Point Defiance

Point Defiance may refer to:

  • Point Defiance Park in Tacoma, Washington, USA
    • Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium within the park
  • USS Point Defiance (LSD-31), a dock landing ship
  • Point Defiance Elementary School, a school located within Tacoma, Washington

Famous quotes containing the words point and/or defiance:

    “The point is, ladies and gentlemen, that greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit.”
    —Stanley Weiser, U.S. screenwriter, and Oliver Stone. Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas)

    “The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.”
    —Henry Miller (1891–1980)