Pointing Quotes

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"I`m not poor; I`m not desperate, I would never attempt to sell a tape," she says. "It would humiliate me and ruin my family. I don`t need the money. It`s humiliating; it`s embarrassing. It`s something I feel very betrayed by, but I`m not pointing any fingers."

- Kim Kardashian

Don`t think, feel! It is like a finger pointing away to the moon. Don`t concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory.

- Bruce Lee

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

I do think the patriotic thing to do is to critique my country. How else do you make a country better but by pointing out its flaws?

- Bill Maher

`People thought (`_The Osbournes_`) was scripted but it wasn`t. They`d sit there with five cameras pointing in all directions just for you to slip on a dog turd or something.`

- Ozzy Osbourne

And neither side has any regulatory board in Incline to look to for helping decide what`s right. So then it turns to finger pointing.

- Terry Moore

I cut my hair now and nobody recognizes me. It`s that whole thing I was bitching about earlier - `I can`t go anywhere without someone pointing` - And now it`s like, `Hey, it`s me man!` I`m standing in the N section with my laminate on and covered in mud. I just can`t get a response anymore.

- Trent Reznor

I don`t think it was really balanced in pointing out what`s going on, ... To talk about Durham and then go to High Point and focus on what they`re doing, I thought, was out of bounds. It didn`t give the community credit for what it`s doing to address the issue.

- Bill Bell

When they come with M16s to the house pointing, with their hands on the trigger, I`m not crazy, ... I will go.

- Karen Johnson

My values, our values, aren`t about pointing fingers. They are about offering a helping hand.

- Kathleen Blanco

I was sent to the stands for kicking the ball at him in an aggressive manner and pointing to where Carlos Edwards was booked,

- Mike Newell

Baldness is visually enough of a stigma as it is without a big sweaty bloke on stage pointing it out.

- Johnny Vegas

He didn`t hit the panic button. He wasn`t putting the blame on anybody, wasn`t pointing the finger at anyone. He told us we`re gonna still come to the field and improve ourselves every day. He handled it the way a professional should handle it.

- Eric Chavez

I think everybody realizes the importance of playing for your teammates. When you get in those kind of games where everything just kind of seems to snowball out of control, it`s important that you don`t lose focus and start pointing fingers. ... When you hold up your end of the bargain and you`re accountable to everybody else on the team, then things will fall into place.

- Joey Harrington

Laura Bush went on national television during the week of my father`s funeral and spoke out against embryonic stem cell research, pointing out that where Alzheimer`s is concerned, we don`t have proof that stem-cell treatment would be effective.

- Patti Davis

Half the time when you`re writing songs, the things you`re saying, you don`t realize you`re saying about yourself until you finish. Then you look back on an album you`ve written and put the pieces together, and you`re pointing out your flaws. And that`s the kind of stuff people want to hear. They want to know that it`s normal to fuck up. That`s a lot better than writing about purity.

- Caleb Followill

I mean, I`ve had bartenders and waiters and waitresses make a comment about a joke of mine, like pointing out some sort of logic error or something that I`ve never even thought about, and they`re right.

- Todd Berry

I still think I could defend myself by pointing to the value of the presidency. I don`t think the Democrats protected the value of the presidency.

- Chris Matthews

(Many of the victims catalogued the lasting effects of the bombings, pointing out shrapnel wounds and severed fingers, speaking of constant pain and sleeping pills, hearing loss, seizures and nightmares.) Look at my face, my hand, my limp, the damage that is visible, ... Now, consider the emotional damage. May my face, my injuries and my statement be what you see and hear every night.

- Ron Smith

It is my fervent hope and prayer that by exposing my mistakes and by pointing out the things that were a part of my early life, some who might be following the same paths might not make those same mistakes.

- John Clayton

It`s all pointing in the same direction -- the ISM was a surprising number and a scary number.

- John Shepherd

While countless Americans are pulling together to lend a helping hand, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid are pointing fingers in a shameless effort to tear us apart.

