The interstate highway system was built to get people from point A to point B as fast as possible. And they knocked down mountains and filled valleys and made everything nice and big and flat, and they bypassed every town.
There is a major turning point in life when you have to decide: shall I grow old gracefully or shall I try everything to stem the tide? For me, that point came in 2001, when I stopped dyeing my hair.
Jake Gittes: There's no point in getting tough with me. I'm just... Evelyn Mulwray: I don't get tough with anyone, Mr. Gittes. My lawyer does.
Koba: [pointing to his scars] Human... work Human... work [screams as he points to his damaged eye] Koba: HUMAN WORK!
Dickie Eklund: Who used to be the pride of Lowell? Huh? Dickie Eklund: [points at himself] Right here. Who's the pride of Lowell now? Dickie Eklund: [points at Micky] Right there.
Mikey: [the kids are arguing] Stop! We've got to get to the lowest point of the floor. Brandon Walsh: Lowest point nothing, Mikey. Now let's go!
At a certain point he was very popular, from THE RAVEN. He was never fully appreciated, never made the money, and you know he was looked upon with admiration by some people, but also as an oddball. But that was his point.
You get to a point where it gets very complex, where you have money laundering activities, drug related activities, and terrorist support activities converging at certain points and becoming one.
I never use nature as a starting point. I never abstract from nature; I never consciously think of nature when I paint.
I don't like political poetry, and I don't write it. If this question was pointing towards that, I think it is missing the point of the American tradition, which is always apolitical, even when the poetry comes out of politically active writers.
Female authors were still using male names when I was young, or they were neatly shoehorned into 'women's books' except for those few that men could always point at when the disparity was pointed out.
With 'Letters from Iwo Jima,' then 'Memories of Tomorrow,' I reached a sort of turning point in my acting. I had poured so much of myself into those movies that I really had no idea where to go from there.
If giving points to some students to achieve greater diversity is a quota system in violation of the Constitution, how can the awarding of points to the children of a less diverse alumni be upheld?
If you look just at the decades after 1934, you know it's hard to point to really inspired and positive support from outside of Haiti, to Haiti, and much easier to point to either small-minded or downright mean-spirited policies.
You don't really know when stand-up material is TV ready; it's just at what point you're willing to let it go and not work on it anymore. I'm not sure there is a point at which you think: 'And that is finished.'
I make a point to never, ever point out my physical flaws... this is advice I give to women as often as I can. People don't notice the things we see in ourselves that we hate, so why direct them to it?
My view of life is colored by humor and looking at the best in any situation.
Chaos is complexity viewed through a reductionist filter.
The view only changes for the lead dog.
At CNN, our view is that good journalism equals good business.
Based on observations of the policies of my own government, I viewed this action as an acceptable option.
