Mean Quotes

Does he have a nickname?' Diana went on remorselessly. 'I mean, 'gaiphage' is so long. Can we call him phage? Or maybe just 'G'?

Permanent weight loss means making small, manageable changes and sticking with them for life.

I never really got into any records purely thinking of them as a breakup record. I mean, honestly, for me, listening to a breakup record whilst dealing with one seems counterproductive!

I think every director's different. Every director's got his own style. I mean, when I directed, I basically just screamed for eight hours a day, twelve hours a day.

If you are going truly viral, you don't need press. I mean, MySpace grew for a very long time without any press.

The fight for sanity in our gun safety laws is not by any means over. In many ways it's just beginning.

I had a new idea on the way to this meeting this morning, but that doesn't mean we should put it in the platform.

Where there's a will, there's a way. Hackers tend to find a way. Code is also expanding. More lines of code means more probability that there is an exploit that can be [used].

When anyone says they often think something, it means they've just thought of it now.

Ever since going up to university, I have accumulated new debt, and new means of becoming indebted.

Adopting means opening your home, and heart, to a life you've never known. But there is nothing as richly rewarding as being an adoptive parent.

Children in dysfunctional homes at risk of abuse are kept in danger for too long because politically correct rules mean we won't challenge unfit parents.

It doesn't mean anything when we go back to Sydney and its round one and we're starting from scratch in the NRL. That's the one we really want.

For me, appropriate policy means that we continue to reduce accommodation and return to a neutral federal funds rate

I just write what I want to read, and sometimes keeping it interesting means adding one more element that ends up adding another year to the work.

I write because the act of writing itself is what drives me. It's a private communication within myself - nothing more or less. This doesn't mean I do not want to share with people.

You're having government spending on the economy being cut almost everywhere. That means that the only source of spending for growth has to come from borrowing from the banking system.

If I revise a children's book, if I'm spending three hours on the first draft, I'm probably spending 30 minutes revising it. I mean, come on! But to redo a painting? That's hard work.

The illustrators work so much harder on the books than the writers do. I mean, that's so much work doing what they do, and it's terrible for them.

I mean, I've been in a hundred and fifty films; I don't want to just sit around and talk about things.

Failure to make the tough but necessary choices means slow painful death.

Yes and no are very powerful words. Mean them when you say them. Respect them when you hear them.

I'm looking for diversity, all my characters may or may not be on the wrong side of the tracks. It doesn't mean that they're all the same.

I mean you might have wanted Carrie Bradshaw, but to me she's like toddlers and tiaras gone berserk!

I dont mean to insult television, but a lot of the time, its pretty straightforward. If you say, I love you, you mean I love you. There isnt time for anything more.

I'm not against ambition and reach, but if you can say it in four lines, why waste your time saying it in more? Challenge the world by all means, but it's bad for your poetry to take steroids.

Everything means nothing that is the only truth.

I mean if politics was my main motivation I would be doing politics. But I'm a filmmaker.

But we were interested in how our lives could mean something to the past. We sailed into the past.

For great many species today, fitness means the ability to get along in a world in which humankind has become the most powerful evolutionary force.

Positive doesn't mean unflawed: It means human and vulnerable. If you make a film and you're portraying the subject with respect, you're gonna do it in an honest way.

For storytelling purposes, there has to be conflict, but that doesn't mean the people have to be mean. I've never liked mean-spirited comedy.

Ah. In my experience, when people say they don't know whether they love someone, they usually mean no.

With vampires, there is such a great tradition that you suddenly find yourself a part of. Each generation reinvents what that means to them.

What do you do when you get out of the military, you stop serving? There are 26 presidents who served in the military. More than half of our presidents... that means that you stop being an American?

I'm a moderate and a centrist. That means I get flak from both sides. The upside is that I can vote for either party whenever I feel like it without any sense of obligation or betrayal.

All opinions in the world agree in this, that pleasure is our end, although they differ as to the means of attaining it.

Man will rise, if God by exception lends him a hand; he will rise by abandoning and renouncing his own means, and letting himselfbe raised and uplifted by purely celestial means.

Nature clasps all her creatures in a universal embrace; there is not one of them which she has not plainly furnished with all means necessary to the conservation of its being.

When I say I loved it, I don't mean I loved being hit. I just mean...there was some good in there, too. I am not going to call it all bad.

When I pray, I pray believing that God will speak to me and give me an answer to that prayer. That's what a calling is. If I pray, a calling means that I feel like I have a sense from God.

Our nation needs to stop doing for people what they can and should do for themselves. Self reliance means, if anyone will not work, neither should he eat.

You do not use art as a means to an end, but as a way to inhabit and explore the present. Right and wrong fade away; you recover your sense of what is authentic in you.

favor de dejar un especimim em este copa para el doctor what? she told you to pee in a cup, i think that means get lost

I would want to make Radio Haiti as independent as possible, which means it can't be strictly commercial.

There does not have to be trade-off between growth and social protection. A democracy does not mean much if it doesn't respond to the needs and will of its people.

I think [Donald Trump's] incentives are not aligned with the Republican Party. I mean, they are part of the time, but they're not all of the time.

I mean [Donald Trump] ability to be so shameless, I think that it's impossible for most people to parse.

Art is so subjective--it means something different to every person. The important thing for it to do is to touch on the senses and emotions.

We learned about dignity and decency - that how hard you work matters more than how much you make... that helping others means more than just getting ahead yourself.