Pointed Quotes

490 Pointed quotes by 378 unique authors

Buy all shoes, both street and running, slightly longer and wider than your bigger foot. Also, avoid pointed shoes. You'll save yourself needless foot pain. — Ted Corbitt
...As Thomas Kuhn pointed out in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, new scientific theories in any field are regarded with skepticism because scientists become attached… — Marilyn Ferguson
ANTI-ZIONISTS, last of all, exhibit a distaste for certain words. It was Thomas Hobbes who, anticipating semantics, pointed out that words are counters, not coins;… — Milton Steinberg
I was, I remember, I still remember when the first time I pointed the telescope at the sky and I saw Saturn with the rings.… — Umberto Guidoni
The original item looked like a little hand cart with the figure of a man mounted on a platform between the wheels. The man's outstretched… — Kit Williams
The night was clear and frosty, all ebony of shadow and silver of snowy slope; big stars were shining over the silent fields; here and… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
I remember standing on a street corner with the black painter Beauford Delaney down in the Village, waiting for the light to change, and he… — James A. Baldwin
The play is really a kind of nightmare. It ought to flow rapidly and effortlessly from one moment to another. In London, we had difficulty… — Arthur Miller
One of the hardest parts of practice is the criticism a player takes from his coaches. Some players think a coach has it in for… — Willie Mays
In all pointed sentences, some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness. — Samuel Johnson
Captain Nemo pointed to this prodigious heap of shellfish, and I saw that these mines were genuinely inexhaustible, since nature's creative powers are greater than… — Jules Verne
Modern psychology has pointed to the need of educating people to use a much larger portion of the mind. Transcendental meditation fulfills this need. And… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
As someone pointed out, you could have an attribute that says 'optimize the heck out of this routine', and your definition of heck would be… — Larry Wall
As pointed out in a followup, Real Perl Programmers prefer things to be visually distinct. — Larry Wall
A broadsheet obituarist once pointed out to me that veteran soldiers die by rank. First to go are the generals, admirals and air marshals, then… — A. A. Gill
Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form reveals is not yourself;… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
There were reprints of American editorials. Liberals saw it as a resurgence of social protest and decried the discrimination, poverty, and hunger that had provoked… — Dan Simmons
Blackened skeleton arms of wood by the wayside pointed upward to the convent, as if the ghosts of former travellers, overwhelmed by the snow, haunted… — Charles Dickens
The weathercocks on spires and housetops were mysterious with hints of stormy wind, and pointed, like so many ghostly fingers, out to dangerous seas, where… — Charles Dickens
One day when I was studying with Schoenberg, he pointed out the eraser on his pencil and said, 'This end is more important than the… — John Cage
You can manage 50 people through the strength of your personality and lack of sleep. You can touch them all in a week and make… — Mark Pincus
There was nothing subtle about our landing. The pilot just pointed the nose at the ground and let her rip. — Bob Hope
Perhaps I should have pointed out more often that without her (mother's) guidance and example I might have gone straight from short pants to Long… — Clive James
A reader kindly pointed out to me recently that most of the quotes I include are by men. And it's true. Personally, I don't even… — Charlotte Bronte
And as we know now, and as I pointed out many times, the great plume of fire at the bottom of the Space Shuttle is… — Dana Rohrabacher

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