Quotes about mean
mean missing sign-language
Well, usually when a person shakes their head,” said McGonagall coldly, “they mean ‘no.’ So unless Miss Edgecombe is using a form of sign language as yet unknown to humans... J. K. Rowling
mean rude tone
I don't mean to be rude—" he began, in a tone that threatened rudeness in every syllable. "Yet, sadly, accidental rudeness occurs alarmingly often," Dumbledore finished the sentence gravely.
mean chocolate flavor
A bag of Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans. "You want to be careful with those," Ron warned Harry. "When they say every flavor, they mean every flavor - you know, you get all the ordinary ones like chocolate and peppermint and marmalade, but then you can get spinach and liver and tripe. George reckons he had a booger-flavored one once." Ron picked up a green bean, looked at it carefully, and bit into a corner. "Bleaaargh - see? Sprouts.
mean destroying possession
By all means continue destroying my possessions. I daresay I have too many.
mean emotional funny-harry-potter
Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have.
mean writing few-words
The thing about the 600 words, I mean some day, you can do a very, very, very hard day's work and not write a word, just revising, or you would scribble a few words.
mean design clients
Good design should follow looking into the products and reputation of clients who approach you, but this does not mean you have to follow them into bed. Ivan Chermayeff
mean play interesting
If you play something well, I don't care what it is. I mean, I don't play an electric [violin] - I tried. It's actually interesting. Itzhak Perlman
mean mind association
Money means in a thousand minds a thousand subtly different, roughly similar, systems of images, associations, suggestions and impulses. H. G. Wells
mean men tyrants
The great masses of men, though theoretically free, are seen to submit supinely to oppression and exploitation of a hundred abhorrent sorts. Have they no means of resistance? Obviously they have. The worst tyrant, even under democratic plutocracy, has but one throat to slit. The moment the majority decided to overthrow him he would be overthrown. But the majority lacks the resolution; it cannot imagine taking the risks. H. L. Mencken
mean men class
Liberty is of small value to the lower third of humanity. They greatly prefer security, which means protection by some class above them. They are always in favor of despots who promise to feed them. The only liberty an inferior man really cherishes is the liberty to quit work, stretch out in the sun, and scratch himself.
mean writing biographies
It means that no matter what you write, be it a biography, an autobiography, a detective novel, or a conversation on the street, it all becomes fiction as soon as you write it down. Guillermo Cabrera Infante
mean doe
Just because you will not see the work completed does not mean you are free not to take it up. Greg Iles
mean air gypsy
I understand travel. I understand the experience of travel. I mean there is something of the "air-conditioned gypsy" in me. Greg Lake
mean thinking talent
I don't think 'pop' should mean that you had no talent. Grace Jones
mean clothes depth
Music has its own depths, and I let it take me where it takes me, even if it means stripping all my clothes off.
mean thinking able
Crying is not a weakness. It's something that should be able to work for you. It should also be a strength. I think if you can cry when you feel like crying it's a strength. If you feel like crying and you can't cry, that's a weakness. That means you're holding all that stuff inside.
mean modest
To be modest means that you have something to be modest about. Grace Paley
mean order years
If you're feminist, it means that you've noticed that male ownership of the direction of female lives has been the order of the day for a few thousand years, and it isn't natural.
mean pie poison
Most of the Womens Libbers I knew really didnt want to have a piece of the mens pie. They thought that pie was kind of poisonous, toxic, really full of weapons, poison gases, all kinds of mean junk we didnt even want a slice of.
mean people healthy
If you're old and you're healthy and you're active - I don't mean you have to be politically active - if you remain interested in other people and the world, then you live as well as your health will allow.
mean able forget
To be able to forget means sanity. Jack London
mean thinking way
I think that providing obstructions in the live setting is when you get something that actually means something, as opposed to just aping your way through your greatest hits. J. Tillman
mean media actors
Money is tighter now, with the advertising dollar spread a lot more thinly across a whole range of media because of the Internet. It means the television networks have less power to produce shows, and TV is where most Australian actors make their money. Grant Bowler
mean literature owing-a-debt
Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them. George Herbert
mean
Hee that sendes a foole, means to follow him.
mean solitude use
By all means use sometimes to be alone.
mean variables matter
The potential infinite means nothing other than an undetermined, variable quantity, always remaining finite, which has to assume values that either become smaller than any finite limit no matter how small, or greater than any finite limit no matter how great. Georg Cantor
mean math development
Mathematics is entirely free in its development, and its concepts are only linked by the necessity of being consistent, and are co-ordinated with concepts introduced previously by means of precise definitions.
mean discovery certain
A good means to discovery is to take away certain parts of a system to find out how the rest behaves. Georg C. Lichtenberg
mean responsibility skills
From this day forward, Flight Control will be known by two words: -Tough- and -Competent. - Tough means we are forever accountable for what we do or what we fail to do. We will never again compromise our responsibilities. Every time we walk into Mission Control we will know what we stand for. Competent means we will never take anything for granted. We will never be found short in our knowledge and in our skills. Gene Kranz
mean animal ideas
You don't have to love animals to recognize that it is immoral and unjust to exploit them. But if you do love animals, but you continue to participate in their exploitation, you need to rethink your idea of what love means. Gary L. Francione
mean decision balance
We're on the verge of a financial collapse unless we balance the budget, and that means some really, really tough decisions. Gary Johnson