Top 1200 Certain Point Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Innovation comes spontaneously. I don't know if I've done anything new. If I have, it's just because I had begun to feel for some time that I couldn't stand certain films, certain modes, certain ways of telling a story, certain tricks of plot development, all of it predictable and useless.

It's one thing to make people laugh, but after a certain point, comedy is almost cheap.

I think I have a certain kind of style. I think at the same time, I'm aware that there's certain things that I did as a playwright in certain plays, and I try not to repeat myself, even though I have a certain kind of sensibility, and I tend to gravitate toward certain things.

After a certain point, a heart with so many stress fractures can never be anything but broken.

Relationships or not, I believe that people don't need to know about my life beyond a certain point.

When the velocity of progress increases beyond a certain point, it becomes indistinguishable from crisis.

I think it can be easy at a certain point to take it for granted that you can kind of perform whatever you want.

From the point of view of the species, death is part of this whole process. You could say that species have evolved in such a way that individual members last a certain time. Perhaps a certain kind of species would be better able to survive if the individuals didn't last too long. Other kinds could last longer.

I get to a certain point, and I think in a novel it's about the third draft, when I want other eyes on it.

At a certain point, when there's a barrier between you and what's right, eventually you have to decide you're not going to allow yourself to be subjugated.

gossip, after it reaches a certain point of insult and falsehood, becomes a source of amusement to its victims.

There's a certain point in chemistry and in calculus where I reached the end of my abilities, and I realized, 'This is where I'm stupid.'

I think somehow you need to get to a certain point in your life where the notion of failure is absurd.

I realised at a certain point that if I was going to have the kind of life that I fantasised about, I needed to get my act together.

What we can be scientifically certain of is that our continued use of fossil fuels is pushing us to a point of no return

The more you style, the better you get. Don't give up. At a certain point, the magic happens.

Some things get better with age, but after a certain point, the mind isn't among them.

After a certain point is reached the numbers cease to matter, and all that remains is the faceless mass of a crowd.

It's time to move on to the next step in the psychedelic revolution. We've reached a certain point, but we're not moving any more.

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. People living at point C, being a point directly in between, are often given to wonder what's so great about point A that so many people from point B are so keen to get there and what's so great about point B that so many people from point A are so keen to get there. They often wish that people would just once and for all work out where the hell they wanted to be.

Before I was a Discordian, I took life much too seriously. When you take life too seriously you start to wonder what the point of it all is. When you wonder what the point is in life, you fall into a trap of thinking there is one. When you think there is a point, you finally realize there is no point. And what point is there in living like that? Nowadays I skip the search for a point and find, instead, the punch lines.

Downtown New York, I'm within certain styles of music and I'm also within certain cultural, you know, and literary context. So DJ Spooky was meant to be a kind of ironic take on that. It was always meant to be kind of a criticism and critique of how downtown culture would separate genres and styles because it was ambiguous. You couldn't fit it into anything and that was the point.

Fanatical religion driven to a certain point is almost as bad as none at all, but not quite.

Merely quantitative differences, beyond a certain point, pass into qualitative changes.

One point is certain, that truth is one and immutable; until the jurors all agree, they cannot all be right.

It's easier to make art for a society at a certain point in time with an understanding of what's going on.

...You don't always get what you expect. I wish someone, sometime when I was growing up, would have told me what expectations would get me. ... Our parents, schools, everyone tells us things will be a certain way when we're adults and if they're not that way, we should make them be; or at least pretend. But after a certain point that just doesn't work.

You reach a certain point in your 30s when you say things in a much safer way.

When a thought is powerful, it is because it has a lot of belief in it... At a certain point, thoughts become irrelevant.

...after a certain point, material objects have a tendency to crowd out the emotional needs they are meant to support.

iv. who was it who invented size zero? who was it who promised that if you got to a certain point you would no longer be?

There's a certain point, when you're writing autobiographical stuff, where you don't want to misrepresent yourself. It would be dishonest.

I think I've nurtured the following that I have to the point where I can consistently do a certain type of numbers when I put a project out.

At some point, we have to move away from the pack to take certain journeys on our own.

To not want children or not be considerate of them is a very unwomanly thing to be, from a certain point of view.

At a certain point, particularly in his third term, Mayor Bloomberg lost touch with the people he was serving.

At a certain point, the atmosphere in the West could change. But I don't see determined political will [for that] at the moment.

After a certain point, most people, including editors, will tell you everything you do is great.

I think at a certain point actors need to start taking responsibility for the kinds of stories they want to tell.

At a certain point, I had to be like, 'I will not do any more auditions with a Middle Eastern accent.'

A lot of professions happen to be male-dominated because women drop out at a certain point. It's unfortunate.

I believe that at certain points in people's lives they need assistance in order to move on to the next point in their life.

Parents are your teachers until a certain point, and if they don't give you love, you'll go somewhere else to find it.

You reach a certain point in your life where they things you do and say do make a difference.

There was a point in time where I was doing movies to be able to afford to live in a certain way.

If you're not careful as an actor, you can find yourself, at a certain point, a little bit bored.

At a certain point, you have to stop being precious with your material and be cruel and harsh and judgmental.

At a certain point in my personal life, I went through a divorce and lost some people close to me.

At a certain point, I got into the older, cooler crowd, and they listened to hip-hop. I was desperately trying to fit in.

I really don't put it down. I never have. It's just that I analyze it and look at it from a very rational point of view. I don't see it as coming from God and say that at a certain point the Holy Spirit zaps you with a super whammy on the head and you've "gone for tongues" and there is it. Tongues is a process that people build up to. Then, as you start to do something, just as when you practice the scales on the piano, you get better at it.

Stories never really end. They can go on and on and on. It's just that sometimes, at a certain point, one stops telling them.

Everybody's always going to have some self-interest. When it passes a certain point, that's when it become corruption.

At a certain point, you have to take the rearview mirrors off the bus and focus forward, and that's what we've sought to do.

My motivation is that I try to get myself to a certain point, and I want to win as much as I can in my career.

It was cool to feel this global electronic thing happening. But it just got to be too much at a certain point.

It's a team sport but every player's ego will kick in at a certain point.

You know, I think sometimes certain players - and I don't name names - but certain players have a certain haircut, they have certain sack celebrations. They draw a lot of attention to themselves.

I believe we must be strong militarily, but beyond a certain point military strength can become a national weakness.

...pain reaches a certain point and does not get worse but remains in all its intensity and you can survive it.

People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point, if you're lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life.