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All names mean something. -- Salman Rushdie
Be respectful of words. They mean something. -- Katherine Anne Porter
To be in Vogue has to mean something -- Anna Wintour
I like good strong words that mean somethingâ?¦ -- Louisa May Alcott
Clothes are never a frivolity: they always mean something. -- James Laver
The promise of change doesn't always mean something changes. -- John Travolta
I want the fact that I existed to mean something. -- Harry Chapin
I love talking about movies that mean something to me. -- Jena Malone
When I wear jewelry it needs to really mean something. -- Julia Restoin Roitfeld
Not everything has to mean something. Some things just are. -- Charles de Lint
youth is always sure that change must mean something better. -- Amelia Barr
You can only offend me if you mean something to me. -- Chris Rock
I just want to be someone, to mean something to anyone... -- Charlotte Erickson
What I'm passionate about is telling stories which mean something to me. -- Marc Forster
Sure, I'm crazy. But that used to mean something. Now, everybody's crazy. -- Charles Manson
World is supposed to mean something that's self-contained. but nothing is self-contained. -- Don DeLillo
I used to have only one name; it used to mean something. -- Lauren DeStefano
Old music used to mean something. There is none of that today. -- Ziggy Marley
Gardens always mean something else, man absolutely uses one thing to say another. -- Robert Harbison
A lyric has to mean something to me, something that has happened to me. -- Lou Rawls
It's nice to know you're working on something that will mean something to kids. -- Lucas Grabeel
To be in 'Vogue' has to mean something. It's an endorsement. It's a validation. -- Anna Wintour
Brands always mean something. If you don't define what the brand means, your competitors will -- Richard Branson
If my lyrics mean something special to someone... that's the most important thing to me. -- Dia Frampton
I'm trying to find things that are extremely challenging or mean something to me deeply. -- Angelina Jolie
The best feeling in the world is knowing that you actually mean something to someone. -- Will Smith
When people talk to me about the weather, I always feel they mean something else. -- Oscar Wilde
Let's always try to paint the truth ... our art must be made to mean something. -- E.A. Bucchianeri
I want to play positive role models - women who mean something to other women. -- Agyness Deyn
Our prayers must mean something to us if they are to mean anything to God. -- Maltbie Davenport Babcock
But when a girl gives a boy a dead squid - that had to mean something. -- William Goldman
There's no end to the absurd things people will do trying to make life mean something. -- William Wharton
I am a greedy, selfish bastard. I want the fact that I existed to mean something. -- Harry Chapin
Symbols mean something and symbols often can spark hope and action in people particularly young people. -- Hillary Clinton
Writing music and lyrics that mean something personal to me. It's an exciting, intense, cathartic, this-is-who-I-am experience. -- Mark Hoppus
The brain. Where words mean something. The heart. Where words feel something. When both work together. Kaboom. -- Jill Telford
I have already spent roughly five thousand hours asleep next to you. This has to mean something. -- David Levithan
Democracy may mean something more than a theoretically absolute popular government, but it assuredly cannot mean anything less. -- Herbert Croly
I like films to have something inside, I don't mean a message, I mean something from the soul. -- Dario Argento
Gypsies at home watching Jerry Falwell on TV, might mean something to you, it ain't nothing to me. -- Tom Petty
I feel very privileged that I get to spend my life telling stories that mean something to people. -- Mary Stuart Masterson
You only have so much time in life so everything you do needs to mean something to you. -- Cary Fukunaga
But we were interested in how our lives could mean something to the past. We sailed into the past. -- Michael Ondaatje
My name, I have spent my whole life trying to make that name mean something. And now it's gone. -- Joe Paterno
Strategies are great, business models are great, but the reality is your music has to mean something to people. -- Brother Ali
A musician has to find a way to make his music mean something special - spiritually or however you can -- Charlie Byrd
I don't want to be 60 years old standing on stage telling some jokes. I want my life to mean something. -- Steve Harvey
People are supposed to care. It's good that people mean something to you, that you miss people when they're gone. -- John Green
As artists, the pleasure is to really have your work resonate and mean something. Art takes its inspiration from reality. -- Yareli Arizmendi
One piece of graffiti doesn't mean much. Forty pieces of graffiti might mean something... It's all about connecting the dots. -- Kim Rossmo
Auguries are oft subtle...and dangerous - thou may deem they mean one thing when they mean something else altogether. -- Dennis L. McKiernan
We're so used to using military terminology in civilian speech that we forget those terms might mean something very specific. -- Phil Klay
You know, two people can say exactly the same words, saying the same story, and it would mean something entirely different. -- PJ Harvey
If I'm going to do something, I really put everything into it and I want it to mean something to me. -- David Schwimmer
I obviously have a different connection to each song in a different way, and they all mean something different to me. -- Melanie Martinez
Write your own songs. It helps you to mean what you're singing, which will then make it mean something to listeners. -- Natasha Bedingfield
