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The point is there ain't no point.


Cormac McCarthy

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CORMAC MCCARTHY Cormac McCarthy's language is perfect. He is in my view the greatest living American prose styli...
TOMMY LEE JONES You know that the things you put it your head stay there, right?'
'Yeah. But you remember some ...
CORMAC MCCARTHY If the divine creator has taken pains to give us delicious and exquisite things to eat, the least we...
FERNAND POINT Teal Kitson and Kayla McCarthy were the highest point scorers in the meet,
MARK SNYDER Suppose you were the last one left? Suppose you did that to yourself?
CORMAC MCCARTHY We loved the language in Cormac McCarthy's 'No Country,' which is really about the regio...
ETHAN COEN Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance
T.S. ELIOT It's not a confusing problem for me because I can say McCarthy isn't pitching any more, that's it. I...
OZZIE GUILLEN There is no point of comparison.
EMILIO GUTIERREZ World at any point of time is at the point of no return, so there is no point to try to make it go U...
ANUJ SOMANY There's no point in dwelling on rejection.
ISABEL LUCAS From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reac...
FRANZ KAFKA From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reac...
SENECA The thing about my music is, there really is no point.
NEIL YOUNG There is no point anyone feeling sorry for themselves.
DAFYDD JAMES There's no point in making a movie just to be making a movie.
WARREN BEATTY There's no point breaking a lot of crockery unnecessarily.
J. CARTER BROWN At this point, the answer is no.
MICHAEL DERISO No. I don't have a point of reference.
MIKE HEIMERDINGER There is no plan, at this point there is no concrete proposal that's been presented to the board.
DAVID PICKLER There is no point in arguing about matters of taste.
SOURCE UNKNOWN What is the point of wisdom if there is no one to listen?
AMGED EDWARDS There is no point in international friendship when the world doesn't care.
ROBERT ADAMS The two are moving in parallel but there is no meeting point.
EDMUND DAUKORU There is no point in apportioning blame. What is done, is done.
J.K. ROWLING There is no indication at this point that she knows him.
CAPT. LESTER BONEY One has to be fully committed to one's career. Otherwise, there's no point.
LATA MANGESHKAR To me, there's no point in writing merely to entertain.
BEBE MOORE CAMPBELL There is no point in me worrying about what Bloomberg or Badillo will do.
DAVID DINKINS There is no point to samba if it doesn't make you smile.
ALMA GUILLERMOPRIETO At this point, there is no charge. That's all I can say.
CAROLYN FENNELL There is no point in doing something unless you do it well.
BARBARA DELINSKY From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back.
FRANZ KAFKA There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer any question of choice, b...
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be...
GARY F EVANS... No money, no Swiss. [Fr., Point d'argent, point de Suisse.]
JEAN BAPTISTE RACINE Simply put, there is no reason to buy shares aggressively at this point.
ALVIN TENG Sir, there is no settling the point of precedency between a louse and a flea
SAMUEL JOHNSON There is no point in pointing fingers because there are three fingers pointing back at you.
HANSIKA MOTWANI There's no point for me in being a writer and having all these blocked places where I feel I can...
BINYAVANGA WAINAINA From the very get-go, everyone was aware of this: what's the point of signing up if no one's going t...
BOB GELDOF But there's no point in saving something that we're not going to have a part of.
SCOTT PETERSON There's no way possible that we could have done what we've done to this point here without his help ...
BRONCO MENDENHALL There is no point in lying, because the torture one lives with, outweighs the hurtful truth.
FELIPE SARMIENTO Truth is a point of view, but authenticity can't be faked.
PETER GUBER Otherwise, there is no point because he risks aggravating what is already a serious injury.
IVAN LJUBICIC There's no point apologizing about where you come from.
COLIN GREENWOOD When you write a song, there's no point keeping it to yourself.
IWAN RHEON At this point of the season, where they is so much at stake, there is no excuse.
BHAWOH JUE There is no point in going to talks with guns pointed at our foreheads.
PLEURAT SEJDIU There is no point in using the word 'impossible' to describe something that has clearly happened.
DOUGLAS ADAMS From the point of view of wealth, there is no difference between need, comfort and pleasure
MICHEL FOUCAULT By the way, the point between rationality and what we would call the irrational is a very difficult ...
LEO ORNSTEIN There is no perfect circle, no perfect point. A point is just a thought, an idea, imagination or a d...
EPHDAN There should be less talk. A preaching point is not a meeting point.
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA The investigation is still ongoing. At this point in time there is no indication a crime even occurr...
CAROL REES I want everything back, the way it was. But there is no point to it, this wanting.
MARGARET ATWOOD Feminism is a political mistake. Feminism is a mistake made by women's intellect, a mistake which he...
VALENTINE DE SAINT-POINT Yes, you can make a difference! You can speak on behalf of those who are voiceless.
E.N. SUPEN, TURNING POINT The world is round; it has no point.
ADRIENNE E. GUSOFF No finite point has meaning without an infinite reference point.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE I am housebound. There is no point to shoveling the sidewalk ... the drifts are impossibly high and ...
RICHARD FREEMAN But if this is the reception he's getting, there's no point in going there over and over again.
ARJUNA RANATUNGA There is no point coming here next week with a long face because you can't change the result,
PAUL LAMBERT There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.
SYDNEY J. HARRIS But there's no point in looking back and saying I was unlucky.
JAMIE REDKNAPP There's no point pretending that all of Martha Graham's pieces are equally strong.
ROBERT GOTTLIEB I have no point in my system or morals where I say, 'This is too far.'
ALEX BORSTEIN At the still point, there the dance is.
T.S. ELIOT The point is, you see," said Ford, "that there is no point in driving yourself mad trying to stop yo...
