Towed Quotes

#1. Writers do not want to think they are less rational than other people, and at the mercy of compulsions, but in their hearts they know they are like those people who are taken for walks by their dogs, towed through hedges and ditches by an untrained sub-human energy.

Hilary Mantel

#2. war in Bastogne. I saw Europe from a truck with our gun towed behind. We'd named ours Joe

Ravi Howard

#3. Occasionally I see rich-looking women on Rollerblades gripping leashes and being towed bodily by golden retrievers. That's my kind of jogging.

Gary Reilly

#4. The silence became palpable and merciless in its depths. The only sound came from my car's radio. The Temptations towed me to tears.

Billy O'Connor

#5. I towed the panel away like a redneck removing a tree stump.

Andy Weir

#6. The second ward was declared a temporary holding cell for their prisoner, the ba, who followed in the procession, bound to a float pallet. Miles scowled as the pallet drifted past, towed on its control lead by a watchful, muscular sergeant.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#7. Eddy, I've made my own way since I was a kid, and when I marry it's going to be because the man I love and a girl named Tina are traveling together in the same direction at approximately the same speed, and each under his own power. I won't be steered, towed, nor provided with an icebreaker. ( ... )

Theodore Sturgeon

#8. The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap.

Ayn Rand

#9. Once I have impounded love and towed it into the confine of words, I have lost it altogether.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#10. F they'd been working with Alec Guinness, for instance, they wouldn't have known they were born if they'd not towed the line!

Alan Bennett

#11. Churchill strikes a note in my life because my father worked on Mulberry Harbour, which was the code name for the temporary concrete harbours which were towed across the Channel to make the D-day landings in France possible.

Ridley Scott

#12. My car broke down just the other day, I called triple A, they came and towed me away!

Rodney Dangerfield

#13. A kite can be flown in an absolute vacuum if it can be towed at the speed of light.

Randall Dale Adams

#14. Those who kow-towed to the prosecution and denounced the Nazi regime got it in the neck just the same. It serves them right.

Herman Goering

#15. Living longer is about loving longer, learning longer, teaching longer, connecting longer, if we figure out the supports and infrastructure to make all of that possible - and it is completely within reach.

Ai-jen Poo

#16. Not a few of real Christians have been more remarkably quickened now than before, in their Christian walk.

Various

#17. You cannot honour the prophet by dishonouring his teaching.

Hamza Yusuf

#18. It was my delusion and naivety that brought me here.

Lady Gaga

#19. Forget politics, his father had always said. Just give 'em something they need, or they'll eat you alive.

Joe Schreiber

#20. Danger lies in the extreme. A man who is always cruel is evil, a man who is always compassionate will be taken advantage of. It is more a question of balance, or harmony, if you will.

David Gemmell

#21. Better stop short than fill to the brim. Oversharpen the blade, and the edge will soon blunt. Amass a store of gold and jade, and no one can protect it.

Laozi

#22. U will become a fool if you are being professional with unprofessional person!!

Bharath Mamidoju

#23. It was the year Frankie thought about the world. And she did not see it as a round school globe, with the countries neat and different-colored. She thought of the world as huge and cracked and loose
and turning a thousand miles an hour.

Carson McCullers

#24. All sound heard at the greatest possible distance produces one and the same effect, a vibration of the universal lyre, just as the intervening atmosphere makes a distant ridge of earth interesting to our eyes by the azure tint it imparts to it.

Henry David Thoreau

#25. The language of clothing is high symbolism and we all, in moments where we need to know this, realize it.

Judith Martin

#26. Broadly speaking, there are only two ways human beings can make an income: ...by contributing to society or they can extract an income from society

Martin Adams

#27. Or should you mourn the rapist, which I guess Christians mourn the people who kill them too.

Nikolas Schreck