Points Quotes
1291 quotes by 1091 authors
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I recited Pi to 22,514 decimal points in five hours and nine minutes. I was able to do this because of weeks of study, aided…
— Daniel Tammet
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My life is one long curve, full of turning points.
— Pierre Trudeau
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We've seen how grassroots journalism by blogs has had an impact at various points politically, as ordinary people have amplified stories that were being ignored…
— Jimmy Wales
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My background is in musical comedy. I didn't know I was going to be an actor. But all my points of reference have to do…
— Christopher Walken
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Part of what confuses people in times of upheaval is that you're getting so many different points of view and directions and so and so,…
— Alice Walker
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First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as Rabbi Gillman points out in the show,…
— Barbara Walters
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After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.
— Edith Wharton
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One shouldn't ever be conscious of the author as lecturer. When social or moral points are too heavily stressed, I always get uncomfortable.
— Orson Welles
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There are no points of the compass on the chart of true patriotism.
— Robert Charles Winthrop
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People complain about my exclamation points, but I honestly think that's the way people think. I don't think people think in essays; it's one exclamation…
— Tom Wolfe
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On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.
— Virginia Woolf
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I write and write and write, and then I edit it down to the parts that I think are amusing, or that help the storyline,…
— Al Yankovic
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As I get older, I get smaller. I see other parts of the world I didn't see before. Other points of view. I see outside…
— Neil Young
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Everyone - pantheist, atheist, skeptic, polytheist - has to answer these questions: 'Where did I come from? What is life's meaning? How do I define…
— Ravi Zacharias
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One must dig deeply into opposing points of view in order to know whether your own position remains defensible. Iron sharpens iron.
— Francis Collins
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Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.
— Khaled Hosseini
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Ron's indignation on his behalf was worth about a hundred points to him.
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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It's not vanity to know your own good points. It would just be stupidity if you didn't; It's only vanity when you get puffed up…
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a mountain,…
— Albert Einstein
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The turning points of lives are not the great moments. The real crises are often concealed in occurrences so trivial in appearance that they pass…
— George Washington
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