Sometimes, you need a door slammed in your face before you can hear opportunity knock.

You only really discover the strength of your spine when your back is against the wall.

The mind revels in conjecture. Where information is lacking, it will gladly fill in the gaps.

Metaphors hide in plain sight, and their influence is largely unconscious. We should mind our metaphors, though, because metaphors make up our minds.

By bringing together what we know and what we don't know through analogy, metaphorical thinking strikes the spark that ignites discovery.

A simile is just a metaphor with the scaffolding still up.

Heroism often results as a response to extreme events.

Aphorisms are literature's hand luggage. Light and compact, they fit easily into the overhead compartment of your brain.

Metaphor impinges on everything, allowing us - poets and non-poets alike - to experience and think about the world in fluid, unusual ways.

Advice is given freely because so much of it is worthless.

In the margin for error lies all our room for maneuver.

This will be the way I’ll be remembering you, Kel, ” he whispered softly into her ear, “in this beautiful place, where all that I’m thinking about it how much I want you.

I'm a very visual person, and I love opening beautiful books on art or design and looking through them.

I don't make romantic films. I make films about human relationships.

The strange thing about Africa is how past, present and future come together in a kind of rough jazz, if you like.

Yes, I do strive to be someone young women can look up to.

Here we encounter two conflicting concepts with which we must come to grips in our time: the idea of national solidarity and the idea of international cooperation.

Books-bright windows in this life of ours, lit by the shining souls of men.

By defining the problem as 'hunger', the emergency food system is helping to direct our attention away from the more fundamental problem of poverty, and the even more basic problem of inequality.

I've never been good at being nostalgic, and I've never been able to focus on sound without having a voice that's very here-and-now.

The current Eurozone is obviously dysfunctional. And serious people within Germany and elsewhere know this to be the case and know things cannot function this way forever.