Famous Quotes & Sayings

Diego Maradona

To those of you who have cheered on my goals, I thank you from the bottom of my heart.

To them it wasn't a race issue, but their poverty that got them. It wasn't the hurricane that wiped out New Orleans, but the flooding caused when the levy broke, and the poor were in the bottom of the bowl.

Truth lies at the bottom of a well.

Harbhajan Singh

You have to see if the batsman is coming out, if he is staying back, what his grip is like, to gauge his intentions. A common trend I have observed is, a lot of batsmen change their grips when they are looking to hit: normally they either go high or slide their hand to the bottom of the handle to get maximum power.

You have more business leaders willing to enter into that conversation, mostly for self-serving reasons, quite frankly. This is a huge burden on their bottom line. It has become pretty clear that this system is not sustainable, and business leaders are finally coming to this conclusion.

Cherie Blair

Here we are, worrying about whether we're thin enough or whether our bottom looks too big in this pair of trousers or even whether or not I should wear a hat - does it really matter in comparison to the important things that are going on in the world?

Clayton Christensen

Holiday Inn comes in at the bottom of the market, but they can't go upmarket except if they emulate the Four Seasons. So they can go up, but they have to emulate the people they're trying to compete against. They can't disrupt them, because there isn't anything about their model that is extendable upmarket.

Barry Ritholtz

The bottom line is this: Cash, in modest increments, has a role in any portfolio. But unless you are Warren Buffett, you should limit it to 2 or 3 percent.

We came back in the bottom of the seventh and did what we had to do. So it worked out.

We outlasted them, in that sense. That's the bottom line.

Arlen Specter

We ought to get to the bottom of it so it can be evaluated by the American people.

who want to get to the bottom of this.

Ross MacDonald

My half-suppressed Canadian years, my whole childhood and youth, rose like a corpse from the bottom of the sea to confront me.

Brian Cashman

Finding players that can perform on the big stage in New York, it makes it that much more important to retain those players. Hideki's a rare individual where he produces on the field, contributes to the bottom line in winning, but he also provides some extra intangibles because of the severe interest coming over from Japan.

Tom Ellis

Finally at 3:30 he called me as he was walking back to Brooklyn, ... He was late that morning so he was at the bottom when it was first hit.

Andrew Gross

'Eyes Wide Open' took shape from two real life events straight from my own past. One was the sad suicide of my young nephew, a troubled kid, who was found at the bottom of a landmark cliff in central California. The second was a chance encounter forty years ago with none other than, ahem, Charles Manson!

But then the bottom just fell out. I'm just sick about it.

The government is not going to default on contracts they have with the public. The bottom line and the word we have to get out is that it doesn't matter the size of this, we will be able to pay the claims.

The good news is that this is going to go directly to the corporate bottom line. That's a real plus for profits, which means a real plus for corporate spending and the recovery going forward.

Rick Mercer

On my job I end up jumping out of planes. Last week I got in an 18-wheeler and drove down a runway onto a skid track. The week before that they put me in a car and sunk me to the bottom of a lake to see if I could escape without an oxygen tank.

Regina King

We know that's the bottom line: if money is made, the powers that be pay attention.

We had our chances late, but the bottom line is you cannot play well for just eight out of 32 minutes and expect to win.

Well, our two-game season is over. The opener and the home opener and we're 0-2. That's the bottom line.

We have the most leverage of any work group at the Boeing Company on the bottom line. We design the process. We design the product. We determine the materials.

Ernie Els

Today was a tough day. I looked at my putting stats and I'm down in the bottom half of the field, so I guess that is where my problem is this week.

Ernie Els

Today was a tough day and I got off to an iffy start and was two over par after five holes. I battled hard to get it back to level. But I have to work on my putting. I looked at my putting stats and I'm down in the bottom half of the field, so I guess that is where my problem is this week.

Henry David Thoreau

Time is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

We need to win every game. Bottom line.

We need to stop the race to the bottom that subsidizes the largest businesses at the expense of small companies and taxpayers.

We need four golfers to score as a team. With the depth we have, we are expecting good scores out of those bottom varsity spots.

Hans Jonas

The will to set values and the power to make them law are jointly at the bottom of all operative norms. When linked to divine wisdom, this source of moral law is still in safe hands which man can trust.

I would like to score earlier in the game (than the third inning), but if the bottom of the order gets on and scores (that's fine).

My bottom line is the crime rate going down, ... I judge this office's effectiveness by that statistic.