Top 1200 Mean Streets Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

Sometimes people say things and don't really know what they mean by what they're saying. Subconsciously, it might mean something different.

But I was born in the real world, I'm from the streets.

I mean UKIP, I mean it's just a sort of, you know, bunch of fruitcakes and loonies and closet racists, basically.

I'm not in it for fame. I've been famous in the streets already.

I started playing football in the streets.

If you are emotionally honest, you should mean what you say but also mean what you do.

When we say 'time', I believe we mean at least two things. We mean changes. And we mean something unchangeable. We mean something that moves . but against an unmoving background. And vice versa.Animals can sense changes. But consciousness of time involves the double sense of constancy and change. Which can only be attributed to those who give expression to it. And that can only be done through language, and only man has language.The perception of time and language are inextricably bound up with one another.

Of all composers, past and present, I am the least learned. I mean that in all seriousness, and by learning I do not mean knowledge of music.

As far as Deep Purple goes, I mean, they're iconic. Their contribution is unquantifiable, and as far as the politics involved in things like awards, you know, I don't think anything, because I know what they mean to me, and I know what they mean to the people who like them. Awards are very politically based.

Being tolerant does not mean acquiescing to the intolerable; it does not mean covering up disrespect; it does not mean coddling the aggressor or disguising aggression. Tolerance is the virtue that teaches us to live with the different. It teaches us to learn from and respect the different.

You have to live among rich liberals to understand what they're saying. You'll never believe what they mean by 'middle class.' They mean themselves.

I haven't done years of diversity training, so sometimes I say things which are probably tactless, and I don't mean to, to be honest, I don't mean to do that.

My poems mean what people take them to mean.

Write your own songs. It helps you to mean what you're singing, which will then make it mean something to listeners.

Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say No when they mean Yes, and drive a man out of his wits for the fun of it.

I see myself as the godfather of the streets.

You can say you're sorry 5,000 times, but that doesn't mean you mean it.

Don't forget who your heroes are, what they mean to you, and why they mean that to you.

I mean to prove I mean to move in my own way/ And say I've been getting along/ For long before you came into the play.

If I wasn't playing basketball, I would be in the streets.

I feel like a lot of niggas in the rap game ain't do what I did in these streets and a lot of niggas in the streets ain't do what I did in the rap game. I still feel like a lot of people don't feel where we come from.

The people in the streets, we need to come together as one.

The object of this competition is not to be mean to the losers but to find a winner. The process makes you mean because you get frustrated.

What do I mean by concentration? I mean focusing totally on the business at hand and commanding your body to do exactly what you want it to do.

This is going to sound bad, but it's not hard to be super mean. It's actually really fun to play a mean boy.

There are so many books I mean to read, and things I mean to see.

The Self has turned out to mean so many things, to mean them so ambiguously, and to be so wavering in its application, that we do not feel encouraged.

I began playing football on the streets.

We cannot have chaos reign in the streets.

Everywhere I go I'm always spotted on the streets.

Even if they had it in the streets, I wouldn't go.

By the streets of 'by and by,' one arrives at the house of 'never'.

That's what I mean by radical truth. I mean accepting reality.

The streets will get you in jail.

I love discovering tiny streets.

Mean doesn't last. Mean is over fast. Maybe this is the essence of everything, which is, to me, if there is no emotional center for what I'm doing, I have no interest in it at all.

Auguries are oft subtle...and dangerous - thou may deem they mean one thing when they mean something else altogether.

The biggest challenge I have is to learn when somebody doesn't really mean what they're saying 'cause I don't say something I don't mean. I live in Literalville.

You don't think that mean people can be funny, and Jane Lynch is the epitome of that. If there could be, like, a gay version of 'Mean Girls,' I'd totally be in it.

The trouble with men is that they are mean-they may mean, but they don't move.

Being a philanthropist doesn't mean necessarily writing a huge check. It can mean mobilizing your community to start asking questions.

Silent streets have many things to say.

On the other hand, I mean, that is what writers have always been supposed to do, was to rely on their own devices and to - I mean, writing is a lonely business.

I have this theory about words. There's a thousand ways to say "Pass the salt". It could mean, you know, "Can I have some salt?" or it could mean, "I love you.". It could mean, "I'm very annoyed with you". Really, the list could go on and on. Words are little bombs, and they have a lot of energy inside them.

In grad school, I led a bit of a double life. I don't mean gender-wise - I just mean intellectually.

I mean, I'm not a, you know, a fraidy cat. I mean, I am truly concerned in this country that we are moving towards fascism.

Streets flooded. Please advise.

Words never mean what we want them to mean.

When I say be skeptical of everything I mean it. Just because someone was elected to do a job doesn't mean that person has any idea of what they're doing.

My conservatory is in the streets. My intelligence is instinct.

What I never understand about a hangover is, where does the breath come from? You know what I mean? I mean, is someone shitting in your mouth?

I never mean to be disrespectful, and I don't mean to be a wise guy.

Gian Luigi Polidoro and his girlfriend had written this script, it was an American comedy, and they decided I was the guy to play the part. I was young, they offered me the lead in the film, and I said, "Sure, I'll do it." And I'm telling you, there is a movie waiting to be made about the making of a movie like that, particularly at that time in New York. I mean, we shot all over the streets of New York without permits. We would literally grab a shot and run. But Rent Control... I think the total cost was $100,000, and to this director's credit, I think it looks like $200,000.

People on the streets are ready for hockey.

I miss you so much your absence causes me, at times, accute pain. I don't mean sexually. I mean in connection with my writing.

I want to play the mean girl one day - or the mean gay!

The streets made me who I am.

I still feel like we're a skate brand - it doesn't mean we can't present our stuff well. It doesn't mean that when you come in, everything has to be messy.

Surrealism runs through the streets.

Ageing doesn't mean giving up on style and individuality; it doesn't mean abandoning fashion and living in comfy slippers and flannel knickers.