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.

There comes a point when a man must refuse to answer to his leader if he is also to answer to his own conscience.

I would like to be married and have kids. I would like to do that... Yes, I could see me settling down at some point.

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?

I could write songs as bad as Wham's if I really felt the urge to, but what's the point?

Once everyone else around you starts to become incredibly comfortable - if anything, quite happy with what you are doing - then I start to settling in and trusting all those choices that I've made up to that point.

Above all it is important to point out that we can only maintain our prosperity in Europe if we belong to the most innovative regions in the world.

Man is pre-eminently endowed with the power of voluntarily and consciously determining his own point of view.

I feel at some point that the farm state politics will overwhelm the Florida politics.

Be able to draw an illustration as least well enough to get your point across to another person.

There comes a certain point in life when you have to stop blaming other people for how you feel or the misfortunes in your life. You can't go through life obsessing about what might have been.

I've gotten to a point, where I realize that happiness doesn't come from the outside.

There's no point regretting things. If you can't do the time, don't do the crime. Life's too short to worry about things I've said.

There's no point in lying saying I am doing really, really well because I'm not; I'm cult level.

John Waters has certainly gotten to a place in his life where he doesn't do anything he doesn't want to do. He's always been that way, but at this point, he's greatly respected for it.

Carrying out the thing, getting it to the point when one might say: There, now it is good - that point is hard to reach. Often, one sets very high goals for oneself. Perhaps too high.

Individual rights always go along with the interests of the society. I want to add that in Vietnam we have no political prisoners. No one is arrested or jailed for his or her speech or point of view. They are put in jail because they violated the law.

There comes a point where it is just undignified to be a rock 'n' roll star.

I will be the focal point for however long I decide to play. Half of me likes that idea and half of me doesn't, but once the adrenaline kicks in, I'll probably really enjoy it.

I'm getting married because I'm in love with a girl and want to spend my life with her. You can't live your life doing what other people want you to or you'll be miserable. At some point you just have to be yourself.

I am continually embarrassed by people who point me out as an example of what can be done without training.

I want to make movies about my country from my point of view.

I had a briefcase at one point, but it was a kind of 1980s New Wave briefcase. It was made of some kind of cardboard and it had metal hinges. It was kind of faux industrial looking, and I used to carry my books in it rather than a backpack. I didn't want to have normal student accoutrements.

The iconoclastic mode, that specific mode of language, there is an element of it that it is punk - that is confrontational. That's just a part of the language of jazz - at a certain point.

A lot of journalism wants to have what they call objectivity without them having a commitment to pursuing the truth, but that doesn't work. Objectivity requires belief in and a commitment toward pursuing the truth - having an object outside of our personal point of view.

We need to have a strong defense focused on areas that are in the greatest vulnerability. I have been very concerned about America's 361 seaports as a point in which terrorist activities and materials could be brought into the country.

The simple act of telling a woman's story from a woman's point of view is a revolutionary act: it never has been done before.

The present is a point just passed.