Mean Quotes

The sacred page is not meant to be the end, but only the means toward the end, which is knowing God Himself.

Being brave doesn't mean never being afraid, you know. It means going for it anyway because you know it's the right thing to do.

Seeing my face on a poster is surreal. You look at it and it's not quite like you, if you know what I mean... it's almost a third person kind of thing. I still find it strange.

Gosh, I made so many mistakes. I mean I still make mistakes. We all do.

The moment artists can just do what they love to do then music will go right back to where it used to be. I mean back in the '60s and '70s and '80s, that's what it was.

I mean being a writer is like being a psychoanalyst, but you don't get any patients.

I just can't sit still and meditate; that doesn't kind of work for me. I don't even know exactly what it means.

Grown-up love means actually understanding what you love, taking the good with the bad and helping your loved one grow. Love takes attention and work and is the best thing in the world.

It's hard for a liberal to go on between Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh, because it's like doing country music after hip-hop. I mean, just, the audience doesn't go from one to the other.

It's really building Air America that I'm focused on, and for me, that almost only means doing a good show.

You can say the Earth is flat, but it doesn't mean you're going to fall off the edge.

The [Bob] Dylan sessions were very disorganized, to say the least. I mean, the "Like A Rolling Stone" session I was invited by the producer to watch.

I won vice president of my student body in high school. That doesn't mean anything.

I'm very analytical, I'm very precise. I mean, I don't write for kids.

My velvet Elvis means the world to me. Although he may not be worth much dough, he means more to me than some old Rembrandt or Van Gogh.

I mean, I hate to gloat, but I'm extremely satisfied with my position in life and the way things have worked out for me.

If you've climbed the first 140 meters it doesn't mean that you've succeeded; you are going to succeed by climbing the last 10 meters.

And I think belief is one of those things that comes to people in their own way. And just because I believe in something doesn't mean I think that you should.

Creativity means learning where the rules exist, and then breaking them! Saying, "It's better this way." But you have to know the rules in order to break them with any grace.

My own belief is that people can come back from anything. It doesn't mean that it won't come at a huge cost.

There is a kind of a cascading chain, ... If one can't sell, then that business doesn't buy and that means the next business doesn't sell, and the previous business doesn't sell, and so on.

The same source that gave you the idea, will give you the means to see it through.

There's certainly more new SF available than when I started writing. That means there's also more bad SF available. Whether there is also more good is a matter for future historians of the field.

There is no doubt that to walk with Jesus means to walk on the wilder side of life.

I mean, my voice has gotten a little deeper sounding as I've gotten older, I think. I noticed that.

If the Declaration of Independence states our creed, there can be no right to abortion, since it means denying the most fundamental right of all to the unborn child, the right to life.

Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.

One can't proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.

What are we saying when we say now, something is holy? That means you should take a different attitude to what you are doing than if you were, for example, doing it for kicks.

When someone has a very urgent response, I think it just means that it's triggering something in them that they may not necessarily want to think or talk about - which I see as a positive thing.

All I want is beautiful. I mean, I like grey hair, I love wrinkles. But this is me.

I have a problem to do a collection that is a secondary line. I mean, you don’t want to be the stepsister. You want to be Cinderella. Show me one girl who wants to be the stepsister.

The big room or big suite doesn't mean a lot to me. It is what the people do or don't do that matters.

Regrets are stupid; they don't mean anything and they don't add up to anything.

No ends, simply means.

That must be wonderful; I have no idea of what it means.

You will always win if you make an effort, no matter how much. However, if you failed it means you were too lazy.

Death means nothing to men like me. It's the event that proves them right.

he's incapable of suffering for a long time, or being happy for a long time. Which means that he's incapable of anything really worth while.

We [Jews] have no other means of self-defense than our solidarity

Affirmation of the world, which means affirmation of the will-to-live that manifests itself around me, is only possible if I devote myself to other life.

When I was 14 years old, I was by no means trying to work professionally at all.

Religion is always a patron of the arts, but its taste is by no means impeccable.

I don't want to be throwing the football on the front yard when I'm 75. I mean, I'm not opposed to men doing that. But I don't think it's gonna work for me.

Just because you're an avid reader doesn't mean you're an avid understander.

Theatrical work means too much work or none.

I want a book to contain a world - indeed the world. Writing is my main means of engagement with the world and I want the scars of that engagement to be left in the language.

There's something in psychology called the narrative paradigm, which essentially means that we think of our lives as stories in which we are the main characters.

When I found myself in the U.S., and the war was at full swing in Bosnia, I read for survival - it was a means of thought resuscitation.

I am a writer, which means I write stories, I write novels, and I would write poetry if I knew how to. I don't want to limit myself.