Mean Quotes

If you're a white kid growing up and you see a Black player and he's got the name of your college or your town across his chest, that means something.

We were asked to believe that the variety and the novelty of even the crude films of the early days would provide a means of entertainment which would cut out the stage.

Honestly, I have a tendency to date dorks. Which means that a lot of times, I date guys that no one else would deem to be a hunk.

When the Jews speak of humanity, they mean only the totality of Jews.

I support copyright. I mean it is intellectual property, it is the thought process of someone and those things should always be protected.

So many people are called but few serve as actors, you know what I mean?

I tell you this to break your heart, by which I mean only that it break open and never close again to the rest of the world.

What people often mean by getting rid of conflict is getting rid of diversity, and it is of the utmost importance that these should not be considered the same.

I dont know about Brad Pitt leaving that beautiful woman to go hold orphans for Angelina. I mean how long is that going to last?

The means for maintaining perfect love is to accomplish frequent acts of love. Fire is kindled by the wood we cast into it and love is enkindled by acts of love.

Sometimes being an artist means knowing when to let someone see something in you that is there that you can't hear or see.

The CIA will only hire people with impeccable credentials to be a translator. 'Impeccable credentials' means you've never lived outside the United States.

I mean it's the most objective industry in the world. If your numbers stink, you're out. If your numbers are good, you get more money. It's the most Darwinian, it's beautiful, it's brutal, it works.

The West for me means ambition, the East contentment. My heart is ever in one, my soul in the other.

Always treat people as ends in themselves, never as means to an end.

Just because people tell you it can't be done, that doesn't necessarily mean that it can't be done. It just means that they can't do it.

Music means different things to different people and sometimes even different things to the same person at different moments of his life.

I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size.

Just because we can't find a solution it doesn't mean that there isn't one.

I was put under contract. A major studio. I got nominated for an Academy Award. Isn't that ridiculous? I mean, at the age of 18!

I don't like the idea of something being pure. It means we have to be perfect, I don't want to be perfect.

As a Polynesian, our gods are tied to water, so this means something special.

I mean it’s never a problem making out with Nina Dobrev, I mean that’s always really cool!

I think a photograph, of whatever it might be - a landscape, a person - requires personal involvement. That means knowing your subject, not just snapping at whats in front of you.

If you remain unsettled by a piece of writing, it means you are not watching the story from the outside; you've already taken a step toward it.

By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself: see what thy soul doth wear.

In theory, I work an eight-hour day and a five-day week which means I can socialise with my pals who mostly have normal jobs like teaching and computer programming.

Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.

The problem posed by indirect speech acts is the problem of how it is possible for the speaker to say one thing and mean that but also to mean something else.

People need to know more than what a piece of information means. They also need to know how the information matters.

Everything that's born has to die, which means our lives are like skyscrapers. The smoke rises at different speeds, but they're all on fire, and we're all trapped.

It does mean, if this is the idea, the end of Britain as an independent European state...it means the end of a thousand years of history.

What is my identity ?" "Nothing," said the Master. "You mean that I am an emptiness and a void?" said the incredulous disciple. "Nothing that can be labeled." said the Master.

The thing is, emotion - if it's visibly felt by the writer - will go through all the processes it takes to publish a story and still hit the reader right in the gut. But you have to really mean it.

The trees like lungs filling with air. My sister, the mean one, pulling my hair.

But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.

You have to give everybody another recourse as some means other than violence, no matter how distasteful it may be to have to deal with them and what they represent.

To make a face from marble means to remove from the slab everything that is not the face

Paint your picture by means of the lights. Lights define texture and color - shadows define form.

Politics is not perfect but it's the best available nonviolent means of changing how we live.

We should aim rather at leveling down our desires than leveling up our means.

Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.

I was raised to believe in myself. I know I'm cool. I'm not trying to brag or say I'm the man or anything like that. I don't lie or cheat, and I'm not mean to anybody. I treat people with respect.

Always have one possibility in mind and that is to go to the top, to be the best. Everything else should just be a means to that end.

I never have been sick. I don't even know what it means to be sick. I hear other players say they have a cold. I just don't know what it would feel like to have a cold - I never had one.

Popular congresses are the only means to achieve popular democracy. Any system of government other than popular congresses is undemocratic.

Freedom is coming to mean little more than the right to ask permission.

Humility doesn't mean hiding in the corner and pretending you are not strong. Humility means to be what you are.

For me, 'revolution' simply means radical change.

I don't mean to romanticise the struggle, that leads to all kinds of terrible violence and absurdities that are even worse than the perverse immediate gratification.