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Image of Orson Welles
Cinema as a means of expression fascinates me.
- Orson Welles
Collection: Mean
Image of Donald Trump
I don't like labels necessarily because a label doesn't mean very much. But when it comes to being conservative, I happen to be conservative.
- Donald Trump
Collection: Mean
Image of Donald Trump
I think in some cases, a penny is nothing compared to the kind of numbers. Then you get to fraud, waste and abuse, Sean. I mean, the fraud and the waste and the abuse, which everybody agrees if you can solve that problem, but it's, you know, mind-boggling the kind of numbers.
- Donald Trump
Collection: Mean
Image of Julian Baggini
True respect means taking other people's beliefs seriously and assuming they are adult and intelligent enough to be able to cope with it if you tell them, clearly and civility, why you think they are totally, utterly and disastrously wrong.
- Julian Baggini
Collection: Mean
Image of Tiffanie DeBartolo
Nobody, and I mean nobody, ever started a revolution playing by the rules
- Tiffanie DeBartolo
Collection: Mean
Image of Sandra Bernhard
Lots of people think that bisexual means cowardly lesbian.
- Sandra Bernhard
Collection: Mean
Image of J. I. Packer
Wisdom is the power to see, and the inclination to choose, the best and highest goal, together with the surest means of attaining it.
- J. I. Packer
Collection: Mean
Image of Aesop
The haft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own Lures. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.
- Aesop
Collection: Mean
Image of Henri Poincare
Thus, be it understood, to demonstrate a theorem, it is neither necessary nor even advantageous to know what it means. The geometer might be replaced by the "logic piano" imagined by Stanley Jevons; or, if you choose, a machine might be imagined where the assumptions were put in at one end, while the theorems came out at the other, like the legendary Chicago machine where the pigs go in alive and come out transformed into hams and sausages. No more than these machines need the mathematician know what he does.
- Henri Poincare
Collection: Mean
Image of Bjork
I mean, I've never been thinking that if you're a fan you have to buy everything that somebody puts out. I mean, you've got a choice. If you don't want it, just don't buy it. It's also a reaction to YouTube and sharing of files. A lot of it is really bad sound, really low quality. So the librarian in me wants it at least to exist there so that in 20 years when I'm sitting in my rocking chair, it will still exist in the best sound quality possible, even though it only sold 1000 units or whatever. As much as I love the whole pirate kind of thing, the quality suffers.
- Bjork
Collection: Mean
Image of Jose Saramago
...you have to leave the island in order to see the island, that we can't see ourselves unless we become free of ourselves, Unless we escape from ourselves you mean, No, that's not the same thing.
- Jose Saramago
Collection: Mean
Image of Dr. Seuss
ASAP. Whatever that means. It must mean, 'Act swiftly awesome pacyderm!
- Dr. Seuss
Collection: Mean
Image of Friedrich Nietzsche
Mathematics is merely the means to a general and ultimate knowledge of man.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Collection: Mean
Image of Colin Wilson
Now individual consciousness, as typified in human beings, has great advantages and great disadvantages. Individuality means a narrowing, and narrowness can be useful. It is good for close-up work. We have invented the magnifying glass and the microscope to narrow our vision, because narrowness makes for precision. But narrowness also makes for a failure of purpose, for exhaustion of the will; for purpose depends upon a broad vision, a clear sight of one's objective.
- Colin Wilson
Collection: Mean
Image of William Penn
They that Marry for Money cannot have the true Satisfaction of Marriage; the requisite Means being wanting.
- William Penn
Collection: Mean
Image of Jim Butcher
I mean, we're all going to die. We know that on an intellectual level. We figure it out when we're still fairly young, and it scares us so badly that we convince ourselves we're immortal for more than a decade afterwards.
