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A jacket commemorating the Germans as champions of the 1990 World Cup is out of date two weeks after the event has passed.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

New developments in weapon systems during the 1950s and early 1960s created a situation that was most dangerous, and even conducive to accidental war.

If a horse doesn't want to do something, you're not going to make him do it. They're incredibly powerful animals.

I wanted him to love me, and I'm quite sure that he didn't.

I came into Chicago in winter - I'd never been so cold in my life! I was very homesick, and a poor student at that time. America seemed so different and so filled with amazing things - and almost all of them were out of my reach.

The beautiful thing about hip hop is its like an audio collage. You can take any form of music and do it in a hip hop way and itll be a hip hop song. Thats the only music you can do that with.

Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?

I need to rein myself in sometimes.

The advice that I can give anyone wanting to be in the biz: do all the work, learn your craft. There are no shortcuts. If you stay with it, you will get an opportunity.

Engineering undergraduates should not be charged fees. They should receive grants, not student loans, and the government will get the money back long-term from increased exports.

Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.

Terrorism is a real despair. These are people for whom life has been so negative that they're willing to die if they can take down some of their enemies.

Saving our planet lifting people out of poverty advancing economic growth... these are one and the same fight. We must connect the dots between climate change water scarcity energy shortages global health food security and womens empowerment. Solutions to one problem must be solutions for all.

I mean, I'm obviously not one of those people who's so beautiful women take their clothes off when I walk into the room. I didn't become a star overnight.

Unlike a lot of choreographers, I don't always start with the music. I often start with a visual artist, and then find music that fits the world of that visual artist.

I got a brand new flugelhorn today in this gorgeous case, it's beautiful.

I don't write anything that I hadn't experienced or hadn't been through.

I don't walk around like I'm a movie star because I don't think of myself as a movie star. People usually don't even notice me.

You can never betray the people who are dead, so you go on being a public Jew; the dead can't answer slurs, but I'm here. I would love to think that Jesus wants me for a sunbeam, but he doesn't.

As long as every generation rises to its challenges and stands up in defense of liberty - as Americans have done in the past and as our men and women continue to do today - our nation will remain free and strong.

I was brought up to be sympathetic toward others.

I really hate relaxing. I've done three movies in a row, worked for two years straight, and to me, idle time is the devil's workshop. I like to focus on something.

Making a movie takes a toll on your life because it's a commitment, so you put a lot on the back burner.

Google+ was, to my mind, all about creating a first-party data connection between Google most important services - search, mail, YouTube, Android/Play, and apps.

The major work of the world is not done by geniuses. It is done by ordinary people, with balance in their lives, who have learned to work in an extraordinary manner.