Top Quotes
3874 Top quotes by 2704 unique authors
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I planned to stop in 2002 after the Salt Lake City Olympics. I felt able to remain competitive another four years, and I wanted to…
— Hermann Maier
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All brands, whether high-ticket luxury ones such as Cartier or Rolls-Royce or 'masstige' ones with luxe-y overtones but altogether more affordable, all want to grow.…
— Peter York
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Yes, yes, I'm coming. Right up the top of the house. One moment I'll linger. How the mud goes round in the mind-what a swirl…
— Virginia Woolf
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Today, more than ever before, science holds the key to our survival as a planet and our security and prosperity as a nation. It's time…
— Barack Obama
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There's a stone I had made for Luke at the top of the hill road, where the pasture opens wide and the setting sun highlights…
— Patricia McConnell
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Just a rock, a dome of snow, the deep blue sky, and a hunk of orange-painted metal from which a shredded American flag cracked in…
— Tom Hornbein
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Mine, said the stone,mine is the hour.I crush the scissors,such is my power.Stronger than wishes,my power, alone.Mine, said the paper,mine are the wordsthat smother the…
— David Mason
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This is the day of wonders. The land is covered with trees like a head with hair and behind the ship the sun rises tipping…
— Alice Munro
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Perhaps when we die our names are takenfrom us by a divine magnet and are freeto flutter here and there within the bodies of birds.I'll…
— Jim Harrison
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She's not dead. You didn't kill her, nor did the hunger birds, although they did their best to get to you through her. She's been…
— Neil Gaiman
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The sunshine was delightful, the foliage gently astir, more from the activity of birds than from the breeze. One gallant little bird, doubtless lovelorn, was…
— Victor Hugo
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I was terrified. My first week, walking around in a teeny bikini, I kept crossing my arms over my chest because I was afraid I…
— Mary Crosby
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'What about stress? Are you using your stress-management techniques when things seem to be getting on top of you?' 'Nothing is getting on top of…
— Josh Lanyon
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God put this game last, and it's just like putting a cherry on top of your Sundae.
— Jonas Jennings
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Monterey was the Maraschino cherry on top of the Sundae that was the '60s. It was totally unprecedented, and the audience was unprecedented in their…
— Art Garfunkel
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A highly intelligent man should take a primitive woman. Imagine if on top of everything else, I had a woman who interfered with my work.
— Adolf Hitler
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The biggest shortage in the world is not oil or foodÂ-it's leadership. Why is it such a scarce resource? Because egos get involved. Most people…
— Bob Davids
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The better a man is, the more mistakes he will make, for the more new things he will try. I would never promote to a…
— Peter Drucker
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I have been lucky enough to work with the world's best designers and top stylists - who have been my mentors.
— Alessandra Ambrosio
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You can only succeed when people are communicating, not just from the top down, but in complete interchange. Communication comes from fighting off my ego…
— Bill Walsh
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Badness you can get easily, in quantity. The road is smooth and lies close by. But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put…
— Hesiod
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As adults, if our top priorities are constantly directed toward the acquisition of more and better worldly goods, it will not take long to increase…
— Marvin J. Ashton
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I hope I epitomize the American dream. For I came against long odds, from the ghetto to the very top of my profession. I was…
— Bill Russell
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Success takes us to the top and away from those we love.
— Wynonna Judd
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I don't have a waist: I'm a breadbox on top of legs.
— Tyne Daly
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