Mean Quotes - page 7

A true heiress is never mean to anyone - except a girl who steals your boyfriend. (Paris Hilton)
'Tis the good reader that makes the good book a good head cannot read amiss in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It's always the small people who change things. It's never the politicians or the big guys. I mean, who pulled down the Berlin wall? It was all the people in the streets. The specialists didn't have a clue the day before. View quote
Luc Besson
Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes. View quote
Theodore Dreiser
I love words very much. I've always loved to talk, and I've always love words - the words that rest in your mouth, what words mean and how you taste them and so on. And for me the spoken word can be used almost as a gesture. View quote
Martha Graham
Just because some of us can read and write and do a little math, that doesn't mean we deserve to conquer the Universe. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
Frankly, I mean, sometimes the interpretations I've seen on some of the songs that I've written are a lot more interesting than the input that I put in. View quote
David Bowie
Love is a special word, and I use it only when I mean it. You say the word too much and it becomes cheap. View quote
Ray Charles
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing. View quote
John Erskine
To permit surveillance to take root on the Internet would mean subjecting virtually all forms of human interaction, planning, and even thought itself to comprehensive state examination. View quote
Glenn Greenwald
Liberating tolerance, then, would mean intolerance against movements from the Right, and toleration of movements from the Left. (Herbert Marcuse)
I kept trying to tell people that just because I was young didn't mean I could speak for all young people. View quote
Joe Biden
Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble? View quote
Alan Perlis
I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality. View quote
James Joyce
I remember when humor was gentle pokes. I used to call it 'arm around the shoulder' humor. Now they go for the jugular and they take no prisoners. It's mean, mean stuff. View quote
Robert Orben
I mean, I do think at a certain point you've made enough money. View quote
Barack Obama
My painting is visible images which conceal nothing... they evoke mystery and indeed when one sees one of my pictures, one asks oneself this simple question 'What does that mean'? It does not mean anything, because mystery means nothing either, it is unknowable. View quote
Rene Magritte
I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep. View quote
Walt Whitman
The business of the English commander-in-chief being first to bring an enemy fleet to battle on the most advantageous terms to himself, (I mean that of laying his ships close on board the enemy, as expeditiously as possible) and secondly to continue them there until the business is decided. View quote
Horatio Nelson
I would like to thank the people who encouraged me to draw army cartoons at a time when the gag man's conception of the army was one of mean ole sergents and jeeps which jump over mountains. View quote
Bill Mauldin
Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it. (Aristotle)
I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
She was experiencing the same odd happiness and odd sadness as then. The sadness meant: We are at the last station. The happiness meant: We are together. The sadness was form, the happiness content. Happiness filled the space of sadness. View quote
Milan Kundera
The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. View quote
Albert Einstein
A leader has to appear consistent. That doesn't mean he has to be consistent. View quote
James Callaghan