Pointed Quotes
490 quotes by 382 authors
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As we shall see, the concept of time has no meaning before the beginning of the universe. This was first pointed out by St. Augustine.…
— Stephen Hawking
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People... of the universe! Tonight... is the night.. when the skies will open, and spray forth a divine hand with pointed finger! And it will…
— Thurston Moore
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Ive realized that even more that what is beautiful about the accordion is to play with a single finger sometimes, with a very pure, very…
— Richard Galliano
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When I started looking for pointed shoes, I used to go to Fairfax on Orchard Street in New York City, one of those little pushcart…
— Tom Waits
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I grew up with a glue gun pointed at my head.
— Alexis Stewart
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The imagined memories had to have as much weight as the real, or we had to at least pretend they did to such a degree…
— Dinaw Mengestu
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Like a young heir, come a little prematurely to a large inheritance, we shall wanton and run riot until we have brought our reputation to…
— George Washington
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I remember nothing about it except a philological fact. My mother said nothing about the dragon, but pointed out that one could not say 'a…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Better pointed bullets than pointed words.
— Otto von Bismarck
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Perception is a tool that's pointed on both ends.
— Hannibal
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For while this year it may be a Catholic against whom the finger of suspicion is pointed, in other years it has been, and may…
— John F. Kennedy
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Any one who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin. For, as has been pointed out several…
— John von Neumann
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Media reporters have pointed out that the paragraphs in my Time column this week bear close similarities to paragraphs in Jill Lepore's essay in the…
— Fareed Zakaria
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Apparently Brooklyn needn't always push itself to be something else, something conscious and anxious, something pointed toward Manhattan.... Brooklyn might sometimes also be pleased, as…
— Jonathan Lethem
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Isn't Hollywood a dump-in the human sense of the word. A hideous town, pointed up by the insulting gardens of its rich, full of the…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Besides the mistakes that are pointed out, I love the way readers become involved with the characters. When readers start asking about character motivations instead…
— Alan Dean Foster
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The star of Bethlehem was a star of hope that led the wise men to the fulfillment of their expectations, the success of their expedition.…
— D. James Kennedy
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C. S. Lewis pointed out that some people are angry with God for His not existing, and others for His existing but for failing to…
— Neal A. Maxwell
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In the dooryard fronting an old farm-house near the white-wash'd palings, Stands the lilac-bush tall-growing with heart-shaped leaves of rich green, with many a pointed…
— Walt Whitman
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Let your love flow outward through the universe, To its height, its depth, its broad extent, A limitless love, without hatred or enmity. Then as…
— Gautama Buddha
Who Wrote These Pointed Quotes
382 authors contributed a total of 490 Pointed Quotes, led by these top contributors: