Mean Quotes

The dullest Olympic sport is curling, whatever 'curling' means.

Success means your options multiply. Size increases complexity, and complexity can confuse vision.

I've never made the separation between, say, the museum and the hardware store. I mean, I enjoy both of them, and I want to combine the two.

Death means a lot of money, honey. Death can really make you look like a star.

I don't know what folk music means anymore, because the meaning of that just keeps changing.

With political means and always trying to work for political settlements and this is what I'm going to continue to work on with all my heart.

This has been my life for many years; one role feeds the other. It is a joy to be an artist, but it doesn't mean very much unless that work is somehow useful in some way and contributes to others.

I mean, I think it's hard enough to find somebody you can stand for more than ten minutes, so, like, you shouldn't narrow your options.

I mean, playing music at home and writing and hanging out with my guitar is kind of medicinal for me, but when I bring the songs to people on stage, it's very joyous.

I have always been faithful to you if faithful means the experience against which everything else has been measured.

Sometimes I could almost hate you because you don't understand how much you mean to me, how dark and empty I was before. Solnyshko moyo.

The presumption of innocence only means you don't go right to jail.

Canada used to be...one of our most...most loyal friends, and vice versa. I mean, Canada sent troops to Vietnam. Was Vietnam less containable and more of a threat than Saddam Hussein?

I never wanted to be famous and the only part I like is that it means people are reading my books and listening to me on TV and radio.

I'm looking for a balance of reported and essayistic work by up-and-coming women journalists. Often that means combing online-only sources or alt weeklies.

It means being able to resist the urge for immediate gratification and opt for the course of action that will pay off later.

If someone loves you for what you can do then it's flattering, but why do you love them? If someone loves you for who you are then they have to know you, which means you have to know them.

Love doesn't necessarily mean bless or agree with, it means sacrifice for and suffer with.

We don't see the material world for what it is meant to be: the means to communion with God.... There is a belief missing, that God is good and that he gives good gifts.

I think women love glamour. I mean, not all women, but I think this is something that women share.

I mean, I think that - as an actress, in particular, I'm basically a fool, and I see the world upside down.

I mean, I think a healthy country is a country where people are healthy physically, and a smart country is a country where people are educated.

The music industry seems scary to me. I mean the film industry is crazy enough so the music industry to me seems like the wild, wild West. Like I would just never dare.

I get described as 'interesting' a lot. People often call me odd, too. Maybe they mean ugly. Given the services of a plastic surgeon, I would get a pair of cheekbones.

Okay. I picked up a movie to watch tonight. You can watch it with me if you like. It's a chick movie. Merri Lee said that means girls like it, not that there are small birds in it.

To sing of Wars, of Captains, and of Kings/Of Cities founded, Common-wealths begun/For my mean Pen are too superior things.

Let's not talk about it any more, but if you still want anything please write to me about it, because I can say what I mean much better on paper.

Ordinary people don't know how much books can mean to someone who's cooped up.

Words are real. Even if you can't see them, or hold them. Once you send them out in the world, they have power. Never speak words you don't mean.

There's nothing wrong with making little kids happy, but there's nothing wrong with wanting to be an adult actress. I mean a grown-up actress.

I have been very clear to everybody that just because I'm getting married does not mean I call myself a straight.

So how on earth can I bring a child into the world, knowing that such sorrow lies ahead, that it is such a large part of what it means to be human? I'm not sure. That's my answer: I'm not sure.

There are so many books I mean to read, and things I mean to see.

The Welsh... I mean, what are they for?

Any technology is just a skillful means and it's how you use it.

We can easily forgive want of means; but littleness, with means, is disgusting.

I mean, how would anyone learn anything if they weren't curious? How would scientists make discoveries? -- We all have the right to be different, don't we?

I know only enough of God to want to worship him, by any means ready to hand.

Everybody's got a dark side, but mine doesn't include being around people who are mean.

Music is kind of a strange business, and it's too weird of a job to have mean, conniving people around.

You have to be quite grounded, and I don't know what that is. Sometimes, that means being vulnerable.

Bulnerable without strength is vulnerable, and being vulnerable means you can be victimized.

My daughter always behaved in restaurants. And if she didn't, she's going out. I mean, one of the parents is going to take her outside. Immediately.

Just because we are not Italian, does not mean we cannot appreciate Michelangelo, it is the same with cuisine.

A lost coin is found by means of a candle; the deepest truth is found by means of a simple story.

As far as keeping my sanity, it's something I've only recently tried to focus on as a means of self-preservation.

If you're in a successful play and the play is working well - I mean successful because the audiences like it, the audiences respond well - it's a pleasure.

Smiling back at her, it occurs to me that I've never met a mean librarian.

We are men on a budget. I mean, why go all the way to Amsterdam when you can just go to Harry Hines?

I mean, before this, I would have said playing Bill Gates, because I'm playing someone obviously who is alive and is the richest man in the world. That was a heavy responsibility.