Mean Quotes

Whether you fall means nothing at all It's whether you GET UP It's whether you GET UP!

Life smacks Tracy Morgan in the face, and I don't mean to talk in third party, but no, it doesn't stop raining when I come outside, no, absolutely not. I'm very in touch.

My family absolutely comes first, and I don't mean that in a Pollyanna way. It's the focus of my life because it's what makes me happy.

I pride myself on being consistent. So, yes, it definitely means something, even though I don't set goals.

When someone goes, 'Oh, this group is really pissed off at what you said,' there's not a piece of my body that goes, 'Sweet!' That means I did it wrong. I'm just trying to make people laugh.

Chemistry is a hard thing. I don't think you can force it, and it doesn't necessarily mean that you have to have great chemistry outside of work. It's just something that sparks on screen or doesn't.

My husband says I like animals more than I like people. I take that as the compliment he means it as.

The only obligation any artist can have is to himself. His work means nothing, otherwise. It has no meaning.

Christianity isn't dead. It still has the capacity to scare people. It still gives people the creeps, which means there is still some power behind the religion, as sort of watered down as it can be.

Frankly, I'd rather make a little bit less money if it means living in a better world for books and publishing in the future.

Yellow M&M's don't move with green M&M's. I mean, you don't put M&M's peanuts with M&M's plain.

I don't mean this, but I'm going to say it anyway. I don't really think of pop art and serious art as being that far apart.

By means of the sign, man frees himself from the here and now for abstraction.

It takes a little time, but the pleasures of cooking begin before the pleasures of the palate, and preparing means anticipating.

Listening doesn't mean trying to understand. Anything, however trifling, may be of use one day. What matters is to know something that others don't know you know.

but I had also learned that freedom of speech means freedom from rhetoric.

Well, life is dark, isn't it? Mostly, it's dreadful. At the same time, death is funny too. I mean, look at the fuss we make of it.

A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it... By using words well they strengthen their souls.

Progress means nothing to presence.

Just because we have success in the moment, it doesn't mean anything.

I never hated my father. I would have named my child Usher regardless. I never hated myself because I carried his name, because I made it mean what I wanted it to mean.

No one will be forced to take the public option. The word option means choice.

Even the sad roots songs have a lot of good stories to them, and the murder ballads are good too. I mean, who doesn't like to watch a nice gory murder film on TV?

"Big" government? Who wants that? I just want effective government. That means America's government needs to be big in some places, small in others and non-existent in others.

There aren't any labels - all jazz means is improvization and you can never play a tune the same way twice. So jazz spills over into everything.

[Being alcoholic] you're either too high or you're too low. I mean, I was always looking for the bell to ring. I was always waiting for that bell.

I don't like to condemn people because what that means is that you're only condemning yourself about a part of you that you can't stand.

If you never hear from me that just means I would rather not.

Humility is not thinking meanly of oneself, but rather it means not thinking of oneself at all.

Unfortunately, in our society, power means the ability to dominate and oppress.

The naysayers, they don't mean a thing.

The depth of exploration of the male psyche and the female psyche is uneven. I see further, deeper renderings of what it means to be a man.

You earn very little money on independent films and I'm the provider for my home, so I do have to think of taking one for the accountant time and again and that means studio pictures.

People are imperfect, but that doesn’t mean they spoil like milk.

Being honest doesn't mean you say whatever you want, wherever you want. It means that what you choose to say is true.

Relax Beatrice, I've driven a car before.' MARCUS 'I've done a lot of things before, but that doesn't mean I'm any good at them!' TRIS

We can't be confined to one way of thinking, and that terrifies our leaders. It means we can't be controlled. And it means that no matter what they do, we will always cause trouble for them.

People talk about the pain of grief, but I don't know what they mean. To me, grief is a devastating numbness, every sensation dulled.

I have your back. I didn't mean only when it's easy. All the time.

I am afraid of her, afraid of what she says-and thrilled by it too, because it means I don't have to accept that I am smaller than I once believed.

I'm surprised you know that," I say quietly, " since you left halfway through my one and only fight." "It wasn't something I wanted to watch." he says. What's that supposed to mean?

I slowly realized that perfectionism just not that important. What's more important is to try to love the people around you. Whatever that means at a particular time is the best you can do.

Just because someone tried to make you into a victim didn’t mean that’s what you had to be.

I mean, if someone asked for my birth certificate, I'd get my baby book and hand it out and say 'Here it is.'

Just because quantum mechanics is weird does not mean that everything that is weird is quantum mechanics.

Our lives are short and everything sort of regresses to the mean.

I have no idea what 'method actor' means.

To interact means being among others, and taking others into account in a way, to act.

I look at a picture like Scarecrow and think, 'Jesus, how could they have let us make that?' I mean, if you used technology that old nowadays, it would look like old Hollywood.

Illness and fatigue can be career ending. It mean the fans are sick and tired of you.