Top 100 What's The Point Of Quotes
#1. What's the point of all this? Of all what? she asked. Of all this life.
Lily King
#2. What's the point of studying spelling when everyone's got spell-check?
Jennifer Bernard
#3. Why does loving somebody mean you have to hurt them just as much? I mean if that's the way it goes, what's the point of loving someone? Why the hell does it have to be like that?
Haruki Murakami
#4. What's the point of screaming if you'll never be heard.
Tahereh Mafi
#5. The DCU Constantine has to be the guy we know and love, with his same failings - otherwise what's the point of using him? But as I'm writing him, he's younger and has perhaps been through a bit less than the battered, aging old sod we meet in Vertigo.
Peter Milligan
#6. Gabriel: What's the point of having power, if one cannot use it? What's the point of immortality, if one cannot truly live?
A.J. Flowers
#7. Well, what's the point of being a rock star if I can't bang the groupies?"
Rolling my eyes, I found myself muttering, "I thought it was supposed to be about the music?"
Griffin, unfortunately, heard y sullen comment and chose to respond to it. "No, no, I'm pretty sure it's the pussy.
S.C. Stephens
#8. ...life, like a wire, requires tension on both ends. You care to live and someone else cares that you live. What's the point of holding the slack end?
Melanie Finn
#9. What's the point of eternal life if one spends it doing nothing? There is none. It's waste of eternity.
Courtney Allison Moulton
#10. I hated cats. I was a dog lover," Des says with a shrug. "What's the point of a cat? They're not affectionate. But that's because it's not my cat. I mean, your wife wouldn't jump on my lap. That's because she's your wife, not mine. Until you have your own cat, you really don't understand.
Denise Flaim
#11. I think we're put out into the world to forge relationships with people. Those can be as small as buying coffee from someone or as large as a marriage. The important thing is that we try to make connections or have experiences with other humans. Otherwise what's the point of being on this earth?
Laurel Nakadate
#12. What's the point of dating without games? How do you know if you're winning or losing?
Jerry Seinfeld
#13. What's the point of gaining peace if it costs us our freedom? I won't trade the one for the other.
Jennifer A. Nielsen
#14. What's the point of havin' a rapier wit if I can't use it to stab people.
Jeph Jacques
#15. I have had to learn that my voice has value. And if I don't use it, what's the point of being in the room?
Michelle Obama
#16. Even when I played sports when I was little, I played to win. Otherwise, what's the point of putting the pads on and going to practice? I don't understand.
Zakk Wylde
#17. What's the point of cleaning up your act if you don't have an act?
Martin Mull
#18. So what's the point of using words nobody else knows or can say comfortably? I just don't understand that.
Stephen Chbosky
#19. White people need to let people know that they have made their way through hundreds or even thousands of books. After all, what's the point of reading a book if people don't know you've read it? It's like a tree falling in the forest.
Christian Lander
#20. What's the point of using words nobody knows or can say comfortably?
Stephen Chbosky
#21. What's the point of being young if you're not going to make new things, I wonder?
Fran Lebowitz
#22. It's like there are a million screams caught inside of my chest but I have to keep them all in because what's the point of screaming if you'll never be heard and no one will ever hear me in her. No one will ever hear me again.
Tahereh Mafi
#23. What's the point of wearing your favorite rocket ship underpants if nobody ever asks to see 'em?
Bill Watterson
#24. Who wants to be a hundred? What's the point of it? A short life and a merry one is far better than a long one sustained by fear, caution, and perpetual medical surveillance.
Henry Miller
#25. What's the point of complaining. It just makes the people around you feel bad too. - Savannah
Suzanne Brockmann
#26. What's the point of the war? Why, oh why can't people live together peacefully? Why all this destruction?
Anne Frank
#27. What's the point of living if it's going to be easy?
Jillian Larkin
#28. If you can't imagine you could be wrong, what's the point of democracy? And if you can't imagine how or why others think differently, then how could you tolerate democracy?" As
Warren Berger
#29. What's the point of doing what you're told if you have no choice in the matter?
Cassandra Kemper
#30. What's the point of being an Australian guy traveling through India if you are going to go to India to meet other Australians?
