Xutos Quotes & Sayings

In last year's local elections in Manchester a third of those who voted did so by post. It's not just that people are choosing to get postal votes, but having one makes it much more likely that they'll vote. — Lucy Powell

I think we have tremendous media covering the sport of boxing, even if boxing is a little bit lost in popularity with MMA sports. And I think that with the show 'Lights Out' it's going to get more attention to the sport, and it's going to put more attention to the problems that athletes in general have. — Wladimir Klitschko

The proper order of things is often a mystery to me. You, too? — Cheshire Cat

Literature is disputed territory. — Salman Rushdie

The purpose of the photograph is to reveal the love that is felt in a single image. — Amelie Nothomb

If one takes meaning into consideration, happiness might best be described as "a zest for life in all its complexity," as Sissela Bok writes in her book. To achieve it means to "attach our lives to something larger than ourselves." To be happy, one must do. It could be something as simple as teaching Sunday school or as grand as leading nonviolent protests. It could be as cerebral as seeking the cure for cancer or as physical as climbing mountains. It could be creating art. And it could be raising a child - my "best piece of poetrie," as Ben Jonson said in his elegy for his seven-year-old son. — Jennifer Senior

San Antonio is the patron saint of things that have gone missing. — Jodi Picoult

There were tiny rainbows in that glass. I turned it so a rainbow danced across my hand. — Lucy Christopher

Learning requires work. This is as true of learning the Bible as it is of learning algebra. — Anonymous

I always felt from the beginning that you had to defend people you disliked and feared as well as those you admired. — Roger Nash Baldwin

The darker the storm the brighter the rainbow. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Her earliest memory was of wings. Luminous red and blue, yellow and green and orange; a black so rich it appeared liquid, edible. They moved above her and the sunlight made them glow as though they were themselves made of light, fragments of another, brighter world falling to earth about her crib. Her tiny hands stretched upwards to grasp them but could not: they were too elusive, too radiant, too much of the air. — Elizabeth Hand

I love scars on people. Scars to me are so attractive. — Shannen Doherty