Mean Quotes

Negative feelings mean you're going the wrong way

Some days success just means not giving up.

A perfect record does not mean that someone is the greatest. Rocky Marciano never lost a fight, but I never hear anyone say he's the greatest heavyweight champion of all time.

If it's time for your character to go, it's time for your character to go - you know what I mean? That's it. It doesn't matter who you are.

I don't have a great respect for reality or getting the 'facts' as a means of putting together a story.

We're always sick and we just don't know it. What we mean by health is only when our constant physical deterioration is undetectable.

Just because you're a good caddie doesn't mean to say that you're the one that can put a player over the top. A good caddie doesn't necessarily help you've got to gel.

I mean the only thing us dead soldiers got in common is that none of us was good enough or lucky enough to survive the fight. We're a host of failures.

The fact I've played well means that on a personal level I have enjoyed the season.

That win means so much. They got back into the game but I think we showed today that we want to go to the wire. We want to go all the way.

With FX in particular, they've been fantastic and were really hands off. I mean, it helps that you've got Ridley Scott on your side.

Witty and mean is easy - but fond and funny is hard.

You can be as beautiful and charming as you'd like, but if you're not terrific at acting, it will mean nothing on the screen.

Writing for adults often means just increasing the swearing - but find an alternative to swearing and you've probably got a better line.

The word 'indie' is meaningless now. It's so over-used that people think it simply means green hair.

[Sigmund Freud] just made people feel so neurotic about their lives. I mean, if you dreamt about a lampshade, it meant you wanted to be whipped by the local vicar or something.

Please Mr. Trump: Say what you mean. Mean what you say.

A quick comeback is usually meant as license to be mean.

Anything that draws attention to ourselves through pain-free or artificial means is a manifestation of Resistance.

I can make a movie about Lee Harvey Oswald and make you feel what he feels and make you understand why he believes what he believes. That doesn't mean I think you should go out and shoot JFK.

I can't describe it, what I'm feeling and what I'm thinking. This means something. This is important.

As Nature is always careless and indifferent Who sees, who steps, means nothing and this is pretty.

A nation has honor precisely as it has fleas - on this or that body. The statesman who talks of honor - unless he means something else, quite different - is a rogue.

I am taking my production style more into the world of dub. I mean true dub production techniques but in house music.

I thought if I could understand why apes get mean and horrible and aggressive when they grow up, maybe I could understand why people get mean and horrible and aggressive and have wars.

We don't live in an ancient era. Today, collaboration doesn't mean two singers standing next to each other at the mic to sing together.

Disfranchisement means inability to make, shape, or control one's own circumstances... . That is exactly the position of women in the world of work today; they cannot choose.

I write to figure out what I am thinking: What does my life mean?

Commitment doesn't mean that it has to last forever, but while you are there, commit yourself 100%. By doing this, the quality of your life improves 100%.

What do you mean she left me the embryos? I'm supposed to get the cat.

Why, I wonder, should the popularity of a news story matter to me? Does it mean it's a good story or just a seductive one?

Writing about unknown people means I spend a lot of time arguing to the reader about why it's worth knowing about them. That's challenging, but then the piece is pure discovery.

Animals can seem more pure. Without complication, I mean, animals are selfless. What animals do for us, they do out of instinct.

The fact that dogs are not people means you don't have as much response to the particulars.

I've taken my knocks here and there, but I believe my intentions are good. Doesn't mean everything I do is perfectly executed or I don't make mistakes. Of course I do.

Transparence is the highest, most liberating value in art - and in criticism - today. Transparence means experiencing the luminousness of the thing in itself, of things being what they are.

Norman Mailer in his writings is ultimately more concerned with success than with danger; danger is only a means to success.

There is a terrible, mean American resentment toward a writer who tries to do many things.

The business of living - that's your artwork, and the process of that is finding out who you are, what it all means.

I mean, everybody's star fades in every business; that's just a natural part of life.

Sometimes discipline, which means "to teach," is confused with criticism.

I mean, maybe under the surface, somewhere that's hard to see, I've known it had to end for a long time. I just never thought I'd be the one to end it.

Maybe but... if being impulsive means ruining other people's lives, then maybe I should just stay the same.

Following your heart means allowing the possibility of finding true love to be stronger than the fear of rejection.

How can someone who means so much to a person mean nothing the next day?

You mean to say he became mad deliberately?' ...Nothing is more likely,' said the duke.

Being crasy doesn't mean to be broken...It is you and me amplified", Girl, Interrupted

Insanity comes in two basic varieties: slow and fast. I'm not talking about onset or duration. I mean the quality of the insanity, the day-to-day business of being nuts.

I was brought up in Scotland and have always been a country person, although the town means a great deal to me, too.

I'm actually excited about being in my 40s. I mean, that's ironic considering the show I'm on, but I have never felt like I need to feel or look the same as when I was 20.