Quotesia
Home
Authors
Popular authors
Confucius
Stephen Jay Gould
Oswald Chambers
Calvin Coolidge
Dale Carnegie
Margaret Atwood
All authors
Today's birthdays
1948 - Terry Pratchett
1995 - Melanie Martinez
1827 - William Hall
1878 - Lionel Barrymore
1976 - Michael Carbonaro
1958 - Hal Sutton
Today's birthdays
Popular professions
Philosopher
Clergyman
Activist
Mathematician
Saint
Architect
All professions
Authors by letter
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
All authors
Topics
Top Quotes
Quotesia
Quote Topics
Point Quotes
Point Quotes
Directing is something I've sort of always felt like I'd like to do at one point, and I thought the best way to start it is to write something myself or with someone and I'd go from there. My own material.
Luke Evans
Best
Myself
Thought
Own
Way
Best Way
Someone
Something
Directing
My Own
Point
Write
Like
Sort
Felt
Always
Material
Go
Start
One thing Tolkien does incredibly well - and this is from a lay person's point of view; I am not scholar or anything - is that you don't have to make an effort to envisage the worlds that he writes about.
Luke Evans
You
Worlds
Incredibly
One Thing
About
Lay
Point
Point Of View
Writes
Scholar
He
Envisage
Well
Make
Does
Am
Effort
Person
Anything
View
Tolkien
Thing
I think that sometimes kids use the show as a jumping off point for talking about things with their parents.
Luke Perry
Sometimes
Parents
Think
Kids
About
Point
Talking
Off
Jumping
Use
Show
Things
At one point or another, everybody gets called 'the new James Dean.'
Luke Perry
Everybody
Point
New
Another
Dean
Gets
James
James Dean
Crime is actually less in places where people own guns. Washington, D.C., is a case in point. It has the strictest gun laws, but who has the highest crime rate in the country? Washington, D.C.
Luke Scott
People
Crime
Gun
Country
Own
Strictest
Crime Rate
Gun Laws
Guns
Case
Rate
Laws
Point
Highest
Where
Places
Less
Who
Washington
Actually
My mother always wanted to play an instrument. Her parents never gave her that. Then it got to a point where I'd been playing for 18 years, and to give it up would make me feel guilty. But my parents also knew that realistically, I wasn't going to become a concert pianist.
Lulu Wang
Me
Mother
Parents
Become
Gave
Guilty
Would
Give
Point
Pianist
Never
Knew
Feel
Also
Instrument
Make
Concert
Concert Pianist
Always
Got
Been
Years
Up
Going
Where
Wanted
Realistically
Then
Play
Her
Playing
I live and work alone and travel light, relying largely on my memory and making a point of letting intuition guide my way.
Lyall Watson
Work
Alone
Travel
Memory
Light
Live
Guide
Way
Intuition
Relying
Point
Making
Largely
Letting
I advise, if you're stymied by a passage or paragraph or plot point - whether it's for an assignment from the outside world or one that comes only from within - get up from wherever you're sitting, walk outdoors, and do nothing but look at the sky for five minutes. Just stare at that thing. Then execute a small bow and go back in.
Lydia Millet
You
World
Walk
Sky
Nothing
Back
Plot
Paragraph
Outdoors
Minutes
Only
Small
Point
Outside
Outside World
Look
Execute
Bow
Advise
Within
Passage
Go
Up
Five
Get
Sitting
Just
Wherever
Whether
Then
Stare
Assignment
Thing
We paint a slow picture. You can see the brushstrokes. We don't get to the point, and sometimes when we do, our readers don't notice, in fact. It's so couched in nuance, it can fly right over a person's head. 'What was that you said? I couldn't quite make it out.'
Lydia Millet
You
Sometimes
Fly
Slow
Picture
Our
Out
See
Fact
Point
Head
Over
Make
Readers
Said
Person
Get
Quite
In Fact
Notice
Paint
Nuance
Right
The voice I've chosen to turn to is that of NPR. With a reputation for some of the finest journalism in the country, the nonprofit organization is renowned for its unbiased stance - to the point that it's been accused of being both conservative and liberal.
Lynda Resnick
Conservative
Organization
Country
Reputation
Liberal
Some
Unbiased
Finest
Voice
Both
Point
Journalism
Renowned
Nonprofit
Been
Accused
Being
Turn
Stance
Chosen
I'm a closet Catholic. I love the iconography of the saints. There was a point in my life when I was going to convert to Catholicism, but I didn't want my grandmother spinning around in her grave like a rotisserie chicken.
Lynda Resnick
Life
Love
My Life
Spinning
Point
Like
Catholic
Around
Catholicism
Saints
Chicken
Going
Closet
Want
Convert
Iconography
Grandmother
Grave
Her
Grownups, as a rule, should always be ready to pay for their own meals - or else ready to graciously accept their date's insistence on paying. The point is, one doesn't sit there batting one's eyelashes, fully expecting someone else to claim the bill.
Lynn Coady
Sit
Own
Pay
Else
Rule
Claim
Batting
Eyelashes
Someone
Insistence
Date
Point
Accept
Ready
Always
Expecting
Meals
Should
Bill
Paying
Fully
Grownups
All, or nearly all, the advantage there is in fixing any constitutional limits to the power of a government, is simply to give notice to the government of the point at which it will meet with resistance.
