The Point Quotes

#1. A lot of times people will think, "I'm strong, I'm in shape; why can't I do this pose?" But that's not the point. There's nothing to win in yoga. You just do what you can do, one day to the next.

Adam Levine

#2. The point is that the resurrection, if it had occurred, would undermine not only the Enlightenment's vision of a split world but also the Enlightenment's self-congratulatory dream of world history reaching its destiny in our own day and our own systems.

N. T. Wright

#3. I'm not a knee-jerk conservative. I passionately believe in free markets and less government, but not to the point of being a libertarian.

Rupert Murdoch

#4. The point is," Frank said, "that we're here. No use talking about what should have been.

Louis L'Amour

#5. The point of life is to find the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality.

Lillian Smith

#6. You're remarkably judgmental."
"What's the point in having a mind if you don't use it to make judgments?"
"What's the point in having a heart if you don't use it to spare others from the harsh judgments of your mind?

Sarah J. Maas

#7. When you see a new trail, or a footprint you do not know, follow it to the point of knowing. - SIOUX PROVERB

Jeff Brown

#8. When you get to the point where you know the material so well and you know the character so well that you can just sort of play off of whoever your reader is - that's the best feeling at an audition.

Laura Spencer

#9. The point is to be in the moment, not miss the moment while trying to capture it.

Sheralyn Pratt

#10. The point of a philosophical spirit is to rely primarily upon one's own thinking.

Brendan Myers

#11. The point of church isn't to get people to come to church." "No?" said Steve, cocking an eyebrow. "What is it?" It seemed obvious to me. "to feed them, so they can go out and, you know, be Jesus." Take this Bread, A Radical Conversion by Sara Miles

Sara Miles

#12. He was an artist when he saw society: it never crossed his mind that society had to be like this; had any right, had any business being like this. A car in the street. Why? Why cars? This is what an artist has to be: harassed to the point of insanity or stupefaction by first principles.

Martin Amis

#13. And heresy is, as I have tried to show, largely the expression of opinion of the untutored average man, trying to grapple with the problems of the universe at the point where they begin to interfere with his daily life and thought.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#14. What's the point in worrying about the future? Who says there will even be a future? What happens if you die tomorrow and all you ever did was sit in maths classes and play the clarinet and moan about your family? What good is the future to you then?

Dawn O'Porter

#15. It got to the point where most of my time went toward writing novels. I would still occasionally write short stories, but only when I was commissioned by an editor to write for a themed anthology or special issue.

Tim Pratt

#16. Elizabeth had to laugh at that. She did have a knack for stepping in it. She looked across the table and wanted to argue the point further, but the sincere concern on

Monique Martin

#17. Some have said that I can accept inadequacies in my players but not in umpires. That completely misses the point. I can't tolerate anyone's mistake.

Earl Weaver

#18. I never want to get to the point where it's all about my needs, and the hell with anybody else.

Drew Barrymore

#19. That's kind of the point of being stealthy. And if he doesn't catch you, then you're not doing anything wrong, are you?" That sounded true. That sounded very true!

Tui T. Sutherland

#20. Ill-informed intuition is fantastic - it's what great art is. So really old painters or writers or actors are brilliant, because they've finally reached the point when they can let go of al technique.

Helen Mirren

#21. But what was the point of living so quietly you made no noise at all?

Libba Bray

#22. Was that the point about scattering ashes: that in the end they looked the same? Not just the snout and the tail, but a dog's ashes and a man's ashes. All reducible, with the addition of a little flame, to this mottled dust?

Clive Barker

#23. I guess I just don't get the point. It's like, why should you bother getting attached to anything if,
A: It's never gonna last, and
B: It hurts like hell when it's over?

Alyson Noel

#24. A child's stories are simpler to understand because the language has not been developed to the point of high abstraction. An adult tells stories far more obtuse in nature.

