Mean Quotes

#1. Sometimes. I get recognized, but I'm not really a famous famous. I'm pretty low on the showbiz totem pole - I mean, I'm no Jon or Kate plus eight. I'm just a comic, not a baby factory.

Dave Attell

#2. You hold your head up. You submitting to me doesn't mean you're anything less ... the very last thing I want is for you to be some mindless puppet.

Maya Banks

#3. Do you really mean the only reason you try to be good is to gain God's approval and reward? That's not morality, that's just sucking up.

Richard Dawkins

#4. One theme of what I've been writing has been to get people to understand that "apolitical" means "you lose." It doesn't mean you live a utopian life free of politicians' influence. The destruction of the public domain is the clearest example, but it will only be the first.

Lawrence Lessig

#5. Unrelated doesn't necessarily mean unrelated. Allow ideas to dwell with one another.

Charles Lee

#6. We look at death from the selfish side, like: "That guy died. Oh, it's so sad." Why is it sad? He's away from all of this bad stuff that's here on Earth. I mean, at the worst, he's just somewhere quiet, no nothing. At best, he's an angel ... or he's a spirit somewhere. What is so bad about that?

Tupac Shakur

#7. What are you trying to protect heterosexual marriages from? There isn't a limited amount of love in Iowa. It isn't a non-renewable resource. If Amy and Barbara or Mike and Steve love each other, it doesn't mean that John and Mary can't.

Ed Fallon

#8. If I was a woman, I would be dressed in the same thing for a month and just change my hat and gloves. Maybe my shoes too; yes, I see what you mean but, really, it's jewels that change an outfit.

Manolo Blahnik

#9. Does that mean", I said in some bewilderment, "that we must eat again of the tree of knowledge in order to return to the state of innocence?"
"Of course", he said, "but that's the final chapter in the history of the world.

Heinrich Von Kleist

#10. We are all told to ignore bullies. It's something they teach you, and they can teach you anything. It doesn't mean you learn it. It doesn't mean you believe it. One should never ignore bullies. One should stop them.

Daniel Handler

#11. Part of Obamacare eliminated the private sector financial market that engages in giving college student loans. I mean, now the federal government has taken over college student loans, so I sit back and strategically look at this and say this just cannot be happening.

Allen West

#12. But being in a relationship doesn't mean one has to marry.
Marriage is not always the culmination of any relationship.

Rashmi Singh

#13. Just because you are struggling does NOT mean you are failing. Every great success requires some kind of struggle to get there.

Nicky Gumbel

#14. His name, even, is part of the marketing scheme, I mean, Thelonious Sphere Monk - how can you think of a better name to fit his style of playing?

Matthew Shipp

#15. What does sharing music mean? It means playing it for people.

Penn Dayton Badgley

#16. Be afraid of the Chinese. I mean, the Chinese shoot down satellites in space; they hack into Google's computers; the Osama bin Laden people can't make their underwear blow up.

Francis Fukuyama

#17. When we speak of peace, we should not mean just the absence of war. True peace rests on the pillars of individual freedom, human rights, national self-determination, and respect for the rule of law.

Ronald Reagan

#18. If I say I'm the best actor for the part, I mean it and I'm not kidding.

James Woods

#19. I have a ton of fun, I mean luckily I've been balancing a ton of projects for a lot of years now, and I'm better when I'm busy and I just do my job in a way where I really totally compartmentalize.

Neal H. Moritz

#20. A central aspect to quality time is togetherness. I do not mean proximity ... Togetherness has to do with focused attention.

Gary Chapman

#21. The Bob Jones policy on interracial dating, I mean I spoke out on interracial dating. I spoke against that. I spoke out against interracial dating. I support the policy of interracial dating.

George W. Bush

#22. The fact that cartoons are reproduced doesn't mean anything to me as far as whether they are "real art" or not.

Roz Chast

#23. Our external environment no longer seems to have any firm boundaries, any limits, or any positive cues about when to stop consuming anything. I mean, there is a reason that people get fat - it's easy and cheap to get high-calorie, tasty food.

