Mean Quotes

Songs are about whatever you want them to be about. For me it might mean something completely different than what it means to you. So I'd say it's about whatever the listener thinks it's about.

I hate sitting around a table and talking about what a play might mean. I'm the person who's always like, 'Can we get up on our feet and just do it?

What a man really says when he says that someone else can be persuaded by force, is that he himself is incapable of more rational means of communication.

Unobstructed access to facts can produce unlimited good only if it is matched by the desire and ability to find out what they mean and where they lead.

However, the word madda in modern Hebrew specifically means science.

Natural selection is almost always handled in general temps . . This means that it has no explanatory power when specific problems arise.

I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry.

The fact that we've been a great democracy doesn't mean we will automatically keep being one if we keep waving the flag.

For what does it mean to be a hero? It requires you to be prepared to deal with forces larger than yourself.

A writers desire to write can only have come from previous experience of literature, and he'll start by imitating whatever he's read, which usually means what the people around him are writing.

The bedrock of doubt is the total nothingness of death. Death is a leveler, not because everybody dies, but because nobody understands what death means.

Just because you have a choice, it doesn't mean that any of them 'has' to be right.

Faith offers the promise that everything will ultimately be renewed in God. This hardly means that we will, or must, receive an answer from God for every question in our lives.

I got married, going to become father soon, being No. 1 in the sport that I love with all my heart. I mean, it's pretty awesome.

Obsession is a negative word, I do not think that obsession can bring positive things. Not only in tennis but, I mean in any situation of life.

How do we see physically? No differently that we do in our consciousness - by means of the productive power of imagination. Consciousness is the eye and ear, the sense for inner and outer meaning.

I don’t like the way he looks at you.” My stomach lurched. “What do you mean? How does he look at me?” “Like you’re not a student and he’s not a teacher.

Time to grow up. Time to stop bawling. Time to do SOMETHING. And that means, if I'm not sleeping, my nerd-herd isn't sleeping either-sun or no sun.

Lampoon was a very collegial operation, though "collegial" usually means "friendly" and it wasn't that friendly. But we were tight, like a family.

As a result of that, and as a result of friendship, I don't think we've ever been competitive. I mean, there's probably a very good reason Hunter [S. Thompson] isn't jealous of me.

Whenever people tell you they are going to wipe the slate clean, it's your slate they mean to wipe.

I wonder if it changes the nature of a society for beauty to be so common. Maybe in Vietnam "She has a wonderful personality" really means something. But I couldnt figure out a polite way to ask.

That doesn't mean that you should just sit back and just let accidents happen to you. No, you have to go out and cause them yourself. That way you're in control of the situation.

There was an austerely dignified award ceremony. By that I mean we had to buy our own drinks - in clear violation of the international journalists'code of truth, fairness and an open bar.

I never liked to work, I mean manual work.

I think every film is somehow a political film. You show a perspective and a world that has logic, and that logic is inserted into a political environment, and it means something. Yes, why not?

Whatever I write in email, it doesn't mean anything. It is just words I write.

Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.

I strongly urge you to consciously consider what success means to you. Instead of allowing others or society to determine when you win, you determine it.

The evolutionists worship atheism. I mean, that's their religion.

I mean, if a person acts irresponsibly in his own life, he will pay the consequences. And it's not so much divine retribution as it's built into the law of nature.

There's no question that jihad historically means war.

I mean, George Bush is a man of prayer. He talks to the lord. He tries to get his direction from the lord.

This vacation tip: If you see a gas station with a sign that says Clean Rest Rooms, it means one thing--the door is locked and no one can find the key.

I'm not one to dwell on rehearsal or preparation. I like to just go out and do it. Of course, that doesn't mean actors are free to do whatever they like, they're always being directed.

What stirs my passion is making cinema, and that means doing different things, making different types of films.

When I die of heart failure the next time you frighten me like that, you can put that on my gravestone —‘I didn’t mean to startle her

I like to have a hero a little underpowered. I mean, Spiderman is far cooler than Superman. How do you challenge Superman?

Analyzing a concept can (perhaps) tell you what the concept means (at least means to some philosophers), but it does not tell you anything about whether the concept is true of anything in the world.

It's always a thrilling risk to say exactly what you mean, to express exactly what you see.

Fifty per cent of the public doesn't know what 'fifty per cent' means.

The studio does a lot of testing before we settle on a system. Unfortunately, this means that price tends to come pretty far down the list.

when married people begin to talk about their rights, it means something has gone pretty far wrong between them.

I'm an inherently happy person. It comes from the inside, which means you can achieve happiness under any circumstance.

I mean when the play was on in New York I was starting to get film offers coming through, and since the film's come out I get offered more than I used to, but it happens incrementally.

And changing for the better doesn't mean that he's ever going to reach good.

All stories are true," Skarpi said. "But this one really happened, if that's what you mean.

So, deadpan I think just means not acknowledging for one second that you think that this is funny and clever.

Up until the age of 30 I could eat whatever I wanted - I mean, literally, I never put on a pound; if anything, I was criticised in the media for being too skinny.

I never want to be that guy spouting off my political views. I mean, they're pretty well known, and it certainly comes out.