"I am not a star. I am an actor. I have been fighting for years to make people forget that I am just a pretty boy with a beautiful face. It's a hard fight, but I will win it. I want the public to realize that above all I am an actor, a very professional one who loves every minute of being in front of the camera. But one who becomes very miserable the instant the director shouts, 'Cut!'"

--- Alain Delon

"There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit."

--- Alexander Pope

"What know we of the Blest above but that they sing, and that they love?"

--- William Wordsworth

"I care about life and I have a record of fighting for people above all else."

--- Wendy Davis

"Man is effective in the world not only through what he does, but above all through what he is."

--- Rudolf Steiner

"If your Nerve, deny you - Go above your Nerve"

--- Emily Dickinson

"I believe in it, and I trust it too and treasure it above everything, the personal, the personal, the personal! I put my faith in it not only as the source, the ground of meaning in art, in life, but as the meaning itself."

--- Eudora Welty

"Ernest [Hemmingway] was always ready to lend a helping hand to the one on the rung above him."

--- F. Scott Fitzgerald

"I believe there's a god above me, I'm just the god of everything else!"

--- Pusha T

"There exists above the "productive" man a yet higher species."

--- Friedrich Nietzsche

"And above all you ought to guard against leading an army to fight which is afraid or which is not confident of victory. For the greatest sign of an impending loss is when one does not believe one can win."

--- Niccolo Machiavelli

"The divine is not something high above us. It is in heaven, it is in earth, it is inside us."

--- Morihei Ueshiba

"I don't pick on anybody who has a number above 30."

--- Mike Ditka

"The time has come for all good men to rise above principle."

--- Huey Long

"I am a woman above everything else."

--- Jackie Kennedy

"I am not good. I am not virtuous. I am not sympathetic. I am not generous. I am merely and above all a creature of intense passionate feeling. I feel—everything. It is my genius. It burns me like fire."

--- Mary MacLane

"I still don't feel whatever change you're supposed to feel when your name goes up above the title."

--- Martin Balsam

"Some of you will die in the service of Christ. That will not be a tragedy. Treasuring life above Christ is a tragedy."

--- John Piper

"Place the team above yourself always."

--- John Wooden

"I think just the above things. I think I wanted to learn from both cultures. So, I think the music is a little more reflective of the... Catholic culture but the theology, obviously, is much more Reformational."

--- Keith Getty