Point Quotes

There's no point for me to party. I have a girl that I love. I don't need that.

I'm at the point now where I know I'm doing something right when a movie gets mixed reviews, because then I'm not in the box. I don't want to make it too easy for people and I don't want to make it too easy for myself. I want to try something unusual.

If I could have been a marine biologist I would have, but I didn't have that kind of intelligence. Numbers were never my strong point.

At one point, CERN was toying with patenting the World Wide Web.

African-Americans have been brainwashed into not being open-minded, not even considering a conservative point of view. I have received some of that same vitriol simply because I am running for the Republican nomination as a conservative. So it's just brainwashing and people not being open-minded, pure and simple.

I'll always be there because I'm a skilled professional actor. Whether or not I've any talent is beside the point.

When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed the point.

My point of view is that men are basically animals, and I'm okay with that.

Over the course of two years, we arrived at a point where we began to look at the value added by making information more easily accessible across the intelligence community, both defense and national.

The office has oversight of people who do analysis and oversight of people who do operations, but it is not charged with doing either. That is an important point to make. Those functions are performed by the CIA, DIA and other agencies.

The Green Party represents that majority point of view within the U.S.

One in four of us will have a mental illness at some point. That is a lot of people.

To me, there's no point in writing merely to entertain.

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

There's so many people that follow the trend, and then it gets to a point where it gets a little stale. So, in music; I mean, whoever's the new trendsetter, that's who people follow.

I was a professional athlete, the best baseball player in the world at one point.

But then you have to write a song, so at that point, I picked up the reins and started to write lyrics.

Even the most self-confident people, at one point of their lives, felt like outsiders or felt like they weren't being heard or seen or witnessed in some way.

A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.

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

Parents are people who yell and they yell and they yell and they yell. And you already have the point... and they're still yelling.

I'm not the healthiest, but I am healthy. I'm healthy to the point where there are things that I have to eat that I don't want to eat, but I eat it because I'm enjoying staying alive.

This point seems counter-intuitive, given the amount of conspicuous vulgarity, vice, and immorality in America. Indeed some Islamic fundamentalists argue that their regimes are morally superior to the United States because they seek to foster virtue among the citizens.

See, to me, rock'n'roll doesn't have any point. It's just fun. It has a million different angles and they're all valid. But I think rock might be a world issue.

Paul Butterfield and I had a band together at one point.

Its highest point was The Worst Journey in the World. Then you see this decline, and this harking back, using the 19th-century form when we're not in the 19th century. That way of writing a book about the world out there - you just can't do it anymore.

I'm at the point in my career where to be a winner is more important than any individual things.

Morale is at the lowest point since I've been here.

Come on, when does it come to the point where your name can't come up in trade talks? Willie Mays got traded. Pedro Martinez got traded. So what? That's part of the game.

I swing both ways. I can see things from a kind of conservative point of view and from a more socially liberal or left-wing point of view.

It's an important point to realize that the genetic programming of our lives is not fully deterministic. It is statistical - it is in any animal merely statistical - not deterministic.

Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

You reach a point where you don't work for money.

The point in me playing with Prince was to let a lot of people know that I can play trap. I don't think people know that.

Every week I get letters from people worldwide who feel that the possibilian point of view represents their understanding better than either religion or neo-atheism.

I heard Nirvana, and discovered that songs could be like poetry, but a little bit more refined: you didn't have to have 20 verses to get your point across.

Every country that's ever been the most powerful country in the world ceases to be the most powerful country in the world at some point.

Some experts look at global warming, increased world temperature, as the critical tipping point that is causing a crash in coral reef health around the world. And there's no question that it is a factor, but it's preceded by the loss of resilience and degradation.

If I have no children what would be the point of living.

Style is the perfection of a point of view.

There must be a better reason to have a baby than to provide a plot point in a rom-com. Don't you think?

I think every actor wants to be an FBI or cop at one point.

I don't see the point of having 80 million people online if all they are doing in the end is talking to ghosts in the suburbs.

Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous.

Life is always at some turning point.

At that point, which would be around February 2002, they came and they confiscated my computer, because, they said, they were suspecting that I was communicating with certain Senate members and taking this issue outside the Bureau.

You get to a point where it gets very complex, where you have money laundering activities, drug related activities, and terrorist support activities converging at certain points and becoming one.

I was a 16-year-old girl at one point, so of course I wrote poetry.

I followed most of the 80's bands into the 90's as most of those folks who hadn't moved away were all still active. However, there was a point when I lost track of the new bands coming up.

The turning point for me was when the Supreme Court installed Bush in 2000, even though he got half a million votes less nationally than Gore. It was nothing more than a bloodless coup and that's when I really started paying attention.

Eventually the consumer will come to appreciate the editorial point of view of every different brand. User-generated content without editorial oversight will simply be background noise.

I still believe that any country understands that if they use nuclear weapons, they will be wiped out of existence. They could be irrational in many ways, but I don't think they're irrational to the point that they're ready to annihilate their own country.

There is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labelled.

You can never rely on musicians. I quit high school at one point to make a go of it with this band and we kept breaking up. So I went back to school.

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

I got space from Travis Air Force Base, went back to the Philippine Islands and made it a point to meet the only American casting director in the Philippines. I was off and running.

If I get in a relationship, it's always for the long-term; if not, I don't see the point.

It is God's planet - and he's taking care of it. And I don't believe that anything we do will raise or lower the temperature one point.

There is a point at which methods devour themselves.

The point is, how do you know the Guarantee Fairy isn't a crazy glue sniffer.

I was interested in implements of mass destruction - from an academic point of view.

There comes a point when a dream becomes reality and reality becomes a dream.

There's no point in swanning through and being cool as a breeze in every scene. It's not really that interesting. Even if you're a superhero.

But the point you need to know is that no president at war cut taxes $1.5 trillion, like Bush did.

Obviously talent gets you to a certain point, but it's what you do with it, how you handle.

I'm a pretty feminized geek, you know? I have that point of view, I grew up around a lot of girls, so I'm pretty sensitive to that. But I don't dare say 'I know how women think.'

If you keep bashing your head against the same wall, at some point you're going to fall over and be still for awhile.

I made the first Feist album in '98. So at that point, it was my nickname. It was as far as with my circle of friends, and just felt more accurate than two names.

There isn't much point in the whole 'celebrity' nonsense unless one is prepared to go out on a limb and, one hopes, speak up for some under-represented section of the community.

If I have my health I can carry on. There will be a point when I do quit but I have absolutely no idea when that is.

The fundamental point in fabricating a chain reacting machine is of course to see to it that each fission produces a certain number of neutrons and some of these neutrons will again produce fission.

But I'm never gonna get to a point in my life where what it costs to shoot a movie is going to determine what it is. The limits of my imagination is the only thing that's gonna stop me.

I'm a lapsed Buddhist like I'm a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.

I work really long hours and work a lot and have done press tours and junkets, but there is nothing like a presidential campaign that I have experienced before...I think at one point we visited three different cities in one state in 12 hours. It's exhausting.