Best said & mean Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The first bill that President Obama signed into law was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. I think it says something about his priorities that the first bill he put his name on has my name on it too. As he said that day with me by his side, "Making our economy work means making sure it works for everyone."”

Thinking Firsts Mean Said Law Names Sides President Pay Economy Fairs Bills Priorities President Obama

Author:Lilly Ledbetter

“They say now in America that final cut doesn't mean anything. As Harvey Weinstein said to some film-maker, 'You can have final cut. I'll open your film in Arkansas.'”

Mean Said America Film Cutting Finals Makers Harvey Arkansas

Author:Mira Nair

“I mean, that's a sad day in America when you're recalled because you did what you said you were going to do, and the public voted you in to do that.”

Mean Said America Sad Day

Author:Russell Pearce

“Reviewers said Ghost Country was rich, astonishing and affecting in the way it blended comedy, magic, and a gritty urban realism in a breathtaking ride along Chicago's mean streets.”

Way Mean Said Country Rich Comedy Magic Streets Ghost Chicago Realism Urban Astonishing Reviewers Breathtaking Mean Streets

Author:Sara Paretsky

“I had to go to a mirror and look at it. I couldn't picture myself in my own head. I had no image beyond a stick figure. I wasn't a mean person as a kid, or dumb, and something has to be said to justify excluding you.”

Looks Mean Persons Said Kids My Own Figures Mirrors Sticks Dumb Justify Mean Person

Author:Uma Thurman

“I mean, I've always said I have an amazing team and network of friends and people that I work with that, you know, inspire me and enable me to do what I do.”

People Knows Mean Said Team Inspire

Author:Alexander Wang

“I mean, Robert Pattinson. No, I’m kidding, I shouldn’t say that. He’s actually really nice. My neighbour works with him and said he was a great guy. I don’t know to be honest, I don’t really model myself after anybody. You’re always just trying to create opportunities and be ready when those opportunities present themselves. I can’t look at anybody and think ‘I want to be Damian Lewis’ – I’d be setting myself up for failure.”

Thinking Knows Want Trying Looks Mean Said I Can Guy Opportunity Nice Honest Ready Models Setting Settings Being Honest Neighbour Really Nice Great Guy

Author:Diego Klattenhoff

“I saw a poll that said the right track/wrong track in Iraq was better than here in America. It's pretty darn strong. I mean, the people see a better future.”

People Mean Said America Strong Saws Iraq Track Polls Better Future Right Track

Author:George W. Bush

“We've said from the beginning when we traded Richie (Sexson), we're trading home runs for doubles and the ability to manufacture runs... Doubles are almost better. I mean, home runs are great, but when you've got guys who smack those doubles, you're in good shape, you've got a lot of guys in scoring position.”

Mean Said Home Running Guy Ability Position Shapes Trading Home Run Smack

Author:Ned Yost

“And one day, this thing happened to me: I coughed, and the blood just came gushing out of my mouth. ... I still can't believe that that happened to me, but I sat there, and I said to God, 'Well, if it means I'm going to die, that's OK.' I don't think I've ever felt that same kind of peace, the kind of serenity that I felt after acknowledging that maybe I was going to die of this TB.”

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Author:Desmond Tutu

“I don't think we've got the gospel right yet. What does it mean to be 'saved'? When I read the Bible, I don't see it meaning, 'I'm going to heaven after I die.' Before modern evangelicalism nobody accepted Jesus Christ as their personal Savior, or walked down an aisle, or said the sinner's prayer.”

Thinking Mean Doe Said Dies Jesus Heaven Christ Prayer Modern Jesus Christ Accepted Saved Sinner Savior Aisle Going To Heaven

Author:Brian D. McLaren

“I would never say I was an icon, but so many people have said I am, so I suppose I am. I mean, I can't not be what everyone says I am. But I don't feel like an icon.”

People Feels Mean Said I Can Icons

Author:Jane Goodall

“I get a lot of 'Oh, you've been gone.' I wasn't gone. Just because you didn't see me doesn't mean I wasn't working and collecting checks. I just wasn't singing and doing videos. I do a lot of other things, like I said, like writing scripts and stuff like that. I write for other artists.”

