Mean Quotes

My age is getting up there, but that doesn't mean my play has to diminish.

I was brought up to be a gentleman. That means you know how to walk, talk and dress the part.

When a kid can understand that a word can mean two things, there's some real thinking going on. They have a vested interest in finding out what a word means, because it's the punch line to a joke.

It means a lot to me to have my kids like what I do. And that's why I limit them. But I don't want to put that pressure on them to be a fan of mine.

Express your admiration for the traits, possessions or accomplishments of your customer. Little things mean a lot.

So it's 1976 and we're still riding on our past success. I mean I've gone on like that for I don't know how long.

If advertising encourages people to live beyond their means, so does matrimony.

This is not the internet the world needs, or the internet its creators envisioned. We need to take it back. And by we, I mean the engineering community.

I mean, I've sold all these scripts and nothing's been made. Studios have closed, stars have died. I had a director find Jesus. And the pictures just don't get made.

I mean, look, I wear makeup in films. I don't wear makeup in real life. It's just part of the gig, that's all.

I'm not afraid of anything. My two favorite colors are lime green and hot pink. I mean, I really like pink. And I don't care who knows it. I'm already married, sooo...

You mean guys don't get injured in spring training? Guys get hurt walking down the street.

I mean when you come into the set at 7:30 in the morning and you come out of make-up and the first thing you know, the ladies start coming into our dressing rooms at 7:45.

Paradoxical as it may seem, God means not only to make us good, but to make us also happy, by sickness, disaster and disappointment.

Do not by any means destroy yourself, for if you live you may yet have good fortune, but all the dead are dead like.

[Repentance] means unlearning all the self-conceit and self -will that we have been training ourselves into... It means killing part of yourself, under-going a kind of death.

Progress means movement in a desired direction, and we do not all desire the same things for our species.

Have you not seen that in our days Of any whose story, song or art Delights us, our sincerest praise Means, when all's said, 'You break my heart?

The means of effective communication are being expropriated from the intellectual worker.

Language is a poor enough means of communication as it is. So we should use all the words we have.

As with most things governmental, failure does not mean having to try something else. It means spending more money.

By luck I mean, when opportunity meets preparation.

History reveals no civilized people among whom there was not a highly educated class and large aggregations of wealth. Large profits mean large payrolls.

Life gives you lots of chances to screw up which means you have just as many chances to get it right.

People get married when they're 18 and spend their whole lives together. I think their greatest fear is that someone will see it as a fling because they were young and it didn't mean anything.

A special ability means a heavy expenditure of energy in a particular direction, with a consequent drain from some other side of life.

We cannot imagine events that are connected non-causally and are capable of a non-causal explanation. But that does not mean that such events do not exist.

War is nothing but a continuation of politics with the admixture of other means.

When poverty shows itself, even mischievous boys understand what it means.

I took it to heart that in order to be a good person; you never said anything mean about anybody.

You know, one wonderful thing that came out of my Enquirer experience is that, in my case, it was ruled tabloids are magazines. Which means they didn't have the protection that a newspaper has.

Spiritual connection does not mean romance

When you fail to see something, that doesn't mean I'm hiding it.

In the game of life, less diversity means fewer options for change. Wild or domesticated, panda or pea, adaptation is the requirement for survival.

How rude. Many who have gazed upon me have compared the experience to gazing at the radiance of the sun." Jem still had his eyes closed. "If they mean it gives you a headache, they aren't wrong.

I'm more financially successful, but it just means the shopping blunders I make are bigger now.

Being a Christian doesn't mean I don't get stressed or upset when training doesn't go well. But even if I have those reactions, I think, 'I should pray about this.'

Infatuation means, 'A love that it is inconvenient to go on with.

I think the hardest part of writing is revising. And by that I mean the following: A novelist has to create the piece of marble and then chip away to find the figure in it.

All types of riches should be amassed by all means.

By means of hearing one understands dharma, malignity vanishes, knowledge is acquired, and liberation from material bondage is gained.

If a child is inclined to be grasping, or to cling to any of his or her little possessions, legends are related about the contempt and disgrace falling upon the ungenerous and mean person.

Prayer is not so much the means whereby God's will is bent to man's desires, as it is that whereby man's will is bent to God's desires.

A low standard of prayer means a low standard of character and a low standard of service. Those alone labor effectively among men who impetuously fling themselves upward towards God.

I guess we often get the deep blues, both of us, and wonder what it all means- the people, the buildings, the day by day things, the waste of time, of ourselves.

There are as many stories to be told as there are people to tell them about; only the mean-spirited would consider there to be a competition at all.

You wouldn't want any creative process to lose its sense of fun and adventure, but that doesn't mean you can't take it seriously as well.

Genius does not care much for a set of explicit regulations, but that does not mean that genius is lawless.

Prudence and compromise are necessary means, but every man should have an impudent end which he will not compromise.

I couldn't imagine a day without music. It relaxes and stimulates me in equal measure and I hate the sound of silence - the concept, I mean, not the track by Simon and Garfunkel.