`` 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.

I mean ''

Print it in real big letters, an' I can cipher it out later ''.

`` They knew I was a good sharecrop farmer back in Carolina, but out West was a chance to build a real farm of our own.

I am not making a clinical judgment here, for such personal tragedies are real and are commonplace in the analyst's consulting room, but literature makes a different claim upon our sympathies than tragedy in life.

The myth of the Southern plantation has had only a tangential relation with actuality, as Francis Pendleton Gaines showed forty years ago, and I suspect it has had a far narrower acceptance as something real than has generally been supposed.

I can walk real good.

In my letters I took on a personality that differed from the self I knew in real life.

In I have things to do the word things makes little real contribution to meaning and has weaker stress than do.

I see no real prospects for an all-Negro school population.

No wonder that Pozzatti and I had at times difficulty in remembering the real purpose of our presence, namely, Cultural Exchange.

As I see it, there's no real difference between being Jewish, Catholic, or Protestant ''.

When I answered it a voice too dignified and British to be real said, `` Is this Mr. Dale Nelson, the actor ''??

Then he said, `` Never noticed it before I mean, when she was dressed but for a woman her age, Julia had a real fine figure ''.

`` Yeah, it's a real load '', I told him, looking up the street at my battered Ford.

A real gentleman, I feel, would do neither.

After the usual Honorable Sirs, it went on to say that there had been set off to the widow one full third part of the real estate of the deceased Salu Norberg, one lower room, on the Western side, privileges to the well and bake-oven and to one third of the cellar ( I can show you the cellar when we go up ), also one Cow Right, and lastly they set off to the widow her own land that she brought with her as dower, namely the Beech Pasture.

`` Listen, I got a buddy I travel with, real nice guy named Larry.

The state is now faced with the immediate question of raising new taxes whether on utilities, real estate or motor vehicles, he said, `` and I challenge Mitchell to tell the people where he stands on the tax issue ''.

It was a real stimulant to a lot of guys I know who have moved past the 2-score-year milestone.

I think you fell short of the real truth in the matter: That the move is working out through the fine cooperation of the staff and all the people.

I came back, sitting by my locker, feeling real low, and the kid walks over to me, looks up, and says: ' You stunk ' ''.

In an amateurish, yet in a very real sense, I have followed the developments of archaeology, geology, astronomy, herpetology, and mycology with a hearty appreciation of the advances being made in these fields.

With three fine Russian films in recent months on World War 2, -- `` The House I Live In '', `` The Cranes Are Flying '' and `` Ballad Of A Soldier '' -- we had every right to expect a real Soviet block-buster in `` The Day The War Ended ''.

I kept saying, `` If I could just build up a reputation for myself, make some real money, get to be well known as an illustrator -- like Peter Askington, for instance -- then I could take some time off and paint ''.