5,159 Quotes About Mean

Painting is drawing, with the additional means of color.

The purpose of subject matter is to veil technique. The great artist uses the cloak of resemblance to hide the means.

To the average mind popular music would mean compositions vulgarly conceived and commonplace in their treatment. That is absolutely false.

It would mean so much to us, the school and the community. Personally, I don't want to travel, either. I want to stay home. If that happens, I just think it would be awesome.

A liberal education is that which aims to develop faculty without ulterior views of profession or other means of gaining a livelihood. It considers man an end in himself and not an instrument whereby something is to be wrought. Its ideal is human perfection.

The problem posed by indirect speech acts is the problem of how it is possible for the speaker to say one thing and mean that but also to mean something else.

In the performance of an illocutionary act in the literal utterance of a sentence, the speaker intends to produce a certain effect by means of getting the hearer to recognize his intention to produce that effect; and furthermore, if he is using the words literally, he intends this recognition to be achieved in virtue of the fact that the rules for using the expressions he utters associate the expression with the production of that effect.

The law against witches does not prove there be any; but it punishes the malice of those people that use such means to take away men's lives.

The Hebrew scriptures say it's okay to enslave anybody except your fellow Jews. It says you should enslave only your neighbors. I say to people that means Mexicans and Canadians are a bit at risk if we want to be literal about the Bible.