Xuzhou Quotes

#1. I grew up in a little funny town called Xuzhou, in the countryside, very poor. We didn't have hot water. We were four children: three girls and a boy.

Wendi Deng Murdoch

#2. Mum had a job fitting upholstery into cars, but, in the evenings, she worked as a seamstress.

Bruno Tonioli

#3. Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.

H.L. Mencken

#4. Edmonton is Canada's answer to Omaha. Solid, unassuming, and surrounded by a whole lot of nothing. It's a place that makes you think of sensible shoes.

Kathy Reichs

#5. There's nothing more fun than making fun of what's sacred.

Adam McKay

#6. It's unexpected for women's issues to be brought up in places other than women's centers on college campuses or crisis places.

Kathleen Hanna

#7. People are tired of simple things. They want to be challenged.

Umberto Eco

#8. If we are going to have to worry all the time that we might offend some students' sensibilities, we are not going to be able to teach in a way that actually matters. We're not going to be able to teach about sex, gender, race, religion, or violence.

Alice Dreger

#9. I've often heard the complaint from both Democrat and Republican voters alike that they hate the fact that politicians get into office and they - and they're fearful, they're fearful to make tough decisions because they think more about the next election than they do about the next-generation.

Scott Walker

#10. Nathaniel closes his eyes and jumps, his arms glued to his sides like that fly's. He doesn't try to break his fall, just hits hard, because it hurts less than everything else.

Jodi Picoult

#11. Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.

Germaine Greer

#12. As long as your ideology identifies the main source of the world's ills as a definable group, it opens the world up to genocide.

Steven Pinker