Hitting is fifty percent above the shoulders.
Ted Williams

Republican comes in the dictionary just after reptile and just above repugnant.
Julia Roberts

If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all one's own, and such parsimony is excused by consideration for others. One is straight-forward.
Theodor Adorno

Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti

We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human.
Antonin Artaud

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
Washington Irving

Above all, in comedy, and again and again since classical times, passages can be found in which the level of representation is interrupted by references to the spectators or to the fictive nature of the play.
Paul Watzlawick

Rise above principal and do what's right.
Joseph Heller

To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.
Michael Korda

No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.
Charles Kendall Adams

Alfie was the first time I was above the title; the first time I became a star in America.
Michael Caine

I was up above it. Now, I'm down in it.
Trent Reznor

Whoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when unfolded such men are seen to be empty.
Sophocles

It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul.
Robert Redford

I see couples fighting about the stupidest things. You just have to rise above everything.
Sammy Hagar

One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor.
Edvard Munch

You know, I left the country when Reagan got in; I went to France. And when George Bush Jr. got in, my instincts told me it was time to go - I'd felt that we had grown above that, you know?
Tommy Chong

Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.
Walter Winchell

Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions... Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
Muhammad Iqbal

The thing that stood out above and beyond all the experiences was this relationship with the nine-month-old baby. On weekends, I'd be thinking about going back to set on Monday just to see the baby.
Vin Diesel