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A jacket commemorating the Germans as champions of the 1990 World Cup is out of date two weeks after the event has passed.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 greatest mark of a father is how he treats his children when no one is looking.

I've never had a sinus infection or been on antibiotics since cutting out dairy.

I am really and truly frightened by the collapse of support for the Republican Party by the young and the educated.

I'm 19 now, and I go to The New School in New York, where I study Criminal Psychology. My first week of second semester was during Fashion Week when my first editorials in 'CR Fashion Book' and 'Sports Illustrated' came out. It was crazy!

I'm a pretty hands-on dad and make the most of my custody. I take care of my little one whenever I can, and she determines what I can do and where I can do it.

Ambition, in a private man is a vice, is in a prince the virtue.

Your diet is a bank account. Good food choices are good investments.

So it's been kind of a long road, but it was a good journey altogether.

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.

I love my parents. But they have their life, and I have mine.

I don't know what's better gettin' laid or gettin' paid.

Food is not rational. Food is culture habit craving and identity.

When a man takes an oath... hes holding his own self in his own hands. Like water. And if he opens his fingers then he neednt hope to find himself again.

It's always a pleasure when you get to work with people that you actually really like.

I supported myself by delivering the 'Wall Street Journal' and doing odd jobs. I love plumbing and carpentry.

A woman said to me when she first sat down, You're photographing the wrong side of my face. I said, Oh, is there one?

The compatibility of a couple and the quality of a relationship lies in the way they handle their arguments and differences..

One key symptom of alcoholism is that the individual comes to need a drink for every mood--one to calm down, one to perk up, one to celebrate, one to deal with disappointment, and so on.

So often in TV, when you have an antagonist who's supposed to be the 'big baddie,' it's so easy for them to become cliched.

In the scope of a happy life, a messy desk or an overstuffed coat closet is a trivial thing, yet I find - and I hear from other people that they agree - that getting rid of clutter gives a disproportionate boost to happiness.

I'm looking for a deal from one of you TV networks to give Snoop Dogg his own hood TV show where I can find America's hottest hood artists.

There is no better example of social and economic policy discussion as an idle pastime for the rich than the World Economic Forum at Davos. These guys make the millionaire schmoozers at the Aspen Ideas Festival look like short-order cooks.

My style is colloquial storytelling. It's the way we tell stories to one another - it's not writerly, it's not overdone.

I live my life like everyone else; everyone has their own obstacles. Mine is deafness.