Mean Quotes
People always have an opinion. Doesn't mean it's right, doesn't mean it's wrong, but we have to respect their opinion.
I don’t mean to make a big deal out of sobriety, by the way. Of all the modes of human consciousness available to the modern consumer I consider it to be the most overrated.
When I say something untrue on the air, I mean for it to be transparently untrue. I assume people know when I'm just saying something for effect. Or to be funny.
What most Americans mean when they say "the end of the recession" is, "When will it be back to normal? When can we get jobs? When will the employment rate be back to 4 percent or 5 percent?"
Integrity is about being integrated with the spiritual values of the Universe. It is also about being happy, because happiness and joy mean that you're coming into integrity with your soul.
And then the turbines generate electricity that goes into the whole town." "You mean they aren't powered by giant hamsters on wheels? I was misinformed.
Saying "yes" doesn't mean I don't know how to say no, and saying "please" doesn't mean I am waiting for permission.
To me, feminism means equality between men and women. I want to make people laugh and also point out some injustices or inequalities I see.
We've all been there, onstage. You say something you don't mean, you make fun of something on accident but... This wasn't that. This wasn't crowd work. This was a rehearsed set. This was pointed.
I'm trying to find things that are extremely challenging or mean something to me deeply.
Nobody cares much at heart about Titian, only there is a strange undercurrent of everlasting murmur about his name, which means the deep consent of all great men that he is greater than they.
Art is basically made by dissatisfied people who are willing to find some means to relieve the dissatisfaction.
To reach your goal authentically is probably, in the end, going to mean much more to you than having reached it in a false way.
Food is so personal - I mean someone is talking to you when people are cooking for you. I like to hear an identifiable voice.
The Government may not suppress lawful speech as the means to suppress unlawful speech.
I mean, a Mexican boy couldn't be anything else but an Indian. And why did you take the name of Quinn, they used to say to me. Hey, you're an Indian, so I played Indians.
What does tamed mean? It's something that's been too often neglected. It means to create ties.
Mysterious beings we seek from birth; what does that mean to me? Something we seek, and as we age it becomes more elusive, yet our spirit remains willing, but our flesh grows weak.
Comprehensibility is the highest law of all. Unity must be there. There must be means of ensuring it. All the things familiar to us from primitive life must also be used in works of art.
At the present time there exist problems beyond our ability to solve, not because of theoretical difficulties, but because of insufficient means of mechanical computation.
Morality and religion are but words to him who fishes in gutters for the means of sustaining life, and crouches behind barrels in the street for shelter from the cutting blasts of a winter night.
If one's reputation is a possession, then of all my possessions, my reputation means most to me.
I think the more we know the better we are. I mean not just facts. The more we know about each other, the closer we are to learn something about our selves.
The use of history as therapy means the corruption of history as history.
I like storytelling, and for storytelling you need a drama. And for there to be drama, you need twists, and by twists I mean the ability to constantly change the trajectory of the story.
Boys like it when you're mean. That's what I'm best at. I make them feel so bad about themselves, all out of fun.
When God looks at you, he doesn’t see you; he sees the One who surrounds you. That means that failure is not a concern for you. Your victory is secure.
I hardly need to abstract things, for each object is unreal enough already, so unreal that I can only make it real by means of painting.
Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property.
Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present.
What do drawings mean to me? I really don't know. The activity absorbs me. I forget everything else in a way that I don't think happens with any other activity.
Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence.
to rest one's case on faith means to concede that reason is on the side of one's enemies- that one has no rational arguments to offer.
I was poor but I knew that life is beautiful. And I had no other ambition than to discover with the help of new means those deep inner ties that linked me to the very soil.
The military weapon is but one of the means that serve the purposes of war: one out of the assortment which grand strategy can employ.
I advise women to invest in real estate. It is the collateral to be preferred above all others, and the safest means of investing money.
Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.
To teach means scarcely anything more than to show how things differ from one another in their different purposes, forms, and origins. ... Therefore, he who differentiates well teaches well.
It was play rather than work which enabled man to evolve his higher faculties - everything we mean by the word 'culture'.
Releasing the chains to the material means experiencing life within each cell, moment to moment, each moment renewed.