- Jim Butcher
Collection: Mean
Image of Rachel Caine
Bracelets with white symbols?” Michael made the question casual; in fact, he bent his head and concentrated on tuning his guitar, not that it needed it. Every note sounded perfect as it whispered out of the strings. “Do you remember?” “No.” She felt a pure burst of something that wasn’t quite panic, wasn’t quite excitement. “Does that mean they have Protection?” He hesitated for about a second, just long enough for her to know he was surprised. “You mean condoms?” he asked. “Doesn’t everybody?
- Rachel Caine
Collection: Mean
Image of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
I think my first general rule is that most of my experiences are not that interesting. It's usually other people's experiences. It's not that entirely conscious. Somebody tells me a story or, you know, repeats an anecdote that somebody else told them and I just feel like I have to write it down so I don't forget - that means for me, something made it fiction-worthy. Interesting things never happen to me, so maybe two or three times when they do, I have to use them, so I write them down.
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Collection: Mean
Image of Isaac Newton
It is indeed a matter of great difficulty to discover, and effectually to distinguish, the true motions of particular bodies from the apparent; because the parts of that immovable space, in which those motions are performed, do by no means come under the observation of our senses. Yet the thing is not altogether desperate; for we have some arguments to guide us, partly from the apparent motions, which are the differences of the true motions; partly from the forces, which are the causes and effects of the true motions.
- Isaac Newton
Collection: Mean
Image of Wislawa Szymborska
When I mention somebody, that doesn't necessarily mean that I identify with him, personally or poetically. I'm extremely happy when I encounter poets who are different than I am. The ones who have their own distinct poetics provide me with the greatest experiences.
- Wislawa Szymborska
Collection: Mean
Image of Ludwig von Mises
Laissez faire does not mean: let soulless mechanical forces operate. It means: let individuals choose how they want to cooperate in the social division of labor and let them determine what the entrepreneurs should produce.
- Ludwig von Mises
Collection: Mean
Image of Ludwig von Mises
Free markets. What does this system mean? The answer is simple: it is the market economy, it is the system in which the cooperation of individuals in the social division of labor is achieved by the market.
- Ludwig von Mises
Collection: Mean
Image of Ludwig von Mises
Capitalism and socialism are two distinct patterns of social organization. Private control of the means of production and public control are contradictory notions and not merely contrary notions. There is no such thing as a mixed economy, a system that would stand midway between capitalism and socialism.
- Ludwig von Mises
Collection: Mean
Image of Carl Sagan
You mean am I for it or against it? You think this is a key question I'm going to be asked on Vega, and you want to make sure I give the right answer? Okay. Overpopulation is why I'm in favor of homosexuality and a celibate clergy. A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
- Carl Sagan
Collection: Mean
Image of Howard Rheingold
In the broad sense design means thinking about what the function or purpose of things or processes are, and translating that into action.
- Howard Rheingold
Collection: Mean
Image of Winona Ryder
I'm not a big one on - I don't know what to call it - getting all glamorous. I don't really worry about my looks, and I don't worry about getting old. Exterior beauty doesn't mean a lot to me.
- Winona Ryder
Collection: Mean
Image of Meryl Streep
She [Barbra Streisand] was just - we can't know what we mean to each other. You know, artists, you can't know - you can't know that, but she was really important.
- Meryl Streep
Collection: Mean
Image of Alexander Payne
All three parts of filmmaking [writing, shooting, editing] contribute to rhytm. You want the script to be a tight as possible, you want the acting to be as efficient as possible on the set, and you have enough coverage to manipulate the rhythm in the editing room, and then in the editing room you want to find the quickest possible version, even if it's a leisurely paced film. I definitely in filmmaking more and more find writing and directing a means to harvest material for editing. It's all about editing.
- Alexander Payne
Collection: Mean
Image of Emily Blunt
When I read a script, I'll have a very visceral gut reaction to what does this mean to me? How does she feel in my skin? Could I play this role?
- Emily Blunt
Collection: Mean
Image of Jim Butcher
No rest for the wicked, Bob, and that means that we can't slack off either, or they'll outwork us.
