Are you willing to push the right buttons even if it means being perceived as the villain?

Success? I don’t know what that word means. I’m happy. But success, that goes back to what in somebody’s eyes success means. For me, success is inner peace. That’s a good day for me.

I have been definitely influenced more by Latin American writers than by any other type of writer. They are very close in terms of voice – their humor, their fatalism, their… well, that over-used term...

As many of the riders before me had been held up and robbed of their packages, mail and money that they carried, for that was the only means of getting mail and money between these...

If I have affected someone in a positive way, that means a lot to me.

I want to be a footballer – and that means playing on a Saturday afternoon.

Peculiar I say, how so often the smallest, most seemingly insignificant details later unveil their faces as vital means for progression.

Being brave means to know something is scary, difficult, and dangerous, and doing it anyway, because the possibility of winning the fight is worth the chance of losing it.

To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no, even if saying no means death.

You must not forget that you have been given worldly means to use and employ against human arrogance and wrong.

I wonder what it means about American literary culture and its transmission when I consider the number of American poets who earn their living teaching creative writing in universities. I’ve ended up doing that myself.

Politics is not perfect but it’s the best available nonviolent means of changing how we live.

How many big businesses don’t resort to underhand means?

In many ways, I’m incredibly lucky to have been born with my impairment and that it’s visible. It means my path has been predictable.

I’m not a person who needs to chit-chat between takes by any means.

I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters.

I just wanted to defend football, which is not always easy to do. Those of us who have been in the sport so many years now realise we must protect it and look after it....

While maintaining our nuclear potential at the proper level, we need to devote more attention to developing the entire range of means of information warfare.

Iranian filmmakers are not passive. They fight whenever they can, as creative expression means a lot to them. The restrictions and censorship in Iran are a bit like the British weather: one day it’s sunny,...

I can spot empty flattery and know exactly where I stand. In the end it’s really only my own approval or disapproval that means anything.

Our planes should be full, which among other things means we have a golden opportunity… to build on the momentum reflected in the financial results we are reporting today.

We use the word ‘synoptic’ to talk about Matthew, Mark, and Luke, and it really means ‘seeing together,’ because they all have a similar perspective. Matthew and Luke – whoever wrote those Gospels – used...

The sovereign state has in our times become a lethal danger to human civilization because technical developments enable it to employ an infinite number and variety of means of destruction.

If you don’t focus on the future generation, it means you are destroying your country.

I’ve gone the full spectrum – from gospel to blues to jazz to soul to pop – and the public has accepted what I’ve done through it all. I think it means I’ve been doing...

By means of tracing-paper I transfer my design to the wood and draw on that.

Culture is mix. Culture means a mix of things from other sources. And my town, Istanbul, was this kind of mix. Istanbul, in fact, and my work, is a testimony to the fact that East...

Public office must not be a means to profit or become rich.

The ordinary ministry is that which receives all of its direction from the will of God revealed in the Scriptures and from those means which God has appointed in the church for its continual edification.

It’s not just the kid who’s spent every penny from his job to upgrade his car to tell the world he cares about sports cars, it’s also the person driving around in a fuel-conscious hybrid...

I’m saying to be a hero is means you step across the line and are willing to make a sacrifice, so heroes always are making a sacrifice. Heroes always take a risk. Heroes always deviant....

A lot of people think inspiration means magic. But really, inspiration means to put life into something.

I tried not to listen very much to the critics. I know that whenever you do something, you must have a lot of critics, or it means that you haven’t done anything. I never really...

Sure my career means a hell of a lot, but it will never come before Sandy and my son.

I suppose when I started playing guitar, it was the means to an end. I never thought of myself as a fully fledged guitar instrumentalist. And my early excursions on the electric guitar were curtailed...

If you remain unsettled by a piece of writing, it means you are not watching the story from the outside; you’ve already taken a step towards it.

‘Jihad’ can mean holy war to extremists, but it means struggle to the average Muslim.

Cirque du Soleil means Circus of the Sun. When I need to take time to reenergize, I go somewhere by the ocean to sit back and watch the sunsets. That is where the idea of...

For me, Buddhism is a psychology and a philosophy that provides a means, upayas, for working with the mind.

A cynical young person is almost the saddest sight to see, because it means that he or she has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

Success means your thoughts are worthy of everyone’s consideration.

Following the end of the Cold War, there was much discussion concerning the point of NATO. In the event, it was reinvented as a means of reducing Russia’s reach on its western frontiers and seeking...

Most of us can now record a whole series with the click of a button. We all have DVD players, and the rise of the DVD box-set means we watch this stuff in two, three-hour...

Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

The bomber will always get through. The only defense is in offense, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly that the enemy if you want to save yourselves.

I would say what Mad Men has taught me has been a super elevated evaluation of text in general, and understanding subtext, and understanding where a character comes from – what he means by this...

Just the act of listening means more than you can imagine to most employees.

Life for rent means that my life isn’t really my own, I only rented it for a while, but if I don’t manage to buy it, to own it, then nothing of what I think...

I cannot escape the feeling that I was, at best, a cancer tourist, that my survival means I dabbled.

I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure – that is all that agnosticism means.