Top Quotes

A personal highlight was probably when we got a No. 1 in the U.K. and when the album went to No. 1 in America. The top four that week was us, Adele, Guns N' Roses and Bruce Springsteen. It was ridiculous seeing those names there. Being the first band from the U.K. and Ireland to go to America and debut at No. 1 is just unbelievable.

I was fired by 'America's Next Top Model' on my birthday.

He was a top man and a good professional. He was one of those who you know will never play a trick and you can ask him to do anything for you and he will. An unassuming man and a great loss to us all.

You know, sometimes the little victories that I have throughout the season are not necessarily obvious on the track. Maybe they're another aspect of what I'm doing, winning little victories here and there to get everything in line to be able to perform from top to bottom on race day.

You make sure that there's a structure that's interesting for them to play on top of, then do temp versions and try it on the film. By the time the players come to the recording session, I've found what works. So I'm not wasting their time.

Nothing I have done professionally will top the feeling I got when singing with John Farnham at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney.

The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that's the day you start to the top.

I planned to stop in 2002 after the Salt Lake City Olympics. I felt able to remain competitive another four years, and I wanted to stop while I'm still at the top.

I used to design for my body, which was flat-chested with big hips. That's why my clothes were tight on top with full skirts.

You know, I'm not making top dollar, but when you're making top dollar, there are a lot of people waiting for you to fall.

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

If a sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured that disaster is not left to chance.

There are so many things to take into account - your ambition, your ego, the press, the consumers. You can never be sure that you'll be on top of the pile again.

Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.

Living here in southern California, I'll miss hearing Rocky Top for an entire week at the end of December. I was actually looking forward to it. Tennessee has a better fight song than Nebraska.

When you're on top and you lead the parade, everyone's there throwing lilies and lilac water on your head. But when those parades have gone by and there's a storm in your heart, there are very few people that are going to sit there and listen to you bemoan life.

The outstanding people realized that the job involved more than just writing a good strategic plan. It was also important that top management should understand the plan and be prepared to adopt it.

My mother and I, our favorite part of any baked pasta is the top, where the cheese gets crusty.

And you cannot have a socialist revolution commandeered from the top, ordered around by some omniscient leader or group of leaders.

Education, in K-12, technical college and universities needs to be a top priority in Wisconsin.

Our natures are a lot like oil, mix us with anything else, and we strive to swim on top.

I gotta tell you, right at the top of my list would be taking vitamins. I know that over the years doctors have said they're ridiculous and all that. But I started taking my vitamins at an early age. And I take them every day. Every bloody day! So I think that's number one. For whatever reason, I feel active and pretty good at my age.

I love classic rock, rock and roll, that's the top notch. I love soul - bluesy music as well.

I feel like we're a very good top-10 car, but we really have to work hard and find a unique way to get these top fives.

I feel like I have to top myself every film I do, and it gets hard.

People hate cardio. I hate cardio. But pick the five top songs that you love. Do your cardio during these songs, and you're done. I'd say 95 percent of the time you don't even know you just did it.

If you're really on top, you probably didn't do that great, 'cause you have to water it down a bit for it to get that mass appeal.

When you get to the top, stay there and make sure other women join you.

I've just gone through so much in my life that pulling my top up just doesn't seem like that big a deal.

I believe in an America in which the fruits of productivity and prosperity are shared by all, by workers as well as owners, by those at the bottom as well as those at the top; an America in which the sacrifices required by national security are shared by all, by profiteers in the back offices as well as volunteers on the front lines.