Means Quotes

I always leave that for other people to decide, because some of the things I consider to be disasters are some people's favorite movies. And that's what I like so much, is that you never know. Something intrigues somebody and means nothing to somebody else.

The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that we lack the means or the will to enforce significant change.

I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means.

I am really dedicated to understanding the planet/creature on which we live and know that means I must go beneath the sea to see 72 percent of what is going on.

We are now integrated into American society and I don't like the word fashionable, because fashionable means that it's going to pass. It's not like that anymore.

I completely take on the risk, the poker game, which being an artist means, and I'm going to try to make a film which honestly reflects what I have in my head.

Basically no, I mean I think that it's very easy to like I say, smoke a joint or even to wear a Chairman Mao button, or do a lot of these things with out knowing what's behind it, and what it really means.

In theory, I work an eight-hour day and a five-day week which means I can socialise with my pals who mostly have normal jobs like teaching and computer programming.

Prejudice - a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.

The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.

Just because Fate doesn't deal you the right cards, it doesn't mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.

A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.

It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of 'culture.'

New Orleans is 5 feet below sea level, which means that holes dug in the ground immediately fill with water. Coffins were punctured and sunk with weights, which didn't stop them from floating up out of the cemeteries and down the streets of the French Quarter on stormy nights. The solution was to bury people above ground, in what are called vaults.

To know the right means of getting something done is virtually to have done it.

I never use the word, it's loaded. What love means to me is need.

Love means to commit yourself without guarantee.

For too many, to work means having less income.

The first reason for the preponderant influence of those Evangelicals who define themselves as advocates of Religious Right theological and political ideologies is that they have both the financial means and technological know-how to make widespread use of modern electronic forms of communication.

Being born again means you have a new concept of yourself.

War - the ordinary man's most convenient means of escaping from the ordinary.

An office boy in London was the lowest of the low. The office boy was the tea boy. He would be the dog's body: It means someone who would do anything at all. I was quite prepared for that and enjoyed it.

When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.

Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!

Heaven means to be one with God.

There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.

All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.

There are a few writers that one has a relationship with that means, basically, you do whatever they say. One is Caryl Churchill, and the other is David Hare.

I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.

Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence.

If I somehow felt like having a site which strictly validates was an indication of my manhood, maybe I'd do it, but it really means very little to me. We're mavericks over here, what can we say?

Radical simply means 'grasping things at the root.'

In a sense the quest for the emancipation of black people in the U.S. has always been a quest for economic liberation which means to a certain extent that the rise of black middle class would be inevitable.

I don't think of myself as a character actress - that's become a phrase which means you've had it.

By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.

To me faith means not worrying.

Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end.

Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.

Transformation literally means going beyond your form.

Death to me means nothing as long as I can die fast.

Health to the ocean means health for us.

A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.

The aim of the tests carried on with these syllable series was, by means of repeated audible perusal of the separate series, to so impress them that immediately afterward they could voluntarily be reproduced.

In Hollywood, 'under development' means 'all I have is the title.'

I understood from an early age what being competitive means.

I think a song that's got something to say. I'm not much on gimmicks. I never have been because they don't last. But I like a song that tells a story and has some meat to it, you know, that means something.

Man should be master of his environment, not its slave. That is what freedom means.

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.

Status in itself is criminal for those with the means to move, and the means to weave communion between people.

Political union means transferring the prerogatives of national legislatures to the European parliament, which would then decide how to structure Europe's fiscal, banking, and monetary union.

The odds of being successful are the same for every group that is educated in America. It's just that the group that is not wealthy is 95 percent of the population. So if there are 100 successful people in a room, probably 95 out of 100 came from more modest means.

Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.

You can trust a Neil Simon script. Every dot. Every dash; that pause means something. He takes all the jokes out, practically.

If something is irrational, that means it won't work. It's usually unrealistic.

The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps.

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.

I can spot empty flattery and know exactly where I stand. In the end it's really only my own approval or disapproval that means anything.

I ascribe a basic importance to the phenomenon of language. To speak means to be in a position to use a certain syntax, to grasp the morphology of this or that language, but it means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization.

I'm saying that the depth of exploration of the male psyche and the female psyche is uneven. I see further, deeper renderings of what it means to be a man.

And we reduce almost all male-female problems by working on both the female and the male. And that usually means having both sexes take responsibility.

At the end of the day, successful box office just means that more people saw what you did and liked it, and that to me is the most important thing. That a lot of people saw it and liked it.

The Italian word 'stanza' means 'a room', and a room is a good way to conceive of a stanza. A room, generally speaking, is sufficient for its own purposes, but it does not constitute a house. A stanza has the same sense of containment, without being complete or independent.

The term 'epitaph' itself means 'something to be spoken at a burial or engraved upon a tomb.' When an epitaph is a poem written for a tomb, and appears in a book, we are aware that we are not reading it in its proper form: we are reading a reproduction. The original of the epitaph is the tomb itself, with its words cut into the stone.

Ask me not, 'Are you rightwing,' but ask me 'Are you a committed believer in individual freedom, the values of the enlightenment?' Then, yeah, if being rightwing means believing Adam Smith was right, both in the 'Wealth of Nations' and the 'Theory of Moral Sentiments,' then I'm rightwing.

If you take a strong stance and have a clear opinion or statement on any subject online, you're going to polarize people. And without that polarity, there's no discussion. Discussion is what I want, which means that I'm fine with the consequences.

If retirement means laying on a beach and rubbing coco butter on your stomach, about 48 hours of that will be enough for most people. You'll want something new.

It's very easy to confuse confident motion with being productive - and they're not the same thing. Productive to me means measurable outcomes that apply to my most important to-dos that positively affect my life. That's it.

There's already been black presidents who've been corrupt, so it doesn't strike me that having a black man in office means he's going to be the Messiah.

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

Acceptance doesn't mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there's got to be a way through it.