Quotables

“Change is coming that hasn’t happened in 100 years. And we are driving this change together.”

Chinese President XI JINPING, speaking to Russian President Vladimir Putin during Xi’s March 20-22 trip to Russia. The visit was aimed at strengthening ties between the two world powers.

“Does a drag show preserve a single thread of human dignity? I think not.”

WALTER WENDLER, president of West Texas A&M University, in a March 20 school memo explaining his decision to cancel a student drag show planned for March 31. He called such shows “derisive, divisive and demoralizing misogyny.”

“Whatever adversity that you’re faced with, you can always find a way. With God, all things are possible.”

KATELYN PAVEY, a softball player with Kentucky Christian University, describing to WDRB how she achieved success in her sport despite being born with an undeveloped left arm. A movie about her life, I Can, debuts this summer.

“We’re not talking kissy lips.”

University of Maryland paleontologist THOMAS HOLTZ, describing how T. rex likely possessed lizard-like lips that covered its large teeth, according to a March 30 study in Science.