Quotes with top-heaviness

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  • Mark Twain He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Aldous Huxley How difficult it is to sound persuasive at the top of one's voice!
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • John Keats I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.
    John Keats
    English poet (1795 - 1821)
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  • George S. Patton I do not fear failure. I only fear the ''slowing up'' of the engine inside of me which is pounding, saying, ''Keep going, someone must be on top, why not you?''
    George S. Patton
    American Army General during World War II (1885 - 1945)
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  • Margaret Thatcher I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.
    Margaret Thatcher
    British Prime Minister (1979-1990) (1925 - 2013)
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  • Frank Lloyd Wright I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up.
    Frank Lloyd Wright
    American architect (1867 - 1959)
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  • Frank Moore Colby I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top.
    Frank Moore Colby
    American Editor, Essayist (1865 - 1925)
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  • Burgess Owens I learned the major difference between college and pro football. In the pros, you're up against a top receiver almost every minute of time. In college, maybe one comes along every third game.
    Burgess Owens
    American football player (1951 - )
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  • Grandma Moses I paint from the top down. From the sky, then the mountains, then the hills, then the houses, then the cattle, and then the people.
    Grandma Moses
     
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  • Orson Welles I started at the top and worked my way down.
    Orson Welles
    American film maker (1915 - 1985)
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  • Doug McLeod I still say a church steeple with a lightening rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
    Doug McLeod
     
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  • Zig Ziglar I was in that part of the class that made the top half possible.
    Zig Ziglar
    American author, salesman, and motivational speaker. (1926 - 2012)
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  • Stephen Hawking I was never top of the class at school, but my classmates must have seen potential in me, because my nickname was 'Einstein.'
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • Becki Newton I'm not afraid to go completely over the top. A lot of people are scared to seem silly or to embarrass themselves, and I really don't have that at all - I don't mind making a fool of myself. I like to just have fun and really go for it.
    Becki Newton
    American actress (1978 - )
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  • Ted Turner I've never run into a guy who could win at the top level in anything today and didn't have the right attitude, didn't give it everything he had, at least while he was doing it; wasn't prepared and didn't have the whole program worked out.
    Ted Turner
    American media mogul and philanthropist (1938 - )
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  • Emily Dickinson If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.
    Emily Dickinson
    American poet (1830 - 1886)
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  • Norman Augustine If sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured that disaster is not left to chance.
    Norman Augustine
    American aerospace businessman (1935 - )
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  • Russell Lynes If you can't ignore an insult, top it; if you can't top it, laugh it off; and if you can't laugh it off, it's probably deserved.
    Russell Lynes
    American editor, criticus (1910 - 1991)
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  • Magnus Carlsen If you want to get to the top, there's always the risk that it will isolate you from other people.
    Magnus Carlsen
    Norwegian chess grandmaster (1990 - )
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  • Carl Safina If you're overfishing at the top of the food chain, and acidifying the ocean at the bottom, you're creating a squeeze that could conceivably collapse the whole system.
    Carl Safina
    American ecologist and author (1955 - )
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