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Mean Quotes by Margaret Atwood
- People use technology only to mean digital technology. Technology is actually everything we make.
- All fiction is about people, unless it's about rabbits pretending to be people. It's all essentially characters in action, which means characters moving through time…
- Communications technology changes possibilities for communication, but that doesn't mean it changes the inherited structure of the brain. So you may think that you're addicted…
- I never have [suffered writer’s block], although I’ve had books that didn’t work out. I had to stop writing them. I just abandoned them. It…
- You most likely need a thesaurus, a rudimentary grammar book, and a grip on reality. This latter means: there's no free lunch. Writing is work.…
- Romance takes place in the middle distance. Romance is looking in at yourself through a window clouded with dew. Romance means leaving things out: where…
- Because you may think a bed is a peaceful thing, Sir, and to you it may mean rest and comfort and a good night's sleep.…
- I'm working on my own life story. I don't mean I'm putting it together; no, I'm taking it apart.
- Better never means better for everyone... It always means worse, for some.
- It's impossible to say a thing exactly the way it was, because of what you say can never be exact, you always have to leave…
- We love each other, that’s true whatever it means, but we aren’t good at it; for some it’s a talent, for others only an addiction.
- You can mean more than one. You can mean thousands. I'm not in any immediate danger, I'll say to you. I'll pretend you can hear…
- I used to think of my body as an instrument, of pleasure, or a means of transportation, or an implement for the accomplishment of my…
- I'm working on my own life story. I don't mean I'm putting it together; no, I'm taking it apart. If you'd wanted the narrative line…
- Toast was a pointless invention from the Dark Ages. Toast was an implement of torture that caused all those subjected to it to regurgitate in…
- Does feminist mean large unpleasant person who'll shout at you or someone who believes women are human beings. To me it's the latter, so I…
- Science never makes things that do not have to do with what we feel, by which I mean what we want and what we fear.
More Mean Quotes
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- I hate to look at the stuff I've written and consider what it means or why I do it. — J. J. Abrams
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence. — Aristotle
- Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures. — Aristotle
- In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement… — Aristotle
- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- When I was a little kid - and even still - I loved magic tricks. When I saw how movies got made… — J. J. Abrams
- If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. — M H Abrams