“[H.P.Lovecraft] is thrust into some kind of outer space realm, like here [pointing toward the painting in progress]. In other words, he's recognized he's gone through R'lyeh, the Sunken City of R'lyeh, and then Cthulhu, the extraterrestrial, calls his band of worshippers home to recognize him as the anti-christ. This is all in The Necronomicon, something Lovecraft actually did make up.” KindHomeChristSpaceCitiesGoneProgressPaintingBandRealmsPointingThrustOuter SpaceWorshippersExtraterrestrialLovecraftAnti Christ Author:Paul Laffoley
“I actually have come to believe that if people were more connected to their fellow human beings, if we all felt more centred and fulfilled in our lives, maybe we would be pointing our cameras at a lot less social ills.” PeopleIfsBelieveHumansWould BeSocialFeltHuman BeingsOur LivesCamerasFellowsConnectedFulfilledPointing Author:Joe Berlinger
“I think there were two messages in last year's election. One is pretty obvious. People were mad as hell at the president [Barack Obama] - and wanted to send a message. We all got that. Our new members were also hearing, and I was hearing as well, that people didn't like the fact that the Congress was dysfunctional. Now they may have been confused about where the dysfunctionality was cause the president kept pointing to the House. Factually, that's not accurate. The dysfunction was in the Senate.” PeopleThinkingYearsWellsMayHas BeensTwoFactsWantedLastsHouseCausesPresidentHellMembersMessagesElectionMadCongressObviousHearingBarackConfusedSenateAccurateLast YearPointingPresident Barack ObamaDysfunction Author:Mitch McConnell
“I have been criticized for pointing out that anarchism is likely to flourish more easily, at least in the western world, and to a certain extent in eastern Europe, in those areas where there is either grim need or considerable technological development.” WorldNeedsHas BeensCertainDevelopmentEuropeAreasWesternTechnologicalEasternPointingAnarchismGrimWestern WorldEastern EuropeTechnological Development Author:Murray Bookchin
“What I'm doing here is pointing out an irony: Here you have an institution that has systematically protected pedophile priests and then you have an innocent Michael Jackson, who California spent millions of dollars trying to prosecute and could not do it because it was complete bulls - t.” TryingMillionsInstitutionsDollarsInnocentIronyCaliforniaPriestsProtectedPointingBulls Author:David LaChapelle
“The problem right now, which I've been pointing out very bluntly to American officials in Washington, is that the U.S. has no economic presence in Afghanistan. The Afghans can't point and say, "Oh, the Americans built that road. They built that telecommunications facility. They built that electricity powerhouse," because nothing has been built so far.” Has BeensProblemEconomicRight NowBuiltOfficialsAfghanistanElectricityPointingFacilityTelecommunications Author:Ahmed Rashid
“The conservative movement today is so fractured that I think you'd have a tough time actually defining it and pointing to it.” ThinkingTodayMovementToughConservativePointingDefiningTough Times Author:Rush Limbaugh
“In fact, in the early days of the Republican primary, I was pointing to Governor [Scott ] Walker as the one guy who was demonstrating he knew how to fight back against the radical left and win! And he's tough, and he didn't shrink from it.” FactsGuyFightingWinningLeftRepublicanToughRadicalPrimariesGovernorsPointingShrinksWalkersDemonstrating Author:Rush Limbaugh
“America is such a mess right now, and it's getting worse all the time. It seems as though the whole atmosphere of our nation - of unrest and unsettledness and need and struggle - is pointing to a most wonderful, opportune time to present the reason for our hope.” NeedsReasonWholeSeemsAmericaNationsStruggleWonderfulRight NowMessAtmospherePointingUnrest Author:Cliff Barrows
“You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.” PeopleMotivationalLeadershipInspiringLeaderVisionCasesPointingGreat LeaderTrue LeaderPlaces To GoInspiring LeaderLeadership By Famous LeadersBest LeaderTrue LeadershipGreatest LeadershipPowerful LeadersLeadership VisionLeadership And VisionLeading On Author:Ken Kesey
“We mustn't be content to just sit around pointing out the errors in others; we actually need to be sharing the gospel and praying for people to be converted.” PeopleNeedsPrayingErrorsPointingSharing The Gospel Author:Mark Dever
“Chairman Mao's greatest contribution was that he applied the principles of Marxism-Leninism to the concrete practice of the Chinese revolution, pointing the way to victory. It should be said that before the sixties or the late fifties many of his ideas brought us victories, and the fundamental principles he advanced were quite correct.” WayShouldSaidIdeasPrinciplesPracticeRevolutionVictoryLateFundamentalsChineseContributionConcreteSixtyPointingMarxismChairmanMaoFundamental PrinciplesChairman MaoMarxism LeninismChinese Revolution Author:Deng Xiaoping
