Totem Quotes

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. - Emily Carr

You keep seeing names getting marked off and marked off the lineup card and eventually it gets down to the last guy on the totem pole. I was near the bottom. We were running out of bodies on the bench. It came down to the last man standing. - Geoff Blum

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. - Andrew Bogut

When you come head-to-head with those kind of teams and beat them, then you get the feeling that you can take yourself up a couple of notches on the totem pole. Right now, I think we're a team that can make the playoffs if we stay healthy and continue to play the type of basketball we're playing. - Mike Dunleavy

When I first signed my deal, they said if I made the All-Star Game in the first three years, we could rip up this contract and sign a new one. Well, I made it last year and they blew me off, and nothing has happened this year either. All I want is to get my face out there. If I'm the last person on the totem pole, just tell me I'm not in your future -- don't keep my hopes and dreams up. - Gilbert Arenas

We have a need to be religious, we need to worship, we need to build totems and shrines and icons, but nobody's sure in honor of what. - Robyn Hitchcock

We catch a lot of flak... They give us a lot of ribbing over that. I just say, 'I'm just the low man on the totem pole.' I don't feel responsible. I don't know if we would have stayed if we would have avoided that or not. - George Davis

Traditionally, natives did not put wings on their totem poles, but many people want wings on them. - Margaret Benson

Totem poles and wooden masks no longer suggest tribal villages but fashionable drawing rooms in New York and Paris. - Mason Cooley

The way that Roger runs his organization, it's a 'flat' organization. What I mean by that is that you can just walk into anybody's office and ask them a question on how we can get things done a little bit better or easier and nobody has a chip on their shoulder on how the totem pole is supposed to work. Everything is run flat across the board. Everybody is smiling and having a good time. - Kurt Busch