Mean Quotes

Our walking is not a means to an end. We walk for the sake of walking.

True independence means being free from the domination of your own internal automatic behaviors, not doing what you feel like when the urge strikes.

To compare books to computers, I mean, computers are the way to get books. That is the medium for distributing text because it doesn't require paper.

It's probably not going to lead to anything. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't try. If everyone who thought they might fail didn't even try, where would we be today?

Gossip is one thing, hurtful gossip is completely another, and even in high school we weren't THAT mean.

I mean I certainly like when I'm like talking to people I'm like what did you think, what did you think, what did you think? You know that's always in the back of my head.

I feel very much a part of what I'm writing about, and I'm writing about things that concern me on a daily basis. I'm not really interested in writing musical diaries, if you know what I mean.

At the end, we're kind of observers - creative people, I mean. I feel like an observer, and I'm pretty much able to step out of things and see how things are playing out.

She thought I was...soulful, by which I think she means that I don't say much and I always look vaguely pissed off.

Cruel to be kind means that I love you.

That means I gotta fly like a movie no commercial That's Young Money, Cash Money yeah I'm universal

I mean you're so shy & I'm lovin your tie You're like slicker than the guy with the thing on his eye

I mean *sigh* Sickening eyes I can tell that you're in touch with your feminine side

Just because you're a man doesn't mean that you can't raise your kid. I think that families should stay together, but if you are a single father, don't give up no matter what they say.

I think what we're talking about is a sense of fashion as laboratory work. I mean, we are not scientific, of course, but we are looking for ideas all the time.

I wasn't born thin. I train. But I would never starve myself. I mean, what is happening with women these days? I just couldn't see myself looking that thin. I like a bit of waist and leg.

If you're actually talking to someone who's been through a disastrous number of years, that only means one thing: They survived it.

Inspirational leadership connects to a highly motivated workforce which, in turn, means inspirational results

Violence is the first means and the last resort to pacify a people, and thus is something we need to continue to consider after the gunfire has ended.

I think what you can see is this is a president of action. I mean Donald Trump is not one that's going to sit there and talk for too long. If he thinks someone is wrong, he's going to deal with it.

Just because I use the photographic medium, that doesn't mean I'm a photographer.

Its just kind of known in the music industry that a farewell tour means for now.

There exists a kind of laughter which is worthy to be ranked with the higher lyric emotions and is infinitely different from the twitching of a mean merrymaker.

I find human behavior really interesting. I think that's ultimately what being an actor is. You explore what it means to be human.

I think matching up Vietnam vets with these Iraqi vets would be a really great thing. When soldiers say only other soldiers can understand, that's what they're talking about: what it means to kill.

I mean, I love to try and cook. I'm pretty good, but I'm not saying I'm great.

Life and existence have no value in themselves. We mean nothing; not even those who are needed mean anything. The only thing of real value is what we produce.

For a long time I found myself calling so many things "genius." Sometimes you mean it literally and sometimes it's the opposite, but either way it is so heavy and has so much meaning.

Creative expression is not just a means of getting attention, although some have approached art that way. Think of art as a way of connecting, of sharing your insights with others.

I like to have memories of a place. It brings something extra. I'm not even sure what it is. I mean, it's the same part of it as I like using friends in small parts or people I know or my doorman.

I mean, there are things in the book you could never do in a movie.

It's a little weird exchanging pictures for money. You know what I mean. It makes me a little uncomfortable.

Some roads you shouldn't go down. Because maps used to say there were dragons here. Now they don't. But that don't mean the dragons aren't there.

Let us reject the spirit of making proselytes to particular creeds by any other means than persuasion.

Citizenship means every four years you put a mark somewhere and you go home and let other guys run the world. It's a very destructive ideology.

What the public wants is called 'politically unrealistic.' Translated into English, that means power and privilege are opposed to it.

It's true that many say that [they] object to the idea of "human nature," but it's not clear what that is supposed to mean. Are we different from ants?

Take something you really don't think about: Plastics in the ocean. I mean plastics in the ocean have an enormous ecological effect.

What's called "liberal" in the intelectual culture means highly conformist to power, but mildly critical.

I really suggest listening to talk radio. I mean, if you just listen to what the talk hosts are saying, they sound like they are lunatics.

You also have to get beyond that to dismantle the system of production for profit rather than production for use. That means dismantling at least large parts of market systems.

The UN can go as far as the U.S. will allow, and no further. And it's bound by conditions that the powerful states, which means mostly the U.S., impose.

I don't know what it means to say that 'the internet should have a voice in Washington'.

I mean the reason the sit-down strikes struck such fear in the hearts of management was that they knew that a sit-down strike was just one step short of taking over the factory.

Just because you sell lots of records it doesn't mean to say you're any good. Look at Phil Collins.

Getting older means you don't have to shave your legs anymore.

Plastic surgery is one of the ways that people deal with the aging process. And I don't mean by using it as a form of denial, but as a kind of negotiation with it.

When you find nothing... it means you're eliminating what surrounds the something.

So does that mean you're going to fall in love with me again? What makes you think i ever stopped?

Songs are kind of alive, I think; once you finish writing them, that doesn't mean that that's it for the song. It can have its own little life, I think.