Of course, it is always nice to poll well, but if you don’t get representatives elected, then what is the point?

All I’m saying is that Louis Vuitton and L’Oreal didn’t invent branding at some point in the mid-Eighties. Big, reassuring names have been around a long time.

But it seemed to me that as soon as you have computer storage you could put every point you wanted in – make the ones that are less relevant to your central topic, further away...

Maharaj-ji, in my first darshan, my first meeting with him, showed me his powers. At that point I was impressed with the power. But subsequently, I realized that it was really his love that pulled...

I can’t wait to play the Hammerstein shows. Things have been exploding in the last week, and that’s going to be the exclamation point.

That’s the way I try to live. I think it’s the only way for human beings at this point in our evolution as souls, where everyone in their lifetime is going through stuff.

We don’t point a pistol at our own forehead. That is not the way to conduct negotiations.

The point is, how do you know the Guarantee Fairy isn’t a crazy glue sniffer.

I do not go outdoors… As far as I’m concerned, the whole point of living in New York City is indoors. You want greenery? Order the spinach.

But you can’t extend, or go beyond any point musically, without the basic fundamentals.

People are not the only interesting organism on earth. From the point of view of scientific or commercial value, there are lots of interesting organisms.

Mexican Shuffle was a turning point of the Brass.

‘Moldova: Yes or No?’ That’s a great app, and we actually used the geo-locator on your phone, so if you are in Moldova, it will say ‘Yes, you’re in Moldova.’ I’m so excited. People need...

I never feel like I have to hang on to the music. I don’t expect that the music will go away. Ideas are the only thing I can point to that are permanent and fixed.

I’ve got nothing left to lose at this point. The work I’ve done is out there.

We all know that technology has advanced to the point of watching TV online.

The whole point about historians is that we are really communing with the dead. It’s very restful – because you read. There’s some sociopathic problem that makes me prefer it to human interaction.

At every point I am besieged by people who would like me to conform to some social norm of whatever sort of social group they expect me to be a part of. I never have...

I have reached the point where I know that as long as I sit down to write, the ideas will come. What they will be, I don’t know.

Sometimes, if you are nervous, it could actually turn out to be a manifestation of your exhaustion. The point is that any setback is bad, but if you see it from a perspective, you’ll recover.

By the late ’70s I had come to question the point of a great deal of what we were doing, in terms of the CIA’s overall charter.

The tubular steel chair is surely rational from technical and constructive points of view. It is light, suitable for mass production, and so on. But steel and chromium surfaces are not satisfactory from the human...

The fundamental point in fabricating a chain reacting machine is of course to see to it that each fission produces a certain number of neutrons and some of these neutrons will again produce fission.

For the entire first term, Obama and his people blamed Bush for everything – which is another way of saying they felt Bush and the Bush years were the inescapable reference point for everything they...

I depleted myself to the point where I had nothing left.

When I was a kid, it was a huge insult to be a geek. Now it’s a point of pride in a weird way.

I think of being an actor as kind of a young man’s gig. It’s emasculating, in a way, people messing with you and putting make-up on you and telling you when to wake up and...

It’s not a stretch to say the whole financial industry revolves around the compass point of the absolutely safe AAA rating. But the financial crisis happened because AAA ratings stopped being something that had to...

Women in Africa, generally a lot needs to be done for women. Women are not being educated, not only in Angola but my trip to Nigeria, one point I would make over and over again...

The widely held belief that the heterosexual nuclear family is best for children has long been used as a smoke screen for homophobia and as a talking point to quash marriage-equality efforts.

When you live in Paris, and fashion is such a point of pride for the French, it’s always around and you’re very much exposed to it from an early age. It was always something I...

I try to make a film that’s very entertaining, very funny, but also gives you something to think about. And the strongest thing I have to offer is my point of view, to get across...

In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing.

All of the things that have happened in my life have been self-propelled. I can’t blame anybody else or point a finger at anybody.

You don’t go to school to become the best chef in the world right after you graduate. School is always a starting point so what people forget is that you go to school to build...

I’m always saying that my books are not autobiographical because they’re not. I can’t choose any one scene and say, ‘Oh, this is exactly what happened to me!’ I just use little snippets of things...

The whole question of fiduciary responsibility is a very old concept. You could make a movie about someone making that rule at any point in history, and within a few months, it will turn out...

Sometimes you get caught up in what’s going on around you. The reality is that you are just a regular person. At some point, the career will be over, the bright lights turn off. That...

Observing humans and observing oneself yields a clear-minded starting point for literature.

If I were to try to identify a turning point I’d say that was it – getting clean.

There is no essential difference between the material of comedy and tragedy. All depends on the point of view of the dramatist, which, by clever emphasis, he tries to make the point of view of...

At synods, I usually wait about a week before I speak. First I listen. I feel the temperature. I listen to what has been said, what has not been said, and what I think needs...

Now I’m at the point where I can bring the cursor just about anywhere.

Maimonides taught that it is better that 10 criminals go free than let one innocent man be executed. The Innocence Project represents that point of view.

What is the point of working all your life and then stopping?

I think that we are at a point in our country where we’re trying to decide what role should religion play in the political arena.

Once you make it to your point of making it, you’ll appreciate the struggle.

I loved the music, but the excesses of rock n’ roll never really appealed to me at all. I couldn’t see the point of getting up in front of a lot of people when you...

So, the point was to be able to have a medium that would record all the connections and all the structures and all the thoughts that paper could not. Since the computer could hold any...

It’s very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing… if you begin from the point of...