Top 11 Mean Something Quotes
#1. We're family," Alyss said.
Redd snorted. "Is that supposed to mean something?"
Family," Alyss said again, trying to convince herself more than Redd.
Don't talk to me about family! You were never disowned by your parents!"
I'd rather have been disowned by them then see them murdered.
Frank Beddor
#2. I am trying to give the best performance possible in 400 pages. I want readers to be scared; I want them to be moved. Entertainment doesn't necessarily mean something trivial, but it does mean people wanting to get to the end of a book.
Mark Billingham
#3. I want to make meaningful music always - I think every artist does. We want our words and melodies to mean something to people, even if it is just one person.
Darren Fletcher
#5. Even the small poems mean something. they are often whales in the bodies of tiny fish.
Nayyirah Waheed
#6. How does a poor country defeat rich ones?" "Indeed, the answer is not by acquiring wealth in the sense that France has it." "Meaning vineyards, farms, peasants, cows?" "But rather to play a sort of trick and redefine wealth to mean something novel." "Currency!" "Indeed.
Neal Stephenson
#7. Every check-in should mean something. Foursquare should get smarter every time that you continue to check in. We should be able to offer special deals that you may be interested in, and we should be able to offer recommendations for the type of things you should do next.
Dennis Crowley
#8. A home is not a museum. It doesn't have to be furnished with Picasso paintings, or Sheraton suites, or Oriental rugs, or Chinese pottery. But it does have to be furnished with things that mean something to you.
James M. Cain
#9. I like films to have something inside, I don't mean a message, I mean something from the soul.
Dario Argento
#10. I want you to be scared. I want things to be messy, and complicated, and difficult. I want you to feel, and I want you to know I'm the one making you feel, that I'm the one making it mean something.
Chanel Cleeton
#11. Nothing fortified me, and simple loneliness all but destroyed me, yet I felt swamped by the belief that life must mean something- otherwise why was it there? Why was anything anything?
Morrissey
#12. What does it mean if we're afraid? Does it mean something bad is going to happen to us? No, it doesn't mean something bad is going to happen. It just means that we have the chance to be brave!
Jose N. Harris
#13. I never get tired of signing autographs 'cause I used to do it so much in class dreaming about the day that it might mean something to somebody.
Taylor Swift
#14. As artists, the pleasure is to really have your work resonate and mean something. Art takes its inspiration from reality.
Yareli Arizmendi
#15. It's like my having to walk down thousands and thousands of white marble stairs ... and nothing but a very very blue sky, very blue ... and I'd have to walk down them forever. I never thought about going up ... Don't you think that must mean something?
Edie Sedgwick
#16. I do think that film is closest of all to music. Notes and chords on their own don't mean anything. They only mean something when you juxtapose them with something else
Michael Koresky
#17. The goal of life is not to have our lives mean something to ourselves. The goal of life is to have our lives mean something to others.
Simon Sinek
#18. As I am sure you know, when people say 'It's my pleasure,' they usually mean something along the lines of, 'There's nothing on Earth I would rather do less.' [ ... ]
Lemony Snicket
#19. Pray don't talk to me about the weather, Mr. Worthing. Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel quite certain that they mean something else. And that makes me quite nervous.
Oscar Wilde
#21. For God's sake, all of you, say spiteful things about me, then I shall know I mean something to you. Don't say surgaries, or I'm done.
D.H. Lawrence
#22. I don't play long parts. They must be short parts, but they've got to be parts that mean something, that matter, where people will notice when I'm on the screen, and people will remember the character after they've seen the film.
Christopher Lee
#23. By "radical" I mean something more than that they aimed to change the order of society in a fundamental way or that they searched for the deepest roots of problems. The opposite of radical is not "moderate" or "conservative" but "common.
Matthew Stewart
#24. I have already spent roughly five thousand hours asleep next to you. This has to mean something.
David Levithan
#25. Words cant explain everything.But silence never fails to mean something
Anonymous
#26. She had already absented herself, I knew, gone to that other place in her mind where Julian was sweet and kind and life was fun, or if it wasn't fun, it was interesting, and wasn't that valuable, didn't that mean something?
Emma Cline
#27. In common with all Protestant or Jewish cultures, America was developed on the idea that your word is your bond. Otherwise, the frontier could never have been opened, 'cause it was lawless. A man's word had to mean something.
Orson Welles
#28. I want people to take pride in Spanish Harlem. These are people that everyone in the community could relate to ... people who mean something special to us.
James De La Vega
#29. Not everything has to mean something. Some things just are.
Charles De Lint
#30. I like being part of good movies and telling stories that mean something to me. I also like playing characters that I look up to.
Katie Holmes
#31. We're all born lost, aren't we? We're all born separated from God - over and over life makes sure to inform us of this - and yet we're all real: we have names, we have lives. We mean something. We must.
Douglas Coupland
#32. But what did we really know, even of one another? We never thought of a future. Our small solar system - what was it heading towards? And how long would each of us mean something to the others?
Michael Ondaatje
#33. You have the ability to write melodies and to put lyrics that mean something: to speak about life and what people are going through in their every day ups and downs, the good times and the bad times. Country music has always talked about life, I think; that's what I've always loved about it.
