#point

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

— Thorstein Veblen

#dancing #fencing #law #law school #merit

Was there ever in anyone's life span a point free in time, devoid of memory, a night when choice was any more than the sum of all the choices gone before? ↗

— Joan Didion

#anyone #before #choice #choices #devoid

I probably get strangers coming up to me two or three times a week to just say something nice. I get more than my share of compliments as I walk through my daily life. I'm not having to show off or make a point about how good I am at doing something. I think I've always kind of been that way. ↗

— Eddie Vedder

#always #am #been #coming #compliments

Particularly at around the age of 70 you reach a stage where you have to be very careful. If, at that point, you abandon the work you have been doing, there is a good chance that you will just collapse and drift. ↗

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

#age #around #been #careful #chance

No matter how good you are, at some point your kids are gonna have to create their own independence and think that Mom and Dad aren't cool, just to establish themselves. That's what adolescence is about. They're gonna go through that no matter what. ↗

— Eddie Vedder

#adolescence #cool #create #dad #establish

The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#appointed #becoming #best #civilization #depends

Basically, at some point, one day maybe you can expect to hear some of my music. I haven't really done that yet because my younger brother is a musician and really talented and I want him to come out with his music first. ↗

— Stephen Dorff

#because #brother #come #day #done

I don't really put my name to anything that I don't love and believe in, because there's no point. ↗

— Minnie Driver

#because #believe #i #love #name

You can go through life and actually speak your mind and do it in an articulate fashion and with a really intelligent point of view. ↗

— David Duchovny

#articulate #fashion #go #intelligent #life

I'm never going to be comfortable being squished into a box, and that's why it's been weird in Hollywood, they don't know what to do with me, because I can play the game up to a point, but then I can't at all. ↗

— Minnie Driver

#been #being #box #comfortable #game