Say Mean Matter For Quotes

#1. She gets that words are sometimes bullshit and people don't mean what they say and through it all it's only actions that matter.

Katy Evans

#2. Madame Lefoux shrugged. I do not know about that, my lady. I mean to say, one's life is one thing; one's technology is an entirely different matter.

Gail Carriger

#3. I hoped Lissa remained the only one with a surprise sibling.

Richelle Mead

#4. It doesn't much matter what you say when you're screwing anyway. Or how you do it. Slow and
gentle or fast and violent - it's the feelings behind it that make it mean something. That make it mean
everything.
Christ, am I enlightened or what? Aren't you proud of me? You should be.

Emma Chase

#5. Just because you're a man doesn't mean that you can't raise your kid. I think that families should stay together, but if you are a single father, don't give up no matter what they say.

Nicolas Cage

#6. It is important that you say what you mean to say. Time is too short. You must speak the words that matter.

Kate DiCamillo

#7. Right afterwards there was a whole, whole lot of press to do, so the week after, all day, every day, was press so I didn't really get a chance to celebrate.

Carrie Underwood

#8. When I say history is a matter of life and death, I mean this: If you really don't know history, you are a victim of whatever the authorities tell you. You have no way of checking up on them. You have no way of deciding whether there is any truth in what they are saying.

Howard Zinn

#9. Close your eyes, close your fists, and say, 'I couldn't have done it a fingernail faster.' If you can say it, and mean it, I guarantee you it will be all right, no matter what happens. No regrets.

Diana Nyad

#10. Scientists say the European space probe that landed on the comet has detected organic matter. This means there could be either life in space or a Whole Foods. We just don't know.

Conan O'Brien

#11. Europe has a press that stresses opinions; America a press, radio, and television that emphasize news.

James Reston

#12. Her favorite game was golf because its essential principles consisted of a stick, a small ball, and a state of mind.

Harper Lee

#13. Don't take a question or comment at its face value. Many people say many things as a matter of habit. They may not mean it.

Girdhar Joshi

#14. [Writing is] largely a matter of application and hard work, or writing and rewriting endlessly until you are satisfied that you have said what you want to say as clearly and simply as possible. For me that usually means many, many revisions.

Rachel Carson

#15. In other words Yates had remembered the lesson of his first great master, Fitzgerald - namely, that people rarely say what they mean, and good dialogue is a matter of catching one's characters "in the very act of giving themselves away.

Blake Bailey

#16. True self-esteem is realizing that you are valuable because you were born. No matter where you came from, what color your skin is, what people say about your family or what mean things people may have done to you, because you were born, you are important and you matter.

Oprah Winfrey

#17. Is it or is it not a matter of importance that a young man starts out in life with an ability to shut his jaw hard and say "I will," or "I will not," and mean it?

John William Heisman

#18. You've got to be able to know someone really well to be able to have a row and then also walk away from it and not have it matter, especially in this business. That doesn't mean to say we have many rows but I think the nearest thing to a row would be just flatly disagreeing with something .

Ridley Scott

#19. I'm not wise at all. I told you, I know nothing. I know books, and I know how to string words together
it doesn't mean I know how to speak about the tings that matter most to me."
"But you're doing it now
in a way."
"Yes, in a way
that's how I always say things: in a way.

Andre Aciman

#20. Our relationship to the past is marked by deep indifference, even if we do say something to the contrary, even if we mean what we say when we say it is a matter of the greatest significance. Because it is a matter of the greatest significance, yet nevertheless we feel bound to it by a sense of duty.

Dag Solstad

#21. We all want to be in love and find that person who is going to love us no matter how our feet smell, no matter how angry we get one day, no matter the things we say that we don't mean.

Will Smith

#22. I'm lucky that I've never been bullied personally. There are always going to be kids who are mean and say stuff, but the people that matter to you - the people you love, like your parents, your siblings, and your friends - those are the people you should listen to.

Kendall Jenner

#23. That's what you were trying to say, isn't it? I mean, I think ... mostly we're too busy living to stop and notice we're alive. But that sometimes we do. And that that makes the rest of it matter.

Neil Gaiman

#24. say, there are some things 'sorry' can't repair. Some pains run too deep to ever be healed by something as simple as words, no matter how much you mean them.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#25. They're just words. And words alone don't really mean anything. It's what you feel and what you believe when you say them that matter.

Dana Reinhardt

#26. It was inelegant, but what was not when taking a hostage?

Thomm Quackenbush

#27. I didn't mean to write this as a poem, but the meter turned up in my head and after that I simply had no say in the matter.

Neil Gaiman

#28. Onstage, I am a devil. But I'm hardly a social reject.

Freddie Mercury

#29. I think that nobody gets mad at me anymore, no matter what I say, because I don't think I'm mean. I am interested in what's next.

John Waters

#30. And the meek shall inherit the earth,

Geddy Lee

#31. I remember saying to myself, those things are very, very important to hear, but there must be another way to say them so that they will truly be heard. I mean, that's what art is. Art is about being provocative; art is also about beauty and if you leave the latter out, the former doesn't matter.

Nikky Finney