Point Quotes

My priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time.

I guess I didn't feel confident enough to be searching in a big public way. I was very content at the time to toil in obscurity on things that I thought might point me in certain directions or teach me certain things - not knowing what that would be.

But at the same time, I don't let myself regret things to the point that I'm paralyzed.

The Greens have every right to run, that's what democracy is, and they should argue their point by saying how they think people should vote, not by telling us to be silent.

We pacifists have not ceased to point to the grave danger of armaments and to insist on their curtailment.

And I like to keep whatever is mine remaining that way. It's a funny little game to play and it's a slippery slope. I always say to myself I'm never going to give anything away because there's never any point or benefit for me.

The plate at each point only sends back to the eye the simple colour imprinted. The other colours are destroyed by interference. The eye thus perceives at each point the constituent colour of the image.

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.

To me, that means getting back to the point where our Constitution means that you don't tap people's phones and poke into their e-mail and you don't arrest people and keep them hidden for a year and a half without charging them.

It's come to the point where you have people saying it's our Christian duty to embrace the homosexual movement. This is absurd.

For as long as one has no further point of reference, apart from the position of the maximum, the wavelength thus remains uncertain by an integral factor.

I try to live my life where I end up at a point where I have no regrets. So I try to choose the road that I have the most passion on because then you can never really blame yourself for making the wrong choices. You can always say you're following your passion.

When times get tough, at some point, people instinctively know they need to lighten up in order to get through it.

Elvis transcends his talent to the point of dispensing with it altogether.

The thing about my music is, there really is no point.

I've definitely, you know, been with women. And I've had great relationships with them where I was definitely in love. It's just I grew to a point where deep inside I knew that I could never truly have a relationship with a woman. I don't know if they ever suspected. It was never brought up.

By the way, the point between rationality and what we would call the irrational is a very difficult point to establish. There's no specific line, as you know.

No finite point has meaning without an infinite reference point.

I'd like to think I could do something great - a performance like Meryl Streep's in 'Sophie's Choice' - at some point in my life. At the same time, though, I don't want to put too much pressure on myself to be great.

Aaron Copland was a man that had a very specific point of view about what music should be which was that, he felt that new music should have the composer should show a personality in his music.

The whole point of being an actor is to get satisfaction out of a role - unless you're just vain about celebrity. You're always looking for the one thing that will surprise you.

I'm not at the point where I'd feel safe in a house alone. I would be really scared. I'm the kind of person that when I get up to go use the bathroom I have this big long hallway, and I just know someone's going to jump out and get me.

Everybody has a right to be defended, and every lawyer has a duty to defend people accused. And my office is to defend him, to discuss the accusation point by point, as I think this is a normal step in a democracy.

Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.

I am a team player - and that is what you need to be an effective point guard. You gotta see the court, you gotta set up the play, and you gotta let others execute for the most part. I don't throw elbows for the sake of throwing elbows, but if somebody throws one at me and it's necessary to respond in kind, I suppose I can if I have to.

The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way.

My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then.

The point of cities is multiplicity of choice.

My goal is always the same: to keep the other player from ever scoring a point. That doesn't always happen, but that's what I try for.

It connects with the theologians' point that you can say what God is not, but not (easily) what He is.