I always hate explaining away songs, because for me they mean something, and for other people, they'll mean something absolutely different. -- Martin Gore
I no longer wanted to satisfy myself. I really want to connect with the world and make my music mean something to people. -- Chick Corea
When was the last time you read a book? The truth now. And picture books don't count-I mean something with print in it. -- William Goldman
Immigration reform should mean something else entirely. It should mean improvements to our laws and policies to make life better for American citizens. -- Donald Trump
HAMM: We're not beginning to... to... mean something? CLOV: Mean something! You and I, mean something! (Brief laugh.) Ah that's a good one! -- Samuel Beckett
It's strange how memory gets twisted and pulled like taffy in its retelling, how a single event can mean something different to everyone present. -- Lisa Unger
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Clothes are never a frivolity: they always mean something, and that something is to a large extent outside the control of our conscious minds. -- James Laver
You really do kind of learn a lot about a person when you watch and listen to the songs that mean something to them. -- Tori Amos
If you see the sunset, does it have to mean something? If you hear the birds singing does it have to have a message? -- Robert Wilson
It's the actors who are prepared to make fools of themselves who are usually the ones who come to mean something to the audience. -- Christian Bale
We, whoever we are, must have a daily goal in our lives, no matter how small or great, to make that day mean something. -- Maxwell Maltz
I can't destroy things so beautiful." "Time will destroy them if you don't. Time destroys everything. But if you destroy them, it will mean something. -- Neal Shusterman
We were painting by numbers, starting with the greens. Because that happened to be our favorite color. And this, we figured, had to mean something. -- David Levithan
For my daughter, it's going to mean something special that Hillary Clinton accepts the nomination, and I wanted to make sure that she sees that. -- Julian Castro
I like being part of good movies and telling stories that mean something to me. I also like playing characters that I look up to. -- Katie Holmes
My music will mean something. I'll have my own production company. I'm doing my own movies. I have my own restaurant. I just wanna expand. -- Tupac Shakur
Averages might mean something to bureaucrats and engineers, but the sea had no struck with statistics: it was a succession of unpredictable circumstances and extremes. -- Frank Schatzing
Experiences are everything. And businesses must create experiences that mean something. If necessity is the mother of invention, then vision is the father of innovation. -- Brian Solis
Sometimes I say things that I can't believe came out of my mouth. Or I won't mean something and it will come out completely nonsensical. -- Rachael Leigh Cook
For God's sake, all of you, say spiteful things about me, then I shall know I mean something to you. Don't say surgaries, or I'm done. -- D. H. Lawrence
Everyone has the attitude that movies aren't just disposable entertainment - they can really mean something. I love that, because that's the way I feel about films. -- Joseph Gordon-Levitt
I want people to take pride in Spanish Harlem. These are people that everyone in the community could relate to... people who mean something special to us. -- James De La Vega
My goal is not to win a straw poll that doesn't mean something. It's to win the election that means everything for the future of the country. -- Mike Huckabee
My bar for being successful is being able to do movies that really mean something to me and being able to make a living off of that. -- Channing Tatum
The goal of life is not to have our lives mean something to ourselves. The goal of life is to have our lives mean something to others. -- Simon Sinek
Chaos is more freedom; in fact, total freedom. But no meaning. I want to be free to act, and I also want my actions to mean something. -- Audrey Niffenegger
I never get tired of signing autographs 'cause I used to do it so much in class dreaming about the day that it might mean something to somebody. -- Taylor Swift
The ultimate quality of your life is not in your resume, but in the minds and hearts of those you mean something to because you gave yourself to them. -- Laura Schlessinger
I think once you sort of cross over and you realize what books can be - and if they mean something to you - there's just no stopping you. -- Molly Ringwald
At this age - I'm 44 - I think life's too short. I want it to mean something to me, if I'm going to spend that much time doing it. -- David Schwimmer
My music is a mix of everything, mostly my own life. I just write about things that mean something and that I can write about. There's no point in pretending. -- Imelda May
A lot of people are promoting records that are just throw-it-agains t-the-wall-see- if-it-sticks meaningless bullshit. Everybody has the responsibility to do the right thing and promote artists that mean something. -- Dave Grohl
Woodstock is well known because this country is so hyped on amount. It was big. Half a million people doesn't necessarily mean something is good. It just means it's big. -- Grace Slick
I want to make meaningful music always - I think every artist does. We want our words and melodies to mean something to people, even if it is just one person. -- Darren Fletcher
The problem posed by indirect speech acts is the problem of how it is possible for the speaker to say one thing and mean that but also to mean something else. -- John Searle
