Mean Quotes
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I prefer the old masters, by which I mean John Ford, John Ford, and John Ford.
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It's probably not going to lead to anything. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't try. If everyone who thought they might fail didn't even try, where would we be today?
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What is the natural reaction when told you have a hopeless mental illness? That diagnosis does you in; that, and the humiliation of being there. I mean, the indignity you're subjected to. My God.
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I'm not going to just say nice things about everybody unless I mean it.
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'Punk' doesn't mean Mohawks and safety pins. It's about not conforming.
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I solidify his [ Riccardo Tisci] vision and what he is trying to manifest, make it a crystal or solid thing because of the relationship I have with my culture and what my music means to him.
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Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets.
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We used to go around tipping outhouses over, or turning over corn shocks on Halloween. Anything to be mean.
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Still, one of the few good things about being dyslexic is that when I say I don’t read reviews, I mean I don’t read reviews.
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All of our forebears contributed to what South Africa has become. That does not, however, mean that I must apologize to anyone for being born a Zulu, or for having that culture.
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I had a very loyal cult-like following, I feel. And I don't mean to complain about that.
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The slavery of Negroes in the South was not usually a deliberately cruel and oppressive system. It did not mean systematic starvation or murder.
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I tell them the rules are made by the government. Every firm should comply. It doesn't mean they can't compete.
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The only rule I have when writing is to try to tell the truth. That doesn't mean you can't exaggerate, edit, rewrite things to make them more dramatic. But emotional truth is what I look for in writing.
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I absolutely have not spoken to Marvel. It doesn't mean that my team hasn't spoken to Marvel.
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I'm even flattered! It's what success is like. I'm happy I seem unreal to them, it means I'm doing a good job.
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Father or stepfather – those are just titles to me. They don't mean anything.
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I didn't mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.
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I always think of a voice as an instrument, whether a voice is a trumpet, or violin, or bass. You know what I mean? A horn or wind instrument versus a string instrument. Horn instruments are definitely more toward jazz.
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As soon as you hear a fighter say, "I'm working smarter, not harder," you always want to bet against that guy. That mentality does not work. You have to work hard. And sometimes that means you are going to work too hard. You are going to decline. You are going to tear down your body and your muscle fibers. You are going to get sick.
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Some of the more fatuous flag-waving Americans are in danger of forgetting that you can't extract gratitude as you would extract a tooth; that unless friendship is freely given, it means nothing and less than nothing.
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You'll have many gay people on your side who just because they're gay, doesn't mean they're for gay marriage.
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What fiction offers us is an intimacy shorn of the messy contingencies of human existence - gender, race, class or age. Those moments of transcendence when we exclaim "You know exactly what I mean!" depend for much of their force on the anonymous character of the intimacy between writer and reader.
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Being mean just for being mean's sake isn't funny.
