Badass famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.
-- Adolf Loos -
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
-- Albert Camus -
Only one thing counts in this life - get them to sign on the line that is dotted.
-- Alec Baldwin -
Women hate each other in science. You know why? Because the few that are around were trained by men. They survived by being twice as good and twice as competitive and twice as badass as the guys.
-- Allegra Goodman -
Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
I just love bossy women. I could be around them all day. To me, bossy is not a pejorative term at all. It means somebody's passionate and engaged and ambitious and doesn't mind leading.
-- Amy Poehler -
I never underestimated myself. And I never saw anything wrong with ambition.
-- Angela Merkel -
You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren't. You take the action, and the insight follows: You don't think your way into becoming yourself.
-- Anne Lamott -
Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.
-- Arthur Erickson -
Quantum phenomena do not occur in a Hilbert space. They occur in a laboratory.
-- Asher Peres -
If you're feeling helpless, help someone.
-- Aung San Suu Kyi -
I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.
-- Ayn Rand -
We work on macro issues and macaroni and cheese issues. When women are in the halls of power, our national debate reflects the needs and dreams of American families.
-- Barbara Mikulski -
This is what I tell, especially young women, fight the big fights. Don't fight the little fight... Be the first one in, be the last one out. Do your homework, choose your battles. Don't whine, and don't be the one who complains about everything. Fight the big fight.
-- Barbara Walters -
Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.
-- Barbra Streisand -
Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know.
-- Bertrand Russell -
We used to build civilizations. Now we build shopping malls.
-- Bill Bryson -
Pressure is a privilege ... it's what you do with it that matters.
-- Billie Jean King -
Honor to those who in the life they lead define and guard a Thermopylae. Never betraying what is right, consistent and just in all they do but showing pity also, and compassion; generous when they are rich, and when they are poor, still generous in small ways, still helping as much as they can; always speaking the truth, yet without hating those who lie. And even more honor is due to them when they foresee (as many do foresee) that in the end Ephialtis will make his appearance, that the Medes will break through after all.
-- C.P. Cavafy -
Healthy moms mean healthy families. When my Republican colleagues held a hearing about birth control and refused to include a single woman on the first panel as a witness, I asked, "Where are the women?"
-- Carolyn Maloney -
I am a badass, and I recognize that you, too, are a badass.
-- Cassandra Clare -
This year women learned that if we aren't at the table, we're on the menu.
-- Cecile Richards -
I was playing pretty boys and these angelic roles like Nicholas Nickleby and all that stuff. And I was like, 'What am I doing? This isn't who I am, as a man or an artist.' I had to overcome people's belief that I was too pretty to be a badass.
-- Charlie Hunnam -
It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to strip them of human dignity, to reduce them to objects of pity. This has never been clearer than in the view of Africa from the American media, in which we are shown poverty and conflicts without any context.
-- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie -
Because if we the storytellers don't do this, then the bad people will win.
-- Christiane Amanpour -
If you come back in here, I'm gonna hit you with so many rights, you're gonna beg for a left.
-- Chuck Norris -
Naval Special Warfare is no place for the weak of heart, limb, or liver.
-- Chuck Pfarrer -
You see, in this world, there's two kinds of people, my friend - those with loaded guns, and those who dig. You dig.
-- Clint Eastwood -
Over my career I played some badass characters. So, people sometimes think I should have a .44 magnum. But that's not true, I don't have that. But I do fire them and I do enjoy target shooting and all that sort of thing. I'm not much of a hunter. I don't like killing animals, but I love to shoot.
-- Clint Eastwood -
There's nothing more badass than being who you are.
-- Darren Criss -
I want people to know that there is nothing more badass than being yourself.
-- Darren Criss -
It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.
-- David Allan Coe -
Reproductive freedom means economic freedom. And that's what this debate is about.
-- Diana DeGette -
My sisters and I were encouraged to choose the direction of our lives.
-- Diana DeGette -
Whatever you want in life, other people are going to want it too. Believe in yourself enough to accept the idea that you have an equal right to it.
-- Diane Sawyer -
I wanted to be an independent woman, a woman who could pay for her bills, a woman who could run her own life - and I became that woman.
-- Diane von Furstenberg -
Maybe I was a pirate in my past life. I didn’t kill people, though. I was just a badass
-- Dianna Agron -
You'll never do a whole lot unless you're brave enough to try.
-- Dolly Parton -
Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.
-- Douglas Adams -
I am in love with girls that are bad and naughty and badass, and a little selfish, but I like to watch from a respectful distance!
-- Dreama Walker -
Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force! You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower -
I don't care if you're black, white, straight, bisexual, gay, lesbian, short, tall, fat, skinny, rich or poor. If you're nice to me, I'll be nice to you. Simple as that.
-- Eminem -
Confidence is the only key. I know a lot of people who aren't traditionally 'beautiful' - not symmetrical or perfect-bodied or perfect-skinned. But none of that matters because all that shines through is their confidence, humor, and comfort with themselves. I can't think of any better representation of beauty than someone who is unafraid to be herself.
-- Emma Stone -
Becoming yourself is really hard and confusing, and it's a process. It's often not cool to be the person who puts themselves out there.
-- Emma Watson -
Never order food in excess of your body weight.
-- Erma Bombeck -
But America was built by optimists. Optimists like my friend Amanda, who recently started a small business. When she went to buy her website address-her first and last name-she found that someone already owned it, but wasn't using it. So my friend emailed the owner of the site to ask if she could buy it. The owner wrote back.
-- Eva Longoria -
She is a 13-year-old girl who shares Amanda's name, and politely explained that she could not give up the website. Why? Because the younger Amanda plans to be president of the United States, and she's going to need the website for her campaign.