Alfonso Cuaron
#31. Hello?" No reply. My shoulders sag. "What's the point of a staircase if no one is here to watch my entrance?
Stephanie Perkins
#32. What's the point of being sad?" he says. "We're here now.
Emily Giffin
#33. What's the point of having great knowledge and keeping them all to yourself?
Donald J. Trump
#34. What's the point of being a hero when everyone thinks you're a villain?
Ellen Hopkins
#35. I want to believe you, but if that's true, I just don't get it. Why does loving somebody mean you have to hurt them just as much? I mean, if that's the way it goes, what's the point of loving someone?
Haruki Murakami
#37. My theory: if the malls don't open until ten what's the point of being up earlier than that?
Gemma Halliday
#39. Because what's the point of screaming ifor you'll never be heard
Tahereh Mafi
#40. At restaurants, I try to tell them not to bring the bread basket, but what's the point of going out to eat if I can't enjoy it?
Natalie Morales
#41. What's the point of creating a budget if it's not possible to follow through?
Alexa Von Tobel
#42. If you can't make a joke at a time like this, what's the point of living?
Chloe Neill
#43. Being realistic is the most commonly traveled road to mediocrity. Why would you be realistic? What's the point of being realistic? I'm going to do it. It's done. It's already done. The second I decide it's done, it's already done.
Will Smith
#44. I want my art to make people look at the world in a new way. I mean, what's the point of the art of writing if it doesn't take you into the mysterious?
John Banville
#45. What's the point of not taking chances? I don't know if I could stand living my whole life afraid.
Ilsa J. Bick
#46. What's the point of hope if the hope you have is a lie? said Frank. Better to have no hope at all than false hope.
Chris Priestley
#47. The thought of all that happiness was hard to bear. What's the point of happiness when all it does is throw the facts of dying into clear relief?
Sebastian Faulks
#48. What's the point of living if you're going to hate the world? Guard your heart if you have to, but don't shut it away.
Neal Shusterman
#50. Everything has to have some kind of a point for people to breathe easy. What's the point of life? I have no clue, but sometimes there are things that just attract us and pull us in a certain way.
Harmony Korine
#51. For me, remembrance of things past has always been a waste of time, and what's the point of tears? I don't know. I've always been focussed on today. Yesterday and tomorrow hold no interest for me. What had to happen, did, and what will happen, will.
Saadat Hasan Manto
#52. We've got to show that blacks and whites are treated equally in the army. Otherwise, what's the point of waging war on Hitler?
Josephine Baker
#53. I want to die and be finished forever. Don't you want to die?" he said. "I don't know." "What's the point of living if we don't die at the end of it?" In
Don DeLillo
#54. In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
Famke Janssen
#55. Whatever someone told you, you can never be sure of what they said. Whatever someone said, you can never be sure of what you were meant to understand - so if it's really this complicated, what's the point of trying to infer things when you can just ask.
Rebecca Taylor
#56. I'm not such a nuisance to the world, and the kick I get out of living can, I suppose, justify the impositions I make on it. But when life isn't so fun, well, then I start to wonder. What's the point of going on if it's just trouble for us both? My friends will miss me, I am told.
Aaron Swartz
#57. What's the point of doing a brilliant Hedda Gabler in my back garden if no one will ever see it?
Jennifer Ehle
#58. If there is only nothingness after death, what's the point of this world?
Fuminori Nakamura
#60. 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
#61. What's the point of having a good story if no one gets to hear it?
Claire Fayers
#62. If I'm damned, what's the point of pretending that I'm not?
Rosamund Hodge
#63. 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
#64. 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
#65. 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
#66. What's the point of a good job if you're dead?
Andrew Garve
#67. I am a zero on the rez. And if you subtract zero from zero, you still have zero. So what's the point of subtracting when the answer is always the same?
Sherman Alexie
#68. If children don't push the edges now and again, what's the point of being a child?
J.D. Robb
#69. In the end, if you can't trust each other, what's the point of being married?
Sylvie Meis
#70. I we are born to die and we all die to live, then what's the point of living life if it just contradicts?
Ronnie Radke
#71. What's the point of yelling at the sky, it's not fair, it's not fair? It doesn't change anything.
