Point Quotes
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There are some moments in life, some feelings; one can only point to them and pass by.
Ivan Turgenev
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The power within you which enables you to form a thought-picture is the starting point of all there is.
Genevieve Behrend
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The point is to balance on the edge between musicality and content.
Rick Moody
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Two lines must meet at a point. Therefore there are only two surprises here.
Nathan Seiberg
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The nice thing with Shakespeare from a modern point of view is that a lot of stuff that was tragic for him can read as comic for us.
Ryan North
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My point of reference is life, in everything that I do.
Howie Mandel
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Nothing is etched in stone in tennis until the final point has been played. That's why we watch.
Dave McPherson
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Getting drunk . . . you're in complete control up to a point. It's your choice, every time you take a sip. You have a lot of small choices. It's like . . . I guess it's the difference between suicide and slow capitulation . . .
Jim Morrison The Doors
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We're born with success. It is only others who point out our failures, and what they attribute to us as failure.
Whoopi Goldberg
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Don't point your finger to the heights your children should go. Start climbing and they will follow.
Wilferd Peterson
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I lost my mother early, I've sometimes felt I haven't had anyone to show me the way. When I look to the future there's only a blank. "I can't see past the point where I am," the speaker says at one point - "like you, I'm just passing through." If my mother were still alive I imagine I'd have a clearer sense of what a meaningful, vital life might look like 25 years down the line.
Deborah Landau
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I had gotten to the point where I was either going to play the violin much better or I was going to break it over my knee.
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich
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Writing is what I do. It's like breathing to me at a certain point, but if I couldn't write, I do like cooking.
Nora Ephron
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There are 15 main theories in physics, and we know all of them. If there weren't a finite number of theories, there would not be a point to physics.
Ivar Giaever
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I don't even know what a traditional producer is or does. I feel like the job is like being a coach, building good work habits and building trust. You want to get to a point where you can say anything and talk about anything. There needs to be a real connection.
Rick Rubin
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I'm one of the few that comes from this vantage point: I never tried to get a record deal.
Michelle Shocked
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A garden always has a point.
Elizabeth Hoyt
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Mothers send strips to daughters to make a point. Daughters smack strips down on the breakfast table to make a point. My own mom sometimes cuts a strip out and sends it to me to make sure I understand her.
Cathy Guisewite
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What is the point of me changing? If I became another person, it would be bad. If I acted in a different way with my friends, they would not be happy. It's important I stay the same.
Caster Semenya
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I've never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.
Alan Bennett
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Watching the ball is always a good starting point.
Andrew Strauss
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I saw a point that shone with light so keen, the eye that sees it cannot bear its blazing; the star that is for us the smallest one would seem a moon if placed beside this point.
Dante Alighieri
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I want to point out to adults that there is a world of good material available to you now in comic form - in this medium - and learn to give it your support because the more you support it, the better the material will be as it comes out.
Will Eisner
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There's no point that an album should sound like a watered down version of another album.
Stephen Malkmus Pavement