“Just a few years ago India, Pakistan and Bangladesh were one country. Actually, we were many countries if you count the princely states.... Then the British drew a line, and now we're three countries, two of them pointing nukes at each other - the radical Hindu bomb and the radical Muslim bomb.” IfsYearsTwoCountryStatesThreeLinesYears AgoIndiaBritishRadicalBombsPakistanPointingBangladeshNukesIndia Pakistan Author:Arundhati Roy
“For Christians ultimate reality is and can only be a personal, sovereign, holy, and loving God. But even some Christians, under extra-biblical and even anti-Christian cultural influences read the Bible as pointing to something not ultimate, such as material wealth, health, happiness, power, etc.” RealityChristianWealthInfluenceMaterialsHolyUltimateExtrasEtcBiblicalSovereignPointingLoving GodAnti ChristianUltimate RealityMaterial Wealth Author:Roger E. Olson
“Think of US slavery in 1850, or the subjection of women. Both of these injustices could have been - and were! - defended by pointing out, quite correctly, that this situation of slaves and women had been improving throughout the preceding century. Slaves, in particular, were worked less hard, beaten and raped less frequently, better fed, and less often ripped apart from their families. So would a celebration of moral progress have been appropriate in 1850? Surely not. Slavery could have been and should have been abolished - then, if not before.” IfsThinkingShouldHas BeensHardSituationMoralProgressCenturyParticularShould HaveSlaverySlaveInjusticeAppropriateFedsCelebrationBeatenImprovingPointingCould Have BeenShould Have BeenRippedSubjection Author:Thomas Pogge
“My son Bill, who came to me in 1960-he was 14 then, quoted the old parable to me: "It is not by their words, but by their deeds that ye shall know them" -pointing out that if I was a true atheist, I would not permit the public schools of America to force him to read the Bible and say prayers against his will. He was right.” IfsKnowsSchoolAmericaForcePrayerSonBillsAtheistDeedsMy SonPermitPointingPublic School1960sParables Author:Madalyn Murray O'Hair
“Empires are doomed. They become more diffuse, more broke, demagogues rule, and so I was just pointing out some similarities between past empires and what's going on right now. They all have had to apply more and more harsh rhetoric of superiority and divine right to justify the building of hegemony.” PastBuildingDivineRight NowBrokeEmpiresJustifyRhetoricDoomedHarshSuperiorityPointingSimilarityHegemonyDivine Right Author:Dar Williams
“There hadn't really been a climate movement, per se. I think everyone spent twenty years thinking that if we just keep pointing out that the world is on the edge of the greatest crisis by far it's ever come to, then our leaders will do something about it. And it turned out that was wrong. They weren't going to do anything about it.” IfsThinkingWorldYearsLeaderMovementTwentiesCrisisClimateEdgesPointing Author:Bill McKibben
“The construction of femininity is a construction, yes, but also it can be twisted and turned around in such a way that doesn't necessarily mean it is pointing to the female body or male body in such a binary fashion. The culture is already there and has always been, but not as equal citizens. I think there is more progress to come.” ThinkingMeanCultureProgressFashionEqualFemaleConstructionFemininityPointingTwistedBinaryFemale Body Author:Lorna Simpson
“I think as more people get more aware, people get more defensive. And when I say that, I mean people who are more privileged, like men. People will think that by pointing out patriarchy and an oppression, that means that all men are horrible people, and they'll write that on social media, and I think that's something that's increased.” PeopleThinkingMenWritingMeanSocial MediaHorribleOppressionPatriarchyPointingMean People Author:Rowan Blanchard
“In the past, I have made a point of pointing out that Donald Trump is not ideological. Now, to me, that means more than he's not just conservative or liberal. But I guess I'm gonna need to add to that. When I say he's not ideological - and I'll explain that again - he's not a conservative, and he's not a liberal. He knows what both things are. It's just not how he looks at the world, and it's not how he sees people. Now, to some people that's refreshing and it's good. To other people, it's alarming.” PeopleWorldMeanPastConservativePointingIdeological Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I had never thought of doing television. But my agent wanted me to meet John Wells, who had had a lot of success producing ER and China Beach. The night before the meeting, some friends were over for dinner and Akiva Goldsman and I slipped downstairs to the basement so we could sneak a cigarette. He said, "You know what would make a good television series? That." And he was pointing at The American President poster. He said, "There doesn't have to be a romance, just focus on a senior staffer."” RomanceNightPresidentFocusMeetingsBeachCigaretteSeniorPointingPostersSneakAmerican President Author:Aaron Sorkin
