Point Quotes

There's no point in making a film out of a great book. The book's already great. What's the point?

There's no point in living in an alternate reality.

In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view. The image may not be literally what's going on, but it's representative.

I'm having fun just being a musician as well as an artist at this point.

I can't be smug, because I know that you can lose anything at any point. And I can't be angry, because I haven't lost it.

The crucial point is always the own cost structure. Therefore I created a Low Cost alliance with air Berlin.

But my point is that you design something in the end that precludes any unhealthy trading practices that are not going to serve your environmental or your economic objectives but now is not the time to do it.

I would like to play Pebble Beach at some point. I keep waiting for them to call and ask me to that little pro-am thing, but I'm not big enough.

The only hope is that our civilization will collapse at a certain point, as always happens in history. Then, out of barbarity, a renaissance.

If you're paid before you walk on the court, what's the point in playing as if your life depended on it?

You know, the point of a novel - or to me, the point of a novel, the gift of a novel is to go really deeply inside people's lives and inside their personal experiences.

Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we can draw lessons from them.

The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is beside the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech.

The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity - or it will move apart.

There comes a pause, for human strength will not endure to dance without cessation; and everyone must reach the point at length of absolute prostration.

Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting.

In 1979, I received a phone call from Ansel Adams asking me if I would be willing to consider coming to work for him. I was teaching photography in Southern California at that point.

In light of these facts Republicans have put forth a variety of proposals to make Social Security remain solvent for future generations. But up to this point, Democrats have chosen to oppose our good faith efforts and insist that indeed there is no problem.

In fact, I would defend to the death their right to express a different point of view.

The Burgess Shale is not unique, but for those who study evolution and fossils it has become something of an icon. It provides a reference point and a benchmark, a point of common discussion and an issue of universal scientific interest.

My errors will point to thinking men the various roads, and will teach them the great art of treading on the brink of the precipice without falling into it.

I am reaching a point in my life where the basketball chapter in my life is slowly closing from a competition standpoint.

I think that in the future, clocks won't say three o'clock anymore. They'll just get right to the point and rename three o'clock 'Pepsi.'

But actors at a certain point take the best of what's available to them.

The third point is that for some time the UN has been talking about helping Afghanistan in the reconstruction of the country but there has never been any real commitment by the international community to provide resources for that.

I'm not the one who was elected. I would never do anything to undermine my husband's point of view.

You've come to me now at this point in time, when The Neptunes are just now getting our light.

And I think more than anything else, I know when I go to bed that no one's working harder doing what I'm doing, and I think, quite frankly, simply that hard work at some point was gonna pay off.

It's not so much that I got that idea at some point, it came up naturally because of the improvisational nature of the story I was telling.

God is the tangential point between zero and infinity.