A lot of people get the wrong impression, think there's something romantic or tragic about hitting bottom. Votes: 4
Hitting bottom and hitting it hard was the worst thing that ever happened to me and the best thing that ever happened to me. Votes: 4
At bottom is the best soil to sow and grow something new again. In that sense, hitting bottom, while extremely painful, is also the sowing ground. Votes: 4
A feeling of violation swayed inside me, making me feel as if Id been shoved off a high platform without warning. I was falling, and I feared the sensation far more than hitting bottom. There was no end; just a constantsense of gravity having its way with me. Votes: 4
Deconstruction seems to offer a way out of the closure of knowledge. By inaugurating the open-ended indefiniteness of textuality-by thus 'placing in the abyss' (mettre en abime), as the French expression would literally have it-it shows us the lure of the abyss as freedom. The fall into the abyss of deconstruction inspires us with as much pleasure as fear. We are intoxicated with the prospect of never hitting bottom Votes: 4
Wasn't hitting bottom the thing you had to do to knock some sense into yourself? Wasn't hitting bottom the thing that showed you which way was up? Votes: 3
Everyone hits bottom their own way. Votes: 2
To hit bottom is to fall from grace. Votes: 2
Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom. Votes: 2
I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn't death. Votes: 2
Bottom line is, you have to pitch. You want timely hits. Votes: 2
Smaller markets teams, when you hit bottom, you hit with a thud. Votes: 2
Global stocks bottomed in June 1921, but global economies didn't hit bottom for fully two more years. Votes: 2
I think I hit the bottom when my wife left me while I was on the road. Votes: 2
I think you sometimes have to go hit rock bottom before you can grow and rebuild as a person. Votes: 2
Even if consumer confidence hit rock bottom, that most likely would not be enough, by itself, to cause a depression. Votes: 2
Hitting bottom isn't a weekend retreat, it's not a goddamn seminar. Stop trying to control everything and just let go! Votes: 2
If you're going to win games, you're going to have to come up with the big hits. That's the bottom line. Votes: 2
People say you have to hit rock bottom, and, I can tell you, almost dying is as rock bottom as it gets. Votes: 2
Like most severely overweight people, I had to hit a rock-hard bottom before I'd take responsibility for the consequences of neglecting my own health. Votes: 2
I'm always on the go. I love doing things until I hit rock bottom. Then I need my 12 hours of sleep, and I'm on the go again. Votes: 2
Too many African countries have already hit rock-bottom - ungoverned, poverty-stricken, and lagging further and further behind the rest of the world each day; there is nowhere further to go down. Votes: 2
If your life just falls apart early on, you can put it together again. It's the people who are always on the brink of crisis who don't hit bottom who are in trouble. Votes: 2
Some of us can be examples about going ahead and growing, and some of us, unfortunately, don't make it there, and end up being examples because they had to die. I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn't death. Votes: 2
We don't have to guess what Mitt Romney would have done if he were president. Because he told us. He said we should let foreclosures - and I quote - 'hit the bottom' so the market could - I quote - 'run its course.' Votes: 2
It was like falling off a building and suddenly, bang, you hit the bottom. The first time it happened was on an ordinary day at home. I was taking down some curtains. I took one step, turned around, took another step and then I fell and hit my head hard on the rowing machine. Votes: 2
The first casualty of hitting rock bottom is vanity. Votes: 0
But when I thought I hit bottom, it started hitting back. Votes: 0
But when I thought I hit bottom, it started hitting back. There is no bruise like the bruise loneliness kicks into your spine. Votes: 0
Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom. Votes: 4 George S. Patton
Hitting is an art, but not an exact science. Votes: 4 Rod Carew