DOUGLAS ADAMS So at this point there is no connection with Iraq, just bad guys that have explosive devices.
DONNIE CARTER There is no question that climate change is happening; the only arguable point is what part humans a...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH At this point there are no signs of possible terrorist actions, so we're on alert but there is absol...
ENZO BIANCO There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point...
CHARLES HORTON COOLEY We want to be anywhere the right people are, however, there is no point duplicating what others are ...
JAMES ROSS We are now at a point where patients across the county are at risk. There is no safety net.
LYNN STEDD We don't need a point, son. We're juvenile, we're dirty, we don't have girls, we have noses full of ...
MARKUS ZUSAK He won't run if there is more rain. There is no point sending him around on a wet track. He's hopele...
DAVID ATKINS No one point is more important than another.
JEFF SHAFFER Consider this point. It is a main point of true wisdom. Whenever there is an execution of purpose, t...
ADONIRAM JUDSON That's what they do. They'll make eight-point runs on you. That's why they're No. 1 in (the) section...
RAY PRESTON I had no idea where things were headed at that point. But I was ready for anything. He wasn't going ...
LARRY RODRIGUEZ There's no point in being grown up if you cant be childish sometimes.
DR. WHO If I don't believe it's possible, then there's no point in having a dream.
CHARLES PETERSON I think if it's not monumental, there's no point.
STEPHAN JENKINS At least at that point they had no problem with the accounting.
KENNETH LAY I don't see any point in making a big fuss about it.  I just said, 'No, thank you.'
E. L. DOCTOROW I'm in a situation now, and I have been for ten or fifteen years, where there's no point in my being...
PHILIP LEVINE There is no serious evidence that [Microsoft's] franchise is actively being undermined in any materi...
CHARLES DI BONA From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.
SAMUEL BUTLER There is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labelled.
T. S. ELIOT Of course, there were huge disagreements in the arguments of military intervention, ... There is no ...
CHRIS PATTEN He's a legitimate (NCAA) Division I point guard. Even from what I saw in the junior colleges, there'...
JACKSON WHEELER There is no essential difference between the material of comedy and tragedy. All depends on the poin...
GEORGE PIERCE BAKER There's no point that an album should sound like a watered down version of another album.
STEPHEN MALKMUS Winning is fun... Sure. But winning is not the point. Wanting to win is the point. Not giving up is ...
PAT SUMMITT My Carmen," I said (I used to call her that sometimes) "we shall leave this raw sore town as soon as...
VLADIMIR NABOKOV No, I don't feel like I have a point to prove. I don't think there is anything to prove.
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Yes, you do."
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They sell that shit to schoolkids.
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How's that?
Schoo...
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I don't guess you would know it...
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If you died I would want to die too.
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CORMAC MCCARTHY The arrangement seems to be that UBS will buy Time Warner shares it seems for the voting rights but ...
CORMAC BUTLER Icahn wants sufficient control to achieve his strategy of breaking up Time Warner.
CORMAC BUTLER In a typical situation the investor accepts a low or zero interest rate in return for exposure to a ...
CORMAC BUTLER Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking.
JOHN MCCARTHY Compassion is contempt with a human face.
JOHN MCCARTHY Black holes destroy any objects that happen to fall victim to their gravitational pull.
KEVIN MCCARTHY Comedy to me is all about the bumps and bruises and weird tics.
MELISSA MCCARTHY To me, having 500 rolls of fabric around is the most calming thing in the world. I think it's wh...
MELISSA MCCARTHY As any small business owner knows, starting a business is not glamorous work.
KEVIN MCCARTHY I started my first business when I was 19. I learned a valuable lesson as a small business owner. Yo...
KEVIN MCCARTHY Asking a critic to name his favorite book is like asking a butcher to name his favorite pig.
JOHN MCCARTHY Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift ...
MARY MCCARTHY The two-party system has given this country the war of Lyndon Johnson, the Watergate of Nixon, and t...
EUGENE MCCARTHY One thing about a pig, he thinks he's warm if his nose is warm. I saw a bunch of pigs one time that ...
EUGENE MCCARTHY In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if e...
MARY MCCARTHY To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, pol...
MARY MCCARTHY ...friendship...is essential to intellectuals. You can date the evolving life of a mind, like the ag...
MARY MCCARTHY Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?
CHARLIE MCCARTHY We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.
MARY MCCARTHY I'm just absolutely overjoyed. These people have all stayed with their faith their denomination and ...
ALICE MCCARTHY The idea of it is to examine religious issues. They (panelist) are radical in the sense that they go...
ALICE MCCARTHY They call us to action to love each other. Just in the correspondence I've been having with them, I ...
ALICE MCCARTHY I think that if there is a large number of people here that it will get the churches talking. I thin...
ALICE MCCARTHY I'm just absolutely overjoyed. These people have all stayed with their faith â€Ã...
ALICE MCCARTHY Honey, nobody ever knows someone completely. You have to just enjoy what you do know and have faith ...
ERIN MCCARTHY Why?” she whispered. “Why should I dance with you?”

“Because I love you. Because ...
ERIN MCCARTHY The happy ending is our national belief.
MARY MCCARTHY Any manager who can't get along with a .400 hitter is crazy.
JOE MCCARTHY Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift ...
MARY MCCARTHY Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
CHARLIE MCCARTHY Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.
MARY MCCARTHY A society person who is enthusiastic about modern painting or Truman Capote is already half a traito...
MARY MCCARTHY