The Point Quotes

If you pay 50 million for something, you probably pay another 50 to 100 million to activate it. And the more you spend, the better you do. There is no point in just buying rights.

[On New York City:] From a dating point of view, it's like a really large rummage sale - lots of strange items, but darned little that you'd want to take home.

There is nothing wrong with being a Marxist. Their point of view is essential to a democratic debate.

Your opinion is nothing but your point of view.

I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.

Smash creative blocks. Change the problem or sneak up on it from a different direction. Try something fresh - a new way with an old theme, a different point of view, unusual tool.

There's no point in bragging in the good times. Your friends don't need to hear it and your enemies won't believe it anyway.

I believe in a free society, where aspiration and effort can make the difference in every life. Where your starting point is not your destiny and where your first chance is not your only chance.

You will survive anything if you live your life from the point of view of truth.

There is no point in starting your own business unless you do it out of a sense of frustration.

Never generally means "at no point in time." The term comes from the words 'no' and 'ever', meaning that something is not ever going to happen. Sourced

Every day there comes a moment when a person lays his hands in his lap and all his busyness collapses like ashes. The work accomplished is, from the soul's point of view, entirely imaginary.

It is the people who scream the loudest about America and Freedom who see to be the most intolerant for a differing point of view.

What is love? From the spiritual and inner point of view, love is self-expansion. Human love binds and is bound. Divine Love expands, enlarges itself.

Mr. Breschnev says we will bury you, I don't subscribe to that point of view. It seems like such an ignorant thing to do, if the Russians love their children, too.

Granny Weatherwax was not a good loser. From her point of view, losing was something that happened to other people.

Every intellectual product must be judged from the point of view of the age and the people in which it was produced.

I must say Ive always composed music from the point of view of the performers.

If you're not really having fun then there's no point of really trying.

Why does every road eventually narrow into a point at the horizon? Because that's where the point lies.

Being unheard is the ground floor of giving up, and giving up is the ground floor of doing yourself in. It’s not so much, what’s the point? It’s more like, what’s the difference?

I have wanted you to see out of my eyes so many times.

Patience was not my strong point.

Beyond a certain point, the music isn't mine anymore. It's yours.

An organization's intelligence is distributed to the point of being ubiquitous.

People still kill in the name of religion. We haven't evolved to the point where we're one tribe called humans.

At this point, I don't get hired a lot because people don't think I could finance a movie.

I'm remote from most technology to the point that I'm kind of Amish.

I think in general, romantic comedies tend to take one person's point of view, but every once in a while you get something that is balanced for two people.

There's an entry point to any relationship.

Every relationship I've been in becomes long-distance because of work. It's never worked out. It puts an intense strain on the relationship, and at a certain point, it becomes too difficult.

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

Depression means that you have no point of view.

A novel is, hopefully, the starting point of a conversation, one in which the author engages readers and asks that they see things from a different point of view than they might otherwise.

Zen doesn't believe in the reconciliation of opposites because from the point of view of Zen, there is no point of view.

I started making photographs as if I were a child myself. This got me to look at things more closely, more slowly, and from vantage points I hadn't considered before.

Small mistakes, the lack of care, little accidents, and somewhere a tipping point is passed and things go badly wrong. Expedition history brims with tragedies built out of incremental missteps.

Every reminiscence is colored by the way things are today, and therefore by a delusive point of view.

To the truly ethical man, all of life is sacred, including forms of life that from the human point of view may seem lower than ours.

I'm bright, but there are lots of bright writers and people everywhere. In no way, at no point do I think I'm better than them.

There is no point asserting and reasserting what the heart cannot believe.

A leader should not be a man who arbitrarily imported his own ideas but the essential focal point for a group of people who trusted one another and worked for a common aim.

I have no point in my system or morals where I say, 'This is too far'.

I think many articles in the New Yorker have a strong point of view, but they are so rigorously fact-checked. I wouldn't call them objective, but they feel fair.

There's no point in spending your life in the pursuit of something that's easy.

It's a scary thing for fiction writers, when you're always writing from the point of view both as and for someone who is different.

From a German point of view, German-American and European-American relations are a pillar of our foreign policy.

I feel happier knowing a starting point came from me. And I like stuff that gives you a physical reaction.

There was no point in waiting until the next world. You had to do everything now, every kind of sin.

Evil is a point of view.