John S. Savage

#25. No clowns were funny. That was the whole purpose of a clown. People laughed at clowns, but only out of nervousness. The point of clowns was that, after watching them, anything else that happened seemed enjoyable

Terry Pratchett

#26. A show can be artistically successful; a show can be financially successful; a show can be successful by the transformative experience the audience is having; a show can be successful from the point of view of what is experienced by the cast and the company on a daily basis.

David Binder

#27. What's the point of a good job if you're dead?

Andrew Garve

#28. What's the point of regret? It makes you feel awful, and you can't get the time back. The important thing is to realize your mistakes and know better.

Anonymous

#29. Maybe the point was to exist with an absence of pain. Yes, to exist with an absence of pain. Yes, maybe that was the only aim you needed in life. It

Matt Haig

#30. I've seen shows on Showtime, and they're very provocative, if you will, but nothing to the point that's over-the-top or gratuitous.

Megalyn Echikunwoke

#31. Now, here is the point about the self: it is insatiable. It is always, always hankering. It is what you might call rapacious to a fault. The great flaming mouth to the thing is never in this world going to be stuff full.

Donald Barthelme

#32. Still, that's the point of love; you love someone despite their flaws.

Sophie Kinsella

#33. The flashbacks to Scout's childhood, persuaded me to write a novel from the point of view of the young Scout.

Anonymous

#34. Comedy's easy for me now - it's all about timing and the way you deliver lines. I use facial expressions to get the point across.

Melissa Joan Hart

#35. The point is, we can decry the dangers we face or ignore them or even allow ourselves to be paralyzed by fear.

Benjamin Carson

#36. We're all story-telling creatures, and also I think that's the point about biography because the life is exemplary.

Rachel Holmes

#37. How many centuries must have elapsed before men reached the point of seeing any other fire than that in the sky?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#38. The way we experience history and time in all its forms shifted quite massively between 1989 and 2001 - to the point where contrivances like decades are now kind of silly.

Douglas Coupland

#39. I suppose the worst case scenario is that people will get to the point where they can't actually afford to make what they want to make creatively. The industry is collapsing.

Kate Bush

#40. I'm glad the universe is pointless. It means if I get to the end of my life, the universe can't turn to me and go, 'What have you been doing, you idiot? That's not the point!

Robin Ince

#41. The point is that by exercising your capacity for forethought and planning, you strengthen your prefrontal cortex and its connection to the ventral striatum.

Anonymous

#42. I don't see the point in making a distinction between natives having more of a right to kill whales than nonnative people.

Paul Watson

#43. Inequality has risen to the point that it seems to me worthwhile for the U.S. to seriously consider taking the risk of making our economy more rewarding for more of the people.

Janet Yellen

#44. In 1904, 20 per cent of journeys were made by bicycle in London. I want to see a figure like that again. If you can't turn the clock back to 1904, what's the point of being a Conservative?

Boris Johnson

#45. You have to love what you do to the point that you can't imagine doing anything else with your life.

Tom Ford

#46. A man's moral worth is established only at the point where he is ready to give up his life in defense of his convictions.

Henning Von Tresckow

#47. I wanted to take nouvelle cuisine further, to the point where we were breaking down the essence of taste and sensation, reconfiguring food as a series of really intense hits on the tongue.

Ferran Adria

#48. that may be a bit of stretch as I'd obviously prefer to play Trivial Pursuit than spend the night in a spider cave or give a hobo a rimjob, but you get the point.

David Thorne

#49. This is a hurried age we're living in. If you've got anything to say, say it quickly, get to the point and stop, and give the other man a chance to talk.

Dale Carnegie

#50. What is the point of love? To distract us.

Catherine Lacey

#51. I've gotten used to the point where I'm so used to being sweaty! I like to wear less makeup and be tougher!

Maggie Q

#52. The point of overcoming great challenges isn't to make a million dollars or change the world. The point is to gain strength and wisdom within.

