Quotes about mean
mean thinking order
When God works miracles, he does not do it in order to supply the wants of nature, but those of grace. Whoever thinks otherwise, must needs have a very mean notion of the wisdom and power of God. Gottfried Leibniz
mean simple mirrors
Now this connection or adaption of all created things with each, and of each with all the rest, means that each simple substance has relations which express all the others, and that consequently it is a perpetual living mirror of the universe.
mean writing journey
Writing when you are already very old means you have lived through the endings of so many things, you are more aware of the shape life takes. You begin to know Death, you've been close to it. But youth can barely imagine the end of this journey. Gore Vidal
mean order half
Yet in a society of conflicting interests the only democratic way in which matters can be improved is through politics, and politics means the compromising of extremes in order to achieve that notorious half loaf which the passionate and the outraged never find sufficient.
mean nouveau-riche said
There's a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.
mean shallow-person well-being
Ah, well, being conflicted means you can live a shallow life without copping to be a shallow person. Gillian Flynn
mean laughing doe
It really does mean so much when your cast mates, who you respect so much, tell you that you made them laugh. Gillian Jacobs
mean trying cry
I always try to have a bigger picture view of my career. But that didn't mean that I didn't cry about not getting jobs.
mean school successful
If somebody is deemed more talented within the confines of the school it doesn't mean they're going to have the most successful career.
mean first-impression important
Your agents and your managers will always say stuff to you like, "It's really important to make a good first impression on a casting director. And even though you didn't get that job, because you did well that means they'll keep bringing you back in." But when you really just need a job to pay your rent, that stops being very consoling.
mean icons feminist
A friend of mine wrote a script, a feminist romantic comedy. She had a feminist scholar consult on it. My friend said, 'Oh, my friend Gillian read it and really loved it.' She goes, 'Gillian Jacobs, you mean: Britta Perry, feminist icon?'
meaningful art motivation
When I first painted a number of canvases grey all over (about eight years ago), I did so because I did not know what to paint, or what there might be to paint: so wretched a start could lead to nothing meaningful. As time went on, however, I observed differences of quality among the grey surfaces - and also that these betrayed nothing of the destructive motivation that lay behind them. The pictures began to teach me. By generalizing a personal dilemma, they resolved it. Gerhard Richter
mean aggressive
I'm not mean, just aggressive. Harvey Martin
mean rights addresses
A constructive approach to diplomacy doesnt mean relinquishing ones rights. It means engaging with ones counterparts, on the basis of equal footing and mutual respect, to address shared concerns and achieve shared objectives. Hassan Rouhani
mean gay fighting
It's not my victory, it's yours and yours and yours. If a gay can win, it means there is hope that the system can work for all minorities if we fight. We've given them hope. Harvey Milk
mean knowing
Knowing that Ricky Gervais will never work again means a lot to me. I'm going to make sure of it. Harvey Weinstein
mean artist opposites
The skills of the modern artist are the opposite of those of the craftsman: instead of acquiring techniques for producing classes of objects, the artist today perfects the means suited to his particular work. Harold Rosenberg
mean long pieces
A short piece of work means as much to me as a long piece of work. Harold Pinter
meaningful looks
I look for the meaning in what's funny, and I look for what's funny about things that are meaningful to me. Harold Ramis
mean pride people
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
mean careers singing
Sinatra was the biggest influence on my life, my singing career. And rightly so. I mean he was the best singer ever. James Darren
mean men thinking
The People, though we think of a great entity when we use the word, means nothing more than so many millions of individual men. James Bryce
mean events
At all events, I do not mean to leave it unaltered. James Branch Cabell
mean vote valuable
Freedom to vote is valuable primarily as a means to safeguard other freedoms. James Bovard
mean errors simplicity
Developing fewer features allows you to conserve development resources and spend more time refining those features that users really need. Fewer features mean fewer things to confuse users, less risk of user errors, less description and documentation, and therefore simpler Help content. Removing any one feature automatically increases the usability of the remaining ones. Jakob Nielsen
mean way programming
Users spend most of their time on other sites. This means that users prefer your site to work the same way as all the other sites they already know.
mean goal political
Sustainability is a seemingly laudable goal - it tells us we need to live within our means, whether economic, ecological, or political - but it's insufficient for uncertain times. How can we live within our means when those very means can change, swiftly and unexpectedly, beneath us? Jamais Cascio
mean people looks
Often the lines that define the traditional European arrangement of fiction, non-fiction, history, etc. are not useful. These lines can distort the world we, people who look like me, live in - and by the world, I mean our personal experience of it. Jamaica Kincaid
mean opening-up car
Every time I copy something, I can draw it for the rest of my life. But research is so painful - I mean just opening up a magazine looking for a picture of a car or looking out the window looking for a car is just hard! Jaime Hernandez
meaningful laughing feelings
Feeling inspired, being challenged. Learning something new, something meaningful. Knowing change is possible and I can make that happen. Understanding and loving others, feeling truly connected and authentic. Good food, great sex, and belly laughs. All the basic foundations of happiness, really! Jaime Murray
mean warrior fighting
Um, the relationship between Thor and Sif in this movie is quite platonic. I mean, they're good buddies, they've grown up with each other, they're warriors, they fight side by side. We haven't take it to the next level yet. I'm going to throw that in there. But yeah, she kind of thinks he's a little bit pig-headed, but she loves him nevertheless, you know, she's like that's my buddy, I'll do what I can for him. Jaimie Alexander
mean america people
It is with enormous distress that France has just learned of the monstrous attacks there is no other word for it that have just struck the United States of America. In these horrifying circumstances, the entire people of France, and I want to emphasize this, stand by the people of America. They express their friendship and solidarity in this tragedy. Naturally, I want to assure President Bush of my total support. France, as you know, has always condemned and unreservedly condemns terrorism, and considers that terrorism must be combated by all possible means. Jacques Chirac
mean listening mama
Mama says it's okay to be on the quiet side—if quiet means you're listening, watching, taking it all in. Jacqueline Woodson