The Bottom Quotes

Build on the rock before you hit rock bottom!

The bottom line on attitude is that a good one helps to increase your possibilities. Pessimists usually get what they expect. So do optimists.

An across-the-board, top-to-bottom cut in personal and corporate income taxes ... to expand the incentives and opportunities of private expenditures.

If you come up with a new product, you can very easily track its contribution to the bottom line. But often the challenge can be both large and subtle.

The artist needs to understand the truth that lies at the bottom of an enigma.

With no bottom line, it's hard to know wrong from right. But I ain't ever satisfied.

Coasting to the bottom is the only disgrace.

My bottom line is this is no time to be gambling with our economy

Good sense is at the bottom of everything: virtue, genius, wit, talent and taste.

The terrorist and the policeman both come from the same basket. Revolution, legality--counter-moves in the same game; forms of idleness at bottom identical.

The dregs may stir themselves as they please; they fall back to the bottom by their own coarseness.

Poverty is what we call the extremes at the bottom.

Well, I stopped drinking. That was actually a big deal. I didn't go through any harrowing rock-bottom experience. I just made a decision to stop drinking.

The bottom string is tuned to an open G.

The thing about Hitchcock is that, however much one dissects him, he still manages to hang onto his mystery. You can never quite get to the bottom of him.

We hide so well. This is the bottom line: how hidden is male subjectivity? Name five books where male subjectivity is produced in an honest way.

In the '90s, there was a big bell-bottom craze. Everyone was wearing grungy bell-bottoms. It was so repugnant to me.

Apple is not thinking different anymore, they are getting worse by the day. They've become bottom-dollar and you can see that transition easily.

Even now, my back was still arched with sensual invitation, my bottom was questing up like a cat in heat, and my every move was supple, sinuous. I was one great big come-hither.

... Hope is at the bottom of the Pandora's box of Irish troubles, and I believe proudly and firmly in the ultimate destinies of my country.

Having worked my way from the bottom of the ladder to the top [of the UN] certainly helped me navigate that complexity, both political and bureaucratic.

[E]lections amount to little more than choosing between the scum that floats to the top of the barrel and the dregs that settle to the bottom.

I always felt I was scraping the bottom of the barrel trying to get a song together.

Here at the bottom of the world, everything was upside down.

The political satirist usually votes against their own interests, but the bottom line is that it doesn't really matter.

Just because I squeezed my gigantic bottom into men’s trousers, you needn’t assume my brains have shrunk to masculine size.

It's hard to start from the bottom.

Prig and philistine, Ph.D. and C.P.A., despot of English 218c and big shot of the Kiwanis Club-how much, at bottom, they both hate Art, and how hard it is to know which of them hates it the more.

The bottom line for everyone is I'm not good enough. It's only a thought, and a thought can be changed.

In a strictly scientific sense God is at the bottom of both good and evil.

Work without faith is like an attempt to reach the bottom of a bottomless pit.

All religions were, at bottom, one, though they differed in detail and outward form like the leaves on a tree.

The idea of the self interests me a great deal. What is the self? And finding yourself, and which self? In a way, we're more than one self, but you somehow try to get to a rock bottom self.

You don't do anything to further your stay aboard a ship that you see is going to go down to the bottom of the ocean.

The contempt for law and the contempt for the human consequences of lawbreaking go from the bottom to the top of American society.

We need more than a new politics; what we need is a new worldview. We need a fundamentally different bottom line.

Sometimes you are lifted up to the mountaintop as a gift from the universe, so you can see what is possible. Then you are put down back at the bottom: Now you have to earn it for yourself.

Just when you think you've hit rock bottom, you realize you're standing on another trapdoor.

Frog or pearl, life hid something at the bottom of the cup.

I trudged around on the muddy river bottom for half an hour, patiently waiting to drown, before giving up and slogging my way back to shore.

The chair as ideas fits only the bottom as idea.

Sometimes the only way to become grounded is to hit bottom.

I've been to the top and I believe I've been to the bottom as well.

The bottom line is I'm a slow zombie guy - I'm always a slow zombie guy but I also know I'm in the minority.

Kind of the bottom line for me, I don't think people come to the church where I preach to hear my view on politics.

There ain't no Coupe Deville hiding at the bottom of a Cracker Jacks box.

I was lost til you were found, but I never knew how far down I was falling before I reached the bottom.

Dwarf is dwarf even at the top of the mountain; giant is giant even at the bottom of the well!

Summit of the well is the bottom of the ground! Man who has climbed up from the very low thinks that he did climb up to the very top!

Every major criminal case is always built from the bottom up. You get the underlings, you get them to plead and cooperate, and that leads to the higher-ups.