Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent.
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VOLTAIRE There is no money to be made at the bottom. There's no money to made in the middle. But there's a lo...
MARTIN ZIMET I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than...
NEIL GAIMAN She had about her a strong smell of hair-spray and her lunch-time whisky.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR I'll find you, don't worry. My body won't be with you all the time, but you'll always have my heart....
P.C. CAST Elitism - It's lonely at the top. But it's comforting to look down upon everyone at the bottom.
LARRY KERSTEN Man is at the bottom an animal, midway, a citizen, and at the top, divine. But the climate of this w...
HENRY WARD BEECHER Some people are at the top of the ladder, some are in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and ...
ROBERT H. SCHULLER It's your fault, Eeyore. You've never been to see any of us. You just stay here in this one corner o...
A.A. MILNE Tea was good. Tea was possibly the safest drink in the entire Empire. It defied anything untoward.
KATE HARPER Offensively, we'll be good. One through nine, we have some solid hitters. There's speed at the top a...
MARTY SMITH At the bottom of the ladder is Catholicism, and at the top is Science
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL Men do their hardest work at the bottom of the ladder, not at the top
WILLIAM FEATHER At least the top two stories are ablaze, and the bottom three or four stories ablaze. And in the mid...
BRENT SADLER On the ladder of success: Some people are at the top of the ladder, some
are in the middle, still mo...
ROBERT SCHULLER Are the most dangerous creatures the ones that use doors or the ones that don't?
DAVID WONG Just because it won't last doesn't mean it isn't worth something.
NINA DE GRAMONT People at the top of the tree are those without qualifications to detain them at the bottom.
PETER USTINOV Musicians are at the bottom of the creative pyramid and authors are at the top, and many people thin...
NICK CAVE Koyun eti göçebe halkların temel gıda maddesidir. Ayrıca koyun hızlı büyüyen, et ve iç ya�...
SERCAN AHINCANOV The man who holds the ladder at the bottom is frequently of more service than the man at the top.
VIKRANT PARSAI Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. It can't be done except by liars.
BERNARD BARUCH Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. It can't be done except by liars.
BERNARD M. BARUCH If you compress payroll, lessen payroll disparity, have a little restraint at the top, give more at ...
ROB MANFRED I will do my best, regardless of whether I would be running at the top or at the bottom.
ICHIRO OZAWA don’t say you’se ole. You’se uh lil girl baby all de time. God made it so you spent yo’ ole ...
ZORA NEALE HURSTON I think the rest of the world is not as cold and lonely a place as you think. At least I have to hop...
JODI LYNN ANDERSON Death anxiety is the mother of all religions, which, in one way or another, attempt to temper the an...
IRVIN D. YALOM The 19th-century pure capitalist model of society was a pyramid, concentrations of enormous wealth i...
JOHN RALSTON SAUL The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren't always defeats and victories for the fell...
BERTOLT BRECHT All of this is geared toward providing an education system in Arkansas from top to bottom that is no...
BILL HALTER How're you feeling?' Ginny asked Ron, who was now staring into the dregs of milk at the bottom of hi...
J.K. ROWLING Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at th...
FRANK MOORE COLBY I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at th...
FRANK MOORE COLBY I know, up on top you are seeing great sights, but down here at the bottom we, too, should have righ...
DR. SEUSS Fortune sometimes turns round like a mill wheel and he who was yesterday at the top lies today at th...
CERVANTES SAAVEDRA Fortune sometimes turns round like a mill wheel and he who was yesterday at the top lies today at th...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA The track was real good. You could run the top and the bottom and then you got in the middle. I mean...
TERRY PHILLIPS If those at your top are weak, your bottom will be rotten
BENNY BELLAMACINA Inequalities at the bottom of the US wage distribution have closely followed the evolution of thee m...
THOMAS PIKETTY The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren't always defeats and victories for the ...
BERTOLT BRECHT One must work really hard to reach the top, especially the one who is at the bottom.
VIKRANT PARSAI No company can afford not to move forward. It may be at the top of the heap today but at the bottom ...
JAMES CASH PENNEY More coals can be added to the top if necessary, ... Add coals to the top rather than to the bottom,...
LINDA RYAN Success does not start at the top; it begins by deciding to get up from the bottom.
KEN POIROT Life is like a toothpaste tube; we think we are squeezing it from the bottom, but it always get wast...
PRATEEK BARAPATRE Never despair if you have to start at the bottom; not even the sun rises from the top.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Take a moment to remember those you have lost along the way, and, let them know you thought of them ...
T.R. THRESTON The toughest part of getting to the top of the ladder, is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
SOURCE UNKNOWN From top to bottom we have nine guys who can play at any time.
JAMIE BERMEL A man who is at the top is a man who has the habit of getting to the bottom.
