Top 100 No Point Quotes
#1. want you to trust me enough to tell me what's going on with you because if you can't do that then there is no point in us going any further.
Lauren Dodd
#2. There is no point in getting rich if we lose our soul along the way.
Farahad Zama
#3. I cannot control what goes on in another lane and this is how I focus on the Games. There is no point in being nervous of other swimmers. It's just about focusing on yourself and what you need to do in order to perform at your best.
Cameron Van Der Burgh
#4. I've always put out positivity, and I've always been very open and proud throughout my whole career, and at no point have I ever tried to cause controversy or just say something that wasn't totally in support of everyone in the community.
Russell Tovey
#5. I started to roll over for more sleep but heard a rooster crowing and then became aware we are on vacation and there is no point in sleeping.
Robert M. Pirsig
#6. There is no point in using the word 'impossible' to describe something that has clearly happened.
Douglas Adams
#7. In Maine we have a saying that there's no point in speaking unless you can improve on silence.
Edmund Muskie
#8. It seemed to proclaim itself a mystery, but one there was no point in solving - an ongoing low-grade mystery.
Donald Barthelme
#9. There's no point breaking a lot of crockery unnecessarily.
J. Carter Brown
#10. Sometimes I go out disguised, but people still recognize me, so I find there is no point in even trying. It would be nice to get away from it, from time to time, but the fact is, there is no place on earth where I can go unrecognized.
Jonathan Davis
#11. Her tone held a challenge. She did not need his condemnation or what his pity. Once, she had wanted his love, but that time had passed into dust. There was no point wanting things that could never be.
India Drummond
#12. But even she had figured out that there was no point giving up a great job and following him to the ends of the earth, when he simply refused to make any promises about, or even discuss, the future.
Danielle Steel
#13. There's no point in drinking if no one's watching.
Caitlin Moran
#14. If we don't fight, we've already lost. Without hope, without trying, there's no point.
Heather Anastasiu
#15. I knew that this was what I wanted to talk about on stage. There was no point being coy about it, or pretending that I wasn't gay. That was the substance of my whole act. If you took that away, there would be nothing left.
Julian Clary
#16. No, I want you to rethink it and come up with the right opinion, I tell him. But this just makes him laugh. I have to let it go. There's no point in trying to dictate what Gale thinks. Which, if I'm honest, is one reason I trust him.
Suzanne Collins
#17. If everyone could be a successful and rich author, there would be no point in working so hard. Where is the fun in that?
L.A. Jones
#18. The bonobo would first of all urge the atheist to stop "sleeping furiously." There is no point getting all worked up about the absence of something, especially something as open to interpretation as God.
Frans De Waal
#19. There was no point in lying. Despite various sources throughout history saying otherwise, no one can do magic on you just because they know your name. If they could, a big portion of the world's inhabitants would be up to their neck in curses.
Steve McHugh
#20. There is no point in asking me general questions because I am always changing my mind.
Michel Houellebecq
#21. When you write a song, there's no point keeping it to yourself.
Iwan Rheon
#22. There is no point in doing something unless you do it well.
Barbara Delinsky
#23. I have a responsibility to the people who work for me, the manufacturers I work with. There is no point to clothes that don't sell.
Dries Van Noten
#24. There is no point in trying to remember your dreams ... There is only the unspeakable joy of eavesdropping on your spirit, catching tiny glimpses of its independent life, resting for a moment in its wisdom, puzzling, laughing sometimes, over what it's up to, what it makes of you.
Marsha Norman
#25. I didn't want to change my personality onstage, but I still had to build some kind of ego to be able to go up there. If not, there's no point.
Charlotte Gainsbourg
#26. You are your own beginning. Every day, every hour, every minute, you start again. There is no point wishing you were someone else, you are who you are - start there.
A.M. Homes
#27. I felt wrapped in a fog of dull pain that hurt only enough to remind me that it, too, was without purpose, and there seemed no point to going through the empty motions of breakfast, the long slow drive to work, no reason at all beyond the slavery of habit. But
Jeff Lindsay
#28. People call me Joey all the time. I take it as a compliment. There's no point in correcting them. But I'm much more even-keeled and subdued and relaxed than Joey Tribbiani.
Matt LeBlanc
#29. Punk recognised the fact that the establishment had no room. There's no point in saying you've got the establishment wrong because they hadn't got the establishment wrong, they'd got it absolutely dead on.
John Hurt
#30. Life sucks, there's no way around that. But you never know when the good might come. Maybe it won't, but you shouldn't count it out. And besides, that's what makes us human, right? Even if it seems impossible, even when there is no point, we fight to the death with smiles on our faces.
Kyle West
#31. Unless you're living on the street and surviving on a diet of discarded turkey drumsticks, there's no point in being gloomy. We've spent too long trying to cheer ourselves up by spending money on brightly coloured things we don't really need. We've stopped using our imaginations.