“What does it mean to be an American today? The question of that is always pointing at now. It allows someone to say what lens that will be through. A lot of my work has been about identity in different ways. Part of that for me falls into the question of gender identity certainly but also about what it means to be an American theater artist.” MeanDifferentTodayArtistFallIdentityGenderPointing Author:Will Davis
“You can give the greatest performance possible, but if you don't have a director who's pointing the camera in the right direction and an editor who's editing it properly, it doesn't matter what you do. The director and the editor are the most important people. Not the actors. Sometimes the writer is important. But if you don't have a good director, you can't have a good production.” PeopleGivingImportantSometimesPointing Author:Jonathan Rhys Meyers
“I'd be very, very careful about falling prey to the things that liberals say about people, and that is rich people are automatically untrustworthy. They love to use class envy and they love to attack the whole notion of trickle-down economics by pointing out the rich are miserly and they don't share and they don't give and they don't... It's all a bunch of... It's not true.” PeopleGivingFallRichShareCarefulEnvyPointingRich People Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The Democrats are losing. And look, folks, I don't mean to beat a dead horse here. I'm not doing anything other than pointing out what's actually factually happening. I'm not drawing any inferences from it. The Democrats are actually losing as themselves. They are losing elections if they are honest about what they want to do. It doesn't surprise me at all that Jon Ossoff would be running around.” MeanRunningHonestLosingHorseElectionSurpriseDemocratPointingSurprise Me Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I think there are a lot of Republicans who recognize that investment in adolescent girls and empowering them is good for our foreign policy. When they're educated, they tend to give back more to their communities, to rise out of poverty in a way that is good for their families and their communities and ultimately, their countries. I think that we need to keep laying down these markers, and pointing out what's important to our national security and what's important around the world.” ThinkingWorldGivingImportantCountryGirlCommunityPovertySecurityPolicyRepublicanInvestmentEducatedEmpoweringForeign PolicyNational SecurityPointingGiving Back Author:Jeanne Shaheen
“Let's try and bring out the best in all of us and a positive vision of working together to solve big problems, to recognize that, yes, all is not right, things need to be fixed. We're better off solving things by working together than by pointing fingers at other people.” PeopleTryingProblemTogetherVisionRight ThingWorking TogetherPointingPointing Fingers Author:Justin Trudeau
“Art can be a medium for people to discover universal spirit, with imagery not isolated to one particular wisdom path, but pointing to the underlying truth that they all transmit.” PeopleArtSpiritPathPointingImagery Author:Alex Grey
“Studios just sometimes make decisions on their own that you're always flabbergasted by. It just happens that way for whatever reason - not even pointing fingers, it just is.” SometimesReasonDecisionPointingPointing Fingers Author:Barry Levinson
“What I love about comedians is their instinct is always to go against the grain. Their whole existence is pointing out the elephant in the room. Already you can see audiences are pushing back, but we're the ones who really can take it more than anybody.” ExistenceAudienceInstinctComedianGrainPointing Author:Colin Quinn
“I had no problem working for 15 hours straight when I was producing someone else, but I couldn't do it with my own songs. It took that moment of pointing the camera at myself to realize that it was okay to get lost in making my own music. I think before that I was scared of pushing myself to the point of staring into the abyss.” ThinkingMomentsProblemSongRealizingHoursOkayScaredStaringAbyssNo ProblemPointing Author:Rostam Batmanglij
“Putin has an obvious problem. His country's economy is in stagnation. He needs to constantly be pointing a figure at who is at fault. America is at fault. He needs to show those fronts - those directions in which he is defeating America. In Syria, for example, in Syria, he is defeating America; not ISIS, he's defeating America.” ProblemEconomyObviousSyriaPointingStagnation Author:Mikhail Khodorkovsky
“I think what is being pointed out by African-Americans is that from slavery forward they have been living in a supposed democracy which treats them as less than other citizens, less than whites in the society. And I think that pointing out that there are structures of discrimination in the society, deeply rooted racist structures, that segregate housing, that send black children to ill-equipped schools, that discriminate in the workplace - these are truths about our society that must be faced.” ThinkingChildrenSchoolBlackDemocracySlaveryDiscriminationRacistWorkplacePointing Author:Joan Wallach Scott
