Top 100 Just Ok Quotes
#1. This one is OK,' I say quietly.
'OK, OK, OK. Everything is always just 'OK'. It's so boring. Who wants to be 'OK'?
I sit for a moment and think about what she said. It doesn't take me long to realise that I, quite genuinely, just want to be OK.
Dawn O'Porter
#2. It wasn't just OK to achieve in my family - it was expected.
Tananarive Due
#3. So, it's like: I'm an OK singer; I'm an OK guitar player and you put them together and ... it's just OK.
Callie Thorne
#4. We all think that an exception is going to be made in our case and were going to live forever. Being a human is actually arriving at the understanding that thats not going to be. Story is there to remind us that its just OK.
Ken Burns
#5. People look at me like I'm a little strange, when I go around talking to squirrels and rabbits and stuff. That's ok. That's just ok.
Bob Ross
#6. What people want to know is, OK, what's after modeling? It's not just OK anymore to model until you're 25 and then stop and be a housewife.
Gigi Hadid
#7. My husband was just OK looking. I was in labor and I said to him, 'What if she's ugly? You're ugly.'
Beverly Johnson
#8. I don't want to be in some relationship that's just about trading apologies when things get hard. Doing that won't make it all OK, you know? So, no, I don't forgive you. But I fucking accept you, including all the shit you do that tests my patience. Because I love you.
Liora Blake
#9. The key is to be happy for no reason. Just be love. Just be it. Just be happy no matter what. Just share your love and know that like it's all ok.
Drew Chadwick
#10. You listen to any monologue on late-night TV or just in general, to people talking, and there's always a joke at someone's expense. It's sarcasm; it's nasty. Kids grow up hearing that, and they think that's what humor is, and they think it's OK. But that negativity permeates the entire planet.
Ellen DeGeneres
#11. I guess I strongly feel that we cannot pretend that the Third World is not part of our world. We cannot say 'OK, there's that problem over there, let's just close our eyes' - we cannot do that.
Susanne Bier
#12. To see you cry wasn't my intention. just let me make it OK, just give me one more chance to say.
Darren Mew
#13. I've never had anyone just stick their hands through my hair. Yet. If they ask, I go, 'OK, you can, if you want to. It's probably just going to feel like most people's.' I take it as a compliment.
Charlie White
#14. Some women give birth and then two weeks later look amazing. I don't think I'm going to be one of those women, and I'm OK with that. I just want to be a good mom; I don't really care about having a hot bod.
Sara Rue
#15. The panty-line thing shouldn't be a big deal. I think we should just all agree that panty lines are OK. Because the thong thing is ... just uncomfortable.
Benjamin Koldyke
#16. Just when you think you're coming out and you think, 'OK, I see the light at the end of the tunnel,' then I got this diagnosis.
Dana Reeve
#17. I think with actors, if you just don't set about trying to crush their confidence immediately, you're usually OK.
John Malkovich
#18. In 1962, my injury wasn't because of violence; I just kicked the ball and it happened. And that was OK because Brazil won; I didn't have any difficulty in accepting that. I still got a medal because I'd played two games.
Pele
#19. Bob grinned. 'Wear that white swimsuit you bought last week, OK?' he said. 'I want all the other guys to wish you were their girlfriend.'
Sara felt vaguely uncomfortable, but she ignored the sensation. Bob just wanted her to look her best, she figured. There was nothing wrong with that.
Francine Pascal
#20. Just don't tell me you're in love, OK?"
"Sister, I ain't even in line.
Thomas Pynchon
#21. Some people would call me a workaholic. I don't consider this time: I just love my work so much, so it's my real hobby, OK? And, yeah, getting some play during working hours for which you are paid is the best job I can recommend for anyone around!
Andre Geim
#22. I'm OK being the veteran, but I'm still just a kid.
Barry Zito
#23. I'm kind of a chatty person and the props guys would have to handcuff me and tie me up and sometimes I'd just be chatting and they'd just pop it back in ... like: "OK now, shut up!"
Gemma Arterton
#24. I'm 27. I feel like I get it. I'm OK with being sexy if I feel like it. Some days I'm brainy, some days I'm funny, some days I'm sexy, and sometimes, I just want to dance.
Nelly Furtado
#26. I slept with my mother until I was nine years old. It was OK for the first few years, and then I don't know what happened. I just couldn't do it anymore. I mean, sleeping with the same woman, night after night. Boring!
