Quotes of: Point-of-view Keyword

When you're too religious, you tend to point your finger to judge instead of extending your hand to help.

Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

Dream your dream; and realize that you are more than just the dreamer, you are the point of origin for its reality.

Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

If you are not the hero of your own story, then you're missing the whole point of your humanity.

Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

In moments of prayer, people tend to pose as a critic and point out perceived flaws in God's art.

Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

[B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point. Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up.

The Uncommon Reader

..it sounded very good and very false at the same time, so that you had the feeling that even if was true, he was touching only on the very highest points and maybe embellishing those a little.

The Vanished

...but both their minds tending to the same point—one loving and desiring to esteem, and the other loving and desiring to be esteemed—they contrived in the end to reach it.

Wuthering Heights

I'd be glad of a retaliation that wouldn't recoil on myself; but treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends: they wound those who resort to them, worse than their enemies.

Wuthering Heights

I'm not a stranger," I said, and pointed to his book. "I'm someone who reads the same authors you do.

When Did You See Her Last?

So it is that a writer writes many books. In each book, he intended several urgent and vivid points, many of which he sacrificed as the book's form hardened.

The Writing Life

Prices of semicolons, plot devices, prologues and inciting incidents continued to fall yesterday, lopping twenty points off the TomJones Index.

The Well of Lost Plots

I swear, my dear. Sometimes our conversations remind me of a broken sword." She raised an eyebrow. "Sharp as hell," Lightsong said, "but lacking a point.

Warbreaker

Enjoy your Evening." "That will depend on the menu. If it's beef, it will be a tolerable meal. If it's chicken..." Elliot shuddered. "What is the point of chicken?" "Eggs?

Written in Red

Men," she said rueful, "are the most absurd creatures on this green earth." "But there are camels," Gabriel pointed out. "Believe me," she answered. "I've taken camels into consideration.

Warrior

All the masters have those weak points that are called masterpieces; and besides, they do them as crowd pleasers -- to prove that they have the know-how.

The Writings of a Savage

Galinda didn't often stop to consider whether she believed in what she said or not; the whole point of conversations was flow.

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

There comes a point where emotions must give way to objective facts.

World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

A slinky is a toy made for stairs, but that’s entirely too tiresome. What about a toy for escalators that doesn’t move and does nothing and that’s the whole point? I think Americans would relate to and embrace that mentality.

Xazaqazax

Well, first you have to be very, very funny. I have realized that it is essential for a boy to be funny. Otherwise, what is the point in a boy?

The Year of Secret Assignments

When you're writing a whodunit, the dead body is the most important character. It's the pivot point around which the plot spins.

You Don't Know Jack

When you pay for security, it seems like you’re paying for nothing—and that’s the point. You’re paying so nothing happens. Safety is the absence of something.

A Zebra is the Piano of the Animal Kingdom