- Ken Mehlman

It`s like we had three strong muscles originally, and could point FUSE wherever we wanted to. Now we have to control the pointing with one strong muscle and two weak muscles. The revised control software is like a good physical therapist, teaching the satellite to compensate.

- William Blair

We started at once to dig our trenches, half of my platoon stepping forward abreast, the men being placed an arm`s length apart. After laying their rifles down, barrels pointing to the enemy, a line was drawn behind the row of rifles and parallel to it.

- Fritz Kreisler

Everybody wants to take responsibility when you win, but when you fail, all these fingers are pointing.

- Mike Krzyzewski

I haven`t made that decision. But I would certainly welcome the superintendent of schools, instead of pointing the finger at everybody and everything, taking some accountability of what is happening on his watch.

- Eugene Peterson

That was totally unprofessional, pointing their guns at us like that, ... The Army has been patrolling this street for a week, and they know what`s going on here. All the police had to do was ask them, and they would have known everything they needed to know about this street.

- Chris White

I keep pointing at the child; they keep staring at my finger.

- Adam Moore

Never charge a player and, above all, no pointing your finger or yelling.

- Alex Acosta

And so in my warnings, I was pointing to a number of incidents around the communion that could undermine our growing sense of communion - of becoming a global communion. So that`s why I pointed to New Westminster in Canada, to incidents in the United States, and Sydney itself.

- Alex Laughlin

I never yet heard man or woman much abused that I was not inclined to think the better of them, and to transfer the suspicion or dislike to the one who found pleasure in pointing out the defects of another.

- Ali Abdu

You can`t go to a negotiating table pointing a gun, but you`ve got to keep it over your shoulder.

- Alice Paul

Legend has it that the original South Pointing Chariot was built in China three to four thousand years ago for the Yellow Emperor, Huang Di.

- Alli Macko

The rabbit is significant in that the handle on the original South Pointing Chariot was carved in the form of a rabbit. Because the handle extended out front it meant that wherever the rabbit went the chariot had to follow.

- Alli Macko

In practical terms the South Pointing Chariot was a simple direction finder. It could have been made to point in any direction - north, south, east or west.

- Alli Macko

Recreating the South Pointing Chariot is particularly challenging because none of the original technical drawings remain in existence.

- Alli Macko

When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.

- Alston Chase

Pointing fingers, trying to catch each other in scandal does not bring honor to this House.

- Amadeu Altafaj Tardio

Evidently when the statue was returned somebody thought they were going to get the reward, but it still hasn`t been determined exactly who all was involved, ... There`s been a lot of finger-pointing, but that doesn`t make it credible. We`re piecing it together and will probably make an arrest soon.

- Angela R. Hess

I thought he was my friend, but he betrayed me. If someone points a gun at you and shoots and it doesn`t go off, what would you do? If someone is pointing a gun at you and they start putting more bullets into the gun, what would you do?

- Annie Clark

Pointing fingers is the last thing I`ll do. It`s always my fault. And accountability, I think everyone else feeds off that.

- Anthony H. Cordesman

(Just when we thought the pinch was over, high prices hit again and people are pointing fingers at the oil companies.) True it`s costing them money, but they`re getting it back from us, ... They`re not losing money and they have no intention of losing money.

- Art Bjork

The guys always remind me of that. I wasn`t ready. I think it was more physical but that was a long time ago. I learned a lot. That was the first time ever in my career in any sport that a lot of finger pointing came my way. Coach Cowher took me out of the game and that was something new for me but that woke me up. That day probably made me become a professional.

- Ash Wednesday

The Bank of England is walking on a tight rope as the data this week has been quite weak, pointing to downside risks in the economy. We see sterling coming down from their lift last week, going lower against the euro from here.

- Augie Ojeda

When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.

- Louis Nizer

No matter how advanced your camera you still need to be responsible for getting it to the right place at the right time and pointing it in the right direction to get the photo you want.

- Ken Rockwell