Mean Quotes

Words mean nothing. Action is the only thing. Doing. That's the only thing.

If ebooks mean that readers' freedom must either increase or decrease, we must demand the increase.

I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.

I don't want to be 60 years old standing on stage telling some jokes. I want my life to mean something.

I am what I am. I love me! And I don't mean that egotistically - I love that God has allowed me to take whatever it was that I had and to make something out of it.

Basketball is my passion, I love it. But my family and friends mean everything to me. That's what's important. I need my phone so I can keep in contact with them at all times.

I mean, women are very important to me. I don't know, they just drive me crazy.

I sound like Homer. I mean Winslow Homer.

Well, he can't be dumb, I mean, because he's been president for four years and he's president again, so you're going to get caught out if you're really bad, aren't you? Unless millions and millions of Americans are dumb.

Well, I'm at some kind of crossroads in my life and I don't know which way to take. It's not about money, I mean, because I'm established enough now as a writer to get a reasonable advance if I wanted to do fiction.

I mean I look forward to the day when I can be Republican again.

There's so much to learn about acting and performance in general... I mean, acting is a very complex art, and there are a lot more theories and methods and techniques to it than I think anybody would think.

I mean, you know, God knows everything, but I'm not quite that good. Every once in a while, something will slip by me.

We hear of the wealth of nations, of the powers of production, of the demand and supply of markets, and we forget that these words mean no more, if they mean any thing, then the happiness, and the labor, and the necessities of men.

I used to be a classic workaholic, and after seeing how little work and career really mean when you reach the end of your life, I put a new emphasis on things I believe count more. These things include: family, friends, being part of a community, and appreciating the little joys of the average day.

I mean, there's no point in sittin' around and cryin' about spilt milk. Gotta move on.

They've listed my name in the dictionary - 'Imeldific' is used to mean ostentatious extravagance... But the truth will prevail.

I feel that these stories are being written to articulate certain confusions and disappointments, and I do mean to shake up the reader, and I do hope they're on target.

It seems to me that readers sometimes make the genesis of a poem more mysterious than it is (by that I perhaps mean, think of it as something outside their own experience).

I mean, it takes a large entourage to put on a tour. You can't have 'em sittin' around.

I think everybody's always attracted to both sexes. I mean, I think that women are very attractive. I've kissed girls, but everybody experiments. It's part of growing up.

I think Ginsberg has done more harm to the craft that I honor and live by than anybody else by reducing it to a kind of mean that enables the most dubious practitioners to claim they are poets because they think, If the kind of thing Ginsberg does is poetry, I can do that.

There is no cannibalism in the British navy, absolutely none, and when I say none, I mean there is a certain amount.

God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean.

I don't mean to be a diva, but some days you wake up and you're Barbara Streisand.

I always say to young people when they ask me how I work, I always say to them, the only time you've ever going to do something good is if you have a good client. And by good I mean all kinds of things.

When you mean a show like this, you have to say to me a show exactly like this, the way it was done.

If there was a payment to the bank due, and we needed shoes, she'd get the shoes, and then deal with them guys at the bank. I don't mean she wouldn't pay the bank, but the children always came first.

To the average mind popular music would mean compositions vulgarly conceived and commonplace in their treatment. That is absolutely false.

As any old Taoist walking out of the woods can tell you, simple-minded does not necessarily mean stupid.