Point Quotes
Suffering will get you great footage. I don't know about closer to God. Although there have been times when I've suffered to the point where I think I might be about to meet him.
Johnny Knoxville
It will be sufficient to point to the enormous burdens which armaments place on the economic, social, and intellectual resources of a nation, as well as on its budget and taxes.
Ludwig Quidde
Almost all these hotspots around the world, most have been destroyed to the point where there is no wildlife and very little of the natural world left.
Jim Fowler
I went downtown as a lawyer and then I worked in a liquor store at night, as I had done all through law school. And so when I got to the point where I could give up the night job, I joined the political club.
David Dinkins
Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or base for what he wants to offer. Only he who in the face of all this can say In spite of all! has the calling for politics.
Max Weber
The United Nations has become a largely irrelevant, if not positively destructive institution, and the just-released U.N. report on the atrocities in Darfur, Sudan, proves the point.
Linda Chavez
To say that an idea is fashionable is to say, I think, that is has been adulterated to a point where it is hardly an idea at all.
Murray Kempton
Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
Andre Gide
If somebody wants to have plastic surgery, more power to them. I think there's a point where you go overboard.
Shannen Doherty
The more I love the character, the harder it is to get it wrong. I have to get to a point that I can speak for them.
Eric Bana
I don't get the point in a lot of biopics, they're boring. You know what's gonna happen. You're just watching actors show off.
Samantha Morton
I got the role I loved the most at a point in my career when most women are being phased out.
Candice Bergen
There is a point in every young person's life when you realize that the youth that you've progressed through and graduate to some sort of adulthood is equally as messed up as where you're going.
Jena Malone
I like somebody who makes me laugh. He's also got to be prepared - I'm sort of a loose cannon, in a good way. I also like people who disagree with me and make me work to prove my point.
Monica Keena
There's a few tunes of mine that don't have jokes, but most of them have a joke and they have a humorous point of view somewhere.
Mose Allison
It should cause no surprise that anyone so lazy as myself should be economical to the point of miserliness with everything he writes.
Leslie Charteris
The whole point of being in this business and being blessed and being successful is that you're able to do things for your friends or your family, which means that they can have something special in their lives, too.
Elton John
Technically, at this point we're no longer with the label; we've fulfilled our contract.
Peter Steele
You come to a point in your life when you really don't care what people think about you, you just care what you think about yourself.
Evel Knievel
But I always communicate with the audience. I never pretend like I'm just in my bedroom making a track. The whole point of doing a gig is, like, a feedback thing between you and the audience.
Tom Jenkinson
The mainland Chinese tend to take a Chinese mainland point of view on controversial issues, and the Taiwanese take another the Taiwanese viewpoint.
Jimmy Wales
I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.
Alexis de Tocqueville
I think that great poetry is the most interesting and complex use of the poet's language at that point in history, and so it's even more exciting when you read a poet like Yeats, almost 100 years old now, and you think that perhaps no one can really top that.
Diane Wakoski
We are all in this together. We want to have, I suppose, a single point of entry so that anyone coming near a disability service can get a very complete picture. Government needs to understand that picture, and we need to be able to offer somebody a one-stop shop.
Jay Weatherill