Lysander Spooner
Government
Will
Power
Meet
Constitutional
Give
Point
Simply
Advantage
Limits
Fixing
Any
Which
Notice
Nearly
Resistance
In my world, before I knew about Eddie Van Halen, I was playing piano, and at that point in my teenage life, I thought he was just a guitar player.
Lzzy Hale
Life
World
Guitar
Thought
Before
Teenage
Guitar Player
Van
Van Halen
About
Point
Piano
He
Knew
Halen
Eddie
Just
Player
Playing
'Con Air' was kind of a turning point for me, in my mind. I never shot anybody in that movie - I never did anything bad - because there were so many bad guys in that movie. I said, 'The hell with this, I'm just gonna be a lovable guy.' I'm like Steve McQueen in 'The Great Escape.'
M. C. Gainey
Great
Me
Mind
Hell
Air
Kind
Bad
Bad Guys
Guy
Guys
Point
Never
Con
Like
Steve
Steve McQueen
Because
Said
Were
Escape
Did
Lovable
Just
Anybody
Movie
Anything
McQueen
Gonna
Shot
Turning
Turning Point
Many
When I'm by myself asking the questions that many of us do at some point in our lives, I look to the stars knowing that the answers are somewhere out there waiting to be discovered.
M. Shadows
Myself
Waiting
Somewhere
Stars
Our
Our Lives
Out
Some
Point
Look
Knowing
Answers
Discovered
Questions
Us
Asking
Many
Lives
The song 'Paradigm' talks about nanobots - and how they can potentially be used to cure diseases and help you live forever. But how much of a human being would you be at that point? If you're 70 percent machine and 30 percent human, are you going to lose yourself?
M. Shadows
You
Yourself
Song
Human Being
Lose
Live
Machine
Paradigm
Would
About
Percent
Potentially
Point
Talks
How
How Much
Cure
Forever
Diseases
Going
Human
Being
Much
Used
Help
We like to wait to a point where we have to get in there and write a record because we're just so built up.
M. Shadows
Wait
Record
Point
Write
Like
Because
Built
Up
Get
Just
Where
It's no fun for me to cover a song and produce it the exact same way as it already exists. When I hear that happening, I have to say, 'What's the point?'
M. Ward
Me
Song
Way
Say
Exact
No Fun
Point
Cover
Hear
Exists
Same
Happening
Produce
Fun
The 'Doom' thing is to be able to come at things with a different point of view. I decided the mask would just add to the mystique of the character as well as make Doom stand out. I though it'd be an easy way for people to see and differentiate between characters, sorta like when an actor gains weight for a role.
MF Doom
Character
People
Mask
Add
Way
Though
Out
Characters
Would
Easy
Easy Way
See
Able
Point
Point Of View
Mystique
Weight
Between
Come
Like
Well
Make
Role
Just
Doom
Different
Decided
Gains
Stand
View
Actor
Differentiate
Thing
Things
What's more important is, rather than looking at it from a commercial point of view, what we have to make sure is, where there's existence of the sport, it keeps on increasing there, and at the same time, you look at some of the other countries where there's the prospect of playing cricket.
MS Dhoni
Time
You
Important
Looking
Other
Increasing
Other Countries
Cricket
Some
Rather
More
Point
Point Of View
Prospect
Countries
Look
Sport
Make
Sure
Existence
Commercial
Than
Same
Same Time
Where
View
Keeps
Playing
The first point of contact for radicalisation is almost always a personal one. Prisons and universities, for example, tend to be easily and regularly infiltrated by radical groups, who use them as forums to propagate their ideas.
Maajid Nawaz
Example
First
Radical
Easily
Tend
Point
Contact
Almost
For Example
Ideas
Always
Prisons
Personal
Them
Use
Regularly
Forum
Who
Groups
Universities
I'll probably have to open a recording studio at some point because I won't be able to pay the bills.
Mac DeMarco
Recording
Pay
Able
Some
Recording Studio
Point
Open
Studio
Because
Bills
I always imagined that magically, at some point, I would settle into this very easy and refined sophistication, but it turns out that who you are at eleven is pretty much who you are at 27, so I don't know how much I've learned over the years.
Mackenzie Davis
You
Settle
Out
Would
Easy
Some
Pretty
Point
Over
Sophistication
Know
Learned
Always
How
How Much
Years
Refined
Very
Much
Turns
Who
Eleven
Imagined
I think the amazing thing about 'Twin Peaks' was that it completely changed television from that point forward.
Madchen Amick
Amazing
Think
Changed
Television
About
Point
Amazing Thing
Forward
Twin
Twin Peaks
Peaks
Thing
There's a point where you're going after something so wholeheartedly that you start getting discouraged when there's no results or when no one's taking interest.
Maddie Marlow
You
Discouraged
Something
Point
Results
Taking
Getting
Going
Where
After
Interest
Wholeheartedly
Start
Load more quotes
No more point quotes
Haven't find the right quote? Try another of these similiar topics.
About
Because
Always
Been