5,159 Quotes About Mean

What do you mean "gangsters"? It's business.

Seafood was always my favorite food. I mean, fried lobster? Come on. Once I found out shrimp, scallops and lobster were my allergic triggers, I had to change my diet.

Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.

In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.

Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.

One can't proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.

Two forms of government are favorable to the prevalence of falsehood and deceit. Under a Despotism, men are false, treacherous, and deceitful through fear, like slaves dreading the lash. Under a Democracy they are so as a means of attaining popularity and office, and because of the greed for wealth.

All three parts of filmmaking [writing, shooting, editing] contribute to rhytm. You want the script to be a tight as possible, you want the acting to be as efficient as possible on the set, and you have enough coverage to manipulate the rhythm in the editing room, and then in the editing room you want to find the quickest possible version, even if it's a leisurely paced film. I definitely in filmmaking more and more find writing and directing a means to harvest material for editing. It's all about editing.

Simplicity is the mean between ostentation and rusticity.