Mean Quotes

I lived that life for real, so to talk about it was like a joke, you know what I mean?

Liberation means you don't have to be silenced.

Robert Plant asked me to marry him, but I said 'no.' I mean, you just don't want to marry someone you've wanted to do it with since you were thirteen, because, well, if he farts, I would, like, die!

Technically I feel total fluidity in writing. I feel there's nothing technically that I can't do the way a certain sort of pianist feels that. But that doesn't mean it comes easily. It doesn't.

I don't mean I'd mind being rich and famous. That's very much on my schedule and someday I'll try to get around to it.

I love women, and I just think that they're great. I mean, yes, they can be a little nutty sometimes, but they're great.

Being civilized means that one keeps one's words unrelated to one's thoughts, when necessary.

Everybody complains that people are so flaky in LA. I'd rather be flaky than mean.

I mean, roots musicians - we can get old, you know? We can get up there and wear overalls and deliver the songs, we don't have to look any certain way.

Most green-collar jobs are middle-skill jobs. That means they require more education that a high-school diploma, but less than a four-year degree.

Governments have a favorite phrase: “lean and mean.” But they’ve been made very, very fat for corporate interests.

We don't talk about tennis. I figure she knows what she's doing. I mean, what am I going to tell her?

A wait-and-see policy may mean waiting until it is too late.

In Africa, music is not an art form as much as it is a means of communication.

Can you be a girl for a few seconds?" "I'm always a girl" I frown. "You know what I mean. Like a silly, annoying girl" I twirl my hair around my finger. "Kay.

Genius is rare because the means of becoming one have not been available

When we are at the end of life, to die means to go away; when we are at the beginning, to go away means to die.

Success doesn't mean that you are healthy, success doesn't mean that you're happy, success doesn't mean that you're rested. Success really doesn't mean that you look good, or feel good, or are good

I mean, any movie or story that makes you accept and be grateful for something about your life is doing something right.

I find that when I've seen a certain number of people my mind becomes like an old match box -- the part one strikes on, I mean.

If we do not exert the right of eating our neighbor, it is because we have other means of making good cheer

What's the best type of light? Why that would be available light... and by available light I mean any damn light is available.

Ideally, government is the means by which all the individual wills are assured complete freedom of moral choice and at the same time prevented from ever clashing.

I don't pretend to know anything about art. I make pictures for entertainment, and then the professors tell me what they mean.

You will hardly know who I am or what I mean

To perceive the aura of an object we look at means to invest it with the ability to look at us in return.

I know what falling off the cliff means. I know from being considered a very bright kid to being considered like a moron and dropping out of school.

Just because I've stopped working doesn't mean that I've stopped being helpful.

Statistics is the art of lying by means of figures.

Freedom so often means that one isn't needed anywhere.

Some fearful sights there be that creep By night - I mean that harass sleep; But tenfold more alarming seem these when They brave the day, to breathe the air like men.

A man in earnest finds means or, if he cannot find, creates them.

I don't think they [contemporary writers] read me either. I mean, if we're concerned genuinely with writing, I think we probably get on with our work.

We can't renew America unless more of us, I mean all of us, are willing to join churches.

He who meanly admires mean things is a Snob.

...humans are not defined by their limitations, but by the intentions that I have for them; not by what they seem to be, but by everything it means to be created in my image.

Does that mean," asked Mack, "that all roads will lead to you?" "Not at all," smiled Jesus..."Most roads don't lead anywhere. What it does mean is that I will travel any road to find you.

When we say the South lost the Civil War, we mean the white South. The blacks were liberated. And it's trying to redefine this Southern myth and bring it in a more positive direction.

Philosophy means thinking things out for oneself. Ultimately, there can be only one true philosophy, since reason is one and we all live in the same world.

At a certain point, what people mean when they use a word becomes its meaning.

Give thy thoughts no tongue, nor any unproportioned thought his act. Be thou familiar but by no means vulgar.

I have no way and therefore want no eyes I stumbled when I saw. Full oft 'tis seen our means secure us, and our mere defects prove our commodities.

I mean that psychologically. I think [Donald Trump] showed in the debates when he encounters criticism or challenge he behaves the way a bully would. He just doesn't take it well.

I mean, time for me, I can make it go slow or fast, however I please. That's how I know it doesn't exist.

The beautiful image today means nothing. It's worthshit. In fact, it's almost as if it has the opposite effect, becauseyou're just like everything else out there.

But questioning does not mean the end of loving, and loving does not mean the abnegation of intelligence

When I get to heaven I mean to spend a considerable portion of my first million years in painting, and so get to the bottom of the subject.

I think to be 'tough' means you look relaxed. So you have to be tough to win tournaments. But you don't want to be so tough on yourself.

You can feel bad... I mean, that's not illegal.

I'd be more likely to go for somebody who is like me. Well, I like creative people, so whatever that means... Yeah, authentic and creative.