Bottom Quotes
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I also learned to tell a story. I think I learned from poetry how to time a story. Poetry's timing, beats and pauses. That white space on the page is as important as the black. The bottom of the page is blackout. It's performance.
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Welcome to the bottom of hell. They say pain is a prison, let me out of my cell.
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The bottom line about the information possessed by non-Western peoples is that the information becomes valid only when offered by a white scholar recognized by the academic establishment; in effect, the color of the skin guarantees scientific objectivity.
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He said 'I'm going to chop off the bottom of one of your trouser legs and put it in a library. I thought, "That's a turn-up for the books".
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Most time is wasted, not in hours, but in minutes. A bucket with a small hole in the bottom gets just as empty as a bucket that is deliberately kicked over.
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One ought to sink to the bottom of the sea, probably, and live alone with one's words.
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The wound of peace is surety, Surety secure; but modest doubt is called The beacon of the wise, the tent that searches To th' bottom of the worst.
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Bottom is bottom, even if it is turned upside down.
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Lipstick on your collar said you were untrue. Bet your bottom dollar, you and I are through.
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Shrimp are the insects of the ocean. They're bottom feeders. So they're delicious, but they're the bugs of the sea.
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Some in management positions operate as if they are in a tree of monkeys. They make sure that everyone at the top of the tree looking down sees only smiles. But all too often, those at the bottom looking up see only asses.
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My career has been one long love letter to California as a whole, top to bottom.
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The more we understand what happens in living cells, the more incredibly powerful you realize things can be when they work from the bottom up, by interaction of one molecule and another.
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A marriage is like a long trip in a tiny row boat: if one passenger starts to rock the boat, the other has to steady it, otherwise, they will go to the bottom together.
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I was elected because I believed in what we call "grassroots politics," politics from the bottom up, not the top down.
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When I've painted a woman's bottom so that I want to touch it, then [the painting] is finished.
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When the film was presented in New York, the distributor reproduced the fountain scene on a billboard as high as a skyscraper. My name was in the middle in huge letters, Fellini's was at the bottom, very tiny. Now the name of Fellini has become very great, mine very little.
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Men do their hardest work at the bottom of the ladder, not at the top.
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You ever read an article, and at the bottom, it says, 'Continued on page six'? I'm , 'Not for me. I'm done.'
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To say that you now trust the Russian military command and control system because some Russian general told you from the bottom of his heart that's the case, strikes me as most unrealistic.
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I'd love to be in the '70s. I'd love to have a big, long wig parted down the middle with flat-ironed hair and bell-bottoms. They're actually very flattering for my figure. The wider the leg, the better for a person with a booty.
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No one’s personal life is in the public interest. It’s gossip, bottom line. End of story.
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It's lonely on the top when there's no one on the bottom.
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I have big everything on the bottom but I love my legs. You've got to love what's yours.