Writing Mean Said Artist Stuff Gone Singing Scripts Checks Video Collecting Writing Scripts

Author:Tionne Watkins

“By 'flat' I did not mean that the world is getting equal. I said that more people in more places can now compete, connect and collaborate with equal power and equal tools than ever before. That's why an Indian in Bangalore can take care of the office work of American doctors or read the X-rays of German hospitals.”

People World Mean Said Care Equal Office Tools Doctors Take Care Indian Flats Hospitals Rays Office Work Bangalore Equal Power

Author:Thomas Friedman

“And, to prevent mistakes, I must advertize you, that I now mean by elements, as those chymists that speak plainest do by their principles, certain primitive or simple, or perfectly unmingled bodies; which not being made of any other bodies, or of one another, are the ingredients of which all those called perfectly mixt bodies are immediately compounded, and into which they are ultimately resolved: now whether there be any such body to be constantly met with in all, and each, of those that are said to be elemented bodies, is the thing I now question.”

Mean Made Said Body Science Certain Speak Simple Mistake Principles Mets Elements Definitions Ingredients Primitive

Book:The Sceptical Chymist

Source: The Sceptical Chymist

“One of the silliest lines ever said in a feature film came from Love Story, the 1970s hit, which immortalized the phrase, "Love means never having to say you're sorry." There are few people who would actually want to share a life with someone who held that concept near and dear.”

People Want Mean Said Stories Film Lines Share Concepts Sorry Dear Love Story Features Phrases Companionship Love Means

Author:Marge M. Kennedy

“It was Richepin who said somewhere, 'The love of art means loss of real love'... True, but on the other hand, real love makes you disgusted with art.”

Love Mean Art Said Real Hands Loss Real Love Disgusted

Book:Letters

Source: Letters

“You know when I decided to become professional - that means to expose yourself naked to the world with the other creative minds - I said, 'I'm going into areas I don't know. I might just fall right down to hell and kill myself.”

Knows World Mind Mean Said Might Fall Hell Creative Areas Decided Profession Naked Creative Mind

Author:Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

“If it is true, as used to be said, that oversalting means the cook is in love, at least one cook at Le Cirque must be head over heels.”

Ifs Mean Said Used Cooking Used To Be Cooks Heels Head Over Heels

Author:Mimi Sheraton

“It doesn't matter to me. I'm just worried. It's the first time I've see Teach like that. He said he had two regrets...Once, 20 years ago. And once when you hurt your wrist. He said he didn't ever want to regret again. I wonder what that means.”

Want Years Firsts Mean Said Two Matter Hurt Wonder Teach Regret Drama First Time Years Ago Worried Wrists

Author:Kim Su-mi

“[Writing is] largely a matter of application and hard work, or writing and rewriting endlessly until you are satisfied that you have said what you want to say as clearly and simply as possible. For me that usually means many, many revisions.”

Want Writing Mean Said Matter Hard Language Hard Work What You Want Satisfied Application Revision Rewriting

Book:The house of life: Rachel Carson at work

Source: The house of life: Rachel Carson at work

“Mitt Romney said he's not concerned about the very poor. What he means is people making less than a million.”

People Mean Said Poor Millions Concerned Romney

Author:David Letterman

“I mean you think about the guy, the Nigerian guy, who was going to blow up the plane. He was wearing a pair of Fruit of the Lunatic. ... Guy was not too bright. He said that the reason he became a suicide bomber was to work his way up in the al Qaeda organization.”

Thinking Way Mean Said Reason Guy Organization Suicide Fruit Blow Planes Pairs Als Lunatic Al Qaeda Bombers Suicide Bombers

Author:David Letterman

“My own doctrine of organization is that any body of people coming together for a purpose (whatever it may be) should consist of persons wholly wedded to said purpose and should consist of nobody else. If the purpose be Cannibalism (preference for Ham a la Capitalism) then nobody but a Cannibal should be admitted. There should be plenty of discussion and disagreement as to how and the means but none whatever as to ends.”

“By god the Buddhist means that from which the universe was born, the unborn of the Buddhist scriptures, and by soul that factor in the thing called man which moves towards enlightenment. Why need more be said of it, at any rate those who are not content with scholarship, but strive to attain that same enlightenment?”

