Quotes about mean
mean night long-ago
An apocryphal story - the word "apocryphal" here means "obviously untrue" - tells of two people, long ago, who were very bored, and that instead of complaining about it they sat up all night and invented the game of chess so that everyone else in the world, on evenings when there is nothing to do, can also be bored by the perplexing and tedious game they invented. Daniel Handler
mean events-in-life unfortunate
They didn't understand it, but like so many unfortunate events in life, just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.
mean air differences
It is very useful, when one is young, to learn the difference between "literally" and "figuratively." If something happens literally, it actually happens; if something happens figuratively, it feels like it is happening. If you are literally jumping for joy, for instance, it means you are leaping in the air because you are very happy. If you are figuratively jumping for joy, it means you are so happy that you could jump for joy, but are saving your energy for other matters.
mean years gold
Just because something is traditional is no reason to do it, of course. Piracy, for example, is a tradition that has been carried on for hundreds of years, but that doesn't mean we should all attack ships and steal their gold.
mean night giving
Every night I give a violin recital for six hours, and attendance is mandatory. The word 'mandatory' means that if you don't show up, you have to buy me a large bag of candy and watch me eat it.
mean people earth
As I am sure you know, when people say 'It's my pleasure,' they usually mean something along the lines of, 'There's nothing on Earth I would rather do less.' [...]
meaningful use want
No matter what techniques I use, I still want to go after the eternal, meaningful aspects of painting.
meaningful people quests
Simply being with other people who are also seekers and who are involved in the same quest you are is very meaningful. Dan Wakefield
mean cutting winning
If one thing that bothers me about acting, it's that there's no clear-cut number one. The closest you can get is winning an Academy Award, and I'm going to work on that if it takes me the next 50 years. To my peers, it will mean that I'm the best!
mean thinking giving
A lot of people think that public speaking means that you are standing at a podium giving a speech, but public speaking comes in lots of different formats. Dana Perino
mean knowing empowering
I've found that knowing the material or the policy or the facts better than anyone else in the room is so empowering - and that means fully understanding them.
mean thinking would-be
I think ABC sort of hoped I would be really like Carol Burnett. I mean literally, I think. Dana Carvey
mean past thinking
Hip hop is the new rock n' roll, you know what I mean? And anybody who doesn't think that is just sort of living in the past. It's all just American music, really, when you get right down to it. Dan Auerbach
mean atheism theism
It turns out that the word atheism means much less than I had thought. It is merely the lack of theism. Dan Barker
mean night cry
I had a slight touch of Tourette's, which means you talk to yourself and bark and cry out at night. Dan Aykroyd
mean black-and-white tv-shows
Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
mean people giving
The people that lend you money basically give you an answer based on the risk that they are willing to take. But just because a bank is willing to take a particular risk doesn't mean that that is the right amount for me to spend. Dan Ariely
mean basques company
A life without friends means death without company. (Adiskidegabeko bizita, auzogabeko heriotza.) —BASQUE PROVERB Craig Johnson
mean blood up-north
We do have a big kind of history in literate tradition of Vikings and we have a lot of Viking blood in Scotland, I mean especially up north wherever you go you see a plastic Viking sitting outside a shop and Viking calendars and - because they - you know they came down and stole all our chicks and then some of them didn't quite get back and ended up settling down here. So there's a lot of Viking blood in Scotland. Craig Ferguson
mean littles arizona
Happy Cinco de Mayo. If you don't know what that means, maybe you're a little out of touch - or maybe you're the governor of Arizona.
mean office president
Former president Bill Clinton was elected on this very day in 1992. Clinton went on to leave quite a mark in the oval office... You mean the one on the sofa?
mean night care
I do a show. It comes on late at night on TV. And if that means I'm a late-night talk show host, then I guess I am, but in every other regard I resign my commission, I don't care for it.
mean games mad
So far rich people have been very quiet about the possibility of getting taxes raised on them, but that doesn't mean they won't get mad about it, it just means they don't know about it. Because it takes a while for bad news to reach a rich person. First their accountant has to tell the butler, who has to tell the servant, who wouldn't dare interrupt their game of croquet.
mean skills giving
Being the executive producer of a film is not that difficult. It just means that you have some power. There's not a huge amount of skill involved, I don't know how much I'm giving away here. I feel like that guy on Fox, giving away the magicians' tricks. It's not rocket science, being an executive producer of a film.
mean people demographics
HD doesn't mean anything to me. It's a technical thing. It's like demographics. A lot of people know about it.
mean needs stuff
Climate change is a serious problem. We all need to do what we can. Unless that means I've got to change stuff. Then I'm not doing it.
mean years great-day
It's a great day for Sarah Palin. She was hired as a commentator for Fox News. She signed a multi-year contract, which means she'll probably quit after a year.
mean illustration expression
British diplomats, constantly exposed to American political-ethical rhetoric, find their professional skills tested to the limits by the need to keep a straight face. For illustrations of what I mean, study the photographs of the expressions worn by Mr Douglas Hurd at any international conference involving all the Western allies. Conor Cruise O'Brien
mean able earth
I never want to lose my Canadian-ness...and when I say Canadian-ness, I mean down-to-earth. I like being able to not take myself seriously and to not feel entitled. Cobie Smulders
mean generosity accepting
True generosity means accepting ingratitude. Coco Chanel
mean men burned
If a man talks bad about all women, it usually means he was burned by one woman.
mean men ties
How was she to tie herself to a man without permitting him to imprison her? And was there some means of acquiring things without those things possessing her? Clarice Lispector
mean monsters persons
Who has not asked himself at some time or other: am I a monster or is this what it means to be a person?