Means Quotes

The reinvention of daily life means marching off the edge of our maps.

Teacher unions are an interest group that acts in defense of their own interests, which means the union bosses' interests, not the members.

You can find virtually everybody black back as far as the 1870 census. Why 1870? That's when the ex-slaves first have surnames. But if you find your great-great-grandfather in 1870 and it says he's 50, that means he was born in 1820 and you're back to 1820 already. For an American that's pretty damned good, you know?

A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.

I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means.

I'm still very connected to my family, to the world I grew up in. I understand what it means to be afraid that you can't pay a doctor's bill. Or to have to make the choice between buying a band uniform for a seventh-grader and making the insurance payment on time. That will never leave me. It was how I lived until I was well into my adult years.

I completely take on the risk, the poker game, which being an artist means, and I'm going to try to make a film which honestly reflects what I have in my head.

People aren't quite sure what it means when a book is a Booker Prize winner. They're not quite sure what is being recommended, what literary values it stands for, because every year it stands for something different.

Lonesome. Lonesome. I know what it means. Here all by my lonesome, dreaming empty dreams. Weary. Weary at the close of day, wondering if tomorrow brings me joy or sorrow.

The garden is growth and change and that means loss as well as constant new treasures to make up for a few disasters.

We need more transparency and accountability in government so that people know how their money is being spent. That means putting budgets online, putting legislation online.

I'm much more experienced now, so I can find films that are interesting quicker and cut out the films that don't really matter. It means more to me now because my kids are going to see them, and I want them to be proud.

Being Politically Correct means always having to say you're sorry.

A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.

So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true!

What's a cult? It just means not enough people to make a minority.

They're talking about banning cigarette smoking now in any place that's used by ten or more people in a week, which, I guess, means that Madonna can't even smoke in bed.

The more we take the less we become, the fortune of one man means less for some.

Maybe you are the "cool" generation If coolness means a capacity to stay calm and use your head in the service of ends passionately believed in, then it has my admiration.

Yeah, well my name is Bai Ling. That means white spirit, and I really feel like sometimes I'm not existing.

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.

I find it irresponsible to go, 'She's an actress, what does she know?' That means if you're a dentist, what do you know? If you're a lawyer, what do you know? It's our profession, it's what we do. It's not who we are.

There was no welfare state, and people had to rely mainly on the Poor Law - that was all the state provided. It was very degrading, very humiliating. And there was a means test for receiving poor relief.

'Charm' - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.

Terror must never be allowed as a means for political confrontation.

So, deadpan I think just means not acknowledging for one second that you think that this is funny and clever.

It means that the men who hold the means of life control our lives, and, because we workingmen have tried to get some measure of justice, some measure of betterment, they deny the right of the human being to associate with his fellow.

Chronically homeless means constantly homeless; it means repeatedly homeless.

Prayer means that the total you is praying. Your whole being reaches out to God, and God reaches down to you.

All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means.