All Quotes

The point of my work is to make it clear that all youth can make 'big miracles' happen.
‐‐ Adora Svitak

The point of my work is to show that culture and education aren't simply hobbies or minor influences.
‐‐ Pierre Bourdieu

The point of mythology or myth is to point to the horizon and to point back to ourselves: This is who we are; this is where we came from; and this is where we're going. And a lot of Western society over the last hundred years - the last 50 years really - has lost that. We have become rather aimless and wandering.
‐‐ J. Michael Straczynski

The point of opera is that people are moved by the emotions and music.
‐‐ Alexander McCall Smith

The point of our demographics is that we're not having as many children and the population is stagnant, if not declining. So without immigration, we're not going to have the population.
‐‐ Susan Oliver

The point of painting is not really deception or imitation.
‐‐ A. S. Byatt

The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.
‐‐ Bertrand Russell

The point of power is always in the present moment.
‐‐ Louise L. Hay

The point of psychoanalysis is to really understand the roots of your behavior. Understand why you are doing the things you're doing - and connect your unconscious to your conscious.
‐‐ Tucker Max

The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting.
‐‐ Carolyn Gold Heilbrun

The point of revenge is not in the completion but in the process.
‐‐ Park Chan-wook

The point of serving your country is not to do your own thing or to go rogue, but to work as part of the process.
‐‐ Kal Penn

The point of that is, if you look at Walgreen's history, they've always been pioneers in the application of technology. They're the only drugstore chain that I know to have their own satellite.
‐‐ James Collins

The point of the essay is to change things.
‐‐ Edward Tufte

The point of the feminist movement wasn't simply to set our underwear on fire and muscle into small spaces in the male-dominated workplace, but to create a world where the contribution of both sexes was equally valued and no one's worth was judged on their take-home salary.
‐‐ Mariella Frostrup

The point of theatre is transformation: to make an extraordinary event out of ordinary material right in front of an audience's eyes. Where the germ of the idea came from is pretty much irrelevant. What matters to every theatre maker I know is speaking clearly to the audience 'right now.'
‐‐ Lee Hall

The point of view is the biggest problem with games, because what we play must be clearly presented in the best way for me to have an immersive game experience.
‐‐ Doug TenNapel

The point of what I do is that it doesn't really matter what a book or a story is as long it moves you, informs you, challenges you, entertains you, or changes you.
‐‐ James Frey

The point of writing my name to you is that I see who you are, you see who I am... and that's what it's about.
‐‐ Nana Visitor

The point really is that a writer tends to write a book that he or she tends to write. It's as simple as that. Of course, it's important to make a living and all that, but the main impulse as far as I'm concerned - and I'm sure as other writers are concerned - is to tell a story that I feel impelled by.
‐‐ Vikram Seth

The point - the power to hurt - of all figures lies in the truthfulness of their application.
‐‐ Abraham Lincoln

The point to have a child is to introduce them to this planet that is in some ways dying and hopefully, this new generation, these new untainted brains, will be the people to fix some of these things that this generation can't.
‐‐ Brie Larson

The poison of selfishness destroys the world.
‐‐ Catherine of Siena

The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more virulent in a hitherto virgin soil.
‐‐ Simone Weil

The poker player learns that sometimes both science and common sense are wrong; that the bumblebee can fly; that, perhaps, one should never trust an expert; that there are more things in Heaven and Earth than are dreamt of by those with an academic bent.
‐‐ David Mamet

'The Polar Express' began with the idea of a train standing alone in the woods. I asked myself, 'What if a boy gets on that train? Where does he go?'
‐‐ Chris Van Allsburg

The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imagination to sustain faith. It's also about the desire to reside in a world where magic can happen, the kind of world we all believed in as children, but one that disappears as we grow older.
‐‐ Chris Van Allsburg

The polarization of Congress; the decline of civility; and the rise of attack politics in the 1980s, the 1990s, and the early years of the new century are a blot on our political system and a disservice to the American people.
‐‐ Edward Brooke

The pole vault is a very complicated event, there are many things involved.
‐‐ Sergei Bubka

The 'Police Academy' stuff was all hyper-slapsticky.
‐‐ Adam McKay

The police are not here to create disorder, they're here to preserve disorder.
‐‐ Richard J. Daley

The police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence.
‐‐ Robert Peel

The police belongs to the people and the people belong to the police.
‐‐ Todor Zhivkov

The police came to me to say I had death threats and that I had to be careful!
‐‐ Heather Mills

The police can't protect consumers. People need to be more aware and educated about identity theft. You need to be a little bit wiser, a little bit smarter and there's nothing wrong with being skeptical. We live in a time when if you make it easy for someone to steal from you, someone will.
‐‐ Frank Abagnale

The police cannot protect the citizen at this stage of our development, and they cannot even protect themselves in many cases. It is up to the private citizen to protect himself and his family, and this is not only acceptable, but mandatory.
‐‐ Jeff Cooper

The police feel that most of the public are against them and that there is a lot of bad feeling.
‐‐ Peter James

The police force cannot be completely independent of the executive government.
‐‐ P. Chidambaram

The police had already found the cartridges and the rifles and the bag in the Texas School Depository and within a half an hour, those facts were known.
‐‐ John Sherman Cooper

The police in Punjab has been politicised; it has become a wing of the Akali Dal.
‐‐ Preneet Kaur

The police must obey the law while enforcing the law.
‐‐ Earl Warren

The police need to come down to street level.
‐‐ Alexander McQueen

The police officer's job is to respect the citizens that they are in control of.
‐‐ Benjamin Watson

The police officers, so far as discipline, organization, pay, and orders were concerned, came exclusively under the German Reich police system and were in no way connected with the administration of the Government General.
‐‐ Hans Frank

The police protect us, and we're going to protect the police.
‐‐ George Osborne

The police pull up in back of my car and run my plates - they don't see you as you are; they see you through a racialized negative gaze. I think the best thing is not to internalize it too much, or it'll make you crazy because you know it's going to happen again.
‐‐ Mark Bradford

The police who did our training said 'Happy Valley' is one of the only police programmes they can watch and not burst out laughing, saying, 'As if you'd do that.' They think it's really authentic.
‐‐ Katherine Kelly

The policeman isn't there to create disorder; the policeman is there to preserve disorder.
‐‐ Richard J. Daley

The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism.
‐‐ Huey Newton

The policies on the Republican side have been much better for Hispanics, for minorities, but the rhetoric, unfortunately, has not.
‐‐ Mario Diaz-Balart

The policy is one thing, but it's dictated by what the process is.
‐‐ Dan Webster