No Point Quotes

• If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again.

  William Edward Hickson

  Inspirational, Success, Perseverance

  "Try and Try Again". Poem by William Edward Hickson,

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• If at first you don't succeed, try hard work.

  William Feather

  Success, Perseverance, Hard Work

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• If at first you don't succeed, try management.

  Stephen Hawking

  Success, Perseverance, Persistence

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• If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.

  W. C. Fields

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• If a potato can produce vitamin C, why can't we? Within the animal kingdom only humans and guinea pigs are unable to synthesize vitamin C in their own bodies. Why us and guinea pigs? No point asking. Nobody knows.

  Bill Bryson

  Animal, Pigs, Asking

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• There was no point in waiting until the next world. You had to do everything now, every kind of sin.

  Anne Rice

  Waiting, World, Next

  Anne Rice (1997). “Memnoch the Devil”, Random House Digital, Inc.

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• There's no point in lying saying I am doing really, really well because I'm not; I'm cult level.

  Gary Numan

  Lying, Levels, Cult

  "Pop's undersung heroes: artists with big influence but small reputation" by Angus Batey, Bob Stanley, Dave Simpson, Paul Lester, Jude Rogers, www.theguardian.com. July 15, 2010.

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• When you have too many people and you're trying to satisfy everybody's input, you usually end up with something so incredibly generic that it has no point of view.

  Rob Zombie

  Views, People, Trying

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• There is no point asserting and reasserting what the heart cannot believe.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Believe, Heart

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• I don't really put my name to anything that I don't love and believe in, because there's no point.

  Minnie Driver

  Believe, Names

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• There's no point living, if you can't feel alive.

  Sophie Marceau

  Meaningful, Alive, Feels

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• I've always written very tightly, and there's a good reason for that. There's no point in using words that you're not going to apply.

  Theodore Sturgeon

  Using Words, Reason, Written

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• There's no point in making a movie just to be making a movie.

  Warren Beatty

  Beatty

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• The only reason for a government service is precisely to provide financial support for an operation that is otherwise unsustainable, or else there would be no point in the government's involvement at all.

  Llewellyn Rockwell

  Government, Support, Would Be

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• Talk about painting: there's no point. By conveying a thing through the medium of language, you change it. You construct qualities that can be said, and you leave out the ones that can't be said but are always the most important.

  Gerhard Richter

  Important, Quality, Painting

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: text : writings, interviews and letters, 1961-2007”

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• You know, I've done this show for six years, and this could be the first time that I had a person that actually got no points, and I think it's a damn fine way to go out. I thought I was a loser until you walked up here; you made me feel like a man.

  Ray Combs

  Men, Thinking, Years

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• There is no point drumming up noise about a cause, if you are not willing to take a beating for it.

  Suzy Kassem

  Drumming, Noise, Causes

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• You always think that 70 is the end of the road: 'Somebody died when they were 73; good life'. You're closer to death, and you better make sure you don't waste too much of your time doing things you don't want to do. No point in saying things you don't believe in.

  Ian Mckellen

  Good Life, Believe, Thinking

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• Life without God is like an unsharpened pencil - it has no point.

  Billy Graham

  Without God, Pencils

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• There is no point in starting your own business unless you do it out of a sense of frustration.

  Richard Branson

  Frustration, Starting, Own Business

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• Success is not about money and power. Real success is about relationships. There's no point in making $50 million a year if your teenager thinks you're a jerk and you spend no time with your wife.

  Christopher Reeve

  Real, Teenager, Thinking

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• The thing is with me I look on the brighter side of everything.There's no point being pessimistic or being worried about too many things because frankly life's too short.

  Prince William

  Attitude, Sides, Looks

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There's no point in making a film out of a great book. The book's already great. What's the point?

  Neil Jordan

  Book, Film, Great Book

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• There's no more film. Film is gone. We photograph digitally and electronically. We don't really use film the same way anymore - it's disappearing little by little. Things change. We have to change with them. There's no point in liking or not liking it. It is what it is.

  Stanley Donen

  Gone, Use, Littles

  "Legendary Musicals Director Stanley Donen On Audrey Hepburn and 'Dancing With The Stars' (Q&A)". Interview with Rebecca Leffler, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 22, 2012.

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• Everybody wants peace. That's a truism. There is no point in accomplishing through war what you can accomplish through peace.

  Norman Finkelstein

  War, Want, Accomplish

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