All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.
W. H. Auden

It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.
W. H. Auden

I never want to get to the point where it's all about my needs, and the hell with anybody else.
Drew Barrymore

I've always said that one night, I'm going to find myself in some field somewhere, I'm standing on grass, and it's raining, and I'm with the person I love, and I know I'm at the very point I've been dreaming of getting to.
Drew Barrymore

The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.
Bertrand Russell

Talent is only the starting point.
Irving Berlin

There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point.
Charles Horton Cooley

Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Isaac Newton

The time to worrying about flying is when you're on the ground. When you're up in the air, it's too late. No point in worrying about it then.
Denzel Washington

The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves.
Willem de Kooning

I'm not at the point where I'd feel safe in a house alone. I would be really scared. I'm the kind of person that when I get up to go use the bathroom I have this big long hallway, and I just know someone's going to jump out and get me.
Britney Spears

I'm sure some cynical people would point to that as the main reason for doing it for a lot of people.
Jo Brand

Be able to draw an illustration as least well enough to get your point across to another person.
Marilyn vos Savant

A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
Thomas Carlyle

You'd better get your laugh while you're making your point, or you won't be doing it very long.
Shel Silverstein

Our problem, from the point of view of psychology and from the point of view of genetic epistemology, is to explain how the transition is made from a lower level of knowledge to a level that is judged to be higher.
Jean Piaget

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.
Ken Kesey

The thing about my music is, there really is no point.
Neil Young

The fundamental point in fabricating a chain reacting machine is of course to see to it that each fission produces a certain number of neutrons and some of these neutrons will again produce fission.
Enrico Fermi

Being able to write an idea down succinctly doesn't make that idea any better than one which rambles on a bit. It just comes to the point sooner.
Simon Travaglia