zenith Quotes

ZENITH, n. The point in the heavens directly overhead to a man standing or a growing cabbage. A man in bed or a cabbage in the pot is not considered as having a zenith, though Horizontalists hold that the posture of the body was immaterial.

I think that whenever a nation feels itself to be at is zenith, it starts to feel a creeping sense of anxiety.

The first rumors about Zenith came from the Czechoslovakians.

The ultimate dream of an athlete is to compete in the Olympics. For us athletes, that is the zenith. There is nothing beyond that.

From morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve,- A summer's day; and with the setting sun Dropp'd from the Zenith like a falling star.

Noon - is the Hinge of Day-.

Samskrit is the unsurpassed zenith in the whole development of languages yet known to us.

Twelve o'clock! It is the natural centre, key-stone, and very heart of the day. At that hour, the sun has arrived at the top of his hill; and as he seems to hang poised there a while, before coming down on the other side, it is but reasonable to suppose that he is then stopping to dine; setting an eminent example to all mankind.

An apex is always surrounded only by emptiness

Bliss defies description, obviously, since it annihilates you, since you're not there to experience it. You get the lead-up and the come-down, never the zenith.

I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between.

To actually pursue our ambition to its zenith, we should have made another album, because in the States we'd only had one successful album. In a sense, Wham! failed in its ultimate goal, even though it got 75 or 95 percent of the way there.

Only the peak feels so sound and stable that the beginning of the falling is hidden for a little while.

Each man is always in the middle of the surface of the earth and under the zenith of his own hemisphere, and over the centre of the earth.