We should not fool ourselves. We are not one of the world's top teams any more. - Franz Beckenbauer America has a strategic interest in continuing to welcome international students at our colleges, universities, and high schools. Attracting the world's top scientific scholars helps to keep our economy competitive. - Norm Coleman Twenty-five percent of search results for the world's top 20 largest brands are links to user generated content and thirty-four percent of bloggers post opinions about products and brands. - Erik Qualman

A lion chased me up a tree, and I greatly enjoyed the view from the top. - Confucius Most people hold their fantasies out of reach, as if their desires are a mountain they could never summit. They settle for living at the base of the mountain instead. There aren't as many obstacles, or avalanches, or unexpected delays. But they'll never be able to see the view from the top. - Katie Kacvinsky Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating. - Denis Waitley

A day can start out ordinary and end up being in the top ten. Joe Bunch - James Howe I didn't care whose name was on it, I just wanted to get in that Top Ten. - Terry Melcher Edward: It wasn't the worst night of my life. Jake: Did it make the top ten? Edward: Possibly. But, if I had been able to take your place last night, it would not have made the top ten of the best nights of my life. Dream about that. - Stephenie Meyer We're not like pop musicians who have to perform the same top ten tunes every night of a tour. - Oscar Peterson I was wildly out of style when that television theme song suddenly pushed its way onto the Top Ten. It was certainly not the record company trying to make that happen. - John Sebastian I hate the industry even more now, no bands get nurtured anymore. Labels only spend money promoting acts they know will be Top Ten. I find it offensive spending $2 million on a video. - Siouxsie Sioux If any of our songs ever did make it on the top ten, I...

Kid?" Kyrian "I'm not worthy." Nick "What?" Kyrian "Dude, that's a Ferrari, Lamborghini, Bugatti, Alfa Romeo, Aston Martin, and Bentley. And I'm not talking the cheap models. Those are the top of the top of the top of the line, fully loaded. I swear, that's real gold trim in the Bugatti. There's more money in metal in here than my brain can even tabulate. Oh my God! I shouldn't even be breathing the same air." Nick - Sherrilyn Kenyon Christopher Guest movies are my top of the line favorites. - Nina Blackwood

He's laughing me into a stupor, she thought. I could heckle, I suppose, I could throw a bread roll at him, but he's eaten them all. She glanced at the other diners, all of them going into their act, and thought is this what it all boils down to? Romantic love, is this all it is, a talent show? Eat a meal, go to bed, fall in love with me and I promise you years and years of top notch material like this? - David Nicholls I love classic rock, rock and roll, that's the top notch. I love soul - bluesy music as well. - Haley Reinhart

I'm more of a tomboy than anything and then you see your name on these Top 50 Most Beautiful People lists and you're like, "What?" - Lisa Marie Presley My top most priority is to deal with India's massive social and economic problems, so that chronic poverty, ignorance and disease can be conquered in a reasonably short period of time. - Manmohan Singh

From offstage until the moment I walk onstage, I constantly tweak my talk show and 'Top Model', but at the same time, I often leave my private life by the wayside. - Tyra Banks People always ask me if I'm going to stop modeling because I have started an acting career. I hope to continue to model for years to come. - Tyra Banks I love watching reality shows - I'm up to date with 'America's Next Top Model' and I love 'Project Runway.' But the shows where they're just sitting in a house aren't as fun to me! - Emma Bunton Fashion is entertainment. That's why these top models are so fascinating to kids. They're dying to know about Naomi and Christy, or whoever we've declared the new one this afternoon. - Carrie Donovan I was fired by 'America's Next Top Model' on my birthday. - Paulina Porizkova

I was still searching for someone to blame for my suffering. I really wanted someone to transfer my hate to, so that I could stop hating myself. - Glenn Beck ...she studied his clothes, his top hat. "And you've just come from Parliament? How are you finding that?" "It's much like piracy. You tell your enemies that if they don't fall in line, you'll leave them to die. - Meljean Brook You're playing the creepy vibe a little hard," I said. "Might as well go for broke, put on a black top hat and pipe in some organ music. - Jim Butcher When you really know somebody you can't hate them. Or maybe it's just that you can't really know them until you stop hating them. - Orson Scott Card There's only one thing that will make them stop hating you. And that's being so good at what you do that they can't ignore you - Orson Scott Card You are done for - a living dead man - not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred prese...