Laura Kightlinger
#27. I don't understand why young entrepreneurs feel this pressure to take venture capital or go public. Don't get me wrong: Public companies are A-OK with me. I just think there is another way. Staying private is a lot more sane.
Jack Dangermond
#28. I think most importantly the reason we've been on the upswing is Ring of Honor has been very smart about the speed of its growth. ROH is not a company that says ok we're going to throw all this money in and let's just go for it. ROH has the business approach of slow but steady.
Adam Cole
#29. What makes all those women sexy? Were they just born sexy? I guess it's the way they act. I don't want to have to act sexy. I just want to be me, and if I don't happen to be sexy, oh well. That's OK. I don't want to force something I'm not.
Charlyne Yi
#30. Now I realized that me and him were just alike. We were both born to win. And, when we were not winning, it was OK 'cause we were busy planning to win.
Sister Souljah
#31. Men don't ask other men if they're getting home OK, they just assume that beneath the frail, weak exterior lurks a muscle-building kung fu master fearless of ever being mugged.
Kate Griffin
#32. It just seems OK these days to throw women under the bus. Like we're a bargaining chip.
Lizz Winstead
#33. I think it's OK to talk about your military service, but there's a fine line between, you know, too much and just about right.
Bob Dole
#34. And yet he kept sticking to her life like gum on the sole of her shoe, either on the Net or in real life. On the Net was OK. There he was no more than electrons and words. In real life, standing on her doorstep, he was still fucking attractive. And he knew her secrets just as she knew all of his.
Stieg Larsson
#35. Not for us the difficult poses, not for us the no-pain-no-gain, OK? Because to be truly happy you do not need to be a pretzel, you just need to walk without creaking.
Sarah-Kate Lynch
#36. Please stop assuming that longevity and perfect health is always the correct option. No. Sometimes fun costs ya. It just does, you know? And that's OK, you're willing to make that purchase. Sammy Davis, Jr. was 64 when he died. Give me 64 Sammy-years, I'll be happy.
Bill Maher
#37. OK then, picture daddy; whenever you're afraid just close your eyes and picture me. I'll be all that exists in your world and I promise to protect you.
S.R. Crawford
#38. Whatever dude, just as long as you're ok with carrying this thing out looking like Disco Barbie, it's cool with us.
Rachel Higginson
#39. When you are just muscle, you end up being gaunt in the face, and that makes you look older by 5 or 10 years. I don't think of getting older as looking better or worse; it's just different. You change, and that's OK.
Heidi Klum
#40. I've always thought that as long as directors and casting directors don't see me as just Harry Potter, I'll be OK. People have shown a lot of faith in me, and I owe them a huge debt. They're letting me prove that I'm serious about this.
Daniel Radcliffe
#41. Well, and that's what really counts, isn't it? I've become one of those women who put a ton of work into looking OK. If I can just go on and make a beautiful corpse, I'll have the whole problem pretty well licked.
Jonathan Franzen
#42. You just have to say, 'It's pretty damn good. I am right here at the moment and I'm OK with it. I've got other things to think about.'
Melissa McCarthy
#43. I was just trying out and having some fun. I don't think I'd want to pursue singing as a career; it's an on-the-side thing. It would be great if I could make a career out of it but if I can't, that's OK too.
William Hung
#44. The jewelry stores say, 'Tell your wife you love her with a diamond,' while wives tell you they love you with, 'Ok, but just because it's Valentine's Day.'
George Lopez
#45. There's always the cliche of the choir shouting and clapping. OK, you have to do that, but there's also introspective parts, parts where you just follow someone that's preaching. There's lots of different emotions and moods that a service requires.
Wynton Marsalis
#46. When you start a game, you don't think to yourself, "well, OK, I'm going throw a one-hitter today." It just becomes an organism, your outing becomes an organism and it grows.
R.A. Dickey
#47. An awful lot of thriller writers write women rather badly. So just doing it OK gets a lot of credit.
Ken Follett
#48. You do what is manageable, and you do it well rather than trying to do a thousand things just a little bit OK.
Pat Meehan
#49. Most of the time I like to start an album abroad, not at home, just to avoid the pressure, to not wake up and think, 'OK, it's the first of recording this album.' I like to avoid that.
Yann Tiersen
#50. When I was younger, I use to laugh at my mom when she was silly. Now that I'm older, I find myself just as silly as her. Thanks mom, for teaching us that even as adults, it's OK to be fun and enjoy life laughing. I now get to teach my nephews and stepdaughter the same thing.