Kevin Cole

#53. I miss kissing you. I dream about it, Aly, and I'm at the point where I might just go insane if I can't do it again.

Rachel Harris

#54. Intensity like signal strength will generally fall off with distance from the source, although it also depends on the local conditions and the pathway from the source to the point.

Charles Francis Richter

#55. People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend.

Jim Morrison

#56. Hating people isn't a productive way of living. So what's the point in hating anyone? There's enough hate in the world as it is, without me adding to it.

Ozzy Osbourne

#57. I think that's the point of view of an outsider, a tourist who puts picturesqueness above everything else.

Paul Bowles

#58. I've devoted a lot of my time and effort during the past few years to developing my advertising copywriting business to the point of where I can support my family and don't have to depend on writing fiction for my income.

George Stephen

#59. I find it very strange doing voiceover stuff, because you find you have to enunciate and make stupid faces in order for the point to make sense, because it's playing against the deadpan Simpson face. If you're just speaking in the regular way you speak, it will sound really boring.

Emily Blunt

#60. The fact that I had been on the point of making a similar heroic gesture was quite ignored, and this only increased my irritation.

Wilbur Smith

#61. The point I'm trying to make is that we as a family have bent over backward not to take advantage of Wal-Mart, not to press our ownership position unfairly, and everybody in the company knows it. Alice

Sam Walton

#62. The point of women's liberation is not to stand at the door of the male world, beating our fists, and crying, 'Let me in, damn you, let me in!' The point is to walk away from the world and concentrate on creating a new woman.

Vivian Gornick

#63. We would have been happy if we could have assigned just three categories, large, medium, and small; the point is, we wanted to avoid personal judgments. It actually turned out to be quite a finely tuned scale.

Charles Francis Richter

#64. I do believe in God. But you won't find me visiting temples every now and then. I believe in self-realization. Peace of mind matters a lot to me. What's the point in doing something just for the sake of it? I'd rather do something I like doing as long as I'm being true to myself.

Virat Kohli

#65. Free speech is meaningless if the commercial cacophony has risen to the point where no one can hear you.

Naomi Klein

#66. One of the reporters must have flunked journalism school because he asked a question that went straight to the point.

P. J. O'Rourke

#67. I'm really into lip cream. I have this one by Hourglass: it's an oil with this gold-tip applicator, and it's schmancy-schmancy. When you get to the point that your lips are cracking, the price is worth it.

Anna Kendrick

#68. When the object that is produced, the photographic image has the ability to make tears come to your eyes; to inspire you to the point where you have to catch your breath, then nothing else matters.

John Sexton

#69. To her, I was nothing, and she got me to the point where I didn't care what happened to me, as long as she was gone, too.

Ann Aguirre

#70. It seems symbolic of this all-pervading unpredictability that those engaged in the perfection of the means of destruction have finally brought about a level of technical development where their aim, namely warfare, is on the point of disappearing altogether.

Hanna Arendt

#71. I've always felt that the traditional novel doesn't give you enough information about the narrator, and I think it's important to know the point of view from which these tales are told: the moral makeup of the teller.

W.G. Sebald

#72. We've got some real greedy hogs who own no interest in the company they're running, whose sole interest is in whatever it takes to be able to get to the point to fly out on their golden parachute and milk the shareholder and take risks that they shouldn't take.

Joe Jamail

#73. Life is complicated. It wtarts before we're ready, it continues while we're still trying to figure out the point of it. And it ends long before we've worked out just what to do.

Adrian Tan

#74. Every nation-state tends towards the imperial - that is the point. Through banks, armies, secret police, propaganda, courts and jails, treaties, taxes, laws and orders, myths of civil obedience, assumptions of civic virtue at the top.

Daniel Berrigan

#75. No one's opinion mattered to Amanda except her own, and she was never wrong. That she was frequently not right was beside the point.

