Mean Quotes

No one sits in front of a drum set and thinks they invented it all out of whole cloth. The fact that the set is there means that you've got some dues to pay to Baby Dodds.

I say I'm not a singer, so that means I can't sing. But - doesn't it?

I mean, I think everybody should probably approach a film that it's another unwanted thing. That's going to be seared onto my brain for the rest of my life. Thank you for that.

I started pulling gags on Al [Pachino]. That was the moment I realized that he was absolutely out of his mind. I mean that he's certifiably insane. I wouldn't spend a night in a room where he's at.

The word "conviction" means to expose.

The word "influence" means the power to change or affect someone.

They'll invite you to all the parties, but that doesn't mean you have to go all the time.

Nothing shocks me anymore. I've embraced men in thongs, I've embraced women with padded bras. I mean, I can embrace Larry King saying 'fierce.'

It's complicated.' 'So's quantitative easing. But I still get that it means printing money.

I think that, just like the art scene and the music scene is exploding in LA - I mean, let's face it: if you want to be an artist you cannot live in New York anymore because it is too expensive…

It's not hard to get a girl if I wanted one. But it doesn't mean you want it, and even if you did, you're certainly not going to rub it in anybody's face.

Switchfoot is a surfing term… To switch your feet means to take a new stance facing the opposite direction. It's about change and movement, a different way of approaching life and music.

Enthusiasm comes from the Greek word entheos, which means, "inspired" or "filled with the divine."

I'm not going chic, I swear. The geek endures. But, I mean, a snazzy cool suit looks good.

I don't think I compete with myself by trying to make a better book. I don't know that that's possible. I mean, I've already done my best books, so I'd like to just make something I also like now.

Customer service. That is what it means.

To drop into being means to recognize your interconnectedness with all life, and with being itself. Your very nature is being part of larger and larger spheres of wholeness.

Free form jazz means absolutely nothing to me. Because there are no boundaries.

I mean that much more than wiser beings from beyond the stars bringing us enlightenment or death or salvation, we are likely to find ourselves the wisest beings on the scene.

President Bush announced we're going to Mars, which means he's given up on Earth.

I mean, I'm not hoping for the apes and the monolith. I'm hoping for controlled chaos to assist us.

The important thing is, that I guess I don't spend any time thinking about what I am or what we do means. I spend my time doing it.

I think morality is so individual and personal, and people draw their own lines of what that means for them.

Place means nothing to me. I can be at home anywhere.

Republicans fighting back against changes Obama made means those changes are important, as with most of the major progress in American history.

When I was younger, the main struggle was to be a 'good writer.' Now I more or less take my writing abilities for granted, although this doesn't mean I always write well.

To do something innovative means that you reject reason.

As long as American democracy remains healthy, there will be reporters willing to pursue the truth, even if that means incurring the wrath of the most powerful person in the world.

Just because others have it worse doesn’t mean you have to suffer in silence.

You don’t have the slightest idea of what it means to write a scene and a character in the English language, with images and words chock full of received meaning.

I would by no means call myself an expert or say that I'm extremely into superhero movies, but I've pretty much seen every Avengers movie and Iron Man, so I'd say a good amount.

I'm a very, very unreckless person. I mean, I look left, I look right, I look left, I look right, then I repeat the process and then I decide not to cross the road at the last minute.

I am doing something I hate for you. This is what it means to be in love.

Just because you're an atheist, that doesn't mean you wouldn't love for things to have reasons for why they are.

The first springs of great events, like those of great rivers, are often mean and little.

You have to defend your character. That's your job, if they're hiring you. That doesn't mean you can't collaborate, but you do have to make some big, bold choices. We do that in real life, too.

...living more sustainably means living happier, more balanced and potentially more fulfilled lives than most of us 'choose' to live today, whatever Jeremy Clarkson may have to say about that!

You know, Neil Young is singing Rock n' roll will never die, and Neil never rocked and rolled in his life. I mean, he rocked, but he didn't roll. He has got no swing in him.

Computers creating art is an upsetting concept mostly because of what it means about humans.

A broken immigration system means broken families means broken lives. That's what is at stake.

No amount of success - whatever that means, quote-unquote success - no amount of success replaces the reality of being separated from my family for this long.

I am me, whatever that means. I am conscious.

Thinking is the desire to gain reality by means of ideas.

That which is the foundation of all our hopes and of all our fears; all our hopes and fears which are of any consideration; I mean a Future Life.

The principle we call self-love never seeks anything external for the sake of the thing, but only as a means of happiness or good: particular affections rest in the external things themselves.

But it's a strange thing when people judge you because you're not doing some big Hollywood film. Are you suggesting I should be in The Dukes of Hazzard? I mean, hello?

To converse at the distance of the Indes by means of sympathetic contrivances may be as natural to future times as to us is a literary correspondence.

It is not a matter of ends justifying means: but of the creation of new means and new ends.

And thus we see that by small means the Lord can bring about great things" - 1 Nephi 16:29

I write a thousand words a day. Nothing will stop me, I mean nothing, until the book is finished. I'm disciplined in spite of myself.