Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stanley Elkin

The fact that we die is one of the more interesting things that happen to us. Fiction ought to be about bottom lines, and that's as bottom-line as you can get.

Evgeni Nabokov

We didn't play well, that's the bottom line. We got what we deserved.

We didn't play well, but the bottom line was our guys never quit. They kept fighting back, and that's a tribute to them.

We are going to try to seek monetary damages and try to get to the bottom of the unlawful leaks that we think have unfairly distorted Dr. Lee's situation.

Alan Arkin

It's - everybody's looking at the bottom line all the time, and failure doesn't look good on the bottom line, and yet you don't learn anything without failing.

We're not going to be state-of-the-art just to be state-of-the-art. We're implementing these technologies because they will ultimately help us serve our customers better. That's the bottom line.

There are people at the bottom who are worse off. We need to do something about that.

We still have four regular-season games and we're trying to move up from the bottom of the West.

We still have a way to go before we are out of the woods, but we may be seeing the bottom now.

We played well enough to win game one. That's the bottom line. It was very stressful though because we didn't score until the seventh inning.

We played well under some tough mental and weather conditions. Fulton is just deeper in their bottom six and that's what won the match.

David Neeleman

We probably priced too high on the top end, and too low on the bottom end.

We probably are at the bottom of the economic cycle and that would suggest that there is some modest light at the end of the tunnel particularly in terms of an improving export backdrop, ... The euro is at a much more competitive level than we were seeing at the tail end of last year.

When a rally gets under way the sellers pull away and when selling sets in the buyers pull away. We'll have to get used to this type of volatility. The market is trying to find a bottom and could take six months to do that. But people are trying to trade this market in excess of its underlying fundamentals.

When the top of our order was hitting, the bottom wasn't. When the bottom starting hitting, the top wasn't. It was frustrating. We're going to be OK. Some teams were not fortunate to make it this far. We're going to be playing Tuesday and anything can happen.

When you're missing your top horses, yeah, it's tough. But we've got valuable guys that are up here now. It's not like we're scraping the bottom of the barrel.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

I have always focused on the bottom line.

Mike Singletary

The bottom line is winning. I want to do what we need to do to win football games.

Mike Singletary

All I know is, I was trying to win the football game. And the bottom line is, you have to do what you think is right. You have to go with your gut. And if you don't do that, then I think you regret a lot of things later on.

Jason Varitek

Those games are great. They are great for the organization and the publicity of your team. The only downfall is that sometimes you are playing in Texas and you turn around the next day and you are playing in Boston. We've had the bottom half of some of those results.

John Milton

To bottomless perdition, there to dwell / In adamantine chains and penal fire.

Kobe Bryant

We are going from the bottom to the top all together so it's important for us to enjoy the journey, and that is what we are doing right now. We have four days off coming up here, and I would have been sick as a dog if we would have lost this game. I just wanted to step up and inspire us to play well, and it turned into something special.

Charlotte Riley

Put me in a vintage shop, and I am like a child with sweeties. I find it a million times easier to find a vintage dress than trawl the shops for a pair of jeans, so I am either dressed in really nice vintage, or I am in a pair of tracksuit bottoms looking like a scruffbag.

Sendhil Mullainathan

I worry about growing income inequality. But I worry even more that the discussion is too narrowly focused. I worry that our outrage at the top 1 percent is distracting us from the problem that we should really care about: how to create opportunities and ensure a reasonable standard of living for the bottom 20 percent.

Maurice Greene

In America, we have three major sports - baseball, football and basketball. They get the most coverage. Then there's things like golf which mop up most of what is left. But track and field? We are way at the bottom of the totem pole.

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.