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I mean, you or I could make a dress for $ 100, 000, but to make a T-shirt for $ 8 – that ’ s much tougher .” Gladwell gained popularity with two New Yorker articles, both written in 1996: " The Tipping Point " and " The Coolhunt " These two pieces would become the basis for Gladwell's first book, The Tipping Point, for which he received a $ 1 million advance.
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I and mean
`` 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 ''
I and you
`` I could use some help '', Morgan said finally, `` but I can't afford to pay you anything.
You fell down in front of the house, and I carried you in.
I gave you a drink and then you went to sleep ''.
I saw you driftin away -- but I tried.
And you wanted no part of me when I had so much to give.
God in Heaven, I can't refuse you now.
`` I made you what you are '', Gavin whispered.
`` I made you so you could stand up.
I made you a man ''.
The charge, I tell you ''!!
`` That quirt -- I ought to use it on you, where it would do the most good.
`` I thought I told you to stay home ''.
I don't know what makes you think you can get away with this kind of business, and I don't care about that, either.
`` I won't even try to thank you ''.
He said in a studied voice, `` I didn't do it for you.
I and could
I could see them in my sights.
Far up the valley I could see the Rees circling and reorganizing.
I could see their faces glistening with sweat and bear grease, their mouths open, shouting their spine-chilling cries.
I could see the blood running down his chest.
I could smell woodsmoke, grease, and oil.
Now under me I could see him for what he really was, a boy dressed up in streaks of paint.
Since they could see me but I not them, their presence in the hall disturbed me.
) hung on a hook on the wall, and underneath it I could see his tie, knotted, ready to be slipped over his head, a black badge of frayed respectability that ought never to have left his neck.
They, and the two large fans which I could dimly see as daylight filtered through their vents, down at the far end of the hall, could be turned on by a master switch situated inside the office.
For although I had crossed a corner of the hall on my way to the toilet I still could not tell for sure how far to the rear the darkness extended.
I could observe the two fans down at the end, but their size in themselves meant nothing to me as long as I had no measure of comparison.
I knew that three or four of them were almost always present in the hall, but what they were doing, and exactly where, I could not tell.
I could not cling to my past nor did I wish to.
When I asked him what, if anything, I could do about it, he surprised me by referring me to the director of the hall.
I could consult this personage on any weekday morning, though not before ten o'clock.
Although it was dark as usual I could see that the hall had only recently contained a great many people.
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