Bob Harper

#24. Just because you came from shit doesn't mean you're shit. You're so much better than what you've known and I bet you'll be a fucking awesome mom

Bijou Hunter

#25. A man doesn't want to be rejected. We're really quite sensitive.
'Sensitive?' She laughed, her head on one side. 'Sensitive egos you mean. Never met a man who didn't have one of those.

Helene Young

#26. People ask me who my favorite inker is and I tell them my favorite inker was Joe Sinnott ... but I was the best. Now I don't mean that as any kind of egotistical thing. It's just that I did what Jack wanted.

Mike Royer

#27. Cane tended to have mood swings like a bitch. One minute he could be cool as hell and then the next he was mean as fire.

Nika Michelle

#28. You're nasty and you're loud,
you're mean enough for two,
If I could be a cloud,
I'd rain all day on you.

Jack Prelutsky

#29. Force cannot organize anything.In the long run, the sword is always beaten by the spirit by which I mean the civil and religious institutions of a nation.
Napoleon Bonaparte.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#30. But, do you know, once you get used to it's rather cute. I mean, if a girl looks alright to start with, she still looks alright with her head smooth.

Robert A. Heinlein

#31. Listen: Common sense doesn't mean what it used to mean.
-Matthias Chalmers, STAIRWAY2 HEAVEN

Chaz Thompson

#32. A more significant phase should mean serious political dialogue.

Aung San Suu Kyi

#33. To the general public, show business may just mean the artistic part, but the dollar and cents element is the reality every performer has to face.

Liza Minnelli

#34. Shit don't mean shit

Stephen King

#35. I don't think I've left a trail of weeping women in my wake. I mean, the number of serious relationships I've had has not been into double digits.

Jay McInerney

#36. What I hope to do in the States is to break up this stereotyping of Muslims and Arabs. I mean, we are basically the only sub-culture that is not represented in Hollywood. And it's funny because everybody is talking about the Muslim world and the Arab world, and we are not represented.

Bassem Youssef

#37. What's she like? The princess, I mean."
"Bullheaded. She's red headed, blue-eyed, and stubborn as a mule.

Christina Mobley

#38. I'm so pissed off about it, because - I mean, I wasted so much of my life with him and then he cheats on me and I'm not even particularly, like, depressed about it?

John Green

#39. What does Sunday, the day of the Lord, mean for us? It is a day for rest and for family, but first of all a day for Him.

Pope Benedict XVI

#40. Listening is everything. Listening is the whole deal. That's what I think. And I mean that in terms of before you work, after you work, in between work, with your children, with your husband, with your friends, with your mother, with your father. It's everything. And it's where you learn everything.

Meryl Streep

#41. The music industry seems scary to me. I mean the film industry is crazy enough so the music industry to me seems like the wild, wild West. Like I would just never dare.

Anna Kendrick

#42. The cookie-cutter liberal, the standard operating procedure liberal, is really a giant ignoramus. I mean that seriously. They're really ignorant.

Rush Limbaugh

#43. She tries to get a waitressing job for a while - I mean, she's looking for a while before she finds Coyote Ugly - and it's hard to get a waitressing job in the city.

Piper Perabo

#44. The Kingdom of God is not meat and drink, but that doesn't mean you can't have meat and drink in the Kingdom!

David Berg

#45. The only thing I believe is individual responsibility doesn't mean the government is the answer to ever fear and every problem every individual has. We are the masters of our own destiny.

Sean Hannity

#46. Just bc u loved and lost doesn't mean stop loving. If u have a nightmare, does it mean u stop dreaming?

Jill Scott

#47. Anyway, I suppose in part I'm telling this story now because I want all of you - and I do mean all - to know that I wasn't always a somewhat-overweight woman without an upper lip to her name who can occasionally be found sleeping behind her face and always thinking in her mouth.

Carrie Fisher

#48. I'm like a little kid when it comes to music. I mean, the music is always blasting wherever I am that people always knock on my door and say, 'It's too loud!' But I think music gives so much inspiration.

