Mean Quotes

Well, usually when a person shakes their head," said McGonagall coldly, "they mean 'no.' So unless Miss Edgecombe is using a form of sign language as yet unknown to humans.

I dreamed I was buying new shoes last night," said Ron. "What d'ya think that's gonna mean?" "Probably that you're going to be eaten by a giant marshmallow or something," said Harry.

The mean pattern of educational and economic achievement within multi-racial countries such as Canada and the United States has increasingly been found to prove valid internationally.

Once imbued with the idea of a mission, a great nation easily assumes that it has the means as well as the duty to do God's work.

Right now I'm on my God flow, you know what I mean? I got Job 1:21 tattooed on my chest.

All of the technology is a means to an end. We are the end. And we just have to pay attention.

It seems to me that maybe pretty much always means no. So dont tell me, I might just let it go.

I think Paul Martin doesn't mean what he says. He said he would clear this sort of thing up and he didn't do it.

Affluence means influence.

I've always tried to play golf with a golf club. I have a hard time driving with my rifle. I mean, 18 is really narrow ... I have no problem with the course, except for the tee shot on 18.

I don't think about winning the Masters as part of the slam. You want to win the Masters because of what it means to the game.

A method of painting is a natural growth out of a need. I want to express my feelings rather than illustrate them. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.

I’ve always said that a wise businessperson will support the ANC… because supporting the ANC means you’re investing very well in your business

There are different forms of anarchy and different currents in it. I must, first say very simply what anarchy I have in view. By anarchy I mean first an absolute rejection of violence.

Intelligence essentially means that your intellect is sharp enough to see life the way it is.

Meditation means to go beyond the limitations of body and mind.

Its a little gross to put yourself in every song. I mean, how interesting do people really think you are?

I love it when I have a nightmare to me that means I got my money's worth out of that eight hours

I mean, my people were very, very simple. They were peasant people, you know?

I am one who finds within me a nobility that spurns the idle pratings of the great, and their mean boasts of what their fathers were, while they themselves are fools effeminate.

The 5-year mean global temperature has been flat for the last decade, which we interpret as a combination of natural variability and a slow down in the growth rate of net climate forcing.

The five-year mean global temperature has been flat for the last decade

Therefore it is essential that some means should be sought whereby the work of the nation may be carried on without constant yet at present necessary dislocation.

The inference to which we are brought is that the causes of faction cannot be removed and that relief is only to be sought in the means of controlling its effects.

Is it possible to put an end to a form of human behavior which has existed throughout history by means of photography?

In 1854 I took out a patent for puddling iron by means of steam.

"Uh-huh," I said. "Because all you mad, evil scientists sit around whipping up batches of Pillsbury's finest during your coffee breaks. I mean, this is pathetic."

The fact is, if a young man is naturally indolent, the spur of necessity will drive him but a very little way, while the having enough to live upon is often the means of preserving his self-respect.

Communism means barbarism.

A picture is finished when all trace of the means used to bring about the end has disappeared.

I remember that at one time I always made a drawing before going to bed!! - Of myself I mean - though I finally destroyed most of them.

I'm hoping that Penn State will one day be able to find a cure for cancer. Being a part of THON means I'm doing my part to find that cure.

What we call barbecuing in this country is actually direct grilling. In many countries, it also means cooking in an enclosed box with a heat source, ideally wood, all year round.

[Gardening] is a means by which you can attain many valuable hours of solitude without being thought unsociable.

I mean to be too rich to lament or to feel anything of the sort. A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. It certainly may secure all the myrtle and turkey part of it.

The thing I want to know is, if you tell your brain not to do stuff... and it keeps doing it anyway, does that mean your mind has a mind of its own? And if it does, then who's in charge here, anyway?

I wondered where he was now whether I would ever hear him again. Whether someone would love him, someday show him what beauty mean't.

Did you have an awesome time? Did you drink awesome shooters, listen to awesome music, and then just sit around and soak up each others awesomeness?

I was just a lot smarter about not getting caught. I mean, I never stuck anything in my arm, but I certainly enjoyed my youth.

My position now, especially in this town, adds an element of skepticism with people you meet - especially girls. I mean, it becomes a lot more difficult.

Logic plus logic equals the illogical. Do you know what I mean?

Restraint does not mean weakness. It does not mean giving in.

A new study published by The British Medical Journal found that inactivity can kill you. I mean, these are the kind of findings that just scare the hell out of Congress.

Deficit reduction is not an end in itself. It is the means to an end. Canadians must now decide what kind of country they want to build with the hard-won dividend.

The stage play is a trial, not a deed of violence. The soul is opened, like the combination of a safe, by means of a word. You don't require an acetylene torch.

When we say democracy we have to mean what we say.

Things usually work out in the end." "What if they don't?" "That just means you haven't come to the end yet.

Stand your ground means stand your ground. It doesn't mean chase after somebody who's turned their back.

Government is, at every level, a means to gather in the labor and wealth of the people, and then instruct the people about new restrictions or monitoring of their lives.

You might be a redneck if an expired license plate means another decoration for your living room wall.