Johanna Lindsey

#76. If there is only nothingness after death, what's the point of this world?

Fuminori Nakamura

#77. It was always too late, she thought. At the point when you actually realized something important, the moment to do anything about it had already slipped by.

Emily Grayson

#78. I knew the point wasn't the victory, but pulling yourself together and crawling your way back. That was life.

Chloe Neill

#79. Even if it is difficult playing with other people - sometimes it's great, sometimes it isn't, but that is kind of the point of it. It loses its point playing solo.

Derek Bailey

#80. Dreams? What's the point of that?

Erin Hunter

#81. The laurels of victory are at the point of the enemy bayonets. They must be plucked there ; they must be carried by a hand-to-hand fight if one really means to conquer.

Ferdinand Foch

#82. Morality begins at the point of a gun.

Mao Zedong

#83. So much of comedy is feeling comfortable with the point of view coming at you. So I understand it. There's people who I find hilarious now, but the first couple of times I saw 'em, I was like "What is this? I don't get it at all."

Scott Aukerman

#84. I shall be as tender to you as my father was not to me. For what's the point of breeding children, if each generation does not improve on who went before?

Hilary Mantel

#85. Give yourself permission to get the most out of your life. If you're spending all your time scrubbing corners with a toothbrush, you're kind of missing the point. Taking shortcuts doesn't mean shortcutting the end result.

Sandra Lee

#86. It seems like people my age are over-protected today, even to the point where a lot of parents refuse to put their kids in the position to make important decisions, to aspire to great things, because they don't want to put them in a position to fail.

Abby Sunderland

#87. Besides Germany, the only countries that don't have speed limits are places like Nepal, where road conditions are so bad that a limit would be beside the point. In other words, it's a little crazy that this is even a topic for debate in Germany.

Sigmar Gabriel

#88. If I'm damned, what's the point of pretending that I'm not?

Rosamund Hodge

#89. The realisation of one's own death is the point at which one becomes adult.

Lawrence Durrell

#90. I am what you call a non-believer. I don't even want to say I'm an atheist because frankly I don't want to join their club either. But the point is, I am a fallen catholic, I'm not religious, and that's all well and good.

Kathy Griffin

#91. It's ridiculous that our solar system, not to mention the universe outside of that, is extraordinarily well organized, to the point where we can predict 70 years away when a comet is coming.

Benjamin Carson

#92. And the point is, is it possible for the mind to be totally free from suffering and yet not become indifferent, callous, irresponsible, but to have that passion, the intensity, the energy that freedom brings, freedom from suffering.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#93. Not everything we do in this world is about us, Panther. Sometimes we have do things for other reasons. Sometimes we've got to forget about ourselves and help others. If not, what's the point?

Terry Brooks

#94. To me the special quality (which of course many men have as well) is first of all a sharpness, a clarityIt cuts through - especially intellectual ossification. Itgets to the point. To me the dakini principle stands for the intuitive force.

Tenzin Palmo

#95. I would say that for the sake of human progress, the best thing we could possibly do would be to diminish, to the point of eliminating, religious faiths. But certainly not eliminating the natural yearnings of our species or the asking of these great questions.

E. O. Wilson

#96. I really don't sit here and dream what life in the White House will be like. I just can't go beyond the point when the people go to the ballot box with all that power.

Tipper Gore

#97. Friendship is a choice. more to the point, it is a series of ongoing choices, with consequences for each person.

Kelly McClymer

#98. And you know, that's another reason I named her Coco. Because to me, chocolate is about indulging in things that give you pleasure. And what's the point of life if you can't find joy?

Kate Klise

#99. "To be is to do," says the existentialist. "One only becomes real (human) at the point of action."

Leo Buscaglia

#100. The point of my explanation is I'm very subjective when it comes to describing my characters: they are all a little bit a part of me from the outside in or the inside out - but to put your mind at ease, I built Paul Snider from the outside in.

Eric Roberts