Point Quotes

Great artists make the roads; good teachers and good companions can point them out. But there ain't no free rides, baby.

Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.

A black agenda is jobs, jobs, jobs, quality education, investment in infrastructure and strong democratic regulation of corporations. The black agenda, at its best, looks at America from the vantage point of the least of these and asks what's best for all.

So to me, fat just seems to be right to the point and the most descriptive way to say it.

I hope we don't get to the point where we have to have the cat stop chasing the mouse to teach him glassblowing and basket weaving.

As a rule, anyone who can tell a good story can write one, so there really need be no mistake about his qualification; such a man will be careful not to be wearisome, and to keep his point, or his catastrophe, well in hand.

All I can tell you really is if you get to the point where someone is telling you that you are not great or not good enough, just follow your heart and don't let anybody crush your dream.

The nurses at the hospital tried to soothe me, and they even tried unsuccessfully at one point to return me to Americans.

I would point out that Japan's proposal at the Versailles Peace Conference on the principle of racial equality was rejected by delegates such as those from Britain and the United States.

I wasn't being bullied at school at this point. I had a group of friends, and I was isolated because I wasn't communicating with my parents. I wasn't telling them what I was going through.

I don't see the point in signing on to do something and then leaving.

In the South or in the mine country, wherever you point the camera there is a picture.

At some point, Moore's law will break down.

You cannot live your life looking at yourself from someone else's point of view.

I hadn't been a recording artist all that long when albums came on the scene, and I was one of the first singers to point the way to how varied an album's contents could be.

They keep extending these unemployment benefits to the point where people are afraid to go out and get a job, because the job doesn't pay as much as the unemployment benefit does.

I'm just not going to tour. One point I want to get across to everybody is that I'm still going to make records and I may still do some events. It's not the last time I'm onstage. It's been a part of my life for too long to quit everything. I have done it since the '80s, and I think it's time now to maybe see if I can live without that part.

The point about a great story is that it's got a beginning, a middle and end.

The time to worrying about flying is when you're on the ground. When you're up in the air, it's too late. No point in worrying about it then.

So I like to try to go back and develop pure visual storytelling. Because to me, it's one of the most exciting aspects of making movies and almost a lost art at this point.

When you do a lot of acting your entire life, you see the entire set from one point of view. To have a chance to step back and pull it all together is really exciting. You want to do it all; you want to have a hand in everything.

From a strictly articulatory point of view there is no succession of sounds.

If you are going to point a finger, you point it at me.

I hate admitting that my enemies have a point.

I'm surprised that we've gotten to a point where we don't put our country first and put our party first.

I grew up with Scientology - my parents at one point were clerical. It's a pragmatic philosophy, not merely a belief system. Yeah, it's had media exposure because certain luminaries do Scientology, but millions of people do it who are not celebrities. It's not a threat or some cult.

There's no point apologizing about where you come from.

Having reached a point in which I was so bitter and exhausted from being a quote unquote public figure, I wanted to return to a more childlike relationship to writing.

I wanted to be a Priest at one point. I was pretty religious. I was an altar boy, and I was good at it. Then, I started meeting girls and I'm like 'You know, maybe I shouldn't be a Priest.'

It's time to move on to the next step in the psychedelic revolution. We've reached a certain point, but we're not moving any more.