point

Is there a point at which we hit a tipping point and all of this economic, cultural and moral trouble sends us into a death spiral we can't get out of?

Patience was not my strong point.

I tried to make a distinct point that I wasn't retiring - that I was moving on.

Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn.

I don't mean being famous is a perk, because one knows that it's not necessarily a perk, but there are certain perks to being well-known and respected in one's field. Public perks. Like, I don't know, general friendliness and willingness to please, just to point out two.

I absolutely loved being famous. It was all great, up until the point when it wasn't.

From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it.

The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.

As computers have become more powerful, computer graphics have advanced to the point where it's possible to create photo-realistic images. The bottleneck wasn't, 'How do we make pixels prettier?' It was, 'How do we engage with them more?'

Technology is at a point where we should allow multiple parties to occupy the same spectral space.

An awful lot of England is slowly eroding, in ways that I find really distressing, and an awful lot of it is the hedgerows... We're reaching the point where a lot of the English countryside looks just like Iowa - just kind of open space.

In the numerous observations made in my laboratory upon this object, we have only once seen a combination of vessels in which there might be a direct communication between a small artery and a vein, though the two observers could not come to a final conclusion on the point.

We're born with success. It is only others who point out our failures, and what they attribute to us as failure.

Yes, what has happened is we have moved from responding to these terrorist attacks as acts of civil disobedience to getting to the point after September 11 that we said, no, this is not just civil disobedience, this is an act of war.

Humor's an excellent way to make a point more palatable and/or relatable.

I think humor can be an effective way of getting the point across, but there are definitely times where I just write very earnestly.

Hope is not a resting place but a starting point - a cactus, not a cushion.

You have to come in to major championships, and your attitude has to be on point.