Pointing Quotes - Page 18

• When I was 9 or 10 years old, my dad took me over to a neighboring farm to help get stuff for the meal. The farmer, Vic, told me to look at all the turkeys and pick one out. I saw a cute one with a silly walk and cried, 'Him!' Before my pointing finger had even dropped to my side, Vic had grabbed the turkey by the neck and slit [the animal's] throat. Blood and feathers went flying. I had sentenced that turkey to death! Up until then, I didn't know where meat came from—and I've been a vegetarian ever since.

  Sarah Silverman

  Cute, Dad, Silly

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• On the first day of middle school I wore high-heeled shoes that you weren't allowed to wear. I remember being so embarrassed because in every class I went to they kept pointing out that I couldn't wear these shoes. I wanted to call my mom and have her bring me new shoes!

  Emma Stone

  Mom, School, New Shoes

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• I always performed when I was a child. My parents got very annoyed, because my brother and I had our little bedrooms upstairs, and I would plaster the house with posters with arrows pointing upstairs.

  Franka Potente

  Brother, Children, Arrows

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

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• Everyone was laughin'. Even that deaf mute boy was breathing heavy and pointing at me. Which is laughter to their kind.

  Dave Attell

  Funny, Laughter, Humor

  "Skanks for the Memories". Comedy Album, 2003.

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• If the devil walks in and starts pointing out all kinds of things about you, you yawn. And you go, 'You don’t even know the half of it.'

  Paul Washer

  Devil, Half, Kind

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• Humour is the making others act or talk absurdly and unconsciously; wit is the pointing out and ridiculing that absurdity consciously, and with more or less ill-nature.

  William Hazlitt

  Funny, Humour, Wit

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.670, Delphi Classics

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• Poetry is like standing on the edge of a lake on a moonlit night and the light of the moon is always pointing straight at you.

  Billy Collins

  Moon, Night, Lakes

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• [A]s a commencement the Lord appeared unto Joseph Smith, both the Father and the Son, the Father pointing to the Son said, "this is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased, hear ye him" Here then, was a communication from the heavens made known unto man on the earth, and he at that time came into possession of a fact that no man knew in the world but he, and that is that God lived, for he had seen him, and that his Son Jesus Christ lived, for he also had seen him.

  John Taylor

  Jesus, Father, Communication

  "Journal of Discourses 21:65", January 4, 1880.

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• Again, there are other things associated with these matters, all bearing more or less upon the same points. When God selected Joseph Smith to open up the last dispensation, which is called the dispensation of the fullness of times, the Father and the Son appeared to him, arrayed in glory, and the Father, addressing himself to Joseph, at the same time pointing to the Son, said, "This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him.

  John Taylor

  Father, Son, Matter

  "Journal of Discourses 18:325-6", December 31, 1876.

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• Never," he spat out, "kick a man who is pointing a gun at you.

  Julia Quinn

  Gun, Men, Spats

  Julia Quinn (2009). “To Catch an Heiress”, p.23, Harper Collins

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• You think he left a big flashing arrow pointing to a filing cabinet labeled 'Evidence Here!'? He's a Stray, Ethan, not Wile E. Coyote!

  Rachel Vincent

  Thinking, Filing Cabinet, Arrows

  Rachel Vincent (2009). “Prey”, p.148, MIRA

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• You should've just gotten a kids' meal.” Adrian told me, pointing to my half-eaten burger and fries. “You could've saved me a lot of money. And gotten a toy.

  Richelle Mead

  Kids, Meals, Burgers

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• When, on the still cold nights, he pointed his nose at a star and howled long and wolf-like, it was his ancestors, dead and dust, pointing nose at star and howling down through the centuries and through him. And his cadences were their cadences, the cadences which voiced their woe and what to them was the meaning of the stillness, and the cold, and dark.

