All Quotes

The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause.
‐‐ Gustav Mahler

The point is, once they have a missile that can hit the United States, we are now back in the kind of game we used to worry about with the Soviet Union, only the Soviet Union was more mature about this whole thing than I think the North Koreans will be.
‐‐ Lawrence Eagleburger

The point is technology and innovation have advanced far past what DCGS is capable of doing. It's not an agile enough tool to be able to incorporate and integrate the most advanced technology that is on the shelf today that can be bought by our forces that frankly our war-fighting units want.
‐‐ Michael T. Flynn

The point is, technology has empowered so many musicians, you know?
‐‐ Stanley Clarke

The point is - that Donald Trump has been making on the campaign trail is that he's financing his own campaign. That's very important for him to say now in his mind because he wants people to know that he owes nobody anything other than the American people, or the voters who are picking, choosing his candidacy.
‐‐ Paul Manafort

The point is that I don't design stuff for myself. I'm a toolmaker. I design things that other people want to use.
‐‐ Robert Moog

The point is that instead of a monolithic brick of printed content - delivered more or less unchanged to all subscribers - social media offers news that is personalized and nimble.
‐‐ Ryan Holmes

The point is that knowledge of God is not prohibited under the First Amendment.
‐‐ Roy Moore

The point is that life for me is not going to be the way it is for everyone else. I have a fog machine and movie lights in my bedroom.
‐‐ Marilyn Manson

The point is that the arts are important enough to have influenced the greatest minds and talents we know. Albert Einstein said that if he were not a physicist, he would probably be a musician.
‐‐ Mickey Hart

The point is that there is tremendous hypocrisy among the Christian right. And I think that Christian voters should start looking at global warming and extreme poverty as a religious issue that speaks to the culture of life.
‐‐ Al Franken

The point is that these decisions they've made are partly for your convenience and partly for theirs and partly out of stereotypes that they carry with them from the conventions of the computer field.
‐‐ Ted Nelson

The point is that when I see a sunset or a waterfall or something, for a split second it's so great, because for a little bit I'm out of my brain, and it's got nothing to do with me. I'm not trying to figure it out, you know what I mean? And I wonder if I can somehow find a way to maintain that mind stillness.
‐‐ Chris Evans

The point is that you can't be too greedy.
‐‐ Donald Trump

The point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.
‐‐ Bill Joy

The point is the country has got serious problems dealing with terrorism both domestic and international.
‐‐ Paul Manafort

The point is the 'me' that you see before you is not the 'me' in my private little space, shape-shifting into the writing role, nor is it the 'me' that works with the actors. Here, at the end of the film doing interviews, I feel like I'm in disguise.
‐‐ Julia Leigh

The point is to almost be child-minded, like you're discovering music for the first time, every time you play.
‐‐ Gerald Clayton

The point is to balance on the edge between musicality and content.
‐‐ Rick Moody

The point is to be involved in the moment.
‐‐ Dougray Scott

The point is to change one's life. The point is not to give some vent to the emotions that have been destroying one; the point is so to act that one can master them now.
‐‐ Barbara Deming

The point is to expand the scope of what a movie can possibly mean or be, to get people involved because they're artistic or understand the point of the material, not just because they fit a certain bill aesthetically.
‐‐ Ryan Phillippe

The point is to solve problems, not point fingers.
‐‐ Jane Harman

The point is, when you have a chance to have a big adventure, especially if, like in your case, it doesn't hurt anyone, it's just plain foolish not to take it.
‐‐ Mink Stole

The point is with good maths skills you have just wonderful opportunities and if you don't have good maths skills, there are just so many things that you won't be able to do.
‐‐ Marcus du Sautoy

The point isn't to live without any regrets. The point is to not hate ourselves for having them.
‐‐ Kathryn Schulz

The point never to lose sight of is to be guided by the correct thing, as you see it. It's the only way to approach such profound matters and retain your integrity.
‐‐ Charles Kennedy

The point of a philosophical spirit is to rely primarily upon one's own thinking.
‐‐ Brendan Myers

The point of a presidential campaign is to put the candidate through the ringer: to force him to get banged up by his opponents and the press, and to have to answer the difficult and uncomfortable questions, be investigated, and learn the thrust and parry of political swordplay.
‐‐ Monica Crowley

The point of acting is to pretend you're someone else and sell a story.
‐‐ Henry Cavill

The point of an accelerator is to teach you about companies and business, not about technology.
‐‐ Sam Altman

The point of an experiment is not to arrive at a predetermined end point, to prove or disprove anything, but to deliver a poem that reveals much about the process taken.
‐‐ John Barton

The point of asylum is not to declare to the world what country you think is the pinnacle of civilization. The point of asylum is to find a country that's both willing and able to protect you from political persecution. In no way is asylum an endorsement of a country's politics, laws, or values.
‐‐ Glenn Greenwald

The point of being a movie star is that people cast you in a role. Actors tie themselves in knots trying to get out of that.
‐‐ Romola Garai

The point of being at home is to be with my family as much as possible.
‐‐ Eric Clapton

The point of cities is multiplicity of choice.
‐‐ Jane Jacobs

The point of conservatism is not that it prevents movement forward and upward, but that it prevents movement backward and downward, into chaotic darkness and a return to a primitive state.
‐‐ Vladimir Putin

The point of departure of the process to which we wish to contribute is the fact that war is the natural reaction of human nature in the savage state, while peace is the result of acquired characteristics.
‐‐ Elihu Root

The point of drinking in moderation is that sometimes you don't drink in moderation.
‐‐ Artie Lange

The point of essays is the point of writing anything. It's not to tell people what they already think or to give them more of what they already believe; it's to challenge people, and it's to suggest alternate ways of thinking about things.
‐‐ Meghan Daum

The point of having a director is that they make the final decision; it's their point of view, they set the rhythm and they make the final decisions.
‐‐ Christian Bale

The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on.
‐‐ Van Morrison

The point of Jesus' existence wasn't to lessen or diminish our appreciation of each other, but to expand our appreciation of each other by reminding us what lies within all of us, because Jesus was an example of the pinnacle of human evolution.
‐‐ Marianne Williamson

The point of launching a maternity line, for me, was to do something different.
‐‐ Jessica Simpson

The point of life is to transcend the smallness of the finite self by identifying with things that last.
‐‐ Larry Brilliant

The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive.
‐‐ Clifford Geertz

The point of living and of being an optimist is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.
‐‐ Peter Ustinov

The point of my explanation is I'm very subjective when it comes to describing my characters: they are all a little bit a part of me from the outside in or the inside out - but to put your mind at ease, I built Paul Snider from the outside in.
‐‐ Eric Roberts

The point of my job is to entertain and make it look easy, so I guess it's the parts you don't often see which make me feel proud. All the behind the scenes work, the fears and insecurities I have to face and overcome to improve myself as a person and performer, all of the people who believe in me and encourage me.
‐‐ Kylie Minogue

The point of my work is to make it clear that all youth can make 'big miracles' happen.
‐‐ Adora Svitak

The point of my work is to show that culture and education aren't simply hobbies or minor influences.
‐‐ Pierre Bourdieu