Top 1200 Bottom Of The Barrel Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

We should never seek to compete with economies in our region by cutting pay and conditions - that's a race to the bottom we can't win.

In every other science fiction series, humans are at the top of the food chain. In the 'Babylon 5' universe, they're in the bottom third.

A young writer is easily tempted by the allusive and ethereal and ironic and reflective, but the declarative is at the bottom of most good writing.

The Cold War was really the great struggle of the 20th Century and it shaped American political life from top to bottom.

Its about cherishing the woodland at the bottom of your garden or the stream that runs through it. It affects every aspect of life.

Record companies are not necessarily interested in you realizing your artistic dream. The bottom line is that they got to sell records.

The bottom line always remains the same: What is the basic humanity of the character? How do I make them resonate with the reader?

The goal [is] not only to earn high returns at the top of the cycle but also to avoid giving them back at the bottom.

When I come into a game in the bottom of the ninth, bases loaded, no one out and a one-run lead ... it takes people off my mind.

At the bottom there is no perfect history; there is none such conceivable. All past centuries have rotted down, and gone confusedly dumb and quiet.

We don't prognosticate macroeconomic factors, we're looking at our companies from a bottom-up perspective on their long-run prospects of returning.

A lot of technologies in the world were unusual in the beginning, and became standard. That's the beauty of bottom-up entrepreneurship and innovations.

...to slip beneath the surface and soar along the silent bottom of the sea agile and shining in water honeycombed with light.

When you first get a hill in sight, look at the top of it only once. Then imagine yourself at the bottom of the other side.

Exceptional businesses sustain bottom-line results, which they invest to create meaningful, positive impact for their stakeholders.

A Christianity which will not help those who are struggling from the bottom to the top of society, needs another Christ to die for it.

I truly believe the eating disorder is gone. The discovery of what was at the bottom of it lifted me, and I walked into a different phase of my life.

The last few years of my life have been a little like a long ride in a Poop de Ville with the bottom down.

So 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.'

The bottom line is what we record is what we use. Once we feel we've got a good album, we stop at that. That's usually around 12 tracks.

So, all of us would do well to stop fighting each other for our space at the bottom, because there ain't no more room.

There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.

Are your people uncomfortable during meetings and tired at the end? If not, they're probably not mixing it up enough and getting to the bottom of important issues.

We'd been trying to touch the sky from the bottom of the ocean. I realized that if we boosted one another, maybe we'd get a little closer.

Despite how entertaining certain stories were, at the bottom of every item of gossip there was someone getting hurt.

I find the Englishman to be him of all men who stands firmest in his shoes. They have in themselves what they value in their horses, mettle and bottom.

We can adhere to the Henry Hyde amendment by saying that no federal funds will be used for abortions. And that's the bottom line for me.

The bottom line is that I like my first drafts to be blind, unconscious, messy efforts; that's what gets me the best material.

Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production of objective fact.

Nafta has been responsible for a race to the bottom in standards across North America, with working conditions declining along with wages.

I feel like Hollywood would rather end the emerging, bottom-up creative culture than let it happen.

A successful team, in sports or business, extends from the top of management down to the guys at the bottom of the roster or organizational chart.

I don't like sensationalizing events. Instead of making waves, I want to make everything settle, so we can see to the bottom of things.

Democrats need an organizer who will energize the grass-roots across this country to build the party from the bottom up.

Dont believe the hype. It tastes like someone scraped off the bottom of a birdcage and stuck it on a piece of toast.

The descents are quite fun - everybody has a sort of competition and tries to go for it and then you compare top speeds when you get to the bottom.

So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.

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.

To fire a bullet into the heart or brains of one's fellow man even a fellow man striving to do the same to you creates what might be called an unassimilable memory: a memory that floats on daily life the way an oil stain floats on rainwater. Stir the rain barrel, scatter the oil into countless drops, disperse it all you like, but it will not mix; and eventually the slick comes back, as loathsomely intact as it ever was.

We're a movement of many people who are uniting from the bottom up. We don't have structures, hierarchies, bosses, secretaries... No one gives us orders.

All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into that vacancy of oblivion I call my mind.

I don't know if that result's enough to life Birmingham off the bottom of the table, although it'll certainly take them above Sunderland

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

I feel that I owe a lot to SpongeBob and all Bikini Bottom for helping me figure out what I thought was funny and entertaining.

Beyoncé built her f–king foundation from the bottom. I think that’s the exact career every female artist wants to have.

At the bottom, the elimination of spyware and the preservation of privacy for the consumer are critical goals if the Internet is to remain safe and reliable and credible.

Take clear water with grass waving at the bottom. It's wonderful to look at, but to try to paint it is enough to make one insane.

Jesus picked up twelve men from the bottom ranks of business and forged them into an organisation that conquered the world.

Men do not know the natural infirmity of their mind: it does nothing but ferret and quest, and keeps incessantly whirling around, building up and becoming entangled in its own work, like silkworms, and is suffocated in it. A mouse in a pitch barrel...thinks it notices from a distance some sort of glimmer of imaginary light and truth; but while running toward it, it is crossed by so many difficulties and obstacles, and diverted by so many new quests, that it strays from the road, bewildered.

I tell younger writers that indeed it is devastating to be rejected. You feel like the bottom dropped out of your world.

I have a little bit of a pet peeve about how the middle class is depicted in movies. I feel like they tend to be either depicted in a very sentimental way, where everybody has a heart of gold except for the villains you're supposed to hiss at, or there's a sort of indie-style version... When it's done well, it's brilliant, it's Blue Velvet. But when it's done poorly, it feels like shooting fish in a barrel, just saying, "Ooh, scary suburbs."

I wanted to make an album that plays from the top to bottom and feels together and complete. That's just something that felt important.

You don't make peace with your friends. That's the bottom line. You end conflicts by trying to find some political resolution.

At the bottom, all wars are the same because they involve death and maiming and wounding, and grieving mothers, fathers, sons and daughters.

Take one cup of love, two cups of loyalty, three cups of forgiveness, four quarts of faith and one barrel of laughter. Take love and loyalty and mix them thoroughly with faith; blend with tenderness, kindness and understanding. Add friendship and hope. Sprinkle abundantly with laughter. Bake it with sunshine. Wrap it regularly with lots of hugs. Serve generous helpings daily.

Every intensification is good, if it is in your entire blood, if it isn't intoxication or muddiness, but joy which you can see into, clear to the bottom.

If all the Legislature wants to do is turn their back on students and teachers then West Virginia will stay stuck at the bottom.

Every education system on Earth has the same hierarchy of subjects: at the top are mathematics and languages, then the humanities, and the bottom are the arts.

The perception is that the Stoke players were one-dimensional: that they could only play in a certain way, and that was the top and bottom of their capabilities.

Even if consumer confidence hit rock bottom, that most likely would not be enough, by itself, to cause a depression.