Mean Quotes

I've worked as a labourer, driven taxis and school buses, and been a car mechanic - whatever I could do just to get by. But it does mean that I know a little bit about a lot of things.

~ Cory Monteith

Peace does not mean just to stop wars, but also to stop oppression and injustice.

~ Tawakkol Karman

If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.

~ Andy Rooney

I never smile unless I mean it.

~ Donny Osmond

Just because a situation is grim doesn't mean you don't have every right to smile.

~ Rashida Jones

Sometimes you say things with a smile with the precise intention of making it clear that you are not being serious, and are only kidding. If I salute a friend with a smile and say, 'How are you, you old scoundrel!' clearly I don't really mean he's a scoundrel.

~ Umberto Eco

The reason I turn down 99% of a hundred, I mean a thousand, scripts is because romantic comedies are often very romantic but seldom very funny.

~ Hugh Grant

Romantic comedy has come to mean a couple of moderately talented actors placed in implausible situations obliged to go through a set of paces that are all too familiar, the end result being neither romantic nor comedic.

~ Edward Zwick

I had a lot of romantic notions about what it would mean to cross Asia by foot.

~ Rory Stewart

If you say to the White House, 'Obama has been very unfriendly to Israel,' they say, 'What do you mean? It's the best military-to-military relationship ever.' And that part is true.

~ Elliott Abrams

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.

~ Amy Lee

I started off in England and very few people knew I was Australian. I mean, the clues were in the poems, but they didn't read them very carefully, and so for years and years I was considered completely part of the English poetry scene.

~ Peter Porter

Abstract anger is great for rhetorical carrying on. You can go on endlessly about the post office, but it doesn't mean you're mad at your mailman.

~ P. J. O'rourke

Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed.

~ Irene Peter

I mean, I suppose when I'm in London, I'm home so I'm more comfortable.

~ Jourdan Dunn

Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society.

~ Thomas Paine

I mean you might say he had a travelling post office, but also Barney was very, very active. He was a legal officer for the NAACP and they had a lot of problems after Pease.

~ Betty Hill

I mean, I do wear a wedding ring and take it off when I shoot.

~ Henry Ian Cusick

Freedom of the press is not questioned when investigative journalism unearths scandals, But that does not mean that every classified state document should be made available to journalists.

~ Otto Schily

Paul McCartney had a baby when he was 61; Rod Stewart was 66; Rupert Murdoch was a stunning 72. Not only does that mean they'll have less stamina than the average dad, that means they'll, well, check out a lot sooner too.

~ Jeffrey Kluger

Father or stepfather - those are just titles to me. They don't mean anything.

~ Oliver Hudson

I owe everything to Nirvana. But I can't let that overshadow the future. For the first few years, I didn't even want to talk about Nirvana. Partly because it was just painful to talk about losing Kurt but also because I wanted the Foo Fighters to mean something.

~ Dave Grohl

California has something which not every place in the world has: It has what I would call a sunny side, and I don't mean just physically, but the sunny side is a future. California's worth saving, to put it bluntly.

~ Nicolas Berggruen