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I so desperately wanted to be Mr. Somebody. Instead, I was the little brother, included to a point. — Charlie Sheen

If you took the monsters' point of view, everything they did made perfect sense. The trick was learning to think like a monster. — Sy Montgomery

Do you remember the song that was playing the night we met? No, but I remember every song I have heard since you left. — Lang Leav

I quit law in 1988 to start writing, and it took me 17 years from that point to get a book contract. I guess you can say I was on the slow train. — Ben Fountain

He meant what he'd said about taking her home. His home. When she didn't argue the point, he
figured she was more shaken than she'd admitted. — Nora Roberts

They had come to the end of what they could talk about. Beyond that point there was nothing: the random thoughts of men who knew nothing. — Paul Auster

It is possible that I was mistaken and I do not willfully invite any disillusions at this point in my life. I am willing to stay in the dark. — J.D. Salinger

He'd made the world a little better, or at least, prevented it from getting worse. That was his purpose. That was his point. Someone — Victoria Schwab

To me, 'Warrior' was a real turning point - probably one of the greatest experiences I've ever had as an actor on set. — Joel Edgerton

For a West Point graduate to abandon his appointed task in the face of adversity or personal discomfort was all but inconceivable. — David McCullough

Love was always the goal, and my point every step of the way was that nothing is wrong with love, no matter what flavor it comes in. — Ani DiFranco

THAT BEGAN a spell of time when the high point of my days was the sugar on my cereal. — Ivan Doig

There was no "me" in Alchemy. Well, phonetically there was, but that wasn't the point. — Richelle Mead

The point is, Dean was not and is not nor will he ever be the ideal husband... he gives the minimum amount. — Deana Martin

I suppose I was formed by too many movies and too much television. At some point I absorbed the dramatic formula. — Stephen Hunter

The whole point of Gen X was, and continues to be, a negation of being forced into Baby Boomerdom against one's will. — Douglas Coupland

My point is, I went crazy. When I saw what a black, awful joke the world was. I went crazy as a coot! I admit it! Why can't you? — Alan Moore

Forgiveness was a trait that Jesus preached about. It was not a destination to achieve but a starting point in the journey required for healing. — Sarah Price

The point is that for our ancestors, the universe was a picture; for modern physics it is a story. — C.S. Lewis

Going on unemployment was a total low point for me, but it was also the point when I promised myself I'd write every day from 9 to 5. — Paul Downs Colaizzo

If I can only be my true self in the virtual world ... then what was the point of coming back to reality after all? — Reki Kawahara

I was lightweight - that was the whole point of me. — Julian Clary

The eternal now," he said. "She wanted to catch it, remember? To pin it down. That was the point." "Of writing?" "Or suicide. — Ruth Ozeki

Every stage of my life set the scene for the next, and at each point all I had to do was say "yes" and not think too much about the consequences. — Jane Goodall

You shouldn't have private conversations in public facilities at the top of your lungs. Point well taken, Eve was forced to admit. — J.D. Robb

The only reason to delay at this point was because the immediate prospect was so deeply uninviting. — J.K. Rowling

The conception of each star was at the point of no return; of a desperate soul struggling to master the winds! — C. JoyBell C.

Allan had always reasoned about religion that if you couldn't know for sure then there was no point in going around guessing. — Jonas Jonasson

We shouldn't wait to be happy until we reach some future point, only to discover that happiness was already available
all the time! — Dieter F. Uchtdorf

It's not so much that I got that idea at some point, it came up naturally because of the improvisational nature of the story I was telling. — Chester Brown

I slipped, but that's was the point where i learned to walk — Ahamed Nafaz Raja.S.N

When I was in the Army, I read a book by Adlai Stevenson. He said law was as noble as saving a person's life. So at one point, I felt that way too. — William Sanderson

If we get too caught up in the rhetoric of meditation, we will miss the point. The point was to go beyond rhetoric. — Frederick Lenz

What was the point of giving your life to someone if they didn't feel essential to you, if they didn't feel part of you? — Suzanne Wright

The point is that most of what we currently hold sacred is not sacred for any reason other than that it was thought sacred yesterday. — Sam Harris

Obviously Spawn was at the top of the charts at that point so you get a lot of opportunities. — Todd McFarlane

I was surprised how I was feeling on the court because I was focused only on the point and on the game and not on the final. — Petra Kvitova

THE "depression" was a blessing in disguise. It reduced the whole world to a new starting point that gives every one a new opportunity. — Napoleon Hill

Certainly the O.J. Simpson case was a turning point in my career. — Dan Abrams

Unlike New York or Chicago, once you were inside Boston, any point in the city was fairly convenient to any other. — Matthew Pearl

The Palestinian election is something that was really a turning point. It's a mandate for peace. — Warren Christopher

I never thought I had a heart until it was broken. It's hard to see the point of something that only ever causes pain. — Dan Wells

The idea that you can ask one question and it makes the point - well, that wasn't how psychology was done at the time. — Daniel Kahneman

When once your point of view is changed, the very thing which was so damning becomes a clue to the truth. — Arthur Conan Doyle

Anything you see on the screen was at one point approved by me. — Craig McCracken

I managed my life to the point that at age 19 I was still in high school. I decided I was too old to be walking down those hallways. — Bill Cosby

But that, after all, was the point of romantic folly. If it hadn't all gone horribly wrong, it wouldn't have been the real thing. — Edward St. Aubyn

It was so kind of you to mention that I don't wear stays. What's the point? If you squeeze it in at one point, it only comes out at the other. — Lillie Langtry

