Mean Quotes

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.

The only reality is our society, and I mean this seriously, Western Society is a very sick society.

I mean, there's a hell of a lot of grounds for protest, but you don't do it through music.

What the Democrats don't seem to understand is that higher taxes mean fewer American jobs and less American production.

Luckily, he was in the process of moving to France at the time, anyway. But if he had stayed in the States, I don't know how he would have handled that, because it was getting pretty crazy. I mean, a celebrity which he really did not welcome. And I can't blame him.

I mean, I'm 48 years old and I've been through a lot in my life - you know, loss, whether it be death, illness, separation. I mean, the failed expectations... We all have dreams.

I mean as long as I have been doing music I know I am only 30% of what I could be and want to be.

I mean, no offense, but I don't really see why, like guitar players from Creed, or something like that, are on the cover of guitar magazines. Almost anybody can sit down and learn to play those songs.

It was great. I mean, it's a blast directing underwater stuff.

I mean I appreciate fan mail and that the people like what I am doing but I can't answer it. If I would answer 25 letters a day I would be just a guy answering mail and not an artist anymore.

My mantra is: Realize you're going to fail all the time, and accept it. That doesn't mean I'm not frightened of it.