Mean Quotes

What someone calls my books is irrelevant to me. I consider them works of art and rules and categories and labels mean nothing.

I can't remember the last book that taught me so much, and so well, about what it means to be human.

Life affirming doesn't mean good things happen.

Reconnecting to the animal means getting to a more sensitive, more artful and more humorous place in the psyche.

We have to do commerce differently because the WalMart system of big box chain retail will soon die. This means rebuilding local main street economies (networks of local economic interdependency).

We have to grow our food differently because industrial farming will soon end. That means growing more food locally on smaller farms with more human attention.

So does being cool mean you get to go around calling other people names?

I mean I like pop music, and I like heavy music and, stuff that I like... the band I've signed on to our label right now; they're called The Sounds. They're kind of like a new-wave pop band.

My time in the Army gave me an understanding for what it takes to provide for our national security and what it means to our service members and their families.

I don't mean to presume to dictate to you in the slightest degree but why did you leave your father's house? MTo seek misfortune, was Stephen's answer.

The very things in your life that seem to be depressing and oppressing you right now are going to be the means by which you set yourself free.

Hackman is able to live in the moment which means there is nothing for him at that split second than what is occurring in the scene.

The word "story" is short for the word "history." They both have the same root and fundamentally mean the same thing. A story is a narrative on an event or series of events, just like history.

Just because your leg might heal doesn't mean it doesn't feel broken. It doesn't mean that a car hitting your body doesn't hurt like the same it would hurt if a car hit your body.

The fact that tradition hinders the individual savage from thinking logically by no means proves that he cannot think logically.

We face now an era where we're going to be fighting the terrorist threat. I mean, that's simply a reality we are going to have to address that one.

I don't see lethality as the problem. I mean, the lethality of US forces is quite remarkable.

The ends justify the means mindset has been the impetus behind many a cruel medical or social experiment.

Connectivity doesn't just mean you get a lot more chances to deliver messages about customer service and pricing plans. This isn't one-sided. It enables people to talk back.

Interference between universes at the quantum level means that information transfer takes place between them.

Being the leader means you have to make life or death decisions sometimes.

i play a mean harmonica

I mean, who cares about SpongeBob SquarePants? I'm sitting here with Wolverine! -random kid talking to Ari

My mom had a soft heart after all! Instead of being chained by both wrists, we were only chained by one ankle! I mean, if I’d been looking for proof that she really did love me, this was it, right?

Love means you can never be apart.

I stood there watching Phoebe arrange the pillows and the sheets. She isn't thinking that I... I mean, she doesn't think that she and I would... WHAT?

I blame Jeb for letting you be such a smart aleck.” I stared at her. “I blame you for altering my DNA! I mean, I have wings, lady! What were you thinking?

Why, the little Voice inside my head, of course. You mean you don't have one? I did.

Oil production should peak out around the world in the early 1990s...That means in five years' time we may have chewed up most of the possibility of further expansion of oil production.

This is [her] soul group.’ What do you mean?’ It’s a group of souls with whom she resonates closely.

It fascinates me to create beautiful paintings with the simplest means.

Wealth may be an excellent thing, for it means power, and it means leisure, it means liberty.

Traditionally, tours were a means of promoting a record. Today, the record promotes the tour.

But it's only after you've played it on the road 20 or 30 times that it becomes really finished and polished...and you realize what it means, and you get the phrasing right.

There's a lot more information at hand and sometimes there's information overload and we become desensitized to it, so things start to mean less.

I think the first important thing is that usually most textbooks are not written by their authors. And so by author I mean the people who did not write them; so it's a new definition of "author."

Studying writing to me means reading and also rewriting obsessively. That's the best way to learn.

It's hard to define somebody by one movie. I mean, unfortunately, my entire life was basically made by Billy Elliot. It was kind of created by that one catalytic moment.

I think the free-enterprise system has been great for society. That doesn't mean it's completely perfect. And also, when people say capitalism, I'm not really sure what they mean.

I know the President [Barack Obama]. I like him and respect him. That does not mean I agree with all of our government's policies, whether they come from Democrats or Republicans.

Just because we're stupid doesn't mean everybody else was.

I am a comedian and you guys know whatever I say, I don't mean any of it.

My kids are not interested in anything I do. And I mean that not in any dis to my children or dis to me. My kids have their own life, they could give a sh*t what I do.

I am encouraged that there's going to be much better dialogue between the federal government and the state of Arizona. I mean, I hope that's not wishful thinking.

Thanks. For everything. I mean it.’ A slow grin edged onto his face. ‘You’re worth it…Princess.’ Her tennis show hit the door a second after it closed.

That's what perfect means. You're finished.

And we mean to treat you all,' added Lydia, 'but you must lend us the money, for we have just spent ours at the shop out there.

Not very good, I am afraid. But now really, do not you think Udolpho the nicest book in the world?" "The nicest—by which I suppose you mean the neatest. That must depend upon the binding.

What one means one day, you know, one may not mean the next. Circumstances change, opinions alter.

I love it when actors come to you with a problem and you have to listen. You'd like them to just get on with it, but it often means that there's a problem with the script.