Men Needs Mean Said Soul Moving Universe Born Enlightenment Strive Rate Scripture Factors Buddhist Scholarship Unborn

Book:An Invitation to the Buddhist Way of Life for Western Readers

Source: An Invitation to the Buddhist Way of Life for Western Readers

“You know, what's popular? Okay, vampires are very popular. Let me make my vampire movie. I'm not saying you can't make a vampire movie. But if you're going to do one do something crazy. I mean don't just get a bunch of, like I said, models and make them into vampires so you'll get an audience. You know maybe get some ugly vampires for a change.”

Ifs Knows Mean Said Audience Crazy Models Okay Let Me Ugly Bunch Vampire Very Popular Vampire Movie

Author:Billy Bob Thornton

“Whether it's a relationship or what you're wearing, or how much you weigh and what you said when you didn't mean it, like - it's hard to be totally under the microscope.”

Mean Said Hard Microscopes

Author:Amy Lee

“How many of you guys, in your own experience with women, have learned that "no" means "yes" if you know how to spot it? Let me tell you something. In this modern world, that is simply not tolerated. People aren't even gonna try to understand that one. I mean, it used to be said it was a cliche. It used to be part of the advice young boys were given.”

People Ifs Knows World Trying Mean Said Young Used Guy Given Boys Know How Modern Advice Let Me Used To Be Spots Modern World

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“I read a Bruce Lee quote that shifted how I'm trying to live my life right now. He said, "Some targets are only meant to be aimed at." Right? And I took that to mean a shift for myself from goal orientation to path orientation.”

Trying Mean Said Goal Path Right Now Target Meant To Be Living My Life Orientation

Author:Will Smith

“One can aim at honor both as one ought, and more than one ought, and less than one ought. He whose craving for honor is excessive is said to be ambitious, and he who is deficient in this respect unambitious; while he who observes the mean has no peculiar name.”

Mean Said Names Ought Honor Aim Peculiar Ambitious Craving

Author:Aristotle

“Of means of persuading by speaking there are three species: some consist in the character of the speaker; others in the disposing the hearer a certain way; others in the thing itself which is said, by reason of its proving, or appearing to prove the point.”

Way Mean Said Reason Character Certain Three Prove Species Speakers Appearing Persuading

Book:Aristotle's Treatise on Rhetoric

Source: Aristotle's Treatise on Rhetoric

“My toils in the quotation field have led me to formulate two or three laws about the way people use and abuse quotations. My first law is: When in doubt, ascribe all quotations to Bernard Shaw - which I don't mean to be taken literally, but as a general observation of the habit people have of attaching remarks to the nearest obvious speaker. Churchill, Wilde, Orson Welles and Alexander Woollcott are other useful figures upon whom to father remarks when you don't know who really said them.”

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Author:Nigel Rees

“Words of the jargon sound as if they said something higher than what they mean.”

Ifs Mean Said Sound Higher They Said Jargon

Book:The Jargon of Authenticity

Source: The Jargon of Authenticity

“It hath been said, that there is of nothing so much in hell as of self-will. The which is true, for there is nothing else there than self-will, and if there were no self-will, there would be no Devil and no hell. When it is said that Lucifer fell from Heaven, and turned away from God and the like, it meaneth nothing else than that he would have his own will, and would not be at one with the Eternal Will. So was it likewise with Adam in Paradise. And when we say Self-will, we mean, to will otherwise than as the One and Eternal Will of God willeth.”

Ifs Mean Said Self Would Be Heaven Hell Eternal Devil Gods Will Paradise Adam Lucifer Self Will

Author:Martin Luther

“To Harmodius, descended from the ancient Harmodius, when he reviled Iphicrates [a shoemaker's son] for his mean birth, "My nobility," said he, "begins in me, but yours ends in you.”

Mean Said Ends Son Birth Ancient Nobility

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Plutarch (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Plutarch (Illustrated)

“What is my identity ?" "Nothing," said the Master. "You mean that I am an emptiness and a void?" said the incredulous disciple. "Nothing that can be labeled." said the Master.”

Mean Said Identity Masters Emptiness Void Disciple

Author:Anthony de Mello

“It has been said, "History is written by the victors." I take this to mean we can make ourselves victorious by writing, and then rewriting our own stories. In a country and culture so dominated by media, by the manipulation of words and stories, telling the tales of people whose stories historically have not been told is a radical act and I believe an act that can change the world and help rewrite history.”

