Mean Quotes

I mean, I made The Phantom, although The Phantom was, believe it or not, an independent film. It was just a very large, expensive independent film.

Any day, any minute we bless God for our being or for anything, for food, for sunlight, we do and are what we were meant for, madefor--things that give and mean to give God glory.

God?is so great that all things give him glory if you mean they should.

Consensus politics means that you cannot afford to give the many-headed beast, the public, anything to vote against, for voting against is what gargantuan pseudodemocracy has to come down to.

It's what everyone is after, I mean they want success and when they get it it's an incredible pressure but what you have to do is try to keep the big picture in view.

For us women, to be German meant, and still means, always to be strong.

Superstition is believing that something means anything and that anything means something and that each thing means a particular thing and will mean a particular thing is coming. Oh yes it does.

When moneys in a purse in my own pocket / It means wealth.

Being patient means to welcome wholeheartedly whatever arises.

I love to do yoga, even if it means getting up at 5:30 in the morning. It helps me breathe and stop all the chatter in my head. That can help you get through everything.

I try to be more goofy when I'm on set now that I'm more comfortable. In real life, I'm so goofy and super weird. I'm never mean but people don't see the weird side of me.

I've never understood people who say they're not a practicing Jew. You never hear a black guy say he's not a practicing African-American. What does it even mean?

The real argument against aristocracy is that it always means the rule of the ignorant. For the most dangerous of all forms of ignorance is ignorance of work.

A great classic means a man whom one can praise without having read.

The man of the true religious tradition understands two things: liberty and obedience. The first means knowing what you really want. The second means knowing what you really trust.

Every man speaks of public opinion, and means by public opinion, public opinion minus his opinion.

For the only courage worth calling courage must necessarily mean that the soul passes a breaking point and does not break.

If Christianity should happen to be true - that is to say, if its God is the real God of the universe - then defending it may mean talking about anything and everything.

When some English moralists write about the importance of having character, they appear to mean only the importance of having a dull character.

Either criticism is no good at all (a very defensible position) or else criticism means saying about an author the very things that would have made him jump out of his boots.

Whatever the word "great" means, Dickens was what it means.

Not only does "orthodox" no longer mean being right, it practically means being wrong.

Thinking means connecting things, and stops if they cannot be connected.

Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.

By experts in poverty I do not mean sociologists, but poor men.

The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do not say.

Playing as children means playing is the most serious thing in the world.

I think, you know, when you're an actor who's had periods of unemployment, it makes you feel really good to have a job - to say that you're expected somewhere, do you know what I mean?

I always try to have a bigger picture view of my career. But that didn't mean that I didn't cry about not getting jobs.

If somebody is deemed more talented within the confines of the school it doesn't mean they're going to have the most successful career.

It really does mean so much when your cast mates, who you respect so much, tell you that you made them laugh.

I mean the business is just so rough man, people always think the business is easy, and the business is very rough. This is probably the worst business that you can get in, as far as, business-wise.

I never thought my marriage could be stronger, or I could be closer to Bill. We prayed on our own, but now we prayed together and you'll never know how much that means until you do it.

Just because life's meaningless doesn't mean we can't experience it meaningfully.

I mean a racist, hate-filled host who is openly trying to get people to be violent would have zero viewers in the America I know and love.

I mean, I'm not a, you know, a fraidy cat. I mean, I am truly concerned in this country that we are moving towards fascism.

There was a shooting at a political camp, which sounds a little like, you know, the Hitler Youth or whatever. I mean, who does a camp for kids that's all about politics? Disturbing.

I would like a practical president, but I would like to be able to have his practicality based on principles, and not just who - I mean the room with.

[B]ipartisanship means tarring and feathering politicans from both major parties.

Violence is not inevitable. I mean, the only inevitable form of violence is the kind that we understand, the only legitimate (if there can ever be legitimate violence) and that's self-defense.

People say, 'Oh, you've sacrificed so much, now's the time to do something for yourself.' I mean, please - that is so wrong. I don't think I've sacrificed one f-king thing.

Romance is a means to the end of self-completion, but love is an end in itself.

Society certainly encourages women to be victims in every way. I mean if we want approval, we have to sing the blues, even as singers we sing the blues.

People start to talk about post-racist, post-feminist. What does that mean? We're clearly not post either. Would you say post-democracy? Clearly we haven't reached true democracy yet.

Maybe I should disappear and not make anymore music. I mean, I think I'd take it really badly if I got slayed.

Hitters never showed me up, as hard as I threw. And I was pretty mean out on the mound.

I've taken care of it," I said My father looked at me, shocked. Then I realized "taken care of" had a very specific meaning in his line of work. "No, no, I mean he's gone.

Pressure's healthy. It becomes stressful when you can't handle that. I mean, if you don't want to become pressurized in this environment, then don't be a chef.

There is no way in which a simple substance could begin in the course of nature, since it cannot be formed by means of compounding.

I don't think 'pop' should mean that you had no talent.