Mean Quotes

I guess I still feel that I'm a comedian; if I had to pick one thing that I feel like I could do, it would be that. That doesn't mean that I like it, but I feel that's what I am.

Just because you BEAT Michael Jordan doesn't mean you BECOME Michael Jordan.

Just because there's tarnish on the copper, doesn't mean there's not a shine beneath.

I mean, the trouble with some of the kind of relationship movies I've done, is there's only so many ways you can shoot a conversation. I was really tired of talking heads.

Technology means you can now do amazing things easily; but you couldn't easily do them legally.

Lack of comfort means we are on the threshold of new insights.

When someone helps you, then that means one thing, all they expect in return is for you to show them what you're doing and for you to help someone else.

Yes, a Major would mean so much to me but I'm a great believer that if you work hard and in the right way, you will get what you deserve.

True leadership means to receive power from God and use it under God's rule to serve people in God's way.

I know what "custody" [of the children] means. "Get even." That's all custody means. Get even with your old lady.

Don't give in to all the cliques and popularity. It means nothing. I know super popular guys, and guess what? They're just normal people, too.

It doesn't necessarily mean at all that the composer plays his own works best.

Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain; it only means that he is hopelessly self-absorbed.

Where the sole employer is the state, [opposition] means death by slow starvation.

Mechanics is the paradise of the mathematical sciences because by means of it one comes to the fruits of mathematics.

I mean the interesting thing I think would be if something happened like, what happened in England where all these kids that all of a sudden can't afford the ticket prices.

I mean it's easier to be in a demonstration if it's a trip that's one of the reasons why the whole thing fell apart in 1971, because it wasn't a trip any longer.

Well, "slithy" means "lithe and slimy." "Lithe" is the same as "active." You see it's like a portmanteau - there are two meanings packed up into one word.

For most Americans, progress means accepting what is new because it is new, and discarding what is old because it is old.

It hurts the spirit, somehow, to read the word environments, when the plural means that there are so many alternatives there to be sorted through, as in a market, and voted on.

Lonely. I always thought loneliness meant alone, without people. It means something else.

But success and failure are not true opposites, and they're not even in the same class. I mean, they're not even a couch and a chair.

Wearing a bath towel around the school yard and pretending it's a cape doesn't mean you have magical powers.

Chronically homeless means constantly homeless; it means repeatedly homeless.

Bill Gates really seems to be much more of a business man than a technologist, while I prefer to think of Linux in technical terms rather than as a means to money.

I don't think commercialization is the answer to anything. It's just one more facet of Linux, and not the deciding one by any means.

I like Katy Perry. I mean, what is there not to like?! She's crazy, she's fun and she has some crazy pipes on her. She can sing.

I know what it means to be Jewish, and I don't think someone who wasn't Jewish would really understand.

Every 'no' means you are that much closer to a 'yes.

A sort of hostile transaction, very necessary to keep the world going, but by no means a sinecure to the parties concerned.

I always want to take everybody down! But I think you can do it with a smile on your face and be nice and talking to them. You don't have to be mean or rude.

That's what being eccentric means--being natural.

I can't do anything I want to. I mean, I can't have my own TV show. I can't have my own movie. But within my little world, nobody tells me what to put on the albums.

You will never know what the meaning of Jazz is if ask what it means.

Many people today don't want honest answers insofar as honest means unpleasant or disturbing, They want a soft answer that turneth away anxiety.

I warn you that when the princes of this world start loving you it means they are going to grind you up into battle sausage.

Winning doesn't mean my book is better than anyone else's. It means I'm very fortunate. And I should be very, very aware of that. And grateful.

I don't mean to complain. I wouldn't trade my life for anything.

I know not what you believe of God, but I believe He gave yearnings and longings to be filled, and that He did not mean all our time should be devoted to feeding and clothing the body

I was more of a dancing kid than a singing kid. I mean, I sang in school choirs and I sang in school musicals, but I was much more interested in dancing than singing.

President means chief servant

Independence means voluntary restraints and discipline, voluntary acceptance of the rule of law.

Violent means will give violent swaraj. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.

Independence of my conception means nothing less than the realization of the "Kingdom of God" within you and on this earth.

Our first impressions are generated by our experiences and our environment, which means that we can change our first impressions... by changing the experiences that comprise those impressions.

Does that mean we should give up? Probably. But there are two issues worth considering. The first is - is it really true that drugs destroy the integrity of the game?

What I'm passionate about is telling stories which mean something to me.

After all, what does fame everlasting mean? Mere vanity.

I know that producing will ultimately mean more longevity in the business, so when I'm tired of everything else and want to be behind the cameras, I know that I can produce.

I made observations for three hours last night, and am almost ill today from fatigue; still I have worked all day, trying to reduce the places, and mean to work hard again tonight.