottom of my soul, you would understand fully the source of my longing and – pity me. Even the…
— Hans Christian Andersen
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It was a fine cry - loud and long - but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of…
— Toni Morrison
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For example, the wind has its reasons. We just don't notice as we go about our lives. But then, at some point, we are made…
— Haruki Murakami
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As our listeners will know, unless they've taken refuge at the bottom of a garden pond or somewhere similar, You-Know-Who's strategy of remaining in the…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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The bottom line is down where it belongs – at the bottom. Far above it in importance are the infinite number of events that produce…
— Paul Hawken
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Finding yourself in a hole, at the bottom of a hole, in almost total solitude, and discovering that only writing can save you. To be…
— Marguerite Duras
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