5,159 Quotes About Mean

I have to bring to your notice a terrifying reality: with the development of nuclear weapons Man has acquired, for the first time in history, the technical means to destroy the whole of civilization in a single act.

Indeed, the whole human species is endangered, by nuclear weapons or by other means of wholesale destruction which further advances in science are likely to produce.

Words should be employed as the means, not the end; language is the instrument, conviction is the work.

So, as one sees, I by no means deprive my world of stubborn reality, if I merely call it a world of ideas.

In writing scripts now, having made a film, I'm much more conscious of what it means to shoot and edit a movie, and that affects the writing.

By an individual being, whatever one's metaphysical doctrine, one means an unique being, that is, a being which is alone of its own type, or is such that no other of its class exists.

There can be no doubt but that he who has the most materials has the greatest means of invention...

I prefer to act with friends. I mean you start off as strangers always with someone, but to really find a relationship that you enjoy personally and creatively, it's fantastic.

For me, the term "literary fiction" means there's always attention paid to language, and linguistic experimentation, sophistication.