-- Eva Longoria -
Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.
-- Frank Gehry -
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright -
All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright -
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, where does that leave God??
-- George Deacon -
Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
-- George Orwell -
There is only one god and his name is Death. And there is only one thing we say to Death: “Not today.
-- George R. R. Martin -
Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
-- George Washington Carver -
Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
-- H. L. Mencken -
when you stumble, keep faith. And when you're knocked down, get right back up and never listen to anyone who says you can't or shouldn't go on.
-- Hillary Clinton -
I believe that the rights of women and girls is the unfinished business of the 21st century.
-- Hillary Clinton -
I know for some girls, tight clothes make them feel like they can take on the world-and that's fine too. But I don't think that sexy only means showing skin: It's all about wearing whatever makes you feel the most badass.
-- Holland Roden -
Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
-- Horace Mann -
I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ***** . . . and I'm all out of bubblegum.
-- Humphrey Bogart -
Tall, with skin the color of rich coffee, and dressed all in black, Jim looked like he was carved from a block of solid muscle. Logic said that at some point he must've been a baby and then a child, but looking at him one was almost convinced that some deity touched the ground with its scepter and proclaimed, "There shall be a badass," and Jim sprung into existence, fully formed, complete with clothes, and ready for action.
-- Ilona Andrews -
I know the expression love bloomed is metaphorical, but in my heart in this moment, there is one badass flower, captured in time-lapse photography, going from bud to wild radiant blossom in ten seconds flat.
-- Jandy Nelson -
I feel myself becoming the fearless person I have dreamt of being. Have I arrived? No. But I'm constantly evolving and challenging myself to be unafraid to make mistakes.
-- Janelle Monae -
Sometimes people try to destroy you, precisely because they recognize your power - not because they don't see it, but because they see it and they don't want it to exist.
-- Janet Mock -
When I step foot to my locker and change shoes for training, its like turning on a switch. I become a creature. Not a human. I look to tear apart anyone and everyone in my way to hugeness and I don't care how I do it. I can feel my heart start jumping and my body start saying "beat me into the ground like a red-headed step child. I want punishment" I WANT TO BE A FREAK, A FREAK I TELL YOU!!
-- Jason Bennett -
Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god.
-- Jean Rostand -
More of that hair-raising energy rolled out of Vlad, until I was rubbing my arms to chase the tingling sensations away. Was this what Marty meant when he told me vampires could measure each others’ strength by feeling their auras? If so, then Vlad’s had Badass: Do Not Engage written all over it.
-- Jeaniene Frost -
Bubbles. On a scale of one to ten, a bubble bath has to rank zero as far as things I'd expect an older-than-dirt-badass vampire to indulge in. The only thing that would surprise me more would be if you pulled out a rubber ducky. -Kira to Mencheres
-- Jeaniene Frost -
I'm always looking for those places where you can slam really disparate people up against one another, and they have to deal with each other. There are very few crossroads anymore. We talk about this country as this big melting pot, but it's a mosaic. There's all these pieces, they're next to each other, they're not necessarily mixing. And I'm looking for those spaces where people actually do mix.
-- Jenji Kohan -
You really are a badass, edgy guy who tells it like it is...about couscous.
-- Jim Norton -
I call architecture frozen music.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
I have no agenda except to be funny. Neither I nor the writers profess to offer any worldly wisdom.
-- Julia Louis-Dreyfus -
I was interesting in discovering more about [Elizabeth Taylor], and I always tried to focus more on the woman than the legend or the icon and everybody's own individual version of what that is. She was badass! Really strong. And eccentric and fiery and powerful and clear and blunt. Spoke like a sailor. She was extreme, but she had the ability to love again and again and again and still believe in it every time.
-- Justin Bieber -
Have a go-to pump up song. Mine is Shakira's 'Waka Waka' from the 2010 World Cup (don't judge). Play it only when you're ready to turn into your most badass self.
-- Kathryn Minshew -
Having acquired an espresso machine as good as a solid e-61 and a very good grinder, your incremental dollars will be best spent on either buying truly badass coffee, or setting up a roasting setup yourself that with lots of effort will allow you to produce high end roasted coffee.
-- Ken Fox -
We need to be willing to be uncomfortable, to be flawed, to be imperfect, to own our voice, to step into our light, so that we can continue to inspire other people and employ other people, and make room for more and more voices and presence.
-- Kerry Washington -
Look, I get it. Whether it's school, work, family, we've all got a lot on our minds. People say to me, "I'm just too busy to think about politics." But here's the thing: You may not be thinking about politics, but politics is thinking about you.
-- Kerry Washington -
There is always a price to pay for badassery. Neo was a badass in the Matrix and the Matrix Reloaded, but the price he had to pay was The Matrix Revolutions.
-- Kevin Hearne -
I've known for a long time that they're a bunch of idiots.
-- Kobe Bryant -
He shouldn't have been in the NBA, but we were too cheap to pay for a point guard.
-- Kobe Bryant -
I played T-Mac. I cooked him. Roasted him. Wasn't even close.
-- Kobe Bryant -
The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.
-- Kobe Bryant -
We're grown ***** men, you don't need to be falling all over the place.
-- Kobe Bryant -
I wouldn't say I'm a ball hog. I'm a shooter.
-- Kobe Bryant -
The only thing I'm afraid of is bees. I don't like bees. I'm allergic to them.
-- Kobe Bryant -
I am ten different kinds of badass now! [Alucard Hellsing]
-- Kohta Hirano -
My mom could be really fierce. A regular Frau Badass.
-- Kresley Cole -
If you're creating anything at all, it's really dangerous to care about what people think.
-- Kristen Wiig