April Mae Monterrosa
#51. Kitty waved her free hand to show that she was ok, although she was very tempted to stand over one of Adam's window-washing puddles and pretend her waters had broken just to see what he would do.
Christine Stovell
#52. It was a big surprise when I started to get attention in Sweden, going from biochemistry studies to touring and living from music only. There were a couple of years while I went to university when I was OK with thinking of music as just a nice recreation.
Jose Gonzalez
#53. Loving yourself doesn't mean you think you're perfect or better than others. It just means you know that sometimes you have to be your own cheerleader, your own warrior ... and you're ok with that
Nina Guilbeau
#54. She's in the closet." Bric and I exchange a glance. "I gagged her. I didn't fucking know what to do. I just - Goddammit. I just grabbed the ball gag from the drawer, hooked it on her, tied her hands behind her back, and threw her in our closet." "OK,
J.A. Huss
#55. I'm not interested in doing something edgy with a capital E just so everyone knows, 'Oh, OK, now he's showing us he can do edgy.'
Tom Hanks
#56. I just really want it at some point to be OK for women and young girls to be sexy because I think that's a power, a gift that we were given by God or the universe or whatever.
Megan Fox
#57. I just had this New York thing. When I got there, I felt so at home. I said, 'This is where the crazy people go.' It's OK to be yourself in New York. In L.A., it's difficult.
Lori Petty
#58. I think when you get to the point where you don't need to be in love, then you could be in love. You have to just be OK with yourself-and that's a long process.
John Cusack
#59. Its OK to grow up, just as long as you don't grow old. Face it you are young.
Jarvis Cocker
#60. Ok. don't panic. Don't panic. It's only a VISA bill. It's a piece of paper; a few numbers. I mean, just how scary can a few numbers be?
Sophie Kinsella
#61. You can't be 100% perfect, but try to evaluate things and do what's right. If you just make every effort to do the right thing, you'll come out ok. It comes down to priorities and making good decisions.
Archie Manning
#62. I'm in road-coma at the moment. But it's OK. I think you subliminally become a junkie of being on the road. As much as you think you're burnt out, the minute you get off you go stir crazy and you just wanna go right back.
Shannon Hoon
#63. I just finished an episode of a new show called 'Century City.' It's like 'Law & Order' set in the future, and I have a very dramatic role in that. I have to sob and weep and wail. It was very hard. When it was done, I was like, 'OK, time to watch 'SpongeBob!'
Cayden Boyd
#64. Style is just an impression. Style itself is hollow. Style, its ok style as long as it is part of a language. Style for style itself is just something very hollow.
Alfonso Cuaron
#65. I just hug her, tell everything is fine, and walk with her to her house. It will be all OK in the end.
Dawn O'Porter
#66. I grew up on the rough side of the tracks. If you looked like you were soft, you would be fodder for the wolves. I came up in my neighbourhood like, 'I'm just gonna be me,' and all the thugs just said, 'It's OK, he's special.' They knew I had the talent with the rhymes, so they kept me around.
Q-Tip
#67. If you're constantly ruminating about what you just did- or what you should have done- or what you would have done if you only had the chance, you will miss your life. Ok, you will fail to connect with it. You will fail to connect with other people.
Sam Harris
#68. I don't love the years going by. I'd just as soon stay forty-five. But it's OK because I feel a whole lot better than I did at thirty-five.
Stevie Nicks
#69. Usually the bullies are the most insecure. I was bullied and it's hard, you feel like high schools never going to be over. Its four years of your life and you just have to remember the person picking on you has their own problems and their own issues. And you're going to be ok.
Megan Fox
#70. I think what a big part of 30 Seconds to Mars is, it's not only music, it's not only art, it's a community. It's a sense of having a place to belong. And not everybody will understand it, and that's ok, it's just for the people that do.
Jared Leto
#71. Love isn't relevant once things are really bad. They say love makes the world go round-but it doesn't, you know. Love is a luxury, and you indulge in it when things are OK. As soon as they are bad-really bad-there just isn't a place for it anymore-no place where there could be room for it
Celia Fremlin
#72. I went backwards and forwards over it until I was 22. And then in the past few years I began to say to myself, OK, look, I'm not messing around. This is something I want to attack, instead of thinking, I'll just see what happens with it.
Christian Bale
#73. Steve [Jobs] proves that it's OK to be an asshole ... He just has a different OS.
Guy Kawasaki
#74. It's ok to think the way you think, just as long as you respect that it's not the only way.