Jarvis Cocker
#32. There is no point in your life, no single moment in time that prepares you to fall totally and completely apart. - Melanie Stillwater
Maddy Bishop
#33. You okay? Anton asks, looking at me like he's trying to figure out if I'm drunk. His plans depend on me. I look as blank as possible and hope that it freaks him out. No point in my being the only miserable one.
Holly Black
#34. The real story can never be told. It is untellable. The real (as real) is inaccessible, being gone in time. There is no point in glancing at the past, in summoning it up, in re-examining it, except on behalf of art - that is, the meaningful-real.
(The Bicycle Rider In Beverly Hills (1952))
William, Saroyan
#35. At times I ask myself if I shouldn't be living a more regular, stable life with a 9-to-5 job. Then I think about it and realise that there is no point in planning everything.
Meredith Ostrom
#36. The minute our correspondence becomes obligatory, there's no point in keeping touch at all.
Megan McCafferty
#37. If this was the rice that God was putting in my basket...there was no point wishing for soup.
Chinelo Okparanta
#38. I'm sure that at no point in my life could I ever have shown the kind of focus and discipline and commitment necessary to work a station at elBulli or Le Bernardin. No. That ain't me.
Anthony Bourdain
#39. For me, poetry has no point in existing if it's not to be a prompt or aid to political and ethical change.
John Kinsella
#40. If you are going to without trust. men tasks to do, then once they have proved themselves, you should let them get on without you standing over them. There is no point in giving responsibility wifh
Tad Williams
#41. At no point do I wish to be in conflict with any man or masculine thought. It doesn't enter my consciousness. Art is anonymous. It's not competitive with men. It's a complementary contribution.
Barbara Hepworth
#42. She was happiest when sitting about and reading. She had read thousands of books, seeing no point in doing anything else unless you had to.
Ruth Rendell
#43. There's no point trying to work, Moira won't allow it, she's like a cat that crawls onto the page when you're trying to read. You
Margaret Atwood
#44. There is no point in retaining a brand equity if it has no traction with consumers, or has no likelihood of doing so.
Nick Cooper
#45. There is no point in arguing if you are not susceptible to reason. Embrace your cynicism. Hug it.
Christopher Buckley
#46. No point in wasting time with false vanity when you possess the real thing.
Alan Bradley
#48. There's really no point to voting. If it made any difference, it would probably be illegal.
H.L. Mencken
#49. There is no point in expending good money on the pursuit of an engine that can power aircraft without propellers. What is wrong with airships anyway? They have borne mankind aloft for over a hundred relatively accident-free years and I see no reason to impugn their popularity ...
Jasper Fforde
#50. I suppose that there is no point wasting time being lazy, though of course indolence in a divine way, actually has its advantages.
Stephen Fry
#51. My father was a negative person. He actually taught me to be negative, if that makes any sense. I remember him saying: 'You know there's no point in expecting anything good to happen because it won't.' I grew up in such a negative atmosphere.
Joyce Meyer
#52. You realize that there's no point in doing anything if nobody's watching.
Chuck Palahniuk
#53. Please note that, at no point in the performance, does my hand leave the end of my arm ...
Harlan Tarbell
#55. Ideals, my girl," she says. "Always easier to believe in than live."
"But if you don't at least try to live them," Bradley says, "then there's no point in living at all.
Patrick Ness
#56. There's no point in giving up something you enjoy unless you get something back that's even better, and quickly.
Dean Ornish
#57. There is no point in me worrying about what Bloomberg or Badillo will do.
David Dinkins
#58. Decisions are never made in retrospect, hence there is no point regretting them, ever.
David Darson
#59. No point in wishing for what you can't have. - Blair
What's the point in wishing for what you can and do? - Larken
Nora Roberts
#60. And I wasn't going to give up just because they insisted there was no point in trying. Even if it meant marching straight up to Cronus and giving him everything, I would really do it if it meant Henry might live.
Aimee Carter
#61. You've got to face facts and the fact is life is a joke, a fucking bad joke, or, no, a bad fucking joke. There's no point taking it seriously because whatever happens, and I mean whatever the fuck, the punch line is the same: you go out horizontally. You see the point? No fucking point.
Jeet Thayil
#62. In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed.
William S. Burroughs
#63. There was no point telling him how badly she wanted Jace not to be her brother.
Cassandra Clare
#64. And it didn't matter. It wouldn't make a fucking difference if I dropped to the floor and started crying like a baby. No point in panicking. No point in breaking. No point in anything at all.
Lisa Henry
#65. I have to move on now as there is no point to dwell on the past. I have a few days to refocus and get ready for the 200 meters on Friday. After this I have the 4x100-meter and a few other races before the end of the season.
Usain Bolt
#66. There really was no point in having vision that didn't revolve a full 360 degrees because it was usually from behind that life would sneak up and overtake you.
