Xcel Quotes & Sayings

Who does it belong to? he asked.
"my prince," I whispered.
"bloody right," he growled. — Kristen Ashley

The more Susan waited, the more the doorbell didn't ring. Or the phone. — Douglas Adams

In the first place, you're way off when you start railing at things and people instead of at yourself. — J.D. Salinger

The word 'racism' is like ketchup. It can be put on practically anything - and demanding evidence makes you a 'racist.' — Thomas Sowell

Even by common wisdom, there seem to be both people and objects in my dream that are outside myself, but clearly they were created in myself and are part of me, they are mental constructs in my own brain. — Ray Kurzweil

They weren't coming back and I could never re-create what we had, but I could move forward. — Katie McGarry

The truth is, for however much my stories come out of things that have happened to me, they're not darkly or as deeply personal as someone like Marc Maron or a lot of comedians, but they are essentially my life and my interpretation of it. — Eugene Mirman

Some of my favorite music is incredibly repetitive, or on the surface has an element of repetition. But once you go beneath the surface, you realize in the repetition is constant variation. — John Dieterich

I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended and patient when there be no redress. — Elizabeth Montagu

I am frequently asked if I have visited Israel, whereas yet, it is simply assumed that I have. Well, I don't travel. I really don't, and if I did, I probably wouldn't visit Israel. I remember how it was in 1948 when Israel was being established and all my Jewish friends were ecstatic, I was not. I said: what are we doing? We are establishing ourselves in a ghetto, in a small corner of a vast Muslim sea. The Muslims will never forget nor forgive, and Israel, as long as it exists, will be embattled. I was laughed at, but I was right. I can't help but feel that the Jews didn't really have the right to appropriate a territory only because 2000 years ago, people they consider their ancestors, were living there. History moves on and you can't really turn it back. (#92 ff.) — Isaac Asimov

President Obama was right to ban torture, but the public must understand that this decision carries a potential cost in lost information. That's what makes it a moral choice. — David Ignatius