Mean quotes

“What I don't want to do is go out there and not be able to mean it, you know?” Henry Rollins

“I don't mean to be arrogant and I really appreciate my fans but talking about what I am doing is not something I'm good at. I do what I do and that's it. I want to get back to my work and do more of it instead of talking about it.” Henry Rollins

“I mean Black Flag happened. I was lucky. I don't think I could have put together something with one percent of that oomph on my own.” Henry Rollins

“I mean I appreciate fan mail and that the people like what I am doing but I can't answer it. If I would answer 25 letters a day I would be just a guy answering mail and not an artist anymore.” Henry Rollins

“Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.” Bill Gates

“I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you're trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you're giving it away. I mean is it gonna erode your ability, you know, to make money? Are you gonna somehow get confused about what you're trying to do?” Bill Gates

“Oh, I think there are a lot of people who would be buying and selling online today that go up there and they get the information, but then when it comes time to type in their credit card they think twice because they're not sure about how that might get out and what that might mean for them.” Bill Gates

“Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.” Francis Scott Fitzgerald

“Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.” Wayne Dyer

“Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.” Wayne Dyer

“Transformation literally means going beyond your form.” Wayne Dyer

“I mean I think that when you've got a big brain, when you find yourself planted in a world with a brain big enough to understand quite a lot of what you see around you, but not everything, you naturally fall to thinking about the deep mysteries. Where do we come from? Where does the world come from? Where does the universe come from?” Richard Dawkins

“Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence.” Charles Darwin

“While I was doing stand-up, I thought I knew for sure that success meant getting everyone to like me. So I became whoever I thought people wanted me to be. I'd say yes when I wanted to say no, and I even wore a few dresses.” Ellen DeGeneres

“Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.” Bertrand Russell

“Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction.” Bertrand Russell

“If any philosopher had been asked for a definition of infinity, he might have produced some unintelligible rigmarole, but he would certainly not have been able to give a definition that had any meaning at all.” Bertrand Russell

“With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.” Bertrand Russell

“As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak: she gave me a younger brother named Russell, who taught me what was meant by 'survival of the fittest.'” Bill Cosby

“When you carry a gun, you mean to harm somebody, kill somebody.” Bill Cosby

“When I say, I don't care what white people think, I mean that.” Bill Cosby

“One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.” Simone de Beauvoir

“The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.” Simone de Beauvoir

“When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.” William Blake

“Frankly, I mean, sometimes the interpretations I've seen on some of the songs that I've written are a lot more interesting than the input that I put in.” David Bowie

“I think it all comes back to being very selfish as an artist. I mean, I really do just write and record what interests me and I do approach the stage shows in much the same way.” David Bowie

“There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It's always been my way of expressing what for me is inexpressible by any other means.” David Bowie

“And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.” John Rockefeller

“Liberal and conservative have lost their meaning in America. I represent the distracted center.” Jon Stewart

“Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.” Carl Sagan