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Mean Quotes by P.J. O'Rourke
- It is easy to understand why the cat has eclipsed the dog as modern America's favorite pet. People like pets to possess the same qualities…
- I wonder if it changes the nature of a society for beauty to be so common. Maybe in Vietnam "She has a wonderful personality" really…
- That doesn't mean that you should just sit back and just let accidents happen to you. No, you have to go out and cause them…
- There was an austerely dignified award ceremony. By that I mean we had to buy our own drinks - in clear violation of the international…
- Modern air travel means less time spent in transit. That time is now spent in transit lounges.
- Abstract anger is great for rhetorical carrying on. You can go on endlessly about the post office, but it doesn't mean you're mad at your…
- If you say a modern celebrity is an adulterer, a pervert and a drug addict, all it means is that you've read his autobiography.
- Richard Nixon was the best thing that ever happened to journalism. I mean this guy was wonderful. Just when you thought he could get no…
- TV ushered in the age of postliteracy. And we have gone so far beyond that. I mean, what with the Internet and Google and Wikipedia.…
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