Jimi Westbrook
#34. The stations of uncensored expression are closing down; the lights are going out; but there is still time for those to whom freedom and parliamentary government mean something, to consult together. Let me, then, speak in truth and earnestness while time remains.
Winston Churchill
#35. Does your license plate mean something?" Bing asked. "En-o-ess-four-a-two?"
"Nosferatu," the man Charlie Manx said.
"Nosfer-what-who?"
Manx said, "It is one of my little jokes. My first wife once accused me of being a Nosferatu. She did not use that exact word, but close enough.
Joe Hill
#36. You're only gonna get in trouble, so why even bother?"
"I bother because it's wrong. I bother because you don't deserve it. I bother because you fucking mean something to the girl I'm head over heels for and Eric, I bother because you mean something to me.
Melyssa Winchester
#37. Trap is a four-letter word, and like so many four-letter words it can mean something entirely else.
--Hugo Anstead
Jennifer A. Girardin
#38. If I'm going to spend a lifetime writing my story, I want it to mean something.
Mari Serebrov
#39. A person's innocence is precious and beautiful and when you share that piece of yourself, in my opinion, it's supposed to mean something.
Lauren Hammond
#40. It's strange how memory gets twisted and pulled like taffy in its retelling, how a single event can mean something different to everyone present.
Lisa Unger
#41. You can only offend me if you mean something to me.
Chris Rock
#42. Advice may not be good advice 10 or 15 years from now. Someone could tell you something years ago and it might not work now. The world is constantly changing. One word could mean something different today. Today you can't give advice to anyone.
Roy Haynes
#43. You really do kind of learn a lot about a person when you watch and listen to the songs that mean something to them.
Tori Amos
#44. I don't want to be 60 years old standing on stage telling some jokes. I want my life to mean something.
Steve Harvey
#45. When I was a teenager I loved acting, but I really just loved it for myself. I didn't like the fact that anyone else saw the work I was doing. When I moved to New York, I started to realize that I wanted people to see the stuff that I was doing, and I wanted it to mean something to them.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
#46. needed my collegiate heroics to mean something more than just the Olympian like state of my liver.
Bodhi Alvarez
#47. That's why the theory of evolution cannot accept the idea of souls, at least if by 'soul' we mean something indivisible, immutable and potentially eternal. Such an entity cannot possibly result from a step-by-step evolution. Natural
Yuval Noah Harari
#48. You know, two people can say exactly the same words, saying the same story, and it would mean something entirely different.
PJ Harvey
#49. What do you mean, something important? It's the middle of the night!
-Sandstorm
Erin Hunter
#50. One of those cases where you couldn't just fold. God, across the table of Fate, was picking His nose, scratching His ear, laying on tells with a prodigal hand, it had to mean something, and a faulty guess would be better than none.
Thomas Pynchon
#51. I always hate explaining away songs, because for me they mean something, and for other people, they'll mean something absolutely different.
Martin Gore
#52. Sometimes I say things that I can't believe came out of my mouth. Or I won't mean something and it will come out completely nonsensical.
Rachael Leigh Cook
#53. Newt had said I loved Ivy more than the church. I wasn't going to deny it, but there were all kinds of love, and how shallow would I be if my anchor to reality was a hunk of real estate? It was the people who were there that made it mean something.
Kim Harrison
#54. INITIATIVE, AGGRESSION, AIR DISCIPLINE, and TEAM WORK are words that MEAN something in Air Fighting.
Adolph Malan
#55. Everyone has the attitude that movies aren't just disposable entertainment - they can really mean something. I love that, because that's the way I feel about films.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
#56. We live but a short time, at the longest. How do we make our lives mean something? If we die in glory, with our minds and our hearts fixed on achieving a great goal, we have lived a life that mattered.
Elizabeth Berg
#57. "What does it mean if i'm afraid? Does it mean something bad is going to happen?" "No, it doesn't mean something bad is going to happen. It just means that you have the chance to be brave.
C. JoyBell C.
#59. Why do silences mean something different when we're with different people? With you, it's never awkward, is it? It's just silence. But with other people, I feel the need to fill it with inane ramblings. What's wrong with silence?
Holly Martin
#60. When kids can't afford to see it anymore maybe we'll have a whole resurgence of garage bands all over America and this New Wave thing will start to mean something on a grass roots level.
Lester Bangs
#61. It's very scary to turn things down, but a project has to really mean something to me. I'm not interested in making a lot of money.
Randa Haines
#62. People talk about being godlike, or godly... like those mean something. Like that means anything.
Like those are hard to do.
Being God is easy, just sit there and don't do anything.
I've always felt best when I could get away with being the Devil.
Justin Skrakowski
#63. Writing ink is the magic that allows nothing to become something. It catches the fleeting idea and seeks out the glances of those who wish to see. Even a random ink splat will mean something to someone.
Fennel Hudson
#64. When people talk to me about the weather, I always feel they mean something else.
Oscar Wilde
#65. The best feeling in the world is knowing that you actually mean something to someone.