As I am sure you know, when people say 'It's my pleasure,' they usually mean something along the lines of, 'There's nothing on Earth I would rather do less.' [...] -- Daniel Handler
I approach the heptathlon and life in the same way in that I not only want to be good at what I am doing, but I want it to mean something. -- Shelia Burrell
Things that came before, people and things and experiences - that does mean something to me. It doesn't mean I don't embrace the new, but I don't forget the past, either. -- Vera Wang
Nothing fortified me, and simple loneliness all but destroyed me, yet I felt swamped by the belief that life must mean something- otherwise why was it there? Why was anything anything~? -- Morrissey
I`m running for president because everyday Americans and their families need a champion, and I want to be that champion. I want to make the words middle class mean something again. -- Hillary Clinton
The average American is not concerned with his society. He talks about it, but you know if one speaks of being concerned, I mean something about which one loses one's sleep, sometimes. -- Erich Fromm
I want to do movies that mean something, that make people laugh and cry great movies, period-piece movies and work with the best people out there, who bring the best out of me. -- Chris Tucker
When I play, what I see are people who mean something to me, both positively and negatively. It's my private life, in a way, what I see, and this is what I share. -- Igor Levit
Pray don't talk to me about the weather, Mr. Worthing. Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel quite certain that they mean something else. And that makes me quite nervous. -- Oscar Wilde
When kids can't afford to see it anymore maybe we'll have a whole resurgence of garage bands all over America and this New Wave thing will start to mean something on a grass roots level. -- Lester Bangs
I feel like these sounds are the ultimate kind of free sounds, the ultimate public domain sounds. And I feel like people put them in completely different contexts, and they mean something different to everybody. -- Julia Kent
Songs are about whatever you want them to be about. For me it might mean something completely different than what it means to you. So I'd say it's about whatever the listener thinks it's about. -- Norah Jones
I know the odds are all against me and I know you might not feel this way too but I know I would rather die trying to know if I could mean something to you -- David Levithan
When you get a chance to play with people - informally is one thing, but when you hook up and make something that's going to last or mean something to someone, I take it very seriously. -- Mark Lanegan
I want to burn the world because Alan is gone," he said. "I want to destroy everything I see. But you mean something to me. I will not destroy the world, because it has you in it. -- Sarah Rees Brennan
Writing ink is the magic that allows nothing to become something. It catches the fleeting idea and seeks out the glances of those who wish to see. Even a random ink splat will mean something to someone. -- Fennel Hudson
"What does it mean if i'm afraid? Does it mean something bad is going to happen?" "No, it doesn't mean something bad is going to happen. It just means that you have the chance to be brave. -- C. JoyBell C.
A home is not a museum. It doesn't have to be furnished with Picasso paintings, or Sheraton suites, or Oriental rugs, or Chinese pottery. But it does have to be furnished with things that mean something to you. -- James M. Cain
The biggest misconception about me is perhaps that I film all the time and film everything randomly. The truth is I film very little and always when something excites me and seems to mean something for the film. -- Kim Longinotto
Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
I'm very, very concerned about the Bush presidency. I'm worried about the kinds of cuts in domestic programs that mean something to a lot of people, including members of my family, who depend on certain things from the government. -- Sarah Jessica Parker
In common with all Protestant or Jewish cultures, America was developed on the idea that your word is your bond. Otherwise, the frontier could never have been opened, 'cause it was lawless. A man's word had to mean something. -- Orson Welles
If you present your dog to a veterinarian with the instruction to put him to sleep, you would normally mean something very different than you would upon taking your wife or husband to an anesthesiologist with the same words. -- Raymond Moody
As a director, you try to do things that are going to touch the human experience somehow, and emotions that mean something to people. You search for those projects and you hope to realize the potential in a project. -- Catherine Hardwicke
I wanted to get to that aesthetic proposition that comes out of learning the human elements of a world, so that those notes and rhythms mean something to you besides just the academic way in which they fall in place. -- Stanley Crouch
Have you ever had the sensation of looking at someone for the first time and ever so quickly the past and future seem to fuse ? Does that not mean something ? That we felt so much, so deeply, before even speaking? -- Charles Dickens
If love and beauty were easy to find, they would not exist.Chaos and sadness exist in order for you to find the love and beauty in them. So that love and beauty mean something.It's meant to be hard. -- pleasefindthis
We're all born lost, aren't we? We're all born separated from God - over and over life makes sure to inform us of this - and yet we're all real: we have names, we have lives. We mean something. We must. -- Douglas Coupland

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