Quotes of: No-point Keyword

There would seem to be a limit, even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and transgressions, beyond which a work reaches its breaking point and becomes an actual failure, a mere experimentation.

Brian Ferneyhough

So I like to try to go back and develop pure visual storytelling. Because to me, it's one of the most exciting aspects of making movies and almost a lost art at this point.

Brian De Palma

My errors will point to thinking men the various roads, and will teach them the great art of treading on the brink of the precipice without falling into it.

Giacomo Casanova

I want my art to make people look at the world in a new way. I mean, what's the point of the art of writing if it doesn't take you into the mysterious?

John Banville

I sometimes am challenged to imagine where the timbre of art should be. Should it be about objects that point to this current moment, or how objects are related to ideas of this current moment?

Theaster Gates

As soon as they were spotted, one of the jerk’s buddies pointed at me and said, “Arrest her! She’s the one who killed Zak!”

Assassin: The Beginning

Comedians love people to point and laugh at them, even if they are not funny, naturists don't, no matter how funny they are.

ALL BY MOUTH.

Oh, darling, you know we writers must occasionally stretch a point to heighten the dramatic situation.

Auntie Mame

I smile at you, hinting at the pleasures ahead, and silently point to the zip at the back of my dress…

The Apartment of Sex

No words. Just my finger pointing in silence. My finger silently saying, ’Unwrap me, darling.

The Apartment of Sex

There will always be road construction in life, and never a point when all the highways are fixed. Keep walking.

Haee's quest for the greater prairie

It is only in retrospect that the high points of our lives rise up, flaunting banners.

I Learn from Children

You’re playing with a blow torch, and it’s pointed at your head. Think about what you’re saying.

It's Not About Him

Wasn't the whole point of being an artist, or at least part of it, that you didn't have to wear a tie?

The Interestings

What's the whole point of being pretty on the outside when you’re so ugly on the inside?

I'm Pretty

Oftentimes winning can become an addiction, whether good or bad, to the point where you would rather lose it all before you lose at all.

Killosophy

Doubt is a question mark; faith is an exclamation point. The most compelling, believable, realistic stories have included them both.

Killosophy

They have him,' Marina hisses, pointing into the dark. 'They have his body and I'm not letting them keep it.

The Revenge of Seven

Business is a basketball game. The more tricks you know, the more points you score.

The Secrets of Business

... the poor always live on debt. At this point, time is the only thing I still have the credibility to borrow.

Sprout of Disruption

History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation.

The Sense of an Ending