Source: 1980s, Trump: The Art of the Deal (1987), p. 48
“There is no point to be alive if you can't do deadlift.”
Jón Páll Sigmarsson (1960–1993) Icelandic strongman
As quoted in Dhani Jones, Jonathan Grotenstein, The Sportsman (2011), p. 169
Jones & Grotenstein comment that this quote refers to Sigmarsson's "ability to lift enormous weights off the ground. Jón Páll was only 32 when he died of a heart attack brought on by - you guessed it - a deadlift."
“If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing.”
Kingsley Amis book Lucky Jim
Source: Lucky Jim
“Don't be so poor to the point that you can't afford to pay attention.”
Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author
“If you can't make fun of bad movies on serious subjects, what's the point?”
Pauline Kael (1919–2001) American film critic
Interview with Hal Espen, The New Yorker (1994-03-21); reprinted in Espen's Conversations with Pauline Kael (University of Mississippi Press, 1996, ISBN 0-878-05899-0), p. 162.
Interviews
Milton Bradley (baseball) (1978) Major League Baseball player
ESPN, Bradley knows only one way — the hard way, Alan Schwarz, July 10, 2003, 2009-01-04 http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/print?id=1574709&type=story,
“You don't always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too.”
Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist
Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
“There’s no point letting honey age too long before you eat it.”
Robert Jordan (1948–2007) American writer
Lini
(15 October 1993)
Kay Redfield Jamison (1946) American bipolar disorder researcher
Source: Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
