Badass Quotes - Page 10

• 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

  Motivational, Women, New Years Resolution

  Announcing Suspension of Presidential Campaign, delivered 7 June 2008, National Building Museum, Washington, D.C.

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• I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.

  Ayn Rand

  Bad Ass, Order, Racist

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• Derek’s like, “So . . . what do you want to do first?” “I don’t know.” “Feel like ice cream?” “It’s, like, three degrees out.” “That’s why getting ice cream would be badass.

  Susane Colasanti

  Ice Cream, Degrees, Would Be

  Susane Colasanti (2009). “Waiting For You”, p.89, Penguin

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• Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know.

  Bertrand Russell

  Life, Philosophy, Philosophical

  Bertrand Russell (1995). “My Philosophical Development”, p.204, Psychology Press

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• There's a lot youdon't know, Sam. There's a lot I don't tell you. I know who I am. I know what I do, and what I am to this place.I know what I am to you, and how much you depend on me.You may be the symbol, and you may be the one everyone turns to when something goes bad, and you're the big badass, but I'm the guy doing the day-in, day-out work of running things. So I don't make this about me.

  Michael Grant

  Running, Fear, Who I Am

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• I'm used to going into the studio and smoking and drinking until three in the morning. But I can't drink as much because I'm breastfeeding. See this glass of wine? Before, I'd have, like, four of them. Now, one is good. Oh, and I quit smoking. . . I've exorcised a lot of my demons, but I'm still working on myself. I think I'll be a work in progress for the rest of my life.

  Pink

  Morning, Drinking, Wine

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• I look at Willow and she's so naughty and fiery, and I'm not going to take any of her fierceness personally - my mom took all of my behavior personally. Everything I did, she thought it was an act of rebellion against her. But it was just me being me. And that's something I want to post on every mirror in my house: This is not about you!

  Pink

  Mom, Bad Ass, Naughty

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• I'm feeling really grateful. I'm feeling grateful that I've been able to participate in this game for as long as I have. I'm feeling grateful that I've been able to tell my stories. I don't know that my mom and dad are that grateful, or Carey [Hart, Pink's husband], but it's been good for me. I'm grateful if I've kept one girl from feeling different or ugly or unempowered.

  Pink

  Girl, Mom, Husband

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• The problem was, I was labeled as trouble - so I was like, 'Trouble? I'll show you trouble. You want trouble, well here it is!' No matter what label they give you, the best thing you can do is prove them wrong.

  Pink

  Bad Ass, Giving, Labels

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• I believe there's 31 flavors to be tasted. . . I'm just living my life. I don't want to be your kind of good.

  Pink

  Believe, Bad Ass, Flavor

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• A designer is a planner with an aesthetic sense.

  Bruno Munari

  Bad Ass, Design, Aesthetic

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• The most innovative designers consciously reject the standard option box and cultivate an appetite for thinking wrong.

  Marty Neumeier

  Bad Ass, Thinking, Design

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• « Are you hungry, baby?” Curran asked. “Starving.” “I think we should go to dinner.” “Great idea.” “What are you going to wear?” “My badass face.” “Good choice,” he said. »

  Ilona Andrews

  Baby, Thinking, Ideas

  Ilona Andrews (2013). “Magic Rises: A Kate Daniels Novel”, p.165, Penguin

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• 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

  Hair, Feelings, Vampire

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• Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.

  H. L. Mencken

  Funny, Anger, Humor

  H. L. Mencken, Marion Elizabeth Rodgers (2010). “H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: First, Second, and Third Series”, Hubsta Ltd

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• Am I going to have to carry you? If so, it would complete my badass knight-in-shining-armor act with you today.

  J. Lynn

  Knights, Shining, Armor

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• Listen to you sounding all badass. I bet you're just listening to a CD called 'The Sounds of Crime' while you cruise for chicks outside the Old Navy in your Camaro.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Cds, Listening, Navy

  Maggie Stiefvater (2012). “The Raven Boys”, p.104, Scholastic Inc.

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• At some point, you have to make a decision. Boundaries don't keep other people out. They fence you in. Life is messy. That's how we're made. So, you can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them

  Shonda Rhimes

  Drawing, People, Decision

  "Grey's Anatomy / The First Cut Is the Deepest". 2005.

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• If there's any guy crazy enough to attack me, I'm going to show him the end of the world -- close up. I'm going to let him see the kingdom come with his own eyes. I'm going to send him straight to the southern hemisphere and let the ashes of death rain all over him and the kangaroos and the wallabies.

  Haruki Murakami

  Crazy, Rain, Eye

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• Don't you think I would be a worthy replacement for you, Madam Prime Minister? You have a long nose. So have I. But I don't poke my nose into other people's affairs.

  Sam Manekshaw

  Thinking, Long, People

  "Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw" by Vinod Saighal, www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2008.

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• I was talking to Shonda Rhimes the other day and I said, "I. Do. Not. Know. How. You. Do. This." While we're writing episode 10, episode 6 is shooting, episode 3 is in the edit, and episode 2 is in its color session...You've got seven episodes in different parts! It's a wild, wild, wild ride, which I thoroughly enjoyed. It was badass and amazing.

  Ava DuVernay

  Writing, Color, Talking

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.

  Clark Gable

  Movie, Wind, Hollywood Films

  "Fictional character: Rhett Butler". "Gone with the Wind", 1939.

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• Reproductive freedom means economic freedom. And that's what this debate is about.

  Diana DeGette

  Mean, Debate, Economic

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• If absolute power corrupts absolutely, where does that leave God??

  George Deacon

  Funny, Humor, Doe

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• My sisters and I were encouraged to choose the direction of our lives.

  Diana DeGette

  My Sister, Our Lives

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