As witnesses that the things were not done in a corner.

In an age where history is recorded on T-shirts, the very notion of dwelling on the deep structure of an experience has come to appear both arcane and archaic.

Unlike metaphor, metonymy does not try to fuse images together.

As witnesses that the things were not done in a corner.

To liberate words means first to shatter their function as vehicles of idea, memory, hope, or regret.

In recent decades this symbolic or metaphorical lyric has given way to one which leans toward metonymy.

Experience has ceded to a series of happenings, about which the most we can expect is information.

Most film directors do not come up with their own subjects or write their own screenplays.

No art form points like poetry to this originality of language as to its essential and abiding concern.

Other, far fewer, directors are more like the composer - conceptualizing the piece, scoring it, distributing its musical lines among a range of registers, chords, and instruments.

A poem conveys not a message so much as the provenance of a message, an advent of sense.

Still the question remains of what actually speaks in a poem, if not subjectivity as historically constructed.

A jacket commemorating the Germans as champions of the 1990 World Cup is out of date two weeks after the event has passed.

With the question of the effect of a poem, the topic of investigation shifts from that of textual autonomy to textual reception - to the issue of what we actually look for or find in reading a poem.

The rage for railroads is so great that many will be laid in parts where they will not pay.

Good basketball always starts with good defense

The problem of the food price is structural. The growth of demand cannot be checked in that it is coming from middle income countries demanding more quality and more quantity of food. High demand is here to stay.

Seeing the work of directors like Romeo Castellucci, Ivo van Hove, Thomas Ostermeier, and Simon McBurney and Theatre de Complicite, was, and continues to be, hugely important to me. To my mind, these are artists who are forging new languages of performance and storytelling, and their constant reinvention is very inspiring.

I can always tell when a filmmaker doesn't care about his or her characters; they just care about setting them up to kill them off.

People work really hard to get to a certain point. But they have to work just as hard to stay there.

Consular cards were not designed to be identification and no treaty recognizes them as such. Legal travelers, visitors and long-term residents carried passports, visas or green cards for that purpose.

Definition Of A Wanderer: A guy who's always looking beyond

Who makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark.

Never give up. Great things take time.

When you're just starting out, and someone you think is a real storyteller says something good about you, that helps.

A hostility to modernity is shared by ideologies that have nothing else in common - a nostalgia for moral clarity, small-town intimacy, family values, primitive communism, ecological sustainability, communitarian solidarity, or harmonies with the rhythms of nature.

People always want cars. It's a huge industry, and there's always new product coming out.

New Mexico has been, in the past, a swing state.

Father, in spite of all this spending of money in learning Latin, I will be a painter.

The way to stay inspired and motivated is by doing what you like, doing what you love.

Compassion brings us to a stop and for a moment we rise above ourselves.

Sometimes, when things are going really well, I feel like I've already seen things - it's the flashback feeling in a good way. Like I'm watching a rerun, because I've studied this defense and know what comes next. Now, that is a good feeling, when your mind is working fast because you've studied, and you realize, 'I've seen this before.'

In terms of companies, they must stand for something bigger. They must be dedicated to something larger than financial results. I reject the Milton Friedman belief that a company's sole responsibility is to the shareholders.

Everybody knows I return all of my phone calls. I pick up my cell phone myself, much to the chagrin of my staff.

The people of Britain want a Home Secretary who will give them back their streets. They want a Home Secretary who will speak up for the victim, not the criminal.

Love is a master key which opens the gate of happiness.

Human nature is you get carried away, so we have to protect ourselves from ourselves.

People were going to geometry class and I was swimming through vats of chili on 'Even Stevens.' It was like a dream!