Best I Meant Quotes
182 I Meant quotes by 149 unique authors
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How was I conceived? Was it love, was I meant, or was I just an accident?
— Ray Davies
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I told the students [at Yale] we were going to talk about love - I meant love in the sense of devotions to one's work…
— Kiki Smith
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Wilderness is a necessity ... They will see what I meant in time. There must be places for human beings to satisfy their souls. Food…
— John Muir
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When I said a few weeks ago that our people would eat cooking oil and olives if necessary, I didn't mean that there really would…
— Ismail Haniyeh
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I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the…
— James Joyce
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Every single lyric I've ever written I meant.
— John Lydon
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I've said many, many, many unkind things about Philadelphia, and I meant every one.
— David Lynch
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I think I meant that, given the circumstances of my childhood, I had the illusion that it's easier to be alone. To have your relationships…
— Steve Martin
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I had a total belief in The Style Council. I meant every word and felt every action.
— Paul Weller
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This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant.
— Virginia Woolf
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All I meant was that people take their same old lives wherever they go. No place is perfect enough to strip you of that. And…
— Julia Glass
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I would not come in. I meant not even if asked, And I hadn't been.
— Robert Frost
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I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual
— Virginia Woolf
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I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?" Death thought about it. CATS, he said eventually. CATS…
— Terry Pratchett
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There is not a single line in this diary that does not call for a correction or a denial...Yes: throughout these pages I meant what…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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Wait," I say. "I think you're mistaken. Saying there is no dream is the same as saying everything is a dream. Isn't it? Everyone's a…
— Samantha Hunt
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She tried to explain the real state of the case to her sister. "I do not attempt to deny," said she, "that I think very…
— Jane Austen
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I did not mean that Conservatives are generally stupid; I meant, that stupid persons are generally Conservative. I believe that to be so obvious and…
— John Stuart Mill
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I have had many successes and many failures in my life. My successes have always been for different reasons, but my failures have always been…
— Moss Hart
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Let them think what they liked, but I didn't mean to drown myself. I meant to swim till I sank -- but that's not the…
— Joseph Conrad
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So you're always honest," I said. "Aren't you?" "No," I told him. "I'm not." "Well, that's good to know, I guess." "I'm not saying I'm…
— Sarah Dessen
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Sure, that's what I mean,' Doc Daneeka said. 'A little grease is what makes this world go round. One hand washes the other. Know what…
— Joseph Heller
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I want Jesus to come back and say 'THATS NOT WHAT I MEANT'" -
— Margaret Cho
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I laughed and said, Life is easy. What I meant was, Life is easy with you here, and when you leave, it will be hard…
— Miranda July
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You know Balbec so well - do you have friends in the area?' I have friends wherever there are companies of trees, wounded but not…
— Marcel Proust
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