Point Quotes

There comes a point in your moviegoing life where you look at the screen and then you look at the world and you ask, 'What is going on?' You want the movies to show you the chaos and mess and risk and failure that are normal for a lot of us. Generally, the movies hide all of that.

I think we all suffer from guilt at some point in our lives, but for the most part I never really regret, and I try to always remain positive. Yes, I think that those issues are very interesting to play in a character, and they're prominent issues in life, and I think people can relate to them.

I learned how to fire a sniper rifle, which I'm sure will be useful at some point.

But I wish to point out that it is entirely wrong to say that the Chinese are not religious.

So this is it. Match point for eternity.

We got to this point by constantly perfecting our products.

The world's creation has a beginning from the world's point of view, not from God's.

It's okay to laugh in the bedroom so long as you don't point.

I've got nothing left to lose at this point. The work I've done is out there.

I'm not trying to get back on a team, but I have tried to stay in shape just in case a team needs a point guard. A championship team. I wouldn't go to any other team.

But the whole point of liberation is that you get out. Restructure your life. Act by yourself.

At no point was my career under threat, so I always knew that I would get back into action.

But once the person is selected, at that point that person is independent.

This week, the world gathers in Beijing for the 2008 Olympic games. This is the extraordinary moment China has been dreaming of for 100 years. People have been longing for this moment, because it symbolises a turning point in China's relationship with the outside world.

The larger point is this: We've invested over half a billion dollars in New York since this department was stood up. We've given New York more money, by more than double, than any other city in the country.

The Internet didn't get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together.

But you come to a point in your life when you can't pull the trigger anymore.

The Palestinian election is something that was really a turning point. It's a mandate for peace.

I never feel like I have to hang on to the music. I don't expect that the music will go away. Ideas are the only thing I can point to that are permanent and fixed.

I never go straight to the point if I can go the most difficult way. Why be simple when you can be complicated?

Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust; and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music.

It took putting one foot in front of the other every single day to get through it to the point where I made it back on the team and won a gold medal in 2008.

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.

Typically in horror films the character just services the plot, and you really are just going from 'point a' to 'point b,' just so that you can end up at 'point c.' They are just sort of stick characters. That's just not interesting to me.

This is terrible, when a writer is bored by his own work, but it was a real bomb and had reached the point where I couldn't even stand to look at it any more.

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

You spend enough time on set as an actor and it's great when a director was at some point an actor or understands acting. They're able to finesse performances out of you that a lot directors can't get.

When I'm in bars or clubs, it gets to the point where I feel I'm obliged to streak. It's not a problem.

The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.

At some point he seemed to lose all confidence trying to break down the Berlin Wall. He was still fighting as only Kasparov can, but I could see it in his eyes that he knew he wasn't going to win one of these games.