Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rebecca West

Charity is an ugly trick. It is a virtue grown by the rich on the graves of the poor. Unless it is accompanied by sincere revolt against the present social system, it is a cheap moral swagger. In former times it was used as fire insurance by the rich, but now that the fear of Hell has gone along with the rest of revealed religion, it is used either to gild mean lives with nobility or as a political instrument.

Rebecca West

In England and America a beard usually means that its owner would rather be considered venerable than virile; on the continent of Europe it often means that its owner makes a special claim to virility.

Ryan McPartlin

I'm a mean beanbag tosser.

Ryan Kwanten

I moved to L.A., and people said that I would never find work, that I would never find good friends, and I feel like I was fortunate enough to find the work, but it wouldn't mean anything unless I had a group of people who could appreciate it.

Ryan Lochte

I love working out. I mean, I've been doing it for about 20 years every day of my entire life. So I enjoy working out.

Russell B. Long

Tax reform means, "Don't tax you, don't tax me. Tax that fellow behind the tree."

Russell Brand

You shouldn't eat animals, it's mean to them,

Russell Brand

Sometimes when we're incensed by the rancid tide of injustice, the impulse is to attack. We must avoid this. We have learned that violence as a means is always unsuccessful.

Russell Brand

Right, we've got these institutions of media, these financial institutions, we have the means of distribution, we have the means of production, we have all these markets and maxims in place. How do we alter the consciousness, the fundamental unifying field? How do we influence change on that level to all of the world?

Roz Savage

"Stepping outside your comfort zone is supposed to feel uncomfortable because we're in new and unfamiliar territory. Being uncomfortable is a sign of success, NOT of failure! So if we are uncomfortably outside our comfort zones, then than means we are growing!!! And THAT is cause for celebration!" (modified from a passage in Roz Savage's "Rowing the Atlantic")

Roz Chast

I think maybe to survive, I mean to just get through the day - I'm not saying that everything is hilariously funny.

Ruben Blades

What is interesting in this is the exchange of music that occurred between New Orleans and Cuba, I mean, they had ferries that would go from one port to another.

Ruben Studdard

I mean I've always been a big dude.

Ruben Studdard

I mean always had a lot of self-confidence.

Rose Schneiderman

Today, for many people, being a union member simply means paying dues, but in the early days there were so few of us that if a majority of the members were not active, the union ceased to exist.

Rose McIver

Exercise is great for endorphins, and I come from a very outdoorsy upbringing, so that means a lot to me.

Rose McGowan

I see so much beauty in people and in the world and when I see ugliness I try to either expose it or fight but also remind myself that it's mostly just people who can't spell who say mean things.

Rose McGowan

I don't know how exactly but I'm maybe perverse in the sense that I like being disappointed in something on a daily basis. Because it means that I'm still not jaded.

Ronnie Dunn

I'm from Oklahoma. I mean, you can't have good hair in Oklahoma. That's why everyone wears hats. The wind just messes it up.

Ronda Rousey

There have been times in my adolescence where I gave up. I was like, 'I'm just never going to be pretty. I'm never going to be like one of those people on the front of magazines.' It always seemed really strange to me that the projection of how people are in advertisements looked nothing like the people who were actually buying them. You know what I mean? I never understood that mismatch, and now I really start to see that the people you see in the media are a lot more like people actually are.

Romesh Gunesekera

A novel means a new way of doing a story

Umberto Eco

Media populism means appealing to people directly through media. A politician who can master the media can shape political affairs outside of parliament and even eliminate the mediation of parliament.

Umberto Eco

Listening doesn't mean trying to understand. Anything, however trifling, may be of use one day. What matters is to know something that others don't know you know.

Umberto Eco

By means of the sign, man frees himself from the here and now for abstraction.

Umberto Eco

It takes a little time, but the pleasures of cooking begin before the pleasures of the palate, and preparing means anticipating ...

Umberto Eco

Writing doesn't mean necessarily putting words on a sheet of paper. You can write a chapter while walking or eating.

Umberto Eco

That is a real attitude - to see everything as being meaningful, even the less important things, to prove something, even the greater problems of life.

Tyler Blackburn

I love women, and I just think that they're great. I mean, yes, they can be a little nutty sometimes, but they're great.

Tryon Edwards

To be good, we must do good; and by doing good we take a sure means of being good, as the use and exercise of the muscles increase their power.

Troy Polamalu

The Coca-Cola Mean Joe Greene ad is one of the most famous commercials of all time, so I was blown away when they asked me to be in this new spot.

Truman Capote

The only obligation any artist can have is to himself. His work means nothing, otherwise. It has no meaning.

Truman Capote

I've never had an affair with somebody who wasn't at the same time a very good friend of mine, if you see what I mean.

Trip Hawkins

What that means initially is that you have alot of products that are only slightly better games in the same genre on another machine - and the titles that really take advantage of the machine come along later.