Keith Buckley
#67. Like they say, no point in rubbin' a turd.
Julia Wertz
#68. Writing should be useful. If it can't instruct people a little bit more about the responsibilities of consciousness there's no point in doing it.
Edward Albee
#69. There was no point in waiting for someone who hadn't asked, and there was no point in wishing for something that would never happen.
Jennifer E. Smith
#70. Rod's a great singer. He's got a great voice, but there's no point to put a 30-piece orchestra behind him. I'm not going to knock anybody's right to make a living but you can always tell if somebody's heart and soul is into something, and I didn't think Rod was into it in that way.
Bob Dylan
#72. Stop-motion is sort of twitchy; you can feel the life in it. If we were to remove that completely, there'd be no point in it.
Henry Selick
#73. There is no point in worrying about the effect [result], which has already occurred. It is worth paying attention to the facts (causes) upon which the effects [results] are based.
Dada Bhagwan
#74. Of course, everyone knew that Heaven was incomparably superior, but to Neil it had always seemed too remote to consider, like wealth or fame or glamour. For people like him, Hell was where you went when you died, and he saw no point in restructuring his life in hopes of avoiding that.
Ted Chiang
#75. I want to do the best I can right away. There's no point for me to just kind of be relaxed about it. Of course, in each match winning is out of my control, but I want to try to do the best I can as soon as I can, and I want to have 10 successful years and not five slow ones and then five good ones.
Eugenie Bouchard
#76. Life is no play. We meet people once, and never see them again. There is no shape to events, no point at which we turn to the audience for their praise.
Neil Gaiman
#77. When you design a collection, you have to start with what you love and what you believe in. Unless you do that, you can't stand behind it, so there's no point in doing it.
Sarah Burton
#79. There's no point in believing in destiny if you're too stubborn to give in to it.
Claire Contreras
#80. The thing is with me I look on the brighter side of everything.There's no point being pessimistic or being worried about too many things because frankly life's too short.
Prince William
#81. There is no point at which you can say, 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'
Carrie Fisher
#82. Is photography an art? There is no point in trying to find out if it is an art. Art is old-fashioned. We need something else.
Man Ray
#83. There is absolutely no point in sitting down to write a book unless you feel that you must write that book, or else go mad, or die.
Robertson Davies
#84. Obviously there was no point in being a bachelor if his houseman was going to filch his booze. If he was going to get robbed, he might just as well get married.
Groucho Marx
#85. That's not to say there's no such thing as an overvalued market, but there's no point worrying about it.
Peter Lynch
#86. But there really was no point in asking. She read things, she knew things, and out they came, little surprises. It was strangely like unwrapping little gifts, not all of which he appreciated. She clung to facts and information, like flotsam in a shipwreck. They'd saved her.
Julie Anne Long
#87. There's no point in fighting the tide. It ebbs. It flows. You ride it.
Karen Marie Moning
#88. If there were no shortage of human resources in this world, consumers could buy everything and have everything they wanted. Then there would be no point in wondering how to succeed.
Harry Browne
#89. No point worrying about a storm until we smell rain
Suzanne Kelman
#90. There are so many options, so much to do, so many demands on Women. There is no point in taking one hour to do a ten-minute task, nor should we slap together an hour-worthy project in ten minutes.
Elaine A. Cannon
#91. It gives me confidence to know that what I'm writing has a veracity of its own without me having to invent it. When I'm writing fiction, I must believe it to be true, or I can see no point in it.
Michael Morpurgo
#92. Jealousy is only hurt ego. Revenge is meaningless. Life is abstract. There is no point other than pleasure.
Chloe Thurlow
#93. It's a sad place, but then I seem to find most places sad, and maybe it's me who's sad and not the places after all. Maybe there's nowhere I can go, and no point in going.
Sara Baume
#94. There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, 'There now, hang on, you'll get over it.' Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.
Barbara Kingsolver
#95. You may think there's no point in singing unless you are good at it, but that is like saying there is no point in doing anything at all unless you are particularly gifted at it, which is ridiculous.
Alan W. Watts
#96. There is no point of adventure if you have known about everything.
I wonder how God deals with the situation, considering the boredom.
Toba Beta
#97. Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Now that's so deep in history that there's no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.
Noam Chomsky
#98. It doesn't have to be logical, it doesn't have to be love in the usual sense. It doesn't even have to be long lasting. Usually it isn't. But whatever it is, it is real and powerful while it lasts, and there's no point denying it.
Lynn Hall
#99. Always remember, there's no point trying to be faithful to the book because film and writing are just two completely different things. Any film stands on its own, apart from whether it's based on a novel.
William S. Burroughs
#100. Sometimes I can't believe I'm going to be 60. I always say there's no point moaning about getting older, when there's nothing you can do about it. But still, I do find it quite funny. I look at that number, 60, and I think, 'Really? Me?'
Twiggy
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