The Point Quotes

It's always a good starting point to tell a story that has many layers.

The state, frankly, could care less. Historically, the state has been able to use any religious point of view for its own ends. . . . The examples of government misusing religion are endless.

From an evolutionary point of view, man has stopped moving, if he ever did move.

I knew what I didn't want to do- that's always my starting point. The starting point is always that I don't want to repeat myself. Or I try my best not to, with varying degrees of success.

Classical music was my starting point. My mum would expose me to a lot of music and take me to really weird concerts when I was possibly too young.

Every time you go into a movie, you go into the point of view of who it is about.

How come I love having an episode of deja vu? It's akin to an out-of-body experience, I would think. It sits with me, happily, begging me to delve into my memory to find its match point.

I dont have good luck in the match points.

If you feel like you can't actually do the right thing and you're headed off into the field of justice, maybe there's no point in going into it.

Let us never accept the point of view that mysteries are written by hacks. The poorest of us shed our blood over every chapter. The best of us start from scratch with every new book.

But every person has to learn to accept what has happened in the past. Without bitterness. Or there is no point in continuing with life.

In order to be the best, you have to know your breaking point-go to the edge of it, but never go beyond.

There's no point trying to sugar-coat this or get Jesuitical about it. Yes, Russia tried to manipulate our election. It's appalling. Yes, it should be investigated and taken seriously.

We [Virgin Group] have been successful not by wasting time scrutinising our competitors but by looking at ourselves from the point of view of our customers do and seeking feedback through listening.

I've always argued, unsuccessfully, that there's no point in giving money to the arts unless you educate people in them.

Not everyone writes well from a child's point of view.

God is not just the starting point of your life; he is the source of it.

I write poetry. It comes naturally to me, but from a technical point of view it forces me to pay close attention to language and to scan.

If you can't even acknowledge that you have to fix Social Security, that's not a very good starting point.

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 living if you can't, at least occasionally, live.

Linguistic philosophers continue to argue that probably music is not a language, that is in the philosophical debate. Another point of view is to say that music is a very profound language.

You want to think about certain styles of music as being reflective of a certain culture or a certain time or a point of view. You don't want it to be just an intellectual exercise.

In Brazil, when you say you're going to be an artist you always get that point of view that this is a crazy career and you might not make it. In my case, it kind of happened.

Let today's strong performance be your starting point for tomorrow.

If we miss this chance to make a fresh start, we may look back on this moment from some later vantage point and realize how much that failure cost us all.

I was the first person to come into New York with a Latin American point of view which was also very much influenced by political happenings in Latin America.

Not from my point of view....[Clinton] want[s] to move toward mandated government medicine, socialized medicine.

I collect cigars. I love giving 'em away to people that really enjoy 'em, and I could think of no better place than West Point!

Ireland really is my problem; the breaking point of the huge suppuration which all British and all European society now is

Usually my starting point is something that I've seen. It might be a painting, it might be an object. But they always start from a definite sensory experience.

To not want children or not be considerate of them is a very unwomanly thing to be, from a certain point of view.

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

I have a lot of connection to Pataudi. I have spent a lot of time there and I love the place very much, but at no point, do I consider myself a Nawab.

We want you to express your point of view but without violence.

History has a point of view; it cannot be all things to all people.

I'm a sexual person. A lot of different people turn me on and have over the years, and I've always wanted to make it very clear that this was not coming from some sort of antimale point of view.

From our point of view, the most exciting thing would be if we discovered something really fundamental in our understanding was just off a bit - and that now we have a chance to revisit it

It's been hard. My mother is proud of me, but her reaction swings wildly from day to day. I don't really take her point of view. I'm hard on her. And that's hard to read.

When you're making a film all by yourself, that requires you to have quite a bit of a point of view in order for anything to get done.

I think the show has sort of given me a name in this business and allowed a lot of people the opportunity to see what I can do, and it's just sort of like a sweet starting point.

I think young artists are always inspiring because they are coming at worlds from a different point of view.

I define art as a work created by a human that has a unique point of view and discovers something that was not there before.

I think from the business point of view, Taiwan and China tied together brings mutual benefit. And we don't see any reason for stopping that progress, unless they have a political reason.

I suppose that there is no point wasting time being lazy, though of course indolence in a divine way, actually has its advantages.

Life shows no trend to complexity in the usual sense-only an asymmetrical expansion of diversity around a starting point constrained to be simple.

If you dream you do something, it's as if you actually are doing it from your brain's point of view.

Marriage is not one point of view: it's a constant back and forth over different perspectives - a healthy marriage, anyway.

I loved movies as a teenager and saw as much American cinema as I could, but I hated the English films of the early 60s and had absolutely no point of identification with them.

Bachelor parties are designed for those who are sad to see the passing of their single days. I couldn’t be more eager to have mine behind me. So there’s really no point.