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. - Kurt Busch I'm not sure there are enough coaches in the system that can take young talent and consistently get them into the top five in the world. - Sebastian Coe TOP FIVE WAYS PEOPLE CAN SURPRISE YOU 5. Just when you think they've given up on you, they prove that they never will. 4. They find a way to speak up after staying silent for so long. 3. They defend you when you least expect it. 2. By showing you how life can get better now. 1. By helping you find a place to belong. - Susane Colasanti That strategy of racing for the top five and racing for the win is where everybody wants to be. - Dale Earnhardt If I went in the cage, I was going to end up eaten alive. That was actually one of my top five ways not to die.. - Laurell K Hamilton Once the World Cup preparations begin there will hardly be an opportunity to do so, since we'll have to put ...

People say history is boring, and that is true because people are boring. We haven't changed since time began. We're still the same. We've obviously made some changes. When we started, it was all about food, clothing and shelter. Now we watch 'Top Chef', 'Project Runway', and 'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.' - Colin Hay During the course of filming 'Top Chef,' I gain 15 lbs., so I'm used to needing two dress sizes. - Padma Lakshmi I have great empathy for all the contestants that come on 'Top Chef,' whether they go home right away or they make it to the finish line. It's a very vulnerable position they put themselves in and I feel for them. - Padma Lakshmi I've been a model for 15 years, and I've been on 'Top Chef' for eight seasons, and before that I had other cooking shows, so I've learned a thing or two about how to camouflage certain areas and how to draw the eye to a preferable area of the body. - ...

Leave it to me: I'm always top banana in the shock department. - Truman Capote Well, it's nice being top banana in the shock department. - Audrey Hepburn

Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top. - Edward Abbey Dennis Hutch had stepped up into the top seat when its founder had died of a lethal overdose of brick wall, taken while under the influence of a Ferrari and a bottle of tequila. - Douglas Adams The roughest road often leads to the top. - Christina Aguilera The roughest roads often lead to the top. - Christina Aguilera But isn't it likely that everyone in this world...has killed someone or other on their way to the top?...All I wanted was a chance to be a man--and for that, one murder is enough. - Aravind Adiga Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven't exactly been non-aggressive - including me. - Madeleine Albright But I do not believe that the world would be entirely different if there were more women leaders. Maybe...

A day can start out ordinary and end up being in the top ten. Joe Bunch - James Howe Edward: It wasn't the worst night of my life. Jake: Did it make the top ten? Edward: Possibly. But, if I had been able to take your place last night, it would not have made the top ten of the best nights of my life. Dream about that. - Stephenie Meyer I was wildly out of style when that television theme song suddenly pushed its way onto the Top Ten. It was certainly not the record company trying to make that happen. - John Sebastian If any of our songs ever did make it on the top ten, I'd disband the group immediately. - Robert Smith 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. - Thomas Sowell It's been amazing to watch, because for 'Thor', which was always a mid-selling book, to be in the top ten for every single issue since the reboot is just a great compliment. ...

Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top. - Edward Abbey Late in August the lure of the mountains becomes irresistible. Seared by the everlasting sunfire, I want to see running water again, embrace a pine tree, cut my initials in the bark of an aspen, get bit by a mosquito, see a mountain bluebird, find a big blue columbine, get lost in the firs, hike above timberline, sunbathe on snow and eat some ice, climb the rocks and stand in the wind at the top of the world on the peak of Tukuhnikivats. - Edward Abbey Because they do burn leaves here, the older folks do, and I remember now that I love it and always have. The way fall feels at night because of it, because of the crackling sound and walking around the sidewalks, like when you're a kid, and kicking those soft piles, and seeing smoke from backyards and Mr. Kilstrap standing over the metal drum with the holes in the top, the sparking embers at his feet. - ...

I'm into a casual-dressing girl: blue jeans and a tank top is super sexy. But the sexiest thing on a girl - when I see it I'm like, oh my God - is these little tight boxers. Don't get me wrong, g-strings are fine, but those cover a little, to where it's just enough. - Jensen Ackles I only have so much willpower, Helen," he whispered. "And since you apparently sleep in the most ridiculously transparent tank top I've ever seen, I'm going to have to ask you to get under the covers before I do something stupid. - Josephine Angelini I'm a mom, so I have to be comfortable. Jeans are a staple - I have way too many in my closet! It's warm in Florida, so I wear jeans and a tank top every day. I love my True Religions, my Rich and Skinny, and Citizens of Humanity. But I also love getting dressed up! - Candace Cameron Bure I had no style when I was 17! I look at teenagers now and say, 'I wish I'd looked like them when I was that age.' I had...