Will Smith
#66. It was a strange thing about college. You felt like you were supposed to be finding your life there. Each person you saw, you thought, Will you mean something to me? Will we figure into each other's lives?
Ann Brashares
#67. I owe everything to Nirvana. But I can't let that overshadow the future. For the first few years, I didn't even want to talk about Nirvana. Partly because it was just painful to talk about losing Kurt but also because I wanted the Foo Fighters to mean something.
Dave Grohl
#68. I am a greedy, selfish bastard. I want the fact that I existed to mean something.
Harry Chapin
#69. My goal in this music business is to be here as long as I'm alive. I want my music to be here. I want to be the Michael Jackson and the Prince of hip-hop. I want to be a legend. I want to change the world. I want to give them songs that mean something.
Petey Pablo
#70. You go along your whole life and they seem as though they mean something and they always end up not meaning anything.
Ernest Hemingway,
#71. Sometimes it takes more than shouting it to show your pride. It takes more than a sign, a fabulous outfit, or a month of parades. Pride has to resonate from within; shine out to everyone around you. It has mean something to you and only you first before you announce it to the world.
Solange Nicole
#72. If the world is meaningless, then so are we; if we mean something, we do not mean alone.
C.S. Lewis
#73. Etching is not putting down lines, as someone, who cannot do it himself, tells you to, or as he does it, but putting down lines for one's self that will print, that mean something to others, others who can see.
Joseph Pennell
#74. Starting is hard so I really need to give myself permission to do a bad job. I always give myself leave to write total nonsense for as long as I need to release the pressure, because it's really hard to start if you feel like that first sentence you write has to actually mean something.
Ann Brashares
#75. Sure, I'm crazy. But that used to mean something. Now, everybody's crazy.
Charles Manson
#76. You only need willpower to get what you don't want or you only want to want. By want to want, I mean, something you wish you wanted. But don't really. If
Augusten Burroughs
#77. Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#78. We have to be cautious when we interpret animal behaviors, especially when we want a behavior to mean something in particular. Wanting is a drug, a hallucinogen.
Rebecca Skloot
#79. A boss should be respectful of everybody. He should still make sure everybody knows that he is the boss, without having to say it 24/7, but by him approaching you in a way that led you to know that you mean something to the company.
Kevin Clash
#80. When you move the camera, or you do a shot like the crane down (in Shawshank) with them standing on the edge of the roof, then it's got to mean something. You've got to know why you're doing it; it's got to be for a reason within the story, and to further the story.
Roger Deakins
#83. I feel very privileged that I get to spend my life telling stories that mean something to people.
Mary Stuart Masterson
#84. The danger we have is that we want to water down what Jesus said to make it mean something that aligns with our common sense.
Oswald Chambers
#85. I want to be as honest as I can about the things I've been through - the sorrows and joys, victories and defeats - and to use those experiences as a well to draw from. Hopefully, the songs that result from that kind of writing will be songs that mean something to others.
Jim Cole
#86. Gray is not a substitute for black and white. You don't bump into people without saying you're sorry. When you shake hands, it's supposed to mean something. If someone is in trouble, you reach out.
Jon M. Huntsman Sr.
#87. People are supposed to care. It's good that people mean something to you, that you miss people when they're gone.
John Green
#88. I think that by beauty, you don't just mean something that's pretty. You mean something that makes us human.
Ava Dellaira
#89. My music is a mix of everything, mostly my own life. I just write about things that mean something and that I can write about. There's no point in pretending.
Imelda May
#90. Politics.
It used to mean something, but it is now merely an abstract part of the entertainments industry.
Steve Merrick
#91. Have you ever had the sensation of looking at someone for the first time and ever so quickly the past and future seem to fuse ? Does that not mean something ? That we felt so much, so deeply, before even speaking?
Charles Dickens
#92. Yankees don't understand that the Southern way of talking is a language of nuance. What we can do in the South is we can take a word and change it just a little bit and make it mean something altogether different.
Lewis Grizzard
#93. Sometimes I wish she would just shut up and let me walk in peace. But I'm ravenous for news, any kind of news; even if it's false news, it must mean something.
Margaret Atwood
#94. Esperanza handed him a slip of paper. "Here's the office number for Susan Lex, Dennis's older sister." Myron read the number like it was in code and might mean something. "I had another thought.
Harlan Coben
#95. We're so used to using military terminology in civilian speech that we forget those terms might mean something very specific.
Phil Klay
#96. The promise of change doesn't always mean something changes.
John Travolta
#97. I don't want to sound like I'm trying to be too deep about it, but when we play shows, music takes everybody on their own journey - because one song might mean something to me, that means something completely different to someone else.
Hayley Williams
#98. Gypsies at home watching Jerry Falwell on TV, might mean something to you, it ain't nothing to me.
Tom Petty
#99. Clothes are never a frivolity: they always mean something.
James Laver
#100. Probably only an art-worlder like me could assign deeper meaning to something as simple and silly as Tebowing. But, to us, anytime people repeat a stance or a little dance, alone or together, we see that it can mean something. Imagistic and unspoken language is our thing.
Jerry Saltz