“None of the more apparently expressive elements involved in my work - color, form, application, and so on - are important or instructive in themselves. They're all just a means of entry, markers pointing beyond themselves towards something broader and less controlled.” MeanImportantApplicationPointing Author:Landon Metz
“My earliest memories are of my brother, pointing the home video camera at me and saying, "C'mon, Ange, give us a show!" Neither of my parents ever said, "Be quiet! Stop talking!" I remember my father looking me in the eye and asking, "What are you thinking? What are you feeling?" That's what I do in my job now - I say. "OK, how do I feel about this?" And I immediately know, because that's how I grew up.” ThinkingGivingFeelingsHomeEyeRememberFatherParentMemoriesBrotherQuietMy BrotherPointing Author:Angelina Jolie
“I respect people who come forward and speak, but I'm not asking most of the sex workers I interview now about their work. I'm asking them about their lives in general or their political organizing. I take pains source things pointing back to intellectual work that sex workers have produced, because that's really absent.” PeoplePainPoliticalSpeakIntellectualPointingRespect People Author:Melissa Gira Grant
“That's why our comics are important: they're pointing things out and laughing at the same time. There have been horrible, horrible times in history. They're mostly horrible times. But not to laugh? Not to find humor in something like dark optimism/bright pessimism - I think that's sad, frankly.” ThinkingImportantDarkLaughingOptimismHorriblePessimismPointing Author:Lynne Tillman
“I love the church. And the church is flawed. I think it's important that the issues of justice become important to the church. A lot of these churches don't necessarily take on justice because it affects dollars that come in. We need to start and assess the areas that we're in and not be so obsessed with becoming this big, huge church where everybody's pointing at one leader! We all should be pointing at Jesus, and if that's true we got to get to a place where the people become important to us. It kills me! It hurts me! Jesus has set the example. It's very clear!” PeopleThinkingImportantJesusHurtChurchJusticeLeaderObsessedIt HurtsPointingFlawedKill MeHurt Me Author:Russell Okung
“I think the biggest problem in our country is mass incarceration and the prison-industrial complex. From the Rockefeller drug laws to stand your ground to stop and frisk, all these are pointing people, especially and disproportionately black and brown people, towards the criminal-justice system. It's depleting whole generations of people.” PeopleThinkingCountryProblemBlackDrugPointingJustice SystemIncarceration Author:Talib Kweli
“Everybody wants to take responsibility when you win, but when you fail, all these fingers are pointing.” WantWinningResponsibilityFailingBasketballFingersNbaTaking ResponsibilityPointing Author:Mike Krzyzewski
“For me, pointing and clicking my phone is absolutely fine. People say that isn't the art of photography but I don't agree.” PeopleArtFinePhotographyAgreePhonesPointing Author:Annie Lennox
“I do think the patriotic thing to do is to critique my country. How else do you make a country better but by pointing out its flaws?” ThinkingCountryComedyCriticismThings To DoPatriotismFlawsPatrioticPointingCritique Author:Bill Maher
“Learn graceful ways of saying no and of pointing out that this pressure to do something is not in line with most people's wishes.” PeopleWayWishLinesPressurePointingSaying No Author:Judith Martin
“When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.” MenShouldKidsRememberResponsibilityFourEthicsBlameFingersMannersAccountabilityPointingInspirational KindnessGreat ResponsibilityPointing FingersResponsibility And Accountability Author:Louis Nizer
“I stopped going to Kingdom Hall, the church, when I was 11 years old, so I was very young. They don't celebrate birthdays, you get no Christmas, so it's a very difficult religion for children to get into. And they do a lot of finger-pointing among the Jehovah's Witnesses.” YearsChildrenYoungDifficultChurchFingersKingdomsCelebrateWitnessHallsPointingJehovahPointing FingersCelebrate Birthday Author:Ja Rule
“You can't go to a negotiating table pointing a gun, but you've got to keep it over your shoulder.” GunTablesShouldersPointingNegotiating Author:Joe Slovo
“If somebody's pointing a trembling finger at your pants and saying you shouldn't be doing that, follow that finger back, go up the arm and look at the head that's behind it, because there's almost always something fairly woolly in there.” IfsLooksBehindsArmsFingersPantsPointingTrembling Author:Jock Sturges
“My values, our values, aren't about pointing fingers. They are about offering a helping hand.” HelpingHandsValuesFingersOfferingPointingHelping HandPointing Fingers Author:Kathleen Blanco
“Yes, they broke the law, but we can't deport them. Let's get over this pointing fingers and do something about that, whether it - they have to pay a fine, learn to speak English, the history, you can do that. And then you have to give visas for the skills we need.” NeedsGivingLawSpeakCan DoPayFineSkillsFingersBrokeGet OverPointingVisaSpeak EnglishPointing Fingers Author:Michael Bloomberg