  Jack London

  Stars, Dark, Night

  Jack London (1992). “The Call of the Wild and White Fang”, p.17, Wordsworth Editions

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• Our teaching of mathematics revolves around a fundamental conflict. Rightly or wrongly, students are required to master a series of mathematical concepts and techniques, and anything that might divert them from doing so is deemed unnecessary. Putting mathematics into its cultural context, explaining what is has done for humanity, telling the story of its historical development, or pointing out the wealth of unsolved problems or even the existence of topics that do not make it into school textbooks leaves less time to prepare for the exam. So most of these things aren't discussed.

  Ian Stewart

  Education, Teaching, School

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• In an extensive reading of recent books by psychologists, psychoanalysts, psychiatrists, and inspirationalists, I have discovered that they all suffer from one or more of these expression-complexes: italicizing, capitalizing, exclamation-pointing, multiple-interrogating, and itemizing. These are all forms of what the psychos themselves would call, if they faced their condition frankly, Rhetorical-Over-Compensation.

  James Thurber

  Reading, Book, Expression

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• We can lead others only as far along the road as we ourselves have traveled. merely pointing the way is not enough. If we are not walking, then no one can be following, and ware not leading anyone.

  J. Oswald Sanders

  Leadership, Christian, Way

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• Start edifying the flowers. Stop pointing out the weeds.

  Denis Waitley

  Weed, Flower

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• Do you understand any of this?" he said, pointing to the lines and symbols that covered the massive screens. "Some people understand the value of an education." Hale stretched and crossed his legs, the settled his arm around Kat's shoulders. "That's sweet, Kat. Maybe later I'll buy you a university. And an ice cream." "I'd settle for the ice cream." "Deal.

  Ally Carter

  Sweet, Ice Cream, People

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• The drum-fire of propaganda that the Fed is manning the ramparts against the menace of inflation brought about by others is nothing less than a deceptive shell game. The culprit solely responsible for inflation, the Federal Reserve, is continually engaged in raising a hue-and-cry about 'inflation,' for which virtually everyone else in society seems to be responsible. What we are seeing is the old ploy by the robber who starts shouting 'Stop, thief!' and runs down the street pointing ahead at others.

  Murray Rothbard

  Running, Fire, Games

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• While I am usually in despair when a movie abandons its plot for a third act given over entirely to action, I have no problem with the way Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets ends, because it has been pointing toward this ending, hinting about it, preparing us for it, all the way through. What a glorious movie.

  Roger Ebert

  Secret, Despair, Plot

  Roger Ebert (2004). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2005”, p.274, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• It seems like things are upside down [in America] as we see right declared as wrong, and wrong as right. God is not pointing His finger at the Supreme Court, or the White House, or the Capitol. If you are a Christian, He is looking at you and at me to humble ourselves, pray, and seek God's face. He expects us to take action.

  Greg Laurie

  Christian, Humble, White

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• Sooner or later, the ones who told you that this isn't the way it's done, the ones who found time to sneer, they will find someone else to hassle. Sooner or later, they stop pointing out how much hubris you've got, how you're not entitled to make a new thing, how you will certainly come to regret your choices. Sooner or later, your work speaks for itself. Outlasting the critics feels like it will take a very long time, but you're more patient than they are.

  Seth Godin

  Regret, Long, Choices

  "Sooner or later, the critics move on". sethgodin.typepad.com. August 24, 2015.

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• I have a pretty good sense of when to express misgivings. And white critics are just as capable of pointing those things out and noticing them as people of color.

  Wesley Morris

  Color, White, People

  "Wesley Morris, boston globe film critic: 'they hate people who have opinions that run contrary to their fanaticism'". Interview with Naoki O'Bryan, jameson-zimmer.squarespace.com. April 15, 2013.

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• People were always pointing the finger at the fast food industry. And I was a big fan of personal responsibility - you know, no one is forcing you to eat. We're not geese being stuffed with corn.

  Morgan Spurlock

  Responsibility, People, Fans

  "Size Matters". Interview with Laura Nathan, www.motherjones.com. May 21, 2004.

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• I'm always pointing things out to native New Yorkers that I think are weird about this place and their culture and all that. But I feel like my friends and family from California feel like I've totally "become a New Yorker."

  Adrian Tomine

  Thinking, California, Family And Friends

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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