JOSEPH E. ROGERS No woman ever ages beyond eighteen in her heart.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN We always know when Jesus is at work because He produces in the commonplace something that is inspir...
OSWALD CHAMBERS You should not be totally obsessed with pleasing people, it may put your own self-worth at stake. Yo...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA wasting what little breath he did have laughing at himself. Because sometimes, that’s all you coul...
KELLEY ARMSTRONG …when you talk about Mike, you look like a woman who’s talkin’ about a guy she likes. You talk...
KRISTEN ASHLEY Even tax breaks that are supposed to help the middle class too often skew toward the wealthy. Consid...
DEE DEE MYERS I know up on the top you are seeing great sights, but down at the bottom we, too, should have rights...
DR. SEUSS After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility?
{Said i...
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG She's at the top of her game. She has trained excellent, and she does well when her races are spaced...
JEFF BONDE The Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but at ...
THOMAS SOWELL My mother was predominately a stay-at-home mom.
ANDREW RANNELLS Very good coaches for ski jumpers stand at the top of the slope and watch the jumpers prepare, rathe...
ROLAND JOFFE Whether in Career or Business, those at the top of the ladder use their MIND to make money whilst th...
OSCAR BIMPONG People who reach the top of the tree are only those who haven't got the qualifications to detain the...
PETER USTINOV In the middle of a correction, the market seeks to find a bottom and a top -- some kind of range tha...
WILLIAM MATTISON At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be...
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON We never doubted the networks wanted to change. It takes a while for the people at the top to get it...
ALEX NOGALES The idea is to believe me... but as far as I see the world... to believe is a sin... to trust me one...
DEYTH BANGER People who reach the top of the tree are only those who haven't got the qualifications to detain...
PETER USTINOV We are still developing depth. You can look at a lot of guys that stick out, but from top to bottom,...
ADAM WOGAN At the top of the cycle you write [policies for] everybody, no matter how bad, and at the bottom you...
ROBERT HUNTER If you're overfishing at the top of the food chain, and acidifying the ocean at the bottom, you&...
CARL SAFINA In six years, that's our best home performance. ... This is the best game we've played at home, top ...
MIKE KRAMER When we fall in love at a glance, the question we should ask ourselves (and this would apply to both...
ROSEMARY SULLIVAN You looked at me then like you knew me, and I thought it really was Eden, and I couldn't take your e...
TONI MORRISON If he had had all Peru in his pocket, he would certainly have given it to this dancer; but Gringoire...
VICTOR HUGO The only thing is "we are humans" and the best thing is "humans were born to make mistakes" .. so ch...
NEHA KOTHARI It seemed to him he had waited an age for some stir of the great grim hush; the life of the town was...
HENRY JAMES A man is at his best when he is simply not like the rest in all his life's test
ANUJ SOMANY If you make it clear that you have a busy, interesting life, but that you'd like to fit her in to yo...
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE What you are good at, you never do it free!
DEYTH BANGER A person who has got almost all traits and attributes in-common with the people in his circle is jus...
ANUJ SOMANY A man is at his best when he is simply not like rest in all his life's test
ANUJ SOMANY The surrounding environment is the best erudite master to teach us fundamentals laws of nature and b...
ANUJ SOMANY For several moments he did not move from the doorway: he heard the girl’s soft, thin voice rise ab...
JOHN WILLIAMS What have I done to her?" Gabriel muttered to himself as he crossed the room to crank open a window....
OLIVIA PARKER Christ is not God, not the saviour of the world, but a mere man, a sinful man and an abominable idol...
MATTHEW HAMMOND It's one thing to be a hero as a junior officer -- he's done that and I respect him for that. He's b...
WESLEY CLARK I'm tired of 'tone at the top.' Sometimes I wish Boards and CEOs would just stop talking and do.
DONNA BOEHME There do appear to be, at a minimum, signs of froth in some local markets,
ALAN GREENSPAN You still really fight for good parts. It never stops. It's never a breeze. The people at the to...
STEVE ZAHN Our league has had an incredible season from top to bottom and start to finish. The league is at its...
JIM LARRANAGA The lifestyle of a boss percolates down to every level of the system and reflects its image in the w...
ANUJ SOMANY Life is mostly froth and bubble. Two things stand like stone: Dodging duty at the double, leaving wo...
SOURCE UNKNOWN A stay-at-home mom is a working mom. Being a stay-at-home mom is a job.
COBIE SMULDERS Life's Irony;For most people,the moment they hit it big,they then start looking for new friends at t...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Innovation is hard at first, clumsy in the middle but incredible at the end.
SRAVANI SAHA NAKHRO The people at the bottom who are working but working at relatively low wages need some help.
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