'Psycho' is fascinating philosophically, because the point of 'Psycho' is that everything that's bad happens because of love.
At any rate, that’s how I started running. Thirty three—that’s how old I was then. Still young enough, though no longer a young man. The age that Jesus Christ died. The age that Scott Fitzgerald started to go downhill. That age may be a kind of crossroads in life. That was the age when I began my life as a runner, and it was my belated, but real, starting point as a novelist.
The important point is that the cost of adding a feature isn't just the time it takes to code it. The cost also includes the addition of an obstacle to future expansion. Sure, any given feature list can be implemented, given enough coding time. But in addition to coming out late, you will usually wind up with a codebase that is so fragile that new ideas that should be dead-simple wind up taking longer and longer to work into the tangled existing web. The trick is to pick the features that don't fight each other.
Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind.
If you're going to play a hooker in a movie, the movie has to have the perspective, of course, that it isn't such a great thing. Probably the only way to really play a hooker well is to believe you're doing something that's good. But at the same time, the movie can't have that point of view.
Without privacy there was no point in being an individual.
History makes the point time and time again No greater mischief can be created than to merge the power of religion with the power of government.
What was the point of living through history if you didn't record it?
You have to exercise, or at some point you'll just break down
Sometimes life is about being sad and doing things anyway. Sometimes it's about being hurt and doing things anyway. The point isn't perfection. The point is doing it anyway.
Never point a finger where you never lent a hand.
If anything can be done, it can be overdone is my point of view.
I think our brains does have a tendency to be true to its own ideas and statements. Everything we do and everything we think about is a belief. Until we get to the point where we look beyond our own ego-self, and to some degree beyond our own mind, we are always going to make assumptions and have beliefs to make our brains feel more comfortable. And if we can get to a point where we embrace that uncertainty and doubt, and be willing to learn from that and to explore that, I think that that could be a very positive experience.
I have always made a point in my romances of basing my so-called inventions upon a groundwork of actual fact, and of using in their construction methods and materials which are not entirely without the pale of contemporary engineering skill and knowledge.
The photographer proceeds, via the intermediary of the lens, to a point where he literally takes a luminous imprint, a cast. . . [But] the cinema realizes the paradox of moulding itself on the time of the object and of taking the imprint of its duration as well.
At the still point, there the dance is.
The engagements with the International Investment Council have developed in a very interesting way. It is, again, the point I raised at the beginning.
I have no point in my system or morals where I say, 'This is too far.
Even when I was wrong, I got my point across.
Hip-Hop's cultural movement is much larger than the corporate representation. The images most of hip-hop's critics point to are those manufactured by major corporations whether on television, via Viacom, or on the radio, via Radio One and Clear Channel.