Bad Ass Quotations | Page 2

This one doesn't exist. The prettiest girl and the best car don't exist as well.

It doesn't matter what kind of result will be in the end. I already win for myself.

My main competitor is myself.

It's everything for me. Without figure skating, I am nothing.

I just adore jumping. I do the rest as it is supposed to be done.

If the Olympic champion doesn't know how to jump quad, I don't know. Now it's not figure skating. Now it's dancing.

I skate for the fans. It's not as fun without them there supporting me. I get energy from them and I want to skate well for them. They relax me. They make me happy when I skate for them. I feel the Americans like me more and more each time I tour.

In the absence of orders, go find something and kill it.

You can't be bad ass in a car that kills gas like I kill tacos.

I don't know why people hire architects and then tell them what to do.

Life is to be enjoyed, not endured

Can you imagine a 6 year old banging all day on a drum kit. I do have photos of me in my sort of princess girly bedroom with a bad-ass sparkle set.

The events of human life, whether public or private, are so intimately linked to architecture that most observers can reconstruct nations or individuals in all the truth of their habits from the remains of their monuments or from their domestic relics.

My definition of bad-ass is that I'm a force of nature and true spirit. I'm self-admitting that, and it sounds vain to say that, but I am.

While falling in love is fun, it's not everything, and it's not the antidote to an unfulfilled life, despite what Reese Witherspoon movies may tell you.

I bizarrely think that this [Sin City] is the perfect date movie. If a guy took me on a date to see this movie, I would marry him, for sure. It's bad-ass chicks and rad dudes, who are sexy, all over the place, and there's so much cool action.

No damn man kills me and lives.

If wars can be started by lies, they can be stopped by truth.

Here, then, is what I wanted to tell you of my architecture. I created it with courage and idealism, but also with an awareness of the fact that what is important is life, friends, and attempting to make this unjust world a better place in which to live.

I don't think anyone should apologize for being sexy if it comes from a genuine place, if they're not being forced into an objectifying situation.

I admire women who can be feminists and fight for women's rights, who believe in our powers as individuals and yet not apologize for beauty.

Friends, haters, it's Twitter poll time. What do you think most holds back justice and equality for women? All thoughts welcome!

It was so fascinating to be a part of this, because as the women took on these central roles that had all the good lines, therefore all the good laughs, all the great moments- the men, who had joined us to sit on stage, started squirming rather uncomfortably. And got really bored. Because they weren't used to being the supporting cast. It was fascinating to feel their discomfort, to discuss it with them afterwards when they said, 'It's boring to play the girl role.' And I said, 'Yeah. Yeah, ya think? Welcome to our world.'

In Alien, Sigourney Weaver's role was written for a man. In Salt, Angelina Jolie's role was written for Tom Cruise. These things, when reversed, do prove to be just as exciting and entertaining with women in leading roles.

It's really hard to get stories made that are about women. Not just women being obsessed with men, or supporting men. And it's really hard to get men to be a part of films that are about women in a leading role. I'm really interested in how we can adjust that.

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

Ok first things first I'll eat your brains Then Imma start rockin gold teeth & fangs

Don't do coke I don't blow niggas, I don't tell niggas I show niggas

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

I'm brandin', I aint talking bout Presley. I keep a sniper, I aint talking bout Wesley.

Imma violate yall asses like Chris Stokes.

My net worth, that net works. Keep my shooters out in Brooklyn where the Nets work.

Go against me nowwww I dare you Bambi

If he gimme the word then I'm flippin the bird & then I'm spinnin around & I'm grippin the burn

And if you a G you a G-G-G. My name is Onika, you can call me Nicki.

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

Now all my niggas gettin buck Overbite

I hear them mumblin, I hear the cacklin I got em scared, shook, panickin

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

You lil Fraggle Rock, beat you wit a padded lock

Bad as I wanna be. She aint bad, she a sad little wannabe.

Pop ya kickstand little mama I'm the Nickster. I'll pop you then I'll pop your little sister.

Gotta go let me get the car key You don't want it wit the Harajuku Barbie

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

I told Khaled you the best but I'm the bestest. Better run for cover if your name is on my checklist.

Mike Jack. Who's bad? Aint on my period, but I got a new pad.

This stone is flawless F1 I keep shooters up top in the F1

Gettin at Weezy you comin through me-zy & I won't hesitate to do anyone greasy

You the type that be runnin ya mouth. See you on the block wanna run in ya house.

I hate wack niggas, I should really slap niggas.

You can be feminine and strong, at the same time. You can be a bad-ass and, at the same time, have a vulnerableness when you're hysterically crying, like most of us girls.

Architecture never derived its force from stability of culture, but rather from the expression of those moments when that sense of stability slipped.

You may abandon your own body but you must preserve your honour.