- Jim Butcher
Collection: Mean
Image of Esther Hicks
If you have the ability to desire it, the Universe has the ability to deliver it. You've just got to line up with what you want, which means— be as happy as you can be as often as you can be there, and let everything else take care of itself.
- Esther Hicks
Collection: Mean
Image of Gail Carriger
Madame Lefoux shrugged. "I do not know about that, my lady. I mean to say, one's life is one thing; one's technology is an entirely different matter.
- Gail Carriger
Collection: Mean
Image of Terry Pratchett
The thing is, I mean, there’s times when you look at the universe and you think, “What about me?” and you can just hear the universe replying, “Well, what about you?”
- Terry Pratchett
Collection: Mean
Image of Terry Pratchett
Anyway, just because you're sworn enemies doesn't mean you can't be friends, does it?
- Terry Pratchett
Collection: Mean
Image of Terry Pratchett
Just because you've got a mind like a hammer doesn't mean you have to treat everyone else like a nail
- Terry Pratchett
Collection: Mean
Image of Bill Vaughan
What the result means is that the Franco-German axis is in serious trouble. It's the end of a phase which began in 2002.
- Bill Vaughan
Collection: Mean
Image of Marilynne Robinson
It all means more than I can tell you. So you must not judge what I know by what I find words for.
- Marilynne Robinson
Collection: Mean
Image of Alfred North Whitehead
As society is now constituted, a literal adherence to the moral precepts scattered throughout the Gospels would mean sudden death.
- Alfred North Whitehead
Collection: Mean
Image of Philip Roth
I'm an Obama supporter. And if you're an Obama supporter that means you had a hard time during the Bush years.
- Philip Roth
Collection: Mean
Image of David Sedaris
I spend so much time like living in the past or the future. I mean, I think most people do, really. And the moments when you're really present in your life can be pretty rare, really.
- David Sedaris
Collection: Mean
Image of Iggy Pop
There are no pimps, no whores, no transvestites - gone. Now that's more the culture I'm comfortable in ... I don't like it in the house, you know what I mean, but I like it somewhere around.
- Iggy Pop
Collection: Mean
Image of Glenn Beck
We have two responsibilities when it comes to an election as citizens. We have the responsibility to vote and then to honor that vote, even if we disagree with it. That doesn't mean that we blindly follow. It just means we can't afford the president to fail.
- Glenn Beck
Collection: Mean
Image of Condoleezza Rice
I hope that all of us who were fortunate enough to have benefited will put our time, our resources and our efforts into making sure that kids, particularly kids without means, have a way to achieve.
- Condoleezza Rice
Collection: Mean
Image of Ayrton Senna
By being a racing driver means you are racing with other people. And if you no longer go for a gap that exists, you are no longer a racing driver because we are competing, we are competing to win.
- Ayrton Senna
Collection: Mean
Image of George Saunders
So many people mentioned this at these rallies. You go to these things and it's kind of like an oldies concert. I mean, it's not hostile.
- George Saunders
Collection: Mean
Image of Serena Williams
The tournament means so much to me as well as the things I do in Africa. I thought it could also work well together.
- Serena Williams
Collection: Mean
Image of Barack Obama
Short term, the most important thing is to put people back to work ... If they're working, that means they're paying taxes, that means that they're buying goods and services - and the economy, instead of being on a downward spiral, starts back up on an upward spiral.
- Barack Obama
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Image of Patrick Rothfuss
Elodin looked at me. "What a remarkably honest threat," he said. "Normally they're much more growlish and gristly than that." "Gristly?" I asked, emphasizing the 't.' "Don't you mean grisly?" "Both," he said. "Usually there's a lot of, 'I'll break your knees. I'll break your neck.'" He shrugged. "Makes me think of gristle, like when you're boning a chicken.
- Patrick Rothfuss
Collection: Mean