Donatella Versace

#49. To me, this one brief moment proved to be my most meaningful memory at the park because it symbolized what we mean to people: We are not a cure for cancer, we are not going to save the world, but if we can make people that happy for a few hours or for a day, then we are doing something worthwhile.

Jack Lindquist

#50. But this element of failure is a very condition of his life; one can never dream of eliminating it without immediately dreaming of death. This does not mean that one should consent to failure, but rather one must consent to struggle against it without respite.

Simone De Beauvoir

#51. You mean you don't wear thongs?" I ask, feigning exasperation. "Hell no! I'd be digging that thing out of my ass all night long.

K.L. Grayson

#52. You remember the word we said when we pressed our hands together, right?"
I nodded. Forem. But what does it mean?"
"Forever," he said his breath shaky. "It means we're bonded together forever.

Jessica Sorensen

#53. Ultimately, so much Dr. Seuss is about empowerment. He invites us to disappear into our imagination and then blows the doors off what that can mean.

Gary Ross

#54. The one thing I do have is good ears. I don't mean perfect pitch, but ears for picking things up. I developed my ear through piano theory, but I never had a guitar lesson in my life, except from Eric Clapton off of records.

Eddie Van Halen

#55. Richard Nixon was the best thing that ever happened to journalism. I mean this guy was wonderful. Just when you thought he could get no worse, he got worse.

P. J. O'Rourke

#56. He seems like a good guy. I mean, sometimes he looks at you like he wants to consume you, but you are beautiful so I'm not going to hold that against him.

Skyla Madi

#57. If we are just specks of dust hit by lightning, if we have no spark of God in us, why not just take whatever we can and devil take the hindmost? I mean, we are fools not to do that if there is no right or wrong.

Ben Stein

#58. Just because you're looking for the one, doesn't mean that you have to subject yourself to every single lousy date you're set on.

Claire Contreras

#59. The world is beautiful and glorious. Humanity can be mean, and turn away from what's good.

Dean Koontz

#60. Safer cities generally mean stronger urban economies.

Roger Altman

#61. When you say ROI, do you mean return on investment or risk of inaction.

Paul Gillin

#62. But when considered from the unique perspective of eternity, fame and popularity aren't nearly as important as loving and being loved; status doesn't mean much when compared to service; and acquiring spiritual knowledge is infinitely more meaningful than acquiring an excess of wealth.

M. Russell Ballard

#63. Just remember," he said. "Maybe these guys are nice, and the ants are mean. But that doesn't mean their fairy tales are true.

Robert Repino

#64. Americans have all these classes that mean they just know odd things, so engineers know about William Blake and poets know about analytical geometry. She probably took one on Aristotle and the politics of gender.

Deborah Meyler

#65. We are ourselves the stumbling-blocks in the way of our happiness. Place a common individual - by common, I mean with the common share of stupidity, custom, and discontent - place him in the garden of Eden, and he would not find it out unless he were told, and when told, he would not believe it.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#66. I'm not mean, just aggressive.

Harvey Martin

#67. [Karen:] Why would you want to be friends with him?
[Rylie:] He has good insight into the male psyche. Besides, he's fun to talk to.
[Karen:] He's fun to screw, too, that doesn't mean it's a good idea.

Jessica Lave

#68. Just because I don't have on a silly black costume and carry a silly broom and wear a silly black hat, doesn't mean that I'm not a witch. I'm a witch all the time and not just on Halloween.

E.L. Konigsburg

#69. I don't like labels necessarily because a label doesn't mean very much. But when it comes to being conservative, I happen to be conservative.

Donald Trump

#70. Fair tax does not mean we don't want to encourage wealth creation. Wealth creation is how we raise the money to pay for world class schools and hospitals, for proper care of the weak, and dignity for the elderly.

Johann Lamont

#71. It was inevitable the Titanic was going to set sail, but that doesn't mean it was a good idea to be on it.

William Hague

#72. In this case, consulting the dictionary would simply mean discovering what one already knew, Dictionaries only provide information that is likely to be useful to everyone

Jose Saramago

#73. Not natural, in my view, sah. Not in favor of unnatural things.'
Vetinari looked perplexed. 'You mean, you eat your meat raw and sleep in a tree?

