Mean Quotes

Just because opportunities present themselves doesn't mean you should accept every one of them. It's...

I owe everything to Nirvana. But I can't let that overshadow the future. For the first few years, I ...

Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations.

So we really need jobs now. We have to take jobs away from other countries because other countries a...

Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean somet...

What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, exc...

I've actually made a prediction that within 30 years a majority of new cars made in the United State...

I don't mean being famous is a perk, because one knows that it's not necessarily a perk, but there a...

Good art however 'immoral' is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I m...

Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of eve...

Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.

Ultimately, so much Dr. Seuss is about empowerment. He invites us to disappear into our imagination ...

What does it mean to pre-board? Do you get on before you get on?

Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recog...

A constructive approach to diplomacy doesn't mean relinquishing one's rights. It means engaging with...

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable r...

Musician jokes are a kind of joke that usually have to do with how much money someone makes. Musicia...

Self-determination could mean independence, confederacy, federal and autonomy.

I frequently observe that one pretty face would be followed by five and thirty frights.

The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experien...

Chance doesn't mean meaningless randomness, but historical contingency. This happens rather than tha...

Part of what makes us human is what we mean to other people, and what people mean to us. I miss mean...

'Design' is a word that's come to mean so much that it's also a word that has come to mean nothing.

I'm slowly working up the courage to sing in front of other people, but I can carry a tune. I do som...

I'm not very technically minded. I mean, I don't know how to do e-mail on computers.

I get a delivery of a diet food during the week, which doesn't mean that I don't eat the occasional ...

It's about the music and that's it. I'm not an entertainer. But I do entertain people, see what I me...

I mean, I think about it, but I don't design my record to get a certain public response.

Because they are mean is no reason why I should be. I hate such things, and though I think I've a ri...

Just because I'm talking about something that might have been a sad or painful situation doesn't mea...

The child's mind is not the type of mind we adults possess. If we call our type of mind the consciou...

When we say, even in a global village, that all politics is local, we mean that national sovereignti...

In the 1940s, traveling for an African was a complicated process. All Africans over the age of sixte...

Every stumble is not a fall, and every fall does not mean failure.

All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don't subscribe to any of that. It's all just musi...

Abstract anger is great for rhetorical carrying on. You can go on endlessly about the post office, b...

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in...

Cars mean nothing to me. I'm not a car guy.

I started off in England and very few people knew I was Australian. I mean, the clues were in the po...

I am not averse to politics, but that does not mean that I am going to join politics.

Business should never be allowed to justify mean, thug ugly deals for any reason.

Time makes everything mean and shabby and wrinkled. The tragedy of life, Howard, is not that the bea...

I remember when humor was gentle pokes. I used to call it 'arm around the shoulder' humor. Now they ...

I have never been what you would call just an integrationist. I know I've been called that... Integr...

The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.

I'm very, very concerned about the Bush presidency. I'm worried about the kinds of cuts in domestic ...

I'm supportive of women, absolutely, and it's so gratifying to have girls come up and say, 'I'm real...

Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audience's imaginati...

Maybe at the very bottom of it... I really don't like God. You know, it's silly to say I don't like ...

Peace does not mean just to stop wars, but also to stop oppression and injustice.

Computers are hierarchical. We have a desktop and hierarchical files which have to mean everything.

Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society.

Sometimes you say things with a smile with the precise intention of making it clear that you are not...

God is a mean-spirited, pugnacious bully bent on revenge against His children for failing to live up...

Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.

I mean, I'm very serious with my kids about them comprehending the intricacies of global finance.

I don't mean to be funny.

It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.

Whether it's a relationship or what you're wearing, or how much you weigh and what you said when you...

If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.

In the political context fair means somebody that will vote for the unions or for the business. It c...

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

I mean, everyone agrees with stress tests for banks. I mean that's clear. But banks should do that o...

My first experience in the Netherlands was very pleasant, extremely pleasant. I mean, I got my resid...

I mean, I do think at a certain point you've made enough money.

Worry does not mean fear, but readiness for the confrontation.

We must make it clear that revolution does not merely mean an upheaval or a sanguinary strife. Revol...

I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs.