Famous Quotes & Sayings

Christina Hendricks

All of a sudden I was Joan [Mad Man] and they're going, "Oh, so she plays a badass in this." And I'm like, "Oh my god, I get to play badasses." Firefly was a little bit of that, but she started out as a mouse and then she turned into a dragon. But I never really had that opportunity. So all of a sudden people were like, "Oh, do you feel like you're being typecast?" I would say, "No, this is just opening the doors." No one thought I could do it and someone finally trusted me to do it.

George Orwell

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

Holly Black

Pet the cat dude," says Sam. "She brought you a present. She wants you to tell her how badass she is." "You are a tiny tiny killing machine." Daneca coos. "What's she doing?" I ask. "Purring!" says Daneca. She sounds delighted. "Good kitty. Who's an amazing killing machine? That's right. You are! You are a brutal brutal tiny lion! Yes, you are.

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

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.

Emma Thompson

Maybe I don't take myself so seriously any more. And I don't care how I'm judged. I'm past all that.

Emma Watson

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.

Neal Stephenson

Like every other creature on the face of the earth, Godfrey was, by birthright, a stupendous badass, albeit in the somewhat narrow technical sense that he could trace his ancestry back up a long line of slightly less highly evolved stupendous badasses to that first self-replicating gizmo---which, given the number and variety of its descendants, might justifiably be described as the most stupendous badass of all time. Everyone and everything that wasn't a stupendous badass was dead.

Serena Williams

I love who I am, and I encourage other people to love and embrace who they are. But it definitely wasn't easy - it took me a while.

Michelle Obama

Believe it or not, when we were first married, our combined monthly student loan bills were actually higher than our mortgage.

Michelle Obama

We were so young, so in love, and so in debt.

Michelle Obama

When you've worked hard, and done well, and walked through that doorway of opportunity...you do not slam it shut behind you...you reach back, and you give other folks the same chances that helped you succeed.

Shonda Rhimes

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

Sherrilyn Kenyon

A what? (Fang) Badass demon with a superiority complex who picks his teeth with bones of infants. Let’s just keep it simple and say he’s a demon I want out of the human realm. ASAP. (Thorn)

Laverne Cox

There's not just one trans story. There's not just one trans experience.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

You are the Energizer Bunny for badasses. -Ash

Nora Roberts

My boyfriend and I are badasses.

Niels Bohr

Truth and clarity are complementary

Philip Johnson

All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.

Marissa Mayer

I love technology, and I don't think it's something that should divide along gender lines.

Frank Lloyd Wright

All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.

Lionel Messi

When it comes to being badass nothing beats this It took me 17 years and 114 days to become an overnight success.

Jim Norton

You really are a badass, edgy guy who tells it like it is...about couscous.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.

Malala Yousafzai

I think life is always dangerous. Some people get afraid of it. Some people don't go forward. But some people, if they want to achieve their goal, they have to go. They have to move ...

Maggie Stiefvater

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.

Haruki Murakami

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.

Lupita Nyong'o

You fail, and then what? Life goes on. It's only when you risk failure that you discover things.

Richelle Mead

We can't do this without you," I managed at last. "Everyone talks about my powers, but you're the badass here.

Richelle Mead

I knew you were a badass," continued Adrian. "But I didn't realize just how much until I saw you dropping guardians out there." "Does that mean you're going to be nicer to me?" I teased. "I'm already nice to you," he said loftily. "Do you know how badly I want a cigarette right now? But no. I manfully suffer through nicotine withdrawal—all for you.

Richelle Mead

Dimitri was on a first name basis with one of the most badass guardians around. Of course, Dimitri was pretty badass himself, so I shouldn’t have been surprised.

Richelle Mead

The other problem in my life is Dimitri. He's the one who killed Natalie, and he's a total badass. He's also pretty good-looking. Okay—more than good-looking. He's hot—like, the kind of hot that makes you stop walking on the street and get hit by traffic.

Richelle Mead

Adrian gave me a look that said I was wasting his time. "Because Jet sounds badass.