For storytelling purposes, there has to be conflict, but that doesn't mean the people have to be mean. I've never liked mean-spirited… — Michael Schur Copy Share Image
“Regarding both Misty and myself he was egotistical, rude, obnoxious, condescending, insensitive, and mean-spirited⎯and those are his good qualities.” — Randall Kenneth Drake Copy Share Image
Who knows what critics are thinking? I know that you make more of a name for yourself, make more of an interesting… — Paul Rudd Copy Share Image
There are as many stories to be told as there are people to tell them about; only the mean-spirited would consider there… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
“Goth was sort of the melancholy cousin of punk that says: there's a lot of evil in this world, there's a lot… — Aurelio Voltaire Hernández Copy Share Image
Suffering raises up those souls that are truly great; it is only small souls that are made mean-spirited by it. — Alexandra David-Neel Copy Share Image
The supposition that it was possible for any woman to be so mean-spirited as not at least to wish to tear out… — Sarah Fielding Copy Share Image
I'm a Christian first, and a mean-spirited, bigoted conservative second, and don't you ever forget it. You know who else was kind… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
I was a bit shut down by a lot of the snarkiness and biliousness in some of the poetry blogs. I was… — Simone Muench Copy Share Image
“ridiculous if not positively touched, filthy and mean-spirited to be so poor, vain to have airs and graces when so poor, superstitious… — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
“It is rather pitiful how obvious it is, and usually how simple it can be, for one to be blunt and critical,… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Honest and sincere acts mislead the wicked and cause them to lose their path to their own goals, because mean-spirited people usually… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
I found the speech, after listening to it in context, vile in manner, repugnant, malicious, mean-spirited and spoken in mockery of individuals… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
Meanwhile, however, what’s most bothersome about Pulp Fiction is its success. This is not to be mean-spirited about Tarantino himself; may he… — Stanley Kauffmann Copy Share Image
I never could tell a joke. I just started talking to the audience, and when the drunks would yell, "Hey, when do… — Don Rickles Copy Share Image
I went to a school in Miami that seemed like a private country club. The whole cheerleader, football player, clique-y thing there… — Zoe Kravitz Copy Share Image
In Leon's account of his life, no-one was mean-spirited, no-one schemed or lied or betrayed; everyone was celebrated at least in some… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
I think Ted Cruz is a very mean-spirited guy. You can see it from how the Republican Party responds to him. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
I want to try to counter what Donald Trump says because a lot of it is mean-spirited and would hurt people. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
I wanted to bring something to 'Celebrity Apprentice' to let America know that you don't have to be back-stabbing and mean-spirited in… — Cheryl Tiegs Copy Share Image
I hate the word starchitect. Stuff like that comes from mean-spirited, untalented journalists. It's demeaning. — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
I have noticed if I pull from fear or despair about the state of the world, I get tired, ineffective, afraid and… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
A lot of kid characters you see on TV are sassy, and snarky, and think they're just the coolest kids in the… — Alex Hirsch Copy Share Image
The only joy I get from these parties is standing around telling mean-spirited jokes at other people's expense. -Ed Wuncler — Boondocks Copy Share Image
I would describe myself as a guy that's very normal but has the tendency to rib people, but never in a mean-spirited… — Don Rickles Copy Share Image
The trick, though, is to not lose compassion, to not allow the sense of absurdity to outweigh the awareness of real beings,… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
When you're out there in America, meeting with regular people, it's a pretty mellow, relaxed, kind-hearted country. The direction from the top,… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
The good guys in my movies mind their own business, and they don't judge other people. And the bad guys are jealous;… — John Waters Copy Share Image
The good guys in my movies mind their own business and they don't judge other people. And the bad guys are jealous,… — John Waters Copy Share Image
I don't like to do anything that's mean spirited just because I don't find it funny. I'd rather be the jackass than… — Melissa McCarthy Copy Share Image
Good satire is about attacking the powerful, and that tends to be more the purview of the left. Maybe there's something about… — Tom Tomorrow Copy Share Image
It feels like every movie I've ever done, I always expected to have rocks thrown through my windows or have people protesting… — George Ratliff Copy Share Image
The Democrats, the left has this 30-year playbook of how to destroy conservatives by simply exposing the horrible, the mean-spirited, insensitive things… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
What I do is, I make fun of people and I make fun of myself and things around us and exaggerate things.… — Don Rickles Copy Share Image
We've always had the blame-America crowd. We've always had the hate-America crowd. But we've now had at least two generations of education… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
It makes him contemptible to be considered fickle, frivolous, effeminate, mean-spirited, irresolute, from all of which a prince should guard himself as… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
I could not bounce back from my divorce - emotionally - I just could not bounce back. With any bad situations I’d… — Terry Bradshaw Copy Share Image
When we believe or say we have been offended, we usually mean we feel insulted, mistreated, snubbed, or disrespected. And certainly clumsy,… — David A. Bednar Copy Share Image
You run an ad claiming that [Mitt] Romney is an absolute unfeeling, mean-spirited animal hater because in the example they gave he… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“Face the symptoms. Cure the disease. Ego makes it so hard—it’s easier to delay, to double down, to deliberately avoid seeing the… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image