Alicia Ostriker Quotes
The appropriation of the creativity-procreativity metaphor by women is a conscious challenge to traditional poetics and beyond that to traditional metaphysics, for the gynocentric vision is not that Logos condescends to incarnate itself, but that Flesh becomes Word.Alicia Ostriker
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I'm not the same person I was. I used to act dumb. It was an act. I am 26 years old, and that act is no longer cute. It is not who I am, nor do I want to be that person for the young girls who looked up to me. I know now that I can make a difference, that I have the power to do that.
Paris Hilton -
Obviously yeah, but our first album took us five years to put together, to get signed and to put it out, we had a lot of time to think about what we were doing. Black Sunday was like a whirl wind, we had to rush back to the studio after touring, but the last album we had a little longer, what like eight months?
Louis Mario Freese -
For some people, cigarette smoke absolutely disgusts them.
Andrew Brown -
Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.
Andrew Brown -
As soon as I arrive at the house, Laurie starts running, hits my chest, knocks me down, and licks my face. It's become a family ritual.
Beverly Sills -
It had to teach her to think of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end it itself.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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My parents didn't like me. For bathtub toys they gave me a blender and a transistor radio.
Jack Roy -
Life is about perspective and how you look at something... ultimately, you have to zoom out.
Whitney Wolfe Herd -
We only see in a lifetime a dozen faces marked with the peace of a contented spirit.
Henry Ward Beecher -
The true ground of most men's prejudice against the Christian doctrine is because they have no mind to obey it.
John Tillotson -
In that dramatic scene on Calvary's hill three men were crucified.... All three were crucified for the same crime-the crime of extremism. Two were extremists for immorality, and thus fell below their environment. The other, Jesus Christ, was an extremist for love, truth and goodness, and thereby rose above his environment. Perhaps the South, the nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
In our progress towards the goal, we ever see more and more enchanting scenery.
Mahatma Gandhi
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One thing I can tell you is you have to be free. Come together, right now, over me.
John Lennon The Beatles -
The older you get, the better you get to know you body.
Arjen Robben -
I'm the same guy. I'm trying make sure I focus on what I'm supposed to be focusing on which is playing ball. I'm trying all out. Everything else is just B.S.
Carlos PenaVega Big Time Rush -
I credit my collaborators for allowing me to grow. Without them I wouldn't have that opportunity.
Dave Koz -
I think we need to be human. Nobody is objective. We need to go in and be human - especially today, especially given everything that's happening around us, especially given the divides between populations that are growing and what's at stake in terms of our collective humanity, and the fact that our moral compass is broken.
Arwa Damon -
I have never believed in being part of any one group or camp.
Akshay Kumar
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Much like photographs, I also love the idea that ghosts are memories frozen in time. We can be haunted by both just as horrifically. One really becomes a metaphor for the other.
Ed Gass-Donnelly -
If the Prodigal Son's a parable, and if Adam and Eve are metaphors, then maybe God is just figure of speech.
Dan Barker -
The appropriation of the creativity-procreativity metaphor by women is a conscious challenge to traditional poetics and beyond that to traditional metaphysics, for the gynocentric vision is not that Logos condescends to incarnate itself, but that Flesh becomes Word.
Alicia Ostriker