David Means Quotes

Wars never simply end, not for those in combat and not for the culture, and one way or another, they shape-shift from generation to generation.

David Means

• Culture

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Pain
  • Gratitude
  • Revenge

• To me, eyewear goes way beyond being a prescription. It's like makeup. It's the most incredible accessory. The shape of a frame or the color of lenses can change your whole appearance.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Change
  • Color
  • Makeup

• We have to surmount the difficulties that face us and work steadfastly for the happiness and prosperity of our country.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • Work
  • Country
  • Happiness

• There's a delicious irony in seeing private luxury jets flying in to Washington, D.C., and people coming off of them with tin cups in their hands saying that they're going to be trimming down and streamlining their businesses. There's a message there.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • People
  • Flying
  • Saying

• I mean, I am fully aware of my influence and my responsibility to society in general representing the gay community. But in the same time, I don't represent the entire gay community because it's a vast, vast community, as one can imagine.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Time
  • Society
  • Community

• I don't think people really understood what I did. And you know, in my book, 'A Helluva High Note' deals with my back story, that I was a songwriter, that I spent years trying to hone my craft and being rejected and then finally becoming a successful songwriter, record executive and publisher.

  

  Kara DioGuardi
  • People
  • Trying
  • Book

• I like to play table tennis, spend time with my kids.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Tennis

• It's not like I ever sat in my room and said I was going to start a media company and become an editor in chief. It was never my dream. It was something that just happened.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Dream
  • Start
  • Media

• Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Body
  • Flower
  • Guarantee

• Opera singers, we're not muscle men; you have to be careful about your work.

  

  Ildar Abdrazakov
  • Work
  • Men
  • You

• In your darkest moments of despair, a friend's hand on yours will get you through the worst.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Friend
  • Hand
  • Moments

• You won't see me at a microphone singing and tapping my foot. I spend a lot of money on sets, costumes and sound. I believe people deserve a show. I'm a singer, musician, dancer. I work hard, and I'm soaking wet when I come off.

  

  Barbara Mandrell
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• 2005 opens with the promise of a number of substantial direct private investments that can swiftly transform the economy and set all sectors on a pronounced upward curve.

  

  Baldwin Spencer
  • Promise
  • Number
  • Transform

• The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Liberty
  • Price
  • Cost

• Versace designs have always been bootlegged. Now it's Versace bootlegging the bootleg for the bootleggers to bootleg the bootleg.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Always
  • Now
  • Been

• For me, visuals are as important as the music. I just love escapism and giving people something to escape to. To me, that's what art is.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • People
  • Music
  • Important

• Not owning a car anymore, I feel like I'm barely an American. I miss it. And I barely ever get to listen to the radio in the car, which is the best place for radio.

  

  Ira Glass
  • American
  • Best
  • Car

• I've heard people say South Africans are arrogant, that they act no differently from their colonial masters. That needs to change. It's in your business interest as an entrepreneur to form meaningful partnerships. That's how you do well for your shareholders.

  

  Patrice Motsepe
  • People
  • Business
  • Change

• Don't ask me, I don't know

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Knows
  • Asks

• The desire for power feeds off itself, growing as it devours.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Power
  • Growing
  • Desire

• You know what, it really highlights another problem. Changing the measurements’ scale of importance, moving from one world into another, is without a doubt a culture change. Let’s face it, that is exactly what we had to go through, a culture change. But how are we going to take the division through such a change?

  

  Eliyahu M. Goldratt
  • Culture
  • Problem
  • Doubt

• Architecture begins where engineering ends.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Architecture
  • Engineering

• I'm surprised that we've gotten to a point where we don't put our country first and put our party first.

  

  Jon Huntsman, Jr.
  • Country
  • Party

• Wars never simply end, not for those in combat and not for the culture, and one way or another, they shape-shift from generation to generation.

  

  David Means
  • Culture