Meant

Famous quotes containing the word meant:

“He had previously complimented me on my paddling, saying that I paddled “just like anybody,” giving me an Indian name which meant “great paddler.””
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“When I have seen fine statues, and afterwards enter a public assembly, I understand well what he meant who said, “When I have been reading Homer, all men look like giants.””
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“For I thought Epicurus and Lucretius
By Nature meant the Whole Goddam Machinery.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)