When men are oppressed, it's a tragedy. When women are oppressed, it's tradition.

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

It is therefore indisputable that the limbs of architecture are derived from the limbs of man.

Some age. Others mature.

I bob and weave em, hit em wit that Mayweather JAB.

With one linear centimeter of your lower colon there lives and works more bacteria (about 100 billion) that all humans who have ever been born. Yet many people continue to assert that it is we who are in charge of the world

Science is basically an inoculation against charlatans.

'As a fraction of your tax dollar today, what is the total cost of all spaceborne telescopes, planetary probes, the rovers on Mars, the International Space Station, the space shuttle, telescopes yet to orbit, and missions yet to fly?' Answer: one-half of one percent of each tax dollar. Half a penny. I'd prefer it were more: perhaps two cents on the dollar. Even during the storied Apollo era, peak NASA spending amounted to little more than four cents on the tax dollar.

Countless women are alive today because of ideas stimulated by a design flaw in the Hubble Space Telescope.

In the movie, the stars above the ship bear no correspondence to any constellations in a real sky. Worse yet, while the heroine bobs... we are treated to her view of this Hollywood sky-one where the stars on the right half of the scene trace the mirror image of the stars in the left half. How lazy can you get?

Let us not fool ourselves into thinking we went to the Moon because we are pioneers, or discoverers, or adventurers. We went to the Moon because it was the militaristically expedient thing to do.

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

If an alien lands on your front lawn and extends an appendage as a gesture of greeting, before you get friendly, toss it an eightball. If the appendage explodes, then the alien was probably made of antimatter. If not, then you can proceed to take it to your leader.

I'm optimistic. I see no longer people accepting fuzzy thinking in the world. The change is not that people aren't still saying under-informed things. The change is that if you're in power and you say something under-informed, there are people out there with a voice who will take you to task for having done so

People cited violation of the First Amendment when a New Jersey schoolteacher asserted that evolution and the Big Bang are not scientific and that Noah's ark carried dinosaurs. This case is not about the need to separate church and state; it's about the need to separate ignorant, scientifically illiterate people from the ranks of teachers.

The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.

On Friday the 13th, April 2029, an asteroid large enough to fill the Rose Bowl as though it were an egg cup will fly so close to Earth that it will dip below the altitude of our communication satellites. We did not name this asteroid Bambi. Instead, we named it Apophis, after the Egyptian god of darkness and death.

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.

Architecture is like a mythical fantastic. It has to be experienced. It can't be described. We can draw it up and we can make models of it, but it can only be experienced as a complete whole.

Any work of architecture that does not express serenity is a mistake.

If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you

A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty, but an obsession about female obedience. Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women’s history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one.

It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.

Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own Earth. It is at least the geometric pattern of things, of life, of the human and social world. It is at best that magic framework of reality that we sometimes touch upon when we use the word order.

I wish I'd drunk more champagne.

Dammit... Don't you dare ask God to help me.

Form ever follows function.

What do you say when someone takes on a really bad ass, murdering sucker for you? There just aren't words for that.

I came, I saw, I conquered.

People think that design is styling. Design is not style. It's not about giving shape to the shell and not giving a damn about the guts. Good design is a renaissance attitude that combines technology, cognitive science, human need and beauty to produce something that the world didn't know it was missing.

But we have to understand why we do what we do, not just do what we do. Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.

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!

To experience the good you have to have seen the bad; plus it makes you appreciate blessings more. Tough times taught me to be a fighter.

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.

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.

Charting your own course isn't just more necessary than ever before. It's also much easier - and much more fun.

People are always like, Why did you and husband Carey Hart get back together? Well, we weren't done. And now we have Willow, so we'll never be done.

For so long, I was searching for something to be proud of. But at a certain point, I realized, 'Wait, I'm doing what I want to be doing. I'm not wanting to do it; I'm doing it.' And that's awesome.

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

Write it. Shoot it. Publish it. Crochet it, sauté it, whatever. MAKE.

Architecture is a dangerous mix of power and importance.

We view ourselves on the eve of battle. We are nerved for the contest, and must conquer or perish. It is vain to look for present aid: none is at hand. We must now act or abandon all hope! Rally to the standard, and be no longer the scoff of mercenary tongues! Be men, be free men, that your children may bless their father's name.

The first billion is a helluva lot harder.

I like ruins because what remains is not the total design, but the clarity of thought, the naked structure, the spirit of the thing.

Pain was their body's way of telling them that they'd pushed themselves to their limits - which was exactly where they were supposed to be.

Your memo is trumping a Congressional statute. You don't have the discretion on whether to follow the law or not.

I can tell you this. It is not going to be evenly constituted and when she was Speaker Pelosi, she certainly showed no interests in having an equal number of Republicans and Democrats.