You can when you mean to,' said Maurice gently. 'You can…

You have to lead people gently toward what they already know is right.

— Phil Crosby

“You're so mean,' I said. 'You're like one of those people who upload pictures of themselves where they look really hot and the other…

— Shirley Marr

People are always nice; I never get anything mean said to me on the street.

— Chris Lilley

If you don't mean what you said just shut the fuck up please. Cause it makes my brain sad.

— Anonymous

Skepticism, is that anything more than we used to mean when we said, Well, what have we here?

— Robert Frost

Say exactly what you mean. Enough said.

— Nido R Qubein

If the mean thing is being said with a person who abused malice, then something sounds mean. If something that is considered mean is…

— Helene Yorke

“—I mean, said Stephen, that I was not myself as I am now, as I had to become.”

— James Joyce

She seemed to mean what she said. She said pretty much this: I retained some lawyers, I have to move on with my life,…

— Dennis Kozlowski

“You don't mean it," he said mournfully. Not at all, she thought. "Yes, I do," she said.”

— Ann Brashares

“Did you mean what you said before? About the dead hanging around? You really believe it?”

— Jennifer Walkup

What is lofty can be said in any language. What is mean should be said in none.

— Maimonides

“My heart, body, and soul all seemed to dance within me in triumph as he pulled me close to him, slipping a hand underneath…

— Bailey Ardisone

My job as an editor is to gently prod the attention of the audience to look at various parts of the frame. And that…

— Walter Murch

Not to be offensive, not to be capricious, not to be arbitrary, not to be neurotic, not to be an actor outer, you're just…

— William Hurt