Quotes About Point

She turns to Madden. "Please don't make me get in the car with her. I have dreams." Madden smiles. I wouldn't think he would have such a familiar repartee with someone with a purple mohawk. "I think Viva has a point; there's really no reason for me to drive." Viva and I both turn to Madden, each of us hoping he will call it a day. "Nice try, Paige. But you never know. Perhaps you'll learn something." "And perhaps YOU'LL learn something." "What is that supposed to mean?" "I don't know, actually.

There's a critic that I love, Manohla Dargis of the 'L.A. Weekly.' I like the underground point of view; it's my old radical sympathies. Maybe I like her because she likes my movies.

At this point I've got a bit of a track record. So people realize that when 'Weird Al' wants to go parody, it's not meant to make them look bad... it's meant to be a tribute.

My son's a West Point cadet.

I run in the West Side highway. I've gotten recognized, but unless you're a runner, you really can't do nothing but just point.

I've stopped many things such as healthy eating. What's the point? In this post-truth era, I feel increasingly powerless.

The last thing you want to do is preach to the converted. What you want to do is talk about issues from a non-political point of view, from a human point of view.

Acting is many things, and one is an exercise of will. In any given scene, you're trying to find where the drama and conflict is and then deploy the actors to play at that point of conflict with precision, control, and complete will.

There's a very big difference between people deciding to absent themselves from a shared space in order to make a point, which I support, and people deciding to absent somebody else, which I'm absolutely opposed to.

The Patriot missile is a point defence missile. Point defence means that you put the missile at a location to defend a very specific target such as an airfield, a supply dump or a headquarters.

Whether it's a penalty or a tax, it's all one in the same. It's coming out of somebody's hard-earned money in their pocketbooks and that's the point. So in some ways, to me, it's a distinction without a difference.

America's got quite reasonable tax rates from an employee point of view.

When you reach the point at which even the most trivial acts are punishable by the death of the species, then obviously, obviously, you're at a critical juncture, a different kind of point of no return.

But the point is, it won't pass. You can't isolate it from the rest. It's there in the mix. And if the anti-Semitism is evil, it's all evil Because if they're capable of that, they're capable of anything.

A sword is dangerous to the man at the point, but not to the man at the hilt. Unless the man holding the sword is a fool, or careless, or unskilled, in which case it i twice as dangerous to him as to anyone else.

Quality is just the focal point around which a lot of intellectual furniture is getting rearranged.

on scene execution] Interesting isn't the point...storytelling momentum and relevance is .

I would prefer to be shot, myself, if I get that sick," Call said. "Once there's no avoiding death I see no point in lingering." Augustus smiled at the comment, and poured himself a little more whiskey. "We're all just lingering, Woodrow," he said. "None of us can avoid dying—though old Scull did the best job of it of any man I know, while that old bandit had him.

That possibility alone made his quandary more difficult. His wife had left for parts unknown, his deputy was wandering in other parts unknown, and the man he was supposed to catch was in yet other parts unknown. In fact, July felt he had reached a point in his life where virtually nothing was known.

was believed that the waters south of this point teemed with monsters, that their storms made them too violent to navigate

Remember that every science is based upon an abstraction. An abstraction is taking a point of view or looking at things under a certain aspect or from a particular angle.

Herewith I offer you the Omnipotent Finger of God in the anatomy of a louse: wherein you will find miracles heaped on miracles and will see the wisdom of God clearly manifested in a minute point.

The Victorian era was perhaps the last point in Western history when magic and science were allowed to coexist.

The premodern world directed us to read so little because it was obsessed by a question modernity likes to dodge: what is the point of reading?