Most remarks that are worth making are commonplace remarks. The things that makes them worth saying is that we really mean them. – Robert Staughton Lynd
I mean, if you decided to go out today and get you an instrument and do whatever it is that you do, no one can tell you how you’re going to do it but when you do it. – Ornette Coleman
I love a finished speaker, I really, truly do I don’t mean one who’s polished, I just mean one who’s through. – Richard Armour
Foreign policy can mean several things, not only foreign policy in the narrow sense. It can cover foreign policy, relations with the developing world, and enlargement as well. – Romano Prodi
Once I commit to something, I complete it. If I say ‘no,’ I mean ‘no.’ I just have to learn how to say ‘no’ more. – Penny Marshall
The point is to expand the scope of what a movie can possibly mean or be, to get people involved because they’re artistic or understand the point of the material, not just because they fit a certain bill aesthetically. – Ryan Phillippe
Say just what you mean to do on every occasion, and take it for granted you mean to do right. – Robert E. Lee
The cookie-cutter liberal, the standard operating procedure liberal, is really a giant ignoramus. I mean that seriously. They’re really ignorant. – Rush Limbaugh
I mean, gosh, my first tours I ever did were with the Ramones and Iggy Pop and Love & Rockets. – Perry Farrell
As I said before, there are often disagreements as to what a particular set of facts mean. That is not at all unusual, and one shouldn’t read into it more than is there. – Robert Mueller
All of us in Quebec – and I mean all of us – have allowed language to become a preoccupation that works to the disadvantage of all of us – and I mean all of us. – Richard Pound
My first inkling of what the Commonwealth might really mean came only when I escaped the oddly British-tinged Asia I had known and went to live in the Philippines. – Romesh Gunesekera
The marvelous thing about a joke with a double meaning is that it can only mean one thing. – Ronnie Barker
The fact that I spend a lot of time in the 18th century doesn’t mean I’m not concerned with the 21st. – Robert Darnton
That was a misconception among a lot of people – that Mormons are polygamist. No, they’re not. I mean they obviously have that in their history, and there are some fundamentalists. – Trey Parker
I mean, I’ve always had scattered interests, but I never went on stage to get an agent or anything like that. – Todd Barry
