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The first rumors about Zenith came from the Czechoslovakians. -- Tom Clancy
Ah, what a morning this is, awakening me to life's stupidity. [98 - Zenith trans.] -- Fernando Pessoa
Serenity of manners is the zenith of beauty. -- Fredrika Bremer
American power worldwide is at its historic zenith. -- Zbigniew Brzezinski
Memory marks the horizon of our consciousness, imagination its zenith. -- Amos Bronson Alcott
Samskrit is the unsurpassed zenith in the whole development of languages yet known to us. -- Wilhelm von Humboldt
The zenith of elegance in any woman's wardrobe is the little black dress, the power of which suggests dash and refinement. -- Andre Leon Talley
Because reputation lags achievement, we should expect people to reach the zenith of their reputation well past the zenith of their productive output -- Richard Posner
I find my zenith doth depend upon A most auspicious star, whose influence If now I court not, but omit, my fortunes Will ever after droop. -- William Shakespeare
I am inclined to put the zenith of success-the time of most consideration and public labor -as somewhere in the sixties, say from sixty-five to seventy. -- William Robertson Nicoll
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. -- Leonardo da Vinci
I think one of the reasons people quit is because they're afraid they won't be able to get better and better; that they have to come to a zenith of some kind. -- Conrad Hall
I think the zenith of popular songwriting to the United States of America was that period that started in the '20s and went into the '50s. It was the period of the great American standard song. -- Linda Ronstadt
The zenith of virtuosity, a violinist like Jascha Heifetz, the supernatural in a pianist like Vladimir Horowitz, these are performers who were so idiosyncratic and personal that to imitate them would be like filling somebody else's bottle with your wine. -- David Finckel
I think Broadway is good for sharpening your skills. It's the best for really reaching the zenith of your talent. You go so far and reach the peak of it and you say, "Maybe this is the best performance I can do." -- Michael Jackson
If you ask me, the hypothetical zenith of gaming technology is direct neural interface - no body to hamper you and your brain is in whatever you want it to be in. Plus it leads to existential uncertainty, which could be entertaining. -- Yahtzee Croshaw
Reservations and cloth napkins are really minor pinnacles in the high sierra of the New York lunch. The zenith, the Mount Whitney of lunches, the noon meal at which all local lines of force converge [is] the Bar Room of the Four Seasons. -- Raymond Sokolov
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. -- Ambrose Bierce
Nowadays the world is becoming increasingly materialistic, and mankind is reaching toward the very zenith of external progress, driven by an insatiable desire for power and vast possessions. Yet by this vain striving for perfection in a world where everything is relative,they wander even further away from inward peace and happiness of the mind. -- Dalai Lama
There are signs that the age of petroleum has passed its zenith. Adjusted for inflation, a barrel of crude oil now sells for three times its long-run average. The large western oil companies, which cartellised the industry for much of the 20th century, are now selling more oil than they find, and are thus in the throes of liquidation. -- James Buchan
The Democrats say that the United States has had its days in the sun, that our nation has passed its zenith. They expect you to tell your children that the American people no longer have the will to cope with their problems, that the future will be one of sacrifice and few opportunities. My fellow citizens, I utterly reject that view. -- Ronald Reagan
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. -- John Milton
ZENITH / NOON beats out / on its solar anvil / the rays of light -- Sonia Delaunay
The late '70's and early '80s is the zenith of a certain craftsmanship in sound recording. -- Thomas Bangalter
Every man's first declaration of love is bathos--the zenith of his passion connoting perhaps the nadir of his intelligence. -- William John Locke
I think that whenever a nation feels itself to be at is zenith, it starts to feel a creeping sense of anxiety. -- Robert Harris
For in the works of Robert Burns we see the whole cosmos of man's experience and emotion, from zenith to nadir, from birth until death. -- Len G. Murray
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. -- Glen Duncan
When I was a kid, I was obsessed with UFOs in particular, and the paranormal. I grew up in the '90s, which is when The X-Files was at its zenith. -- Alex Hirsch
There is a tradition that sees journalism as the dark side of literature, with book writing at its zenith. I don't agree. I think that all written work constitutes literature, even graffiti. -- Eduardo Galeano
There will he nothing more that posterity can add to our immoral habits; our descendants must have the same desires and act the same follies as their sires. Every vice has reached its zenith. -- Juvenal
Man, if he compare himself with all that he can see, is at the zenith of power; but if he compare himself with all that he can conceive, he is at the nadir of weakness. -- Charles Caleb Colton

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