Quotes About Point

27 The point is quickly made that worry is useless. It does not accomplish any good thing. If that is so, then

Thus we look upon the geometric point as the ultimate and most singular union of silence and speech.

Every Christmas now for years, I have found myself wondering about the point of the celebration. As the holiday has become more ecumenical and secular, it has lost much of the magic that I remember so fondly from childhood.

An epic without a focus - without a single action, a coherent plot, a single terrible point to make - was just a very long poem.

He always made a point of mentioning that he was reading the Odyssey on his iPad. Books are an obsolete technology! he'd say. Get with the times. Homer on an iPad, now that's an adventure.

decided that good scholarship demanded taking the losers' point of view, and that made the revision of claims about historic fact inevitable.

Jesus was the only point. Imitation was the point.

Salvation is not the stopping point; it is the starting point.

ANTICIPATE CONTINUOUSLY. NOW PRECISELY PRE-POSITION MYSELF FIRST FOR SAFETY, THEN FOR TRACTION AND THEN FOR THE ABSOLUTE CLEAREST VIEW OF THE VANISHING POINT.

But I think maybe it's more like a column of figures where you add two numbers wrong at the start, and it throws the total. If you trace it back, you can see the mistake – the point where you would have had a different outcome.

But that's not the point! raged Ford The point is that I am now a perfectly safe penguin, and my colleague here is rapidly running out of limbs!

The officer's next point was that I wasn't in the universe, I was in England, a point that has been made to me before.

Well, let us say inexplicable. There is no point in using the word impossible to describe something that has clearly happened. But it cannot be explained by anything we know.

Bypasses are devices that allow some people to dash from point A to point B very fast while other people dash from point B to point A very fast.

Zaphod's eyes sparkled with something that may or may not have been avarice as he passed over them. In fact it's best to be clear on this point—avarice is definitely what it was.

I suppose the whole thing was highly irregular from a legal point of view, but it was great fun. And nobody was having more fun than the judge. It wasn't a real trial, you see, so he didn't have to worry about all the legal niceties.

And yet," said Poirot, "suppose an accident-" "Ah, no, my friend-" "From your point of view it would be regrettable, I agree. But nevertheless let us just for one moment suppose it. Then, perhaps, all these here are linked together - by death.

At all events, let us examine the position from the point of view of murder, not suicide." "Oh, all right. If you are on the scene, it probably would be murder!" For a moment Poirot smiled. "I hardly like that remark.

Most research, I think, can only suggest, or point toward, an insight of some kind.

I've always been intimidated by the technicalities of taking photos, especially with a film camera - not just a point and shoot.

At this point, I can't say what network would be picking it up, but I know that it would be a success.

I'm always interested in mixing technology and music. You know, maybe I'll have a MIDI bass pickup at some point, I don't really think that's the direction I would want to go.

The edge of a black hole, the event horizon, is a boundary that marks the point of no return. Once an object crosses the event horizon, it cannot escape and will be ripped to pieces, atom by atom.

If you're a publisher and you forbid deep linking into your site, or have a paid wall or registration requirement, then you're making it hard to 'point to' your content. When no one points to your content, your content is harder to find because search uses links as a proxy for popularity.