Notches Quotes

• In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and notch it on my stick too; to stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and future, which is precisely the present moment; to toe that line.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Time, Future, Past

  'Walden' (1854) 'Economy'

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

  Haley Reinhart

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Soul

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• I didnt go into the NASA program to pick up rocks or to go the moon or anything else. I went in there because I was a military officer, and that was the next notch in my profession.

  Jim Lovell

  Military, Moon, Rocks

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• Being a food show and being me, I always kicked it up a notch, which means I would always elevate the spice level or the complexity of a particular dish. So, it was always like we're going to kick this up a little bit.

  Emeril Lagasse

  Mean, Spices, Levels

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• The nature of show business is people within the business feel that if someone else fails, they move up a notch.

  Tom Arnold

  Moving, People, Failing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In this ever-changing world, it's more important than ever that our top-notch military continues to receive the resources needed to serve and protect our country.

  Max Baucus

  Country, Military, Important

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• I moved to New York last year and I love it. It's a huge change and I've always wanted to spend time there. It's like a more intense London, and everything's up a few notches. The lights are brighter, the pace is faster and the food's better.

  Rachel Weisz

  Change, New York, Light

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• A Kiss concert experience is like sex or anything else that's done with more that one person. It's the give and take that makes it so great. When the audience takes it to the next level, we can kick it up another notch.

  Paul Stanley

  Sex, Kissing, Giving

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• I'm very accepting with my age. It's like notches on your belt: experience, wisdom, and a different kind of beauty. There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin.

  Zoe Saldana

  Birthday, Age, Skins

  "Zoe Saldana's Star Turn". Interview with Monica Corcoran, www.womenshealthmag.com. April 13, 2009.

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• The real killers in the business world aren't the ones who aim for the top, it's the ones who aim for two notches below the top.

  Douglas Coupland

  Real, Two, World

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• Before I put another notch in my lipstick case, you better make sure you put me in my place.

  Pat Benatar

  Evil, Cases, Misogyny

  Song: Hit Me With With Your Best Shot, Album: Best Shots

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• There is nothing more important to our Nation's future, to our homeland security, and to our economy than ensuring we have a top-notch educational system that is the envy of the world.

  Jim Jeffords

  Educational, Envy, Important

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• A good compilation tape, like breaking up, is hard to do and takes ages longer than it might seem. You've got to kick off with a killer, to grab the attention. Then you've got to take it up a notch, or cool it off a notch…oh, there are a lot of rules.

  Nick Hornby

  Age, Tape, Attention

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• The meeting of two eternities, the past and future....is precisely the present moment.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Past, Two, Live In The Moment

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• Father Time is not always a hard parent and though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the gray head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.

  Charles Dickens

  Children, Father, Heart

  Charles Dickens (2016). “Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty'”, p.25, Sai ePublications via PublishDrive

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• As the clockwork of the millennia moved a notch in front of their eyes, it had taken their thoughts from small things and reminded them of how vulnerable they were to time.

  Mark Helprin

  Taken, Eye, Vulnerable

  Mark Helprin (1989). “Winter's Tale”, Pocket Books

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• He's a politician. That's a notch below child molester.

  Woody Allen

  Children, Political, Politics

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• The Big L was cold crazy, A top-notch crook snatchin pocket books from old ladies

  Big L

  Crazy, Book, Pockets

  Song: Lifestylez Ov Da Poor and Dangerous, Album: Lifestylez Ov Da Poor and Dangerous, 1995

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• Nobody is expecting us to do anything. We can't let that perception become our reality, because with the ability on this team, if everybody can pick it up a notch, we'll be fine. It's not going to be Brooks coming in saving the day, or myself. It's got to be everybody as a unit playing consistent. If it happens, it's going to be great. It will be something like I've never experienced.

  Vinny Testaverde

  Team, Reality, Perception

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• I absolutely love this. Top notch art and scripting encapsulating a brilliant idea.

  Leinil Francis Yu

  Art, Ideas, Brilliant

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• Colin Morgan gives a stunning performance in Parked; he plays Merlin in the BBC TV show and he says the two characters are like night and day. Watch him. He’s got everything it takes to be top notch.

  Colm Meaney

  Character, Night, Tv Shows

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• I love my jeans and my sweats-I’m really just a tomboy at heart. So it’s really hard for me to be like Kim Kardashian and be makeup-and hair-ready every time I go out of my house. I’m not a believer in that, you know? On the other hand, when you do wear those sweats, you’re like, Oh God, I should step it up a notch.

  Britney Spears

  Heart, Makeup, Hair

  "Britney Spears: The Brit Factor". www.elle.com. September 5, 2012.

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• "I am not just another notch on your belt?" she asked him. "Of course not." he said as he put a mark on the chalkboard.

  Jay Leno

  Justice, Belts, Said

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• One cannot help but be impressed by this music. The musicianship is top-notch, the performances unpredictable and full of surprises, and Eric Starr's writing is consistently inventive.

  Scott Yanow

  Writing, Eric, Helping

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• While reading writers of great formulatory power — Henry James, Santayana, Proust — I find I can scarcely get through a page without having to stop to record some lapidary sentence. Reading Henry James, for example, I have muttered to myself, "C’mon, Henry, turn down the brilliance a notch, so I can get some reading done." I may be one of a very small number of people who have developed writer’s cramp while reading.

  Joseph Epstein

  Reading, Numbers, People

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