Pat Utomi Quotes & Sayings

But the problem is that even if you know that is the best thing to do, you often don't do it.
... it is true. It's as if there were two people inside you. One says: do this. Another says: do that. But both voices are inside the same person. — Alexander McCall Smith

One man came up to me at a taco stand and said, "I have no idea who you are, but I can see everyone is staring at you, so you must be somebody. I just wanted to tell you that you are not that special. You're no more special than me." I looked at him with a mouth full of food and managed to say, "Thanks. I agree," and promptly asked the waitress for a to go box. — Jewel

The worst moment was always taps. It didn't matter if the bugler played it well or poorly, in tune or out; there was something in the mournful ache of the music, and how it spoke of men dying before their time for something they only vaguely understood and being only vaguely appreciated by the people on whose behalf they died, that made it hurt so much. — Stephen Hunter

The joy of doing well as a batsman for your country is much more than that little joy of going for a party and enjoying music. It is a completely different high, and I get high by performances. That's what I enjoy now. — Virat Kohli

When the planet herself
sings to us in our dreams,
will we be able to wake ourselves, and act? — Gary Lawless

Lawyer's anxiety about the fate of the most interesting cause has seldom spoiled either his sleep or digestion. — Walter Scott

The most important thing in anyone's life is to be giving something. The quality I can give is fun and joy and happiness. This is my gift. — Ginger Rogers

The Senate is the last primitive society in the world. We still worship the elders of the tribe and honor the territorial imperative. — Eugene McCarthy

After breakfast I spent an hour cleaning my revolver and trying my skill at a target. Jane shook her head, probably thinking that bullets were vain against demonic powers. But Perdita was hugely delighted with the shining little instrument and wanted it for a plaything; women of all ages will play with death! ("Absolute Evil") — Julian Hawthorne

Come with uncle and hear all proper. Hear angel trumpets and devil trombones ... you are invited! — Anthony Burgess