Mean Quotes

I sound like Homer. I mean Winslow Homer.

Reading is a means of thinking with another person's mind; it forces you to stretch your own.

Earnestness is good; it means business. But fanaticism overdoes, and is consequently reactionary.

Almost all war making states borrow extensively, raise taxes, and seize the means of combat - including men - from reluctant citizens.

Allowing your kids to watch TV doesn't have to mean they have no choice but to see commercials for junk food and alcohol.

I mean I tried to transform myself through characters throughout my career.

If I missed my moment, I missed my moment. I mean, I wasn't pining to be president of the United States.

Higher taxes is the road to ruin. We must and we will shrink our government, and that means making some tough choices, tightening our belts.

Inequality and hierarchy are natural, but that doesn't mean they are right, that doesn't mean there is isn't a productive tension between those forces and the forces of equality.

My, I felt this thrill going up my leg. I mean, I don't have that too often.

That's what metal means to me, feeling that feeling when you hear something that totally turns you on.

We all must educate children at the youngest ages that private parts are private, 'no' means no, and there is only one code of honor for everyone.

"Objective" means that, in a confrontation with the evidence, you would be willing to change your own mind.

If you can charm everyone it means you don't care about anyone in particular.

He invented Kung Fu when translated to English means method by which short, bald guys can kick the bejeezus out of you.

Back in the class room, open your books, keep up, the teacher don't know how mean she looks.

Bigger doesn't mean better unless you really understand what bigger is.

Saying you like "Piano Man" doesn't mean you like Billy Joel; it means you're willing to go to a piano bar if there's nothing else to do

I think audiences are a lot more intelligent than what we give them credit for and understand that an actor is playing a role and that doesn't mean he can't play different types of roles.

I'd heard of really bad things Klan folks did to Negroes. Mean, hateful, deadly things. I didn't know they were hateful toward white folks too.

Men have always been obliged to fight to preserve liberty. Constitutions and laws do not safeguard liberty. It can be preserved only by a tolerant people, and this means eternal conflict.

Men live best on moderate means: Nature has dispensed to all men wherewithal to be happy, if mankind did but understand how to use her gifts.

The more ideas there are in circulation, the more ideas there are for any individual to disagree with. More media always means more arguing.

You know, just because you're a blonde type doesn't mean you can't suddenly do serious parts.

If the means were available, we could trace our ancestry - yours and mine - back to the first blob of life-like material that came into being on the planet.

I'm writing a review of three books on feminism and science, and it's about social constructionism. So I would say I'm a social constructionist, whatever that means

I never want to lose my Canadian-ness...and when I say Canadian-ness, I mean down-to-earth. I like being able to not take myself seriously and to not feel entitled.

To see color as form means looking at the image in a new way, trying to free oneself from absorption in subject matter.

I mean, I'm in a band, we're reasonably successful, I've got a very nice suit - I'm not even a bad person- so why can't I get a shag?

The superior man has a dignified ease without pride. The mean man has pride without a dignified ease.

Coarse rice to eat, water to drink, my bended arm for a pillow - therein is happiness. Wealth and rank attained through immoral means are nothing but drifting clouds.

My peers say I have made a difference. That means more to me than winning an Oscar.

That war has brought with it a truly incredible development of means of destruction and a terrifying prospect of rapid and almost limitless development in that direction.

The most dangerous thing in American society is a self-respecting and self-loving black person, because they're on the road to freedom and that means they're gonna run up against the powers that be.

I'm a bluesman, which means that I put an emphasis on the minor keys.

Success is such a relative thing for me. I'm fundamentally a Christian which means that ultimately all of the penultimate titles and things you just had to wear with a loose garment. Really.

Who can think without horror of what another widespread war would mean, waged as it would be with all the new weapons of mass destruction.

Equestrian and sailing are sports for people growing up on the mean streets of Connecticut.

I've been called a lot of things. But never, and I mean never, could anyone ever make the mistake of calling me a Yankee fan.

What, do you think that feminism means you hate men?

One doesn't know, till one is a bit at odds with the world, how much one's friends who believe in one rather generously, mean to one.

I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us.

But then peace, peace! I am so mistrustful of it: so much afraid that it means a sort of weakness and giving in.

I guess this means that our conflict is finally over. Perhaps we should celebrate." – Saint Dane Perhaps you should bite me." Bobby

I believe all religions pursue the same goals, that of cultivating human goodness and bringing happiness to all human beings. Though the means might appear different the ends are the same.

If you're looking for work and have a choice of a job, choose a job that allows the opportunity for some creativity, and for spending time with your family. Even if it means less pay.

When [Theresa May] says something she means it and she gets her way.

Hip hop is the new rock n' roll, you know what I mean? And anybody who doesn't think that is just sort of living in the past. It's all just American music, really, when you get right down to it.

I never listen to Led Zeppelin. But, I mean, I don't think Robert Plant or Jimmy Page listen to Led Zeppelin, either. We all probably obsessed over the same old blues records growing up.

Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.