People World Writing Believe Mean Has Beens Said Country Helping Stories Culture I Believe Written Media Tales Radical Changing The World Manipulation Rewriting

Author:Jennifer Beals

“Against all the opposition in the world, I make this statement - that once I knew a magician. I was a witness of a performance that may some day be considered understandable, but that, in these primitive times, so transcends what is said to be the known that it is what I mean by magic.”

World May Mean Said Known Magic Performances Statements Witness Opposition Primitive Magician

Book:Wild Talents

Source: Wild Talents

“When someone is bullying you, don't let it get to you. I remember my friends in school, someone said something mean to them, and they really let it get to them. And it really affected them. But I would just say try to ignore it as much as possible and just be yourself.”

Trying Mean Said School Remember My Friends Being Yourself Affected Bullying Just Be Yourself

Author:Kaitlyn

“Becoming an artist does not merely mean learning something, acquiring professional techniques and methods. Indeed, as someone has said, in order to write well you have to forget the grammar.”

Writing Wells Mean Doe Said Motivational Artist Order Forget Becoming Method Technique Grammar

Author:Andrei Tarkovsky

“Mother told me always to follow the golden rule.And she said it's really a sin to be mean and cruel.So remember if you're untrueAngels up in heaven are looking at you.”

Ifs Mean Said Remember Mother Heaven Sin Golden Golden Rule

Author:Hal David

“Another scandal for Hillary Clinton - they're saying she used a private email address when she was secretary of state, which means the government couldn't archive and preserve her emails. Then Obama said, 'Don't worry, we saw them. We see everyone's emails.'”

Mean Said States Government Used Worry Saws Clinton Preserves Addresses Secretary Email Scandal Archives

Author:Jimmy Fallon

“What did a happy ending even mean in real life, anyway? In stories you simply said, 'They lived happily ever after,' and that was it. But in real life people had to keep on living, day after day, year after year.”

People Years Mean Said Real Stories Real Life Happy Endings Happily Ever After Ever After Simply Said

Book:Afterworlds

Source: Afterworlds

“Then do you mean that I have got to go on catching these damned two-and-a-half pounders at this corner forever and ever? The keeper nodded. Hell! said Mr. Castwell. Yes , said his keeper.”

Mean Said Two Half Hell Forever Sea Goes On Rivers Fishes Corners Boat Lakes Fishing Catching Keepers

Author:G. E. M. Skues

“When the word began to get out, the idea of tying imitations of aquatic worms was not met with universal approval in the fly-fishing community. It seems that worms had somehow gotten a bad name. I think a fishing pal of mine hit it on the head when he said, It just pisses them off that you can catch trout, I mean really big trout, on a fly that a five-year old can tie in twenty seconds!”

Source: Fly Fishing the Tailwaters

“Medieval England was a great military power with a sophisticated machinery of government, but her naval administration, at best improvised and for long periods missing altogether, pointed to a grave weakness: the lack of any reliable means of putting a force of warships at the disposal of the crown. Only Richard I and Henry V of all the kings of England can be said to have understood the problem and attempted to remedy it. It is no coincidence that they wer by far the most successful in war.”

“These guys have been criticized the last few years for not getting to where we're going, but I've always said that the most important thing in sports is to keep trying. Let this be an example of what it means to say it's never over.”

Trying Years Mean Has Beens Said Important Lasts Guy Winning Sports Example Losing Important Things Nba Keep Trying

Author:Jerry Sloan

“We must speak first about the division of land and about those who cultivate it: who should they be and what kind of person? We do not agree with those who have said that property should be communally owned, but we do believe that there should be a friendly arrangement for its common use, and that none of the citizens should be without means of support.”

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Author:Aristotle

“They always say 'Is there going to be a sequel to Bad Santa?' and you know, I mean, a long time ago they would talk about, you know, we're going to do a sequel to that but it was never serious. And they said 'Would you do it?' and I said out of all the movies I've done, that was a lot of fun, and maybe I would do a sequel if it ever came up and it made sense, but I said I don't think that's ever going to happen.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Mean Long Made Said Done Happens Fun Serious Long Time They Said Santa Long Time Ago Sequels Bad Santa

Author:Billy Bob Thornton

“He ended it. He just said he didn't - he - well, what he said was that he didn't feel it was right, and you know, I mean that's - because he ended it, he'd probably have to be the one to answer that.”

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Author:Monica Lewinsky

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