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Webster and I are very aloof. The two of us go and sit there by ourselves. I sit by myself in the corner with my book and the newspaper. He kind of runs around a little bit, and then he goes and sits on top of the picnic table. He never plays with other little dogs.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but at MIT this puts them in the bottom ten percent of the class.

By depending on the great, The small may rise high. See: the little plant ascending the tall tree Has climbed to the top.

Women may not have it easy, but we are given a fairer chance to reach for the top.

It's like tabloid news programs that talk about how horrible something is, while at the same time they're glorifying it as their top story.

I know what it takes to get to the top.

Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent.

We're not good at propping up old carcasses. We want to be on top of what's vital at any particular time, and not just hold onto something because it has a name.

Through everything I've gone through- and I've been everywhere, at the top of the world, in jail, hung over drunk - I never gave up my dream of winning a gold medal in the Olympics.

Anytime you see a turtle up on top of a fence post, you know he had some help.

Martin Luther King took us to the mountain top: I want to take us to the bank.

Value will always be on top of everyone's lists now, right along with safety.

I would like my album to be on the pop side with a little bit of soul. I would like to make music that is on the top of the charts right now.

No company can afford not to move forward. It may be at the top of the heap today but at the bottom of the heap tomorrow, if it doesn't.

What I look for in a script is something that challenges me, something that breaks new ground, something that allows me to flex my director muscle. You have got to think fast in this business, you've got to keep reinventing yourself to stay on top.

There is no top. There are always further heights to reach.

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

You can't imagine how much detail we know about brains. There were 28,000 people who went to the neuroscience conference this year, and every one of them is doing research in brains. A lot of data. But there's no theory. There's a little, wimpy box on top there.

I don't feel that rap has been respected as an art form. Because people have seen rappers rap off the top of their heads, they don't think it is difficult.

You can't very well live in a castle while your kin is on the poor side of town and barely have enough food. Some want you to get to the top and rely on you making it for them, too.

There is no spray can called 'Instant Stardom,' only talent can keep you at the top.

A relationship isn't going to make me survive. It's the cherry on top.

Ulysses could have done with a good editor. You know people are always putting Ulysses in the top 10 books ever written but I doubt that any of those people were really moved by it.

And on top of that, when we work together we have a wonderful working relationship we push each other we challenge each other we laugh 80% of the time that we are together we're very fortunate.

You start way down on a low B flat on the tuba and you have a chromatic scale; you can match the colours all the way up, till you get to the top of the trumpet.

It is much harder to retain your position at the top than to get to the top.

I've been screaming at the top of my lungs at my family, 'Work out! Work out! Old age is coming!'

Right now, my career is in three directions: as a performer, as an arranger, as an author - and I don't give any one of them true precedent, or true top marks, as opposed to the other two.

Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

I do think there is room at the very top for marginal tax changes.