`` I mean, we don't have any way to get there and we can't expect you to quit work just to take us to town ''.

I think you're mean and hateful and stupid, and -- louder ''??

`` What else would I mean, anyways ''??

I mean, surely we've '' --

I don't mean to pry, but do they hide the swimsuit with the bubbles??

I mean: Is advertising honest??

Did, I mean ''.

`` I think I know what you mean, Brassnose '', I said.

`` No, I mean how'd you get her to do it ''??

I didn't mean to pull so hard ''.

Certainly not, I mean, no that isn't what I said ''!!

When I question them as to what they mean by concepts like liberty and democracy, I find that they fall into two categories: the simpler ones who have simply accepted the shibboleths of their faith without analysis ; ;

I take this to mean that the intelligent -- and therefore necessarily cynical??

I don't mean a few aesthetes who play about with sensations, like a young prince in a miniature dabbling his hand in a pool.

`` What I am saying does not mean that there will henceforth be no form in art.

You see what I mean??

Here I do not mean catharsis, the discharge of emotion.

I mean something more like Freud's concept of the utility of `` play '' to a small child: he plays `` house '' or `` doctor '' or `` fireman '' as a way of mastering slightly frightening experiences, reliving them imaginatively until they are under control.

Anyone who has watched children develop a taste for literature will understand what I mean.

I use this term to mean three things: a search for the human significance of an event or state of affairs, a tendency to look at wholes rather than parts, and a tendency to respond to these events and wholes with feeling.