Quotes of: Bottom-line Keyword

One thing you learned as a Cubs fan: when you bought you ticket, you could bank on seeing the bottom of the ninth.

Joe Garagiola

The test of success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

George S. Patton

I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

George S. Patton

I'm always on the go. I love doing things until I hit rock bottom. Then I need my 12 hours of sleep, and I'm on the go again.

Maria Sharapova

Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.

Aldous Huxley

Hit the bottom and get back up; or hit the bottle and stay down.

Anthony Liccione

Having two older brothers is a healthy reminder that you're always closer to the bottom than you are to the top.

Andy Roddick

You mean less to me than the dog s__t I scraped off the bottom of my shoe!

Love

To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.

W. E. B. Du Bois

Give a man some cloth and he'll ask for some lining.

Saudi Arabian

The exegesis Fat labored on month after month struck me as a Pyrrhic victory if there ever was one -- in this case an attempt by a beleaguered mind to make sense out of the inscrutable. Perhaps this is the bottom line to mental illness: incomprehensi...

VALIS

So what do you think?’ He asked, holding up the book. ‘I think Salinger is a closet paedophile,’ I replied placidly and was surprised and comforted by this minuscule, acidic, bitter Sylvia Plath like mocking, sniping tone that had crept into my...

J.D. Gallagher

Poets may be delightful creatures in the meadow or the garret, but they are menaces on the assembly line.

The Courage to Create

Terror was the key, of course, for there's a fine line between paralyzing dread and galvanizing fright.

Creed

A chasm reminds us that there is a fine line between bravery and idiocy.

Divergent

I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you.

Everything Is Illuminated

...the line of beauty is the line of beauty. It doesn't matter if it's been through the Xerox machine a hundred times.

The Goldfinch

Because—the line of beauty is the line of beauty. It doesn’t matter if it’s been through the Xerox machine a hundred times.

The Goldfinch

Life is not a circle. It is a straight line that has ups and downs.

In the beginning, Man Created God

In the marathon of life, there is no finish line.

Against the Grain: A Coach's Wisdom on Character, Faith, Family, and Love

How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.

Step Across This Line: Collected Nonfiction 1992-2002