Utzinger Towing Quotes & Sayings

For me, self-gratification eventually took a backseat to trying to do something collaborative with other people, to trying to make something new. — Ariel Pink

His kisses to her neck were growing hungry and her insides were heating up,but she managed to mutter a terse,I would rather eat my own eyeballs than sit at the table with those bastards. — Laura Wright

Every parent of a teenager gets used to it: the moment in a child's life when he or she decides that certain facts are just too much trouble to explain to Mom or Dad. The parents can't, and needn't, know every last little thing. They just have to accept this, be content with what they can glean on their own, and move on. — Neal Stephenson

There is competition, but it is used in a good way. It is positive to want to go first, provided the intention is to pave the way for others, make their path more easy, help them, or show the way. Competition is negative when we wish to defeat others, to bring them down in order to lift ourselves up. — Dalai Lama

Daddy wasn't there for me, so I had to grind every day. — Ray Lewis

Are you an idiot, or an idiot?' Gargarin hissed.
'The first one. I really resent being called the second. — Melina Marchetta

That room was Rolandsen's world. Rolandsen was not just irresponsibility and inebriation, he was also great thinker and inventor. There was a smell of acids that permeated the corridor and came to the notice of every visitor. Rolandsen made no secret of the fact that he had all these medicaments there solely to disguise the aroma of all the brandy he consumed. But this was part of an act designed purely to give himself an air of inscrutability. — Knut Hamsun

Being human can be so dispiriting. It is a real stretch for me a lot of the time. — Anne Lamott

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do ... — Eleanor Roosevelt

I'm always jotting things down on pieces of paper. I've got pieces of paper all over my house. — Don Henley

It is nearly always the most improbable things that really come to pass. — E.T.A. Hoffmann

My father managed to change his entire life after I wrote a novel about his brutal regime as a family man. It took resoluteness and courage for my father to change, and I need to acknowledge that. — Pat Conroy

Sometimes you take time off, and then you look around and you go, "Hello. What happened? Oh dear!" — Pierce Brosnan