Tanya Masse
#75. It's OK to have butterflies. Just get them flying in formation.
Francisco Lopez
#76. The CIA laid out several scenarios and said life could be lousy, life could be OK, life could be better, and they were just guessing as to what the conditions might be like.
George W. Bush
#77. There is something oddly therapeutic about trudging through marshy sand, the feeling of squishiness below the feet signaling to the brain that it's OK to just let go for a while.
Sarah Jio
#78. I think you sort of shed skins as you go along in life. You get into your 40s, and you feel like, 'OK, no more pretending.' You get to just be who you are.
Annette Bening
#79. Just because a black man is running the RNC doesn't mean black folks are going to, 'Oh, OK, I will be a Republican.' Just as with the election of President Obama. All the problems and concerns that are very important to African Americans don't get solved overnight.
Michael Steele
#80. There were times my mom and I butted heads - over my curfew, over something like that. Whenever we would hit these moments of emotional backfire, she would say, 'You just don't understand what it's like to be a mother ... I could never handle losing you.' I was like, 'OK, but just, like, chill out.'
Brie Larson
#81. Everybody was trying to put me in action movies and heroic roles, and I wanted to find more complex things. They just didn't suit my taste, so I thought, 'OK, I have to be brave enough to say no.' And for a while, that hurt me immeasurably in the Hollywood world.
Josh Hartnett
#82. I watched, for the 17th and hopefully the last time, The 'Guns of Navarone' on New Year's Eve. I always watch just in case the explosives don't go off in the end. You have to watch the end, just to make sure it's OK.
David Cameron
#83. It's not an easy choice, but that's OK. Easy doesn't equal good. Difficulty doesn't equal bad.
It's just life, is all.
Barry Lyga
#84. I'm just going to try to hit the ball hard. If it's going out of the park, that'll be OK.
Hanley Ramirez
#85. I don't write my own publicity materials, I just read 'em and give 'em the OK.
John Darnielle
#86. After I won the Heisman Trophy, it just was OK, I'm supposed to go to the NFL and so that's what I did. I didn't really have any expectations and I didn't really understand how things worked.
Ricky Williams
#87. Sometimes when I go out on the road, I feel almost embarrassed or dismayed because I can't be the image of what kids want me to be. So I just try to be myself, and usually that works out OK.
Mary Pope Osborne
#88. We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times ... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. That's not leadership. That's not going to happen.
Barack Obama
#89. None of us is ever OK, but we all get through everything just fine.
Pema Chodron
#90. You made a decision given your life circumstances and you have to be ok with that. Regrets that can't be change is just torturing yourself.
Michelle Singletary
#91. I'll be a story in your head. But that's OK. We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh? Because it was, you know; it was the best.
Steven Moffat
#92. Ok so there's no TV shows, no movies going on fine, but I love going on stage and performing stand up so my situation is a little better than someone who's strictly just an actor or actress.
Wanda Sykes
#93. They maintain this guilty, defiant refusal to engage: I know you're out there; I know it's awful and I'm safe inside, but I suffered too, so let me just read my Kindle without bloody guilt-tripping me, OK?
Sophie Kinsella
#94. I'm a songwriter. So I'm OK. But when I wrote "Stand By Me" as a song and to know that the song will probably be here for hundred and hundreds of years to come, it's great, you know. And it was just simple lyrics.
Ben E. King
#95. I really just wanted to be a writer, but people tell you, 'You should have a backup career,' so I thought, 'OK, I'll act.' That was the foolishness of my vision for my life - that my backup career would be completely undependable.
Patti Davis
#97. They were showing clips from my earlier films. All I could see was this beautiful young woman who was anxious about whether she was too heavy or if her nose was too big. I felt like saying to her, 'Just relax and it will all be OK.
Meryl Streep
#98. OK, I admit it. I was just a front-man for the real fathers of Linux, the Tooth Fairy and Santa Claus.
Linus Torvalds
#99. It is important to know: 1) You are OK just the way you are. You need a strong stomach, a tough hide, and to be able to take rejection well. 2) Do your homework. Check out galleries. Don't just walk in with your work. Be as professional as you can. 3) ... there is a gallery for everybody.
Kay WalkingStick
#100. Beck, we gotta go."
"Ok." She made smooch lips to the mirror and then smiled at me. "It's shameful to look this fabulous isn't it?" she said, making me laugh.
"Absolutely, just shameful.
Shelly Crane
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