It took something massive to shatter a Mimic endo-skeleton in one hit. That it could kill me in the process was beside the point. — Hiroshi Sakurazaka

Mexican Shuffle was a turning point of the Brass. — Herb Alpert

The RCP's belief that capitalism was on the point of collapse started to look somewhat unconvincing. And — Michael Crick

Your calamity was sent to bring you back to the Quran. But the greater calamity is that you missed the point. — Yasmin

The whole point of the punk-rock thing was that "We're not special. We just have a voice." — Michael Stipe

There was no point in the gods trying to separate us. Whether we were on Earth or in hell, we'd spend the rest our days look for the other. — Taisha DeAza

The point wasn't always to do what you want. The point was to do what you did and to do it well. — Matthew Thomas

There is a point when a man may swim back to shore, but he was past it. There was nothing left but to be swallowed by the enormity of the sea. — Silvia Moreno-Garcia

My staff was unanimous in believing that Japan was on the point of collapse and surrender. — Douglas MacArthur

There was a point I could have just churned out the spot and spin paintings for ever and laughed all the way to the bank. — Damien Hirst

I've worn stilettos since I was 12, so I have abused my feet to the point of no return. — Cobie Smulders

I said everyone looks happy. That was kinda my point. If you judge the world by Facebook, you wonder why so many people take Prozac. — Harlan Coben

She was quite promiscuous, to the point where dating her was similar to the experience of sitting on a warm toilet seat: — Tucker Max

The mustard lined his lips. At one point a strand of sauerkraut was smeared against his chin. — Paul Zindel

What I want is to live of that initial and primordial something that was what made some things reach the point of aspiring to be human. — Clarice Lispector

Emptiness is filling me To the point of agony/ Growing darkness taking dawn/
I was me but now he's gone/ — Metallica

He was constantly reminded of how startlingly different a place the world was when viewed from a point only three feet to the left. — Douglas Adams

It occurred to me that at one point it was like I had two diseases - one was Alzheimer's, and the other was knowing I had Alzheimer's. — Terry Pratchett

I like the guitar-driven music of Nirvana at its peak. At that point, I thought there was a lot of really exciting music coming out. — Al Yankovic

What I desire to point out is that I wish the law was not so, but that being the law, I must follow it. — Christina Romer

The whole point of a spectacular tag is not the artwork; it's the mystery of how it was done. — Roland Smith

The point was living with grace, decency, and attention to the world, and breaking free of the artificial constructs in your own life. — Scott Jurek

What was the point of finding something worth living for if my life was no longer in my own hands? — Brodi Ashton

Our starting point then was trying to find a way to incorporate mean reversion into the HoLee model. — John Hull

I point out. It was the most foolish, jape-fisted bit of buffoonery I have ever seen, and I am impressed in spite of that. — Robin LaFevers

At that time I was only twenty-four years old. My life then was already gloomy, disorderly, and solitary to the point of savagery. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I was lucky with my first film because it had Warhol in it. That was the selling point. — Mary Harron

When I first left Iran at the age of 13, Iran had become such a shining star - it was the point to which all my desires and dreams returned. — Azar Nafisi

From our vantage point it is now clear that the only thing the population had to fear was fear itself. — Bernard Beckett

My dad was a Marine. He was one of the Montford Point Marines. Those are the equivalent of the Tuskegee Airmen for Marines. He's a tough, tough guy. — Larry Elder

I got cheered greatly, not because I did well, but because the main point in my part was to look foolish, and I feel that I did that to perfection. — Jon Lellenberg

I knew the point wasn't the victory, but pulling yourself together and crawling your way back. That was life. — Chloe Neill

It was a turning point in the sense that as a scene, we can up with a lot of new ideas. — Arto Lindsay

No one's opinion mattered to Amanda except her own, and she was never wrong. That she was frequently not right was beside the point. — Johanna Lindsey

When I was young, I was reading anything and anything I could lay my hands on. I was a veracious-to-the-point-of-insane reader. — Neil Gaiman

She was the still point in the turning world. — Jeffrey Eugenides

I had already passed beyond the point of death and was now keeping company with ghosts who had joyfully come to claim me as one of their own. — Paul Sayer

Dolly was the exclamation point in my life. She made me feel things: adoration, anger, frustration. She was always in love and it made her glow. — Megan Mayhew Bergman

My stomach lurched, an appetizer before the full portion of heartache I had a feeling was going to be served at some point soon. — Gayle Forman

The British secret service was staffed at one point almost entirely by alcoholic homosexuals working for the KGB — Clive James

...purification was the point of such pain. — Holly Lynn Payne

She made no point of concealing the truth, for the truth was all she could bear now. — James Purdy

It was as if his point of view had, within seconds, gone from that of an ant to that of an eagle.
For the sky was hollow, and the world was round. — Christopher Paolini

The point of the list wasn't just to tick items off and forget about them, it was to learn something new. — Lindsey Kelk

Just like real sex, the touching was good, but there came a point in time when a woman needed to be filled - deeply. — Lacey Alexander

-what was the point of hating Valentine for being a monster when he didn't even know he was one? — Cassandra Clare

And another small point, or two actually; Aldus was the first to use the modern semicolon. — Mark Kurlansky

The Copernican revolution brought about by Kant was, I think, the most important single turning point in the history of philosophy. — Bryan Magee

At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture. — Martin Puryear

If this was the rice that God was putting in my basket...there was no point wishing for soup. — Chinelo Okparanta

I was telling the truth. I feel like we got that point across. — Jim Barksdale

The very point of faith was that it must be tested. — Jojo Moyes