Best 311 quotes in «bad ass quotes» category

Remember this: your body is your slave; it works for you.

Science is basically an inoculation against charlatans.

Screw the dialogue, let's wreck some cars.

Sebastian, en Español, is a bad ass name.

Self-disciplined begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don't control what you think, you can't control what you do. Simply, self-discipline enables you to think first and act afterward.

Sexy doesn't have to come with the price tag of being dumb.

She was fabulously wrong when she said it the first time, and stunningly arrogant in her refusal to express any regret for lying to our fellow citizens.

"S" on my chest cause I'm ready to save him Ready to get buck on anybody that plays him

Slapped her then I asked her what's my name. She said N-I-C, the president of the N-Y-C.

Shoulda sent a thank you note, you little hoe Now Imma wrap your coffin wit a bow

Some banks won’t make it. Other banks are going to make sure that we strengthen. All deposits are going to be safe for ordinary people, but we’re going to have to bring out some of these bad assets.

Somehow it's O.K. for people to chuckle about not being good at math. Yet if I said, 'I never learned to read,' they'd say I was an illiterate dolt.

Somtimes I regret [that debut album was titled "Bad Azz" ], because people take it the wrong way. Everybody got a bad ways, and I'm a 'Bad Ass'... whenever I'm not good, so that's what I'm talkin' about.

That's the kinda dude I was lookin fo & yes you'll get slapped if you lookin hoe

That's the classic nature of people, though. We'll skip the basics and get pissed when the sexy stuff doesn't work.

Suppose you came across a woman lying on the street with an elephant sitting on her chest. You notice she is short of breath. Shortness of breath can be a symptom of heart problems. In her case, the much more likely cause is the elephant on her chest. For a long time, society put obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences. That is the elephant. Until the playing field has veen leveled and lingering stereotypes are gone, you can't even ask the question.

That's the world of policing. I've met some bad-ass female cops, who are very cool people.

The book is almost always better than the movie. You could have no better case in point than FROM HELL, Alan Moore's best graphic novel to date, brilliantly illustrated by Eddie Campbell. It's hard to describe just how much better the book is. It's like, "If the movie was an episode of Battlestar Galactica with a guest appearance by the Smurfs and everyone spoke Dutch, the graphic novel is Citizen Kane with added sex scenes and music by your favourite ten bands and everyone in the world you ever hated dies at the end." That's how much better it is.

The bench press per se is not a risky exercise. When done right, it can help improve upper body strength and size. It's only when form takes a back seat to numbers and when it's grossly overtrained that problems result. Injuries occur in the shoulders and elbows when the bench press is overtrained, poor technique is used, such as rebounding the bar off the chest and bridging, no other exercises for the upper body are included in the program, and there are no core exercises done for the upper back. Quite often, it's a combination all these factors.

The desire to reach for the sky runs very deep in the human psyche.

The creative person wants to be a know-it-all. He wants to know about all kinds of things-ancient history, nineteenth century mathematics, current manufacturing techniques, hog futures. Because he never knows when these ideas might come together to form a new idea. It may happen six minutes later, or six months, or six years. But he has faith that it will happen.

The fact that I was going to be the first American woman to go into space carried huge expectations along with it.

The first billion is a helluva lot harder.

The first gesture of an architect is to draw a perimeter; in other words, to separate the microclimate from the macro space outside. This in itself is a sacred act. Architecture in itself conveys this idea of limiting space. It's a limit between the finite and the infinite. From this point of view, all architecture is sacred.

The fundamental failure of most graphic, product, architectural and even urban design is its insistence on serving the God of Looking-Good rather than the God of Being-Good.

The god of war hates those who hesitate.

The greatest architectural illusion is not Baroque fancy or Victorian flamboyant, but minimalism.

The great tragedy is that they're removing art completely, not because they're putting more science in, but because they can't afford the art teachers or because somebody thinks it's not useful. An enlightened society has all of this going on within it. It's part of what distinguishes what it is to be human from other life forms on Earth - that we have culture.

The modern architect is, generally speaking, art's greatest enemy.

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

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

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.

The process begins with the individual woman’s acceptance that American women, without exception, are socialized to be racist, classist and sexist, in varying degrees, and that labeling ourselves feminists does not change the fact that we must consciously work to rid ourselves of the legacy of negative socialization.

There are certain aspects of me that can be bad-ass sometimes, but being able to push it to the extreme is something I'd love to play. You don't get those roles, as a female, and especially as an indigenous female. There aren't those roles out there, so I want that. I want women to see a strong, sexy female without showing her body too much.

There are no shortcuts. The fact that a shortcut is important to you means that you are a pussy.

There is a danger when every building has to look spectacular; to look like it is changing the world. I don't care how a building looks if it means something, not to architects, but to the people who use it.

There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.

There is no sound basis upon which it may be assumed that all poor men are godly and all rich men are evil, no more than it could be assumed that all rich men are good and all poor men are bad.

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.

There is no victory at bargain basement prices.

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication.

The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.

The room is there for the human being - not the human being for the room.

The same Constitution that allows her the right, if she wants to, to sit there and say nothing, allows these groups the right to petition their government for redress.

These last few years we've seen an unacceptable abuse of power, having a president whose priority is expanding his own power.

The success I have achieved in bodybuilding, motion pictures, and business would not have been possible without the generosity of the American people and the freedom here to pursue your dreams.

The Sun does not realise how wonderful it is until after a room is made.

The story of life is quicker then the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye.

The thing about creativity is, people are going to laugh at it. Get over it.

The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.