Words matter. These are the best Totem Quotes from famous people such as Velveteen Dream, Rumaan Alam, Jim Cramer, Peggy Johnson, Henry Mancini, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
The Dream couldn’t tell you the vibe in the NXT locker room, because, quite frankly, I have my own. When you are a Superstar as high up on the totem pole as The Velveteen Dream, you have those luxuries.
Years ago, I worked at a fashion magazine. I was the lowest man on the totem pole, one of the only men on that particular pole: a little brother with a dozen older sisters whose grace and glamour I so admired.
It’s the company itself, but most of these mutual fund companies, the guy who runs the company is just a fact totem and the guy who runs the money is the power. But we really don’t know who they are.
The 14th of 15 kids, I was the second youngest – not a coveted spot on the family totem pole.
I’m usually the last man on the totem pole. Except for the sound effects and the final sound mix, the score is the last element to be added to a picture.
With studio work, I’m always the bottom man on the totem pole.
Look at it this way – a totem pole is just a decorated tree. My work is a confessional.
I was a sharecropper’s son. That’s as low as you can get on the totem pole.
I’ve learned a lot about what kind of actor I want or do not want to be while being on set. I sit back and observe how other actors treat the totem pole of set politics.
LeBron is a role model in that sense. Because for him to be as good as he is and how high up he is on the totem pole, to still care about Akron, Ohio, that is tremendous and speaks volumes.
When I was in London at NBC, I was the lowest man on the totem pole. I would go to diplomatic receptions to meet people.
A beautiful woman can be painted as a totem only; not as a woman, but as a Madonna, a queen, a sphinx.
When you get started in comedy, you’re at the bottom of the totem pole. Not only are you not getting paid at these open mics. You’re actually paying to do them.
In the States, tennis is sixth or seventh on the totem pole as far as sports go.
I think the bottom of the totem pole is African-American women, or women of colour. I think they get the least opportunities in Hollywood.
You can’t really get into regular football after you watch Australian rules football because it’s just two different ends of the totem pole.
I will openly admit that I’ve never really followed hockey. Given my New England upbringing, I have always adhered to the Celtics, Patriots, Red Sox, Bruins mantra of professional sports fandom, but hockey was definitely the lowest sport on the totem pole – even when the Bruins won the Stanley Cup.
Trump says what he thinks at that moment. He’s a totem pole of transparency.
Totem poles and wooden masks no longer suggest tribal villages but fashionable drawing rooms in New York and Paris.
One of the most treasured books that I own is Donald Allen’s ‘The New American Poetry, 1945-1960.’ It was a totem of great importance and potency to my group of writer friends in college from 1960 to 1964.
On ‘Buffy’ I wasn’t all that high on the totem pole as far as responsibility and screen time.
When you’re a young child, you pick a totem animal, and you just identify with it to the point of wishing you were that animal.
A vest is just a totem reminding you that some people dress well, and you can be one of those people.
Some people pray to a totem pole, some people pray to a sun, some people pray to a god. It all works for them. It all comes back to what you think.
You must be absolutely honest and true in the depicting of a totem for meaning is attached to every line. You must be most particular about detail and proportion.
