Mean Quotes

If you're feminist, it means that you've noticed that male ownership of the direction of female lives has been the order of the day for a few thousand years, and it isn't natural.

You must promise me. You can't desire the end without desiring the means.' Ah, but one can, he thought, one can: one can desire the peace of victory without desiring the ravaged towns.

It's a business of relationships. I mean that's exactly what Hollywood is to me, and I'm lucky enough to work with the same people over and over again.

All the signs were right. And when I mean all the sings were right, the only signs that we care about when we start a project of making a record is, do we have the songs - it's that simple.

I think any writer coming on to Batman should at least attempt to do their own definitive version. What it means to them. Whatever they think that symbol or character can say.

I mean, I feel like you can kill the same bird with both stones.

I'm no longer a prisoner of my fears. Which really just means I'm using real butter.

It's impossible for me to think of music as a contest. All of the awards ceremonies, I mean I'm sure they're fun for people, but they have no meaning to me.

I love saying "Booyakasha!" I keep finding new ways to say it. I love saying "Booyakasha." It means love will prevail.

There never could be a Booyakasha without a Cowabunga for me. They really do mean the same thing. Cowabunga is like "Bring it on!" and Booyakasha is like "Bring it on!" It's the same thing.

Everyone here would die for the sake of truth. Everyone here lies constantly for the tiniest chance of personal gain. This is what it means to be a scientist.

Joke stealing is a big deal to me, but I mean, I'm not going to investigate it if it doesn't effect me directly.

The [Confederate] Flag is - literally - sewed division. People claim it means different things to different people, but it harkens back to the pro-slavery side of the war.

When someone in power declares that something is broken that means it's actually fine. What they're really saying is, "Let's change this so I like it and ruin it." Nothing is ever broken.

I understand travel. I understand the experience of travel. I mean there is something of the "air-conditioned gypsy" in me.

The Koran and Islam is about submission, justice and compassion. All people of the "book" - which means the Torah, Koran and Bible are accorded equal respect under Islam.

There's a parallel between me going through these enormous efforts to try to make a moment that means something - and in a way, the figures are doing the same thing. There is that parallel, for sure.

Glory belongs to God, of course; that's what the word really means. And you can't serve God with a gun.

[Puggles] "What population signs on willingly for slavery?" "You mean other than wives?" [Glinda]

I mean, evil and boredom. Evil and ennui. Evil and the lack of stimulation. Evil and sluggish blood.

I grew up a fat kid in a small town in Minnesota who was a tomboy and happened to play a mean violin. My goal was to be a famous concert artist some day.

Sometimes I think it's easier to think about being happier, for what ever that means to you then worrying about what is happiness and what would life be if I finally achieved this ultimate happiness?

Gary Snyder's The Practice of the Wild is an exquisite, far-sighted articulation of what freedom, wildness, goodness, and grace mean, using the lessons of the planet to teach us how to live.

I'm an absolute fan of 1970s New York in films like 'Mean Streets' and 'Dog Day Afternoon.

To beat Federer 3 times does not mean anything he is a genius whose hair does not even move when he plays.

When you have the intuition that there is something which is there, but out of the reach of your physical world, art and religion are the only means to get to it.

I mean, I think I'm pretty sentimental.

Once you know what it means to choose in favor of yourself, there is no power in the universe that can make you choose against yourself.

But if you couldn't do everything, did that mean you did nothing?

I can be fairly optimistic, but I'm probably more a realist, I think. I mean, optimism's an interesting quality, isn't it, because I'm always slightly dubious as to what's behind it?

It isn't false modesty when I say this, but although I am supposed to be a famous person it doesn't mean anything to me. I just sit at home and work.

This little upset across the water doesn't mean anything. Threatened men live long and threatened wars never occur.

War may make a fool of man, but it by no means degrades him; on the contrary, it tends to exalt him, and its net effects are much like those of motherhood on women.

Mother told me always to follow the golden rule.And she said it's really a sin to be mean and cruel.So remember if you're untrueAngels up in heaven are looking at you.

Where names of people or places would mean little to a contemporary reader, I figured "translation errors" could create interesting new meanings.

All the discoveries seem to be discoveries of means.

I mean there is an assumption made that Islam is about submission, and I think that the submission that we have is to God.

I don't mean to talk so much about screenplay writing. Who wants to talk about screenplay writing? I've taught it and I felt like a charlatan because what I was teaching I probably couldn't do.

We know what they say, they want all of Palestine (including Israel) and say that negotiations did not work. They talk about wanting reform. That doesn't mean they will do it.

What does it mean that social structures among young people are so often predicated upon trying really, really hard to appear to not-be-trying?

I mean a lot of people think Im 19. I get carded all the time and no one think Im legal, like in the bedroom

Metaphysical fallacies contain the only clues we have to what thinking means to those who engage in it.

I smoke occasionally, but it's not a part of my routine. I mean, I don't need it.

We were talking about urban youth. And by urban I mean lives in a city not urban as in black like white people use it.

It's true the Iraqis misbehaved and had no credibility but that doesn't necessarily mean that they were in the wrong.

To live beyond your means today is to live below them tomorrow.

Communication is a science as well as an art. What does speaking precisely mean? You are consciously communicating with another person at that person's frequency, not yours.

An observation, strictly, is only a sensation. Nobody means that we should reject everything but sensations. But as soon as we go beyond sensations we are making inferences.

Learning means making errors. Those who are learning spiritually make errors just the way anyone does when he is growing.

Revolt by all means, but only on one issue at a time. To do more would be to confuse the whips.