Mean Quotes

If you want to deal with me, email is the way you do it. Working via email means that everything I do is searchable. I can go back and check out discussion threads from more than 15 years ago.

Poetry is ... the physical enactment of a process of knowing by means of language.

I mean, it really has a lot to do with who is actually physically doing a lot of talking. And we've just noticed that as we've evolved we're still making all the decisions from this, like, "cave."

The central premise of this book is that the Western psychological notion of what it means to have a self is flawed.

Courage doesn't mean we're not afraid. Courage means we refuse to be mastered by fear.

The following is a phrase we don't hear enough but that I sincerely mean (and our culture needs to hear more often): I love being married.

Writing music and lyrics that mean something personal to me. It's an exciting, intense, cathartic, this-is-who-I-am experience.

I listen to so many different kinds of music - I mean, I listen to everything. I listen to everything from Bon Jovi to Taylor Swift. It just goes everywhere.

I mean, it's unheard of for somebody to hit 70 home runs, so I'm like in awe of myself right now.

There's almost a universe as big as the Marvel Universe with X-Men. I mean, Deadpool is something I think everybody was taken surprise by, except for the people who read the comic book.

To listen also means to stay in relationship, the central challenge of our time, and this requires us to constantly minimize whatever stands between us and life.

When somebody says, "The last thing I want to do is hurt you," it means they've got other things to do first.

The Republicans, they are in the danger of rooting for the country to fail. They look bad that way, I mean, and I want to say to them, cheer up, Republicans. Eventually, things will get worse.

I saw money change votes.I mean, they just seem unaware of this, that money is something - if they want to see the appearance of corruption, all they had to do was look in Las Vegas last weekend.

The strength of Donald Trump as a candidate - and I'm not in any way defending moral convictions or anything of the sort - was that he says what he means, you know where he stands.

I don't hear any clear, coherent message [from Democrats]. I mean, when you're a party out of power, it's the time to be a national party chair.

Whether it's her [ Hillary Clinton] guarded privacy or whatever else, I mean, there has got to be some sense that this is a human being that I can identify.

Mitt Romney looks like a president. I mean, he really does.

Public interest criteria does not mean criteria that the public decides are in its interest. It means that the elite - via various appointed bodies - decide what the public's interest is for them.

I don't really think it will make much difference to me when I'm dead whether I'm read or not . . . just as whether I'm dead or not won't mean much to me when I'm dead.

Rowan Joffe is very specific. I mean, he wrote it as well and he has a very orderly writer's mind and the same applies to his directing.

I am not given to exaggeration, and when I say a thing I mean it.

What do you think of the human mind? I mean, in case you think there is a human mind.

Like most people, I often feel mean, and act accordingly.

To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in.

The very acceptance of the limited means of the human condition makes for endless creativity.

What is Friendship, Definition of Friend, True Friendship - All about the meaning of true friends, what friendship means, meaning of friendship bracelets, poems, ring

If I give dollars to some charity, nobody cares. I mean, it helps the charity, but nobody cares. But if the Dodgers do the same thing, they bring more focus to issues, and that makes it better.

The discussion in Washington has changed dramatically. I mean, it's no longer a question of should we address entitlements - it's no longer a question of do we need to reduce spending in the future.

Just because we are in wheelchairs doesn't mean we can't play a fast-paced, full-contact sport.

I mean, if cans can be recycled, why not spirits?

I mean that it is possible to be unselfish without a moral code, sophisticated without and education, and beautiful wearing a skeleton on the outside.

You like some things, you don't like others. It doesn't mean there's anything wrong with the others, it just means you have an opinion.

There are so many good guitarists out there, I am by no means a very good guitar player.

Self-empathy in NVC means checking in with your own feelings and needs.

Typography tended to alter language from a means of perception and exploration to a portable commodity.

Media are means of extending and enlarging our organic sense lives into our environment.

To forgive someone means to take away the power this person has over you.

the ends never justify the means because IT never ends.

If you have really good intelligence, that truly does put the - I mean putting troops on the ground in some way.

Gardens do offer a temporal tableau and certainly mean differently in different eras and indeed geographies (think of the formal gardens in France).

I'm always somehow drawn to that sense of how fragile things are and how a garden means so differently depending upon whose language you happen to be in or whose century you happen to be in.

The work that I do, I am grateful to do and honored and privileged to do, but I do it for my family and, if you don't have a family, then what does it mean?

All the things we value in society don't mean much in fiction.

High Concept means a book or a film whose core idea can be stated in a single sentence, such as Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito are twins. Or, Arnold is pregnant.

None is poor but the mean in mind, the timorous, the weak, and unbelieving; none is wealthy but the affluent in soul, who is satisfied and floweth over.

War is always a failure. It means we've failed in diplomacy and we've failed in talking to one another.

The essence of technology is by no means anything technological.

It seems to me that the most delightful walk of life is to be found in a household of moderate means, to live there with an obliging spouse and to be satisfied with little.

To have serpentlike qualities devoid of dovelike qualities is to be passionless, mean, and selfish.