Mean Quotes

But by all means, keep moving.

To have peace in the world, men & nations must embrace the nonviolent assertion that ends and means must cohere.

We had no alternative except that of preparing for direct action, whereby we would present our very bodies as a means of laying our case before the conscience of the local and national community.

[nonviolence] seeks to secure moral ends through moral means.

If you're not living I mean really living, you're dead already.

My show business career doesn't mean I can't write a symphony. It just means I was never asked to write one.

We do not increase compassion by expanding it to cover anything. Instead, we kill a good word by making it mean too much, and nothing.

Women need not take up with mean things, since (if they are not wanting to themselves) they are capable of the best.

Men's minds must be free, and that means the minds of all, not the minds of a select few.

I'm a fan of films in general; I mean, I don't think I've ever considered myself specifically a horror fan even though I do enjoy horror films, find them really entertaining.

I mean every character you totally, you know, the full fiber of the personality is kept in the film, and all of those little moments, all those funny little tidbits are all in there.

As poets, we're writing into the void, and we're not writing to be bestsellers. Whatever individual responses we get, whether at a reading, by a conversation or a letter, mean the world.

I do have a really good memory. I mean, like, I can remember all the phone numbers of everybody on the street I grew up on.

If one means by style the voice, the irreducible and always recognizable and alive thing, then of course style is really everything.

I feel very privileged that I get to spend my life telling stories that mean something to people.

I've gotten to a point where I don't want lyrics to mean anything.

So many means of self-destruction, so little time.

I mean, we all know the dangers of starving, but bulimia? That can't be that bad. It's only bad when you get really thin. Who worries about bulimics? They're just gross.

To lead means to direct and to exact, and no man dares do either - he might be unpopular. What authority we are given now is a trinity: the grin, the generality, and God (the Word).

Know the difference between Giant and Jumbo? Between two-ounce and a big two-ounce? Between a quart and a full quart? What's a tall 24-inch? What does Extra Long mean? Who's kidding who?

Yeah, well, it's been a super fun week. And by 'super fun' I mean 'horrible and endless'.

Bands are more willing to take risks and we don't need this big label over us anymore telling us what it means to sell records and get into magazines.

I don't like bands who would play music like Code. I mean I hate most bands with emotional singing parts (I adore metal singing like Iron Maiden though!)

That's another interesting thing about music: It can mean anything.

I usually play characters that are a lot different than me. I mean, I'm never in a fight in a movie and if I'm in them, I'm usually losing.

The better the actor, the less you know about his life. I mean, nobody's better than De Niro and you don't know anything about him, right?

It's a pretty good job being an actor, but it's work sometimes. And when I say work, I mean it's a job.

I mean comedy is something that's very personal and people have strong opinions about.

Usage is like oxygen for ideas. That means every moment you're working on something without it being in the public it's actually dying, deprived of the oxygen of the real world.

Even that word depends on what you mean by pop. I mean, pop music has currency. It could just be about that girl who's in love with you.

If you pitch your movie to someone and they say, "Oh, please, don't make that. No one would see it." Do it! Because that means you may have something that's not the norm.

To me, polls are like approval ratings for presidents are like an offensive line, right. And if an offensive line is weak, that means the defense is empowered and emboldened.

I'll put it to you this way: I never, ever think about the things that I get involved with on a macro means-to-an-ends scale.

I mean, I must confess I don't own Harry Potter DVDs. My parents do. They have them all. And they like watching them.

I try to be fussy about the parts I play. I think that's quite prudent, it means you're stretching different muscles, and you're scaring yourself by doing something which is out of your comfort zone.

If we're going to ask our kids at age 18 to go off to war and die for their country, I don't see any problem with asking them at age 16 to think about what that might mean.

I do find it sometimes that people project their own feelings on to the characters and I think that there is a certain amount of sexism - I mean the proprietary nature, for men and women.

Somewhere back a whiskey or so ago I wrote that thinking was a real thing in the world, just like anything else. I mean that very literally, materially. And it's true about poems, too.

F.D.R. achieved greatness not by means of imposing his temperament and intellect on the world but by reacting to what the world threw at him.

Being an author means, almost by definition, that you make up characters and then complicate their lives. That's it, really. You make up characters and give them problem after problem after problem.

I mean, being a child was being a child, was being a creature without power, without pocket money, without escape routes of any kind. So I didn't want to be a child.

I remember how much - when I was a small boy I was taken to see a version of 'Peter Pan.' I detested it. I mean, the sentimental idea that anybody would want to remain a boy.

I hardly ever go to showbiz parties, it's not my style. That doesn't mean to say I don't have a good time. I love hanging out with mates.

When I'm in the car sometimes it's like, 'Yeah, man, just put on the pop music.' You know what I mean? I don't want to listen to Tom Waits.

A world technology means either a world government or world suicide.

Does the presence of pain mean the absence of God? I try to help people see that God uses pain, that pain is one of the ways God shapes us into the kind of beings He wants us to be for eternity.

I think we pray, we make a clear-headed decision, and then we quit being so mean to each other. We've got to stop that.

God uses every possible means to communicate with you.

The only way through pain…is to absorb, probe, understand exactly what it is and what it means. To close the door on pain is to miss the chance for growth.

Mostly, what I have learned so far about aging, despite the creakiness of one's bones and cragginess of one's once-silken skin, is this: Do it. By all means, do it.