Mean Quotes
Beauty means this to one person, perhaps, and that to the other. And yet when any one of us has seen or heard or read that which to us is beautiful.
John GalsworthyJohn Galsworthy I wanted to be as close as I could to the Really Real, and I’ll capitalize both of those R’s, because God is a word that means different things to different people, but we might all agree it’s what is most real.
Barbara Brown TaylorBarbara Brown Taylor It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge.
Phyllis DillerPhyllis Diller What would it mean in practice to eliminate all the ‘negative people’ from one’s life [as demanded by motivational speaker J.P. Maroney]? It might be a good idea to separate from a chronically carping spouse, but it is not so easy to abandon the whiny toddler, the colicky infant, or the sullen teenager.
Barbara EhrenreichBarbara Ehrenreich Reason doesn’t mean very much in a country like North Korea.
Ban Ki-moonBan Ki-moon Nothing’s as mean as giving a little child something useful for Christmas.
Kin HubbardKin Hubbard Remember, weapons of mass destruction don’t mean missiles.
Noam ChomskyNoam Chomsky Awards don’t really mean much.
Uta HagenUta Hagen The land gets inside of us; and we must decide one way or another what this means, what we will do about it.
Barry LopezBarry Lopez But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
William CowperWilliam Cowper To act without rapacity, to use knowledge with wisdom, to respect interdependence, to operate without hubris and greed are not simply moral imperatives. They are an accurate scientific description of the means of survival.
Barbara WardBarbara Ward Living with integrity means… behaving in ways that are in harmony with your personal values.
Barbara De AngelisBarbara De Angelis I know street art can feel increasingly like the marketing wing of an art career, so I wanted to make some art without the price tag attached. There’s no gallery show or book or film. It’s pointless. Which hopefully means something.
BanksyBanksy A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin the art world has always been an unrelenting taste machine, but now flavors of the month have morphed into flavors of the minute. Again, all a reflection of a wider cultural condition. I mean, the art world is slow compared with the music and movie businesses.
Barbara KrugerBarbara Kruger A writers job is to destroy and then to build the thing back up again by a chosen means.
Barry HannahBarry Hannah