Karina Halle
#72. That Jem makes beautiful things and I destroy them. That it really ought to be me dying and not him. I mean, what's the point of living if you can't even enjoy it? Yet Jem enjoys all the life he's got. It's not fair.
Cassandra Clare
#73. Whatever I'm doing, I'm in that moment and I'm doing it. The rest of the world's lost. If I'm cooking some food or making soup, I want it to be lovely. If not, what's the point of doing it?
Sade Adu
#74. I spy something green," Sally announced.
"Trees," Crina hollered, while Mariana called out, "Grass,"
"Nope," Sally answered.
"What's the point of this game again?" Crina asked.
"Mindless entertainment," Jen announced. "It's what Americans are known for.
Quinn Loftis
#75. What's the point of playing if winning isn't the goal?
J.D. Robb
#76. But I've really learned you don't have to fit in. No matter where you go, you're always going to be you and if they don't like you for who you are, then what's the point of being someone else?
Jena Malone
#77. What's the point of God making us human if He doesn't want us to act like we're human?' 'To see if we can rise above our natures,'Megan said.
Susan Beth Pfeffer
#78. What's the point of having the biggest baddest werewolf as your body guard if you can't boss him around. Kinda takes the fun out of it if you ask me. (Charity)
DeAnna Kinney
#79. What's the point of being a grown-up if you don't get to be immature?
Steven Moffat
#80. A lot of people call you a feminist painter."
"What indeed," I say. "I hate party lines, I hate ghettos. Anyway. I'm too old to have invented it and you're too young to understand it, so what's the point of discussing it at all?
Margaret Atwood
#82. I've been fighting to be who I am all my life. What's the point of being who I am, if I can't have the person who was worth all the fighting for?
Stephanie Lennox
#83. What's the point of these demagogic campaigns if these hungry kids are still here on the road? All little ones deserve protection, food, love and peace.
Carla Perez
#84. In the end I would always pull up with a sense of glory, that loving is the strong side. It's feeble to be an object. What's the point of being loved in return, I'd ask myself.
Katherine Dunn
#85. What's the point of sea horses? I asked.
The old man stood before them, mouth hung open, as if before his god.
David Vann
#86. What's the point of speaking up when no one hears you?
Krista Ritchie
#87. And if there's bad behaviour," Mma Potokwane went on. "If there's bad behaviour, the quickest way of stopping it is to give more love. That always works, you know. People say we must punish when there is wrongdoing, but if you punish you're only punishing yourself. And what's the point of that?
Alexander McCall Smith
#88. We are surrounded by so many books, so many words, so many thoughts ... and not a single one can help us. I think, What's the point of all magic, if no one really knows how to use it? But I guess the same could be said about life.
David Levithan
#89. What's the point of knowing the warrior code if all you do is ignore what it says?
Erin Hunter
#90. Reading the Socratic dialogues one has the feeling: what a frightful waste of time! What's the point of these arguments that prove nothing and clarify nothing?
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#91. What's the point of having beliefs and values if we don't stand up for the former and live by the latter?
Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
#92. What's the point of washing off your ball when teeing off on a water hole?
Bruce Lansky
#93. She asked her parents to buy him the books she'd been read by her first teachers, Peter Rabbit and Frog and Toad. "What's the point of buying books for someone who can't read?" her parents asked, legitimately enough, and so she checked them out of her school library and read them to Rahul herself.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#94. What's the point of trying to fix a world we're so briefly in?
Isaac Marion
#95. Hope is all there is. All we have. And love. Or what's the point of any of it?
Sophie Jordan
#96. If you're not going to get any wiser, what's the point of getting older?
Elizabeth Lowell
#97. What's the point of rap if you can't be yourself, huh?
Donald Glover
#98. Bear, I think having sand in your butt crack must be really uncomfortable. Maybe you should go change your clothes. You don't want to catch sand crabs. What's the point of getting crabs when you weren't having any fun doing it?
T.J. Klune
#99. So what's the point of it all?"
"Seriously?" I asked. "Seriously? You're asking me for the meaning of life? Isn't that a little stereotypical?"
"Well it's a reasonable question," you persisted.
Andy Weir
#100. What's the point of doing something good if nobody's watching?
Nicole Kidman