To say that an idea is fashionable is to say, I think, that it has been adulterated to a point where it is hardly an idea at all.
For as long as one has no further point of reference, apart from the position of the maximum, the wavelength thus remains uncertain by an integral factor.
When there's no one you can point to, or when something goes wrong, it's your fault - that level of responsibility and accountability is pretty interesting.
For me, the consolation of history resides in the fact that hypothetically returning to any point in time feels like coming home.
I know that my mind is so A.D.D., and I want instant gratification - and photography can provide me with that - but at some point, I want to make an independent feature.
Of course I can climb it. I'm practically a progidy in PE," I pointed out. "The question is, can you, Mr Smoker?
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.
It was just like Howlin' Wolf. Once you arrive at the point that you understand it, the emotional factor is darker than some of the saddest blues stuff.
I started out in the 'Cure' reflecting things that I thought were important, and it's reached a point where it takes over and becomes the thing that is important.
We're quickly moving to the point where we will have no military bases in the Northeast, and this undermines support for the military. We are a nation of citizen soldiers.
If you know where you stand, and your minus and plus points as a director or as a human being, you will never go wrong. You will always be successful.
It's come to the point where you have people saying it's our Christian duty to embrace the homosexual movement. This is absurd.
You will never know the moon or stars, unless you breathe in their solar system and inspect it from many diverse vantage points as possible.
It's always been too slow for me. Playing. The pace of things. I'm a fast sprinter. The trouble was, after playing in the group for a few months, I couldn't reach that point.
I don't want to be thought of as somebody who's spiritually ambiguous, but the reality is there's unknown things happening. I'm not ready to point at what they are or what the reason is, but I know they exist.
When you spin a globe and point to a city and actually go to that city, you build an allowance of missed opportunities on the back end.
When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it's like giving them emotional oxygen.
Even the most self-confident people, at one point of their lives, felt like outsiders or felt like they weren't being heard or seen or witnessed in some way.
People negotiate their way around how a human mind works and find blind points. That's how people steal effectively.
There's a certain point, when you're writing autobiographical stuff, where you don't want to misrepresent yourself. It would be dishonest.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
