Vantaan Sanomat Quotes & Sayings

Two opposing forces inhabit the poem: one of elevation or up-rooting, which pulls the word from the language: the other of gravity, which makes it return. The poem is an original and unique creation, but it is also reading and recitation: participation. The poet creates it; the people, by recitation, re-create it. Poet and reader are two moments of a single reality. — Octavio Paz

Few words have been misunderstood more than "love," perhaps with the exception of "God — Akemi G

I used to hate being different. I used to cry. I wanted to be blonde-haired and blue-eyed like all of my girlfriends. My mom and dad would feel so badly - 'No, it's OK. You'll be happy you're different later. — Kiana Tom

When ideas are young and vulnerable, criticism can be lethal. — Janet Echelman

Hell is not evil; it's a place where evil gets punished. Hell is not pleasant, appealing, or encouraging. But Hell is morally good, because a good God must punish evil. — Randy Alcorn

The arts develop skills and habits of mind that are important for workers in the new economy of ideas. — Alan Greenspan

You have an astonishing ability to deliver insults in the most normal tone of voice. Do you find that makes you popular among your acquaintance? — Miranda Neville

We lose the fear of letting go of our baggage, but also the certainty that what is in them belongs to us. — Andres Neuman

In a way, I pattern myself after all the bands I used to like as a kid. Every time they put out LPs, they had a whole new look and a new sound. — Richard Prince

I deplore the loss of arts on BBC One and Two. — Jonathan Dimbleby

The Kingdom of God might be at hand, but that hand was empty. — J.G. Ballard

Anybody can say she's an actress. It's another thing to get a job. — Heather Locklear

Whiteness is not a culture. There is Irish culture and Italian culture and American culture - the latter, as Albert Murray pointed out, a mixture of the Yankee, the Indian, and the Negro (with a pinch of ethnic salt); there is youth culture and drug culture and queer culture; but there is no such thing as white culture. Whiteness has nothing to do with culture and everything to do with social position. It is nothing but a reflection of privilege, and exists for no reason other than to defend it. Without the privileges attached to it, the white race would not exist, and the white skin would have no more social significance than big feet. — Noel Ignatiev