#meant

No architect troubled to design houses that suited people who were to live in them, because that would have meant building a whole range of different houses. It was far cheaper and, above all, timesaving to make them identical. ↗

— Michael Ende

#above #architect #because #building #cheaper

The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one's furniture. ↗

— Brian Eno

#could #furniture #meant #music #part

The invention of Bob Dylan with his guitar belongs in its way to the same kind of tradition of something meant to be heard, as the songs of Homer. ↗

— Robert Fitzgerald

#bob #bob dylan #dylan #guitar #heard

I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally. ↗

— Calvin Trillin

#answers #could #did #hadn #i

I'm not very active politically. The causes I work on offer immediate, practical, accessible help, and politics has never meant that to me. ↗

— Kathleen Turner

#active #causes #help #i #immediate

Acting has to do with saying it as if you meant it, so for me the words are always very important. It's very important for me to know my lines, know them so well that I don't have to think about them. ↗

— Christopher Walken

#acting #always #i #important #know

My parents came from Russia and suddenly they wound up in Boston, Massachusetts, Brookline, Massachusetts and they felt the sun rose and set on Franklin Delano Roosevelt's backside because he meant so much to them. This was freedom. This was something totally different from the Russia they had left. ↗

— Mike Wallace

#because #boston #came #delano #different

It takes tremendous will to compete in any athletic endeavor, so it meant going to bed early and getting my homework done in advance. I had to sacrifice things, like a social life, to be a skater at 15. But I loved skating so much that it was worth everything to me. ↗

— Vera Wang

#any #athletic #bed #compete #done

It's about, I did talk about my life in broad strokes and what home meant to me in order to really explore the subject of home and can you go back and what that means for people in that sense of community that we've lost. ↗

— Sela Ward

#back #broad #community #did #explore

I began to think, now is the time. I found quite a lot of opposition in Hollywood about the idea of doing a film musical and we ended up having to buy the rights back. I'm glad we did because it meant John and I were able to make exactly the movie we wanted. ↗

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

#about #back #because #began #buy