Mean Quotes

I've always been the guy who doesn't necessarily get it with women. A woman would have to say, 'I like you, I want to go out with you, you can ask me.' And still I would question it. Did she mean it?

From the classical guitar right through to the furthest electrical experiments and everything in-between, it's amazing what the guitar can actually do. I mean, when one thinks about sounds.

If we mean to support the liberty and independence which has cost us so much blood and treasure to establish, we must drive far away the demon of party spirit and local reproach.

I like living with myself. I mean obviously, because here I am interviewing myself.

To say that a person feels listened to means a lot more than just their ideas get heard. It's a sign of respect. It makes people feel valued.

It is more important to find out what you are giving to society than to ask what is the right means of livelihood.

War is by no means something glamorous, and I don't think that should ever be forgotten.

Showing a profit means touching something and leaving it better than you found it.

Just because you’ve had enough doesn’t mean you wanted too much.

Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.

Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.

Say what you mean and mean what you say.

Unjust criticism is usually disguised compliment. It often means that you have aroused jealously and envy. Remember that no one ever kicks a dead log.

The Beatles set the rules. And the rules were: now just because we have long hair doesn't mean that we're rebellious.

By all means rid yourself of an impoverished faith.

To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.

A special effect is a tool, a means of telling a story. A special effect without a story is a pretty boring thing.

I mean that what makes me a professional, but the market itself has been fabulous during this whole period and I've got to give the market credit before I give myself credit.

When I say manage emotions, I only mean the really distressing, incapacitating emotions. Feeling emotions is what makes life rich. You need your passions.

I like films to have something inside, I don't mean a message, I mean something from the soul.

Useful manual labour, intelligently performed, is the means par excellence for developing the intellect.

What's your specialty? Oh, you know. Madness. Mayhem. Debauchery. And even with all that going for me, I can still make a mean mojito.

People in the computer industry use the term 'user,' which to them means 'idiot.'

The word user is the word used by the computer professional when they mean idiot.

In Spain, attempting to obtain a chicken salad sandwich, you wind up with a dish whose name, when you look it up in your Spanish-English dictionary, turns out to mean: Eel with big abcess.

Everyone's got to be for a child to have a home and love. I mean I don't know anyone who would be against that.

I'm proud of everybody in our organization. Not every story has a happy ending. Doesn't mean it's a bad story.

Yours is... il sent comme lavande." Is that French for 'You stink'?" It means 'lavender'." Huh." She sniffed at her wrist. "I thought I smelled more like a grape Popsicle.

Just because we feel offended doesn't mean we must be offended. Feelings are indicators not dictators.

To be a witness means to live in such a way that one's life would not make sense if God did not exist.

If by saying that all men are born equal, you mean that they are equally born, it is true, but true in no other sense; birth, talent, labor, virtue, and providence, are forever making differences

But, I would always be thinking of how pictures are constructed and colour, how to use it, I mean you're using it for constructing, makes you think about it, the place did as well.

And when I say dominate, I just mean work harder than anyone else could possibly work at it.

Without freedom of expression, good taste means nothing.

If we save people from HIV/AIDS, if we save them from malaria, it means they can form the base of production for our economy.

Real love means loving kindness and compassion, the kind of love that does not have any conditions.

Respecting others' opinions doesn't mean being untrue to our own.

The happiness of one does not mean the unhappiness of the others.

Important decisions are risky. They should be controversial. Acclamation means that nobody has done the homework.

If you don't know what it is you want - and I mean specifically - then you won't even know when you have it.

That's what I mean by something grips in a canvas. The moment that happens you are then sucked into the whole thing. Like some kind of rhythm.

Activity does not necessarily mean life.

Tennis is like marrying for money. Love means nothing.

I don't need a fantasy life as once I did. That is the life of the imagination that I had a great need for. Films were the perfect means for satisfying that need.

I believe God knew what he was doing when he put oil under our ground. It should be a means to an end.

If you’re not accountable in life that means ultimately that your life doesn’t count.

Whatever be the means adopted, you must at last return to the Self, so why not abide as the Self here and now?

...I mean, you don't just love people, you must LOVE them with exclamation points.

To think and to live missionally means seeing all life as a way to be engaged with the mission of God in the world.

I think we are responsible for the universe, but that doesn't mean we decide anything.