Terry Pratchett

#74. You see?" she said. "I've been leading you without you knowing it. Of course that's because you're new to the town, and you give yourself up to the guidance of an old citizen."
"I'm not so sure, Miss Adams. It might mean that I don't care where I follow so long as I follow you.

Booth Tarkington

#75. Jazz, I mean, music will always move, because it can't become stagnant. Because if it becomes stagnant, it's like a river, it'll kill us all. It has to keep moving, music will always flow.

Art Blakey

#76. Facts mean little compared to attitudes. To contradict rumor or sentiment is as futile as arguing against a believer's faith in the Immaculate Conception. You have simply become a victim of faith, Comrade Assistant.

Milan Kundera

#77. We're all going a little craz - " He stopped; he couldn't possibly say anything worse. "I mean ... " "Just shut it," Newt said. "I know something's started in my head. I don't feel right. But you don't need to worry your buggin' panties off.

James Dashner

#78. Apologizing does not always mean you're wrong and the other person is right. It just means you value your relationship more than your ego.

Mark Matthews

#79. What was it that kept me coming back when Reason and Practicality were screaming, "Let it go, dickwad!" (You should know that Reason and Practicality are mean.)

Ben Karlin

#80. In 'Winter's Bone,' it's literally the director and the camera operator. That's it. Just a super-small Kubrick crew. You know what I mean? Like, 8 people.

Bill Hader

#81. Mean is not crazy, it is merely mean.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#82. Just 'cause there's snow on the roof doesn't mean there's not a fire inside.

Bonnie Hunt

#83. Honey bees are amazing creatures. I mean, think about it, do earwigs make chutney?

Eddie Izzard

#84. So many people are called but few serve as actors, you know what I mean?

Faye Dunaway

#85. I'm only being cute here. I don't really mean it. I just wanted to make you smile.

Stephen Chbosky

#86. Tradition does not mean to look after the ash, but to keep the flame alive.

Jean Jaures

#87. Theology is in disrepute among most Western intellectuals. The word is taken to mean a passe form of religious thinking that embraces irrationality and dogmatism. So too, Scholasticism.

Rodney Stark

#88. I'm angry and mean and I can't be bothered to care.

Tahereh Mafi

#89. Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.

William Ralph Inge

#90. Surrender is a positive, healthy state. Being a surrendered person does not mean one is beaten down and so hopeless he or she has "given up." It's quite the contrary.

Judith Orloff

#91. They do not know what the words mean; they do not know how to ward them off or blunt their edge or fling them back; they are a prey to words in their emotions instead of being the masters of them in their intellects.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#92. I mean, I feel like you can kill the same bird with both stones.

Greg Behrendt

#93. now. I didn't mean to blurt any of

Ella Harper

#94. Did you really have to put ideas in Izzy's head? she now has some ... What did she call it? Oh yeah "Trifecta of Vaginal Bliss". What the hell does that shit mean?

Harper Sloan

#95. Make love to me, Echo. I've never made love."No way. Noah's experienced reputation walked down the hallway before he did. "But ... "
Noah cut me off with a kiss. "Yes, but never love. Just girls who didn't mean anything" You ... " His tongue teased my bottom lip, thawing my body. "Are everything.

Katie McGarry

#96. By poetry we mean the art of employing of words in such a manner as to produce an illusion on the imagination; the art of doing by means of words, what the painter does by means of colors.

Thomas B. Macaulay

#97. I think, with Obama and the progressives, you've seen a massive expansion of big government, and it's all based on a moral premise. The moral premise is that wealth is theft. And I don't just mean the wealth of America, I mean, your wealth, my wealth.

Dinesh D'Souza

#98. Eruption of joy at the fall of an Indian wicket can only mean one thing

Harsha Bhogle

#99. For the record, I consider myself pansexual." "Does that mean you like to fuck cookware?" "It means I like to fuck everything.

Anonymous

#100. I have no pretension that I belong in D.C. I mean, I have to be cautious on how we do our restaurant.

Daniel Boulud