Top 100 Quotes About Badass

#1. 'VERY WELL,' I SAID ANGRILY, 'START THE MAN, AND I'LL START THE SAME DAY FOR SOME OTHER NEWSPAPER AND BEAT HIM.'

Nellie Bly

#2. If a young woman is looking at the landscape of Hollywood, what she sees is almost only challenges.

Lena Dunham

#3. I'm glad people think I'm a badass. I'm a rock and roller, and I'm an R&B and a blueswoman. I don't do fairy music, although I love Celtic music and sensitive music. There's a balance between ballads and kick-ass songs.

Bonnie Raitt

#4. My mom could be really fierce. A regular Frau Badass.

Kresley Cole

#5. I'm Nancy Pelosi, but my grandchildren call me Mimi. For me, politics is an extension of my role as a mother and a grandmother. For the Democratic women of the House, our work is not about the next election, but rather the next generation.

Nancy Pelosi

#6. I'm pissed like this rutting beast can't conceive - I'm a lifetime of pissed, of strong, of muscle built over bruise, I'm slick with power and feel the fight as it changes ...
As it flows ...
... Everything into place, perfect, and I finally do what I was born to do.
I slay.

Joss Whedon

#7. You are the Worst Kind of Animal. A Butcher by Day and a Pussy Cat by Night.

Monroe Ariel

#8. Maxon: "To be clear, no one agrees with you."
America: "To be clear, I don't care.

Kiera Cass

#9. I wasn't born with enough middle fingers.

Marilyn Manson

#10. Nobody calls me 'blondie' and keeps their kneecaps.

Cassandra Clare

#11. Are you not entertained?

Russell Crowe

#12. There's nothing more badass than being who you are.

Darren Criss

#13. Iron Sisters also badass at recycling!

Cassandra Clare

#14. I'm a really humble person and I'm a really on-the-go person. For me, it's never that serious.

Joey Badass

#15. It's usually some badass makes a young girl's heart beat faster.

William Hjortsberg

#16. What I love about 'Criminal Minds' is that Morgan is an ex-marine, ex-SWAT. To do those things you have to be a pretty badass dude. It's a great incentive to stay in shape.

Shemar Moore

#17. I thought I was rescuing her ... I thought I was the knight in shining armor ... But it turns out; she was the badass princess that was rescuing me.

Steve Maraboli

#18. I know the expression love bloomed is metaphorical, but in my heart in this moment, there is one badass flower, captured in time-lapse photography, going from bud to wild radiant blossom in ten seconds flat.

Jandy Nelson

#19. We're grown ass men, you don't need to be falling all over the place.

Kobe Bryant

#20. There's no denying the fact he is really, really good-looking, in this rakish, edgy, badass, I-just-rolled-out-of-bed-and-screw-you-I-don't-need-a-mirror kind of way.

Hannah Harrington

#21. My job has always been to not only make my character look like a badass but to also make the actor I am fighting opposite to be the character they need to be too.

Zoe Bell

#22. I am really inspired by strong, badass, female characters. I would start with a revenge film, then ease into stories of badass everyday woman who make a difference in their own life for the better of people and environment around them. Stories of self realization.

Alicia Sixtos

#23. Wake up every morning and tell yourself you're a badass bitch from hell and that no one can fuck with you and then don't let anybody fuck with you.

Unknown

#24. He's the kind of Finch who would stand on a building and think about jumping just because nothing scares him. He is seriously badass.

Jennifer Niven

#25. Must be the hair then. And the name change. And your new piss-poor attitude. Because every once in a while, I look at you and I don't see a Baby Doll anymore. I just see Alice Faye Dahl, Poker Champion Badass. With obvious, heavy influences from Ronald McDonald, of course.

Elle Lothlorien

#26. I took out my grenade and put my fingers inside the pin. 'Do you boys want this to be your last meal, or do you want to answer his question?

Ishmael Beah

#27. Apparently Lo- badass lady boss of fucking Hailstorm who had just negotiated a deal that saved two people I cared about after neutralizing an entire gang and watching a man be murdered, without even a blink- was a fucking romantic.
Go fucking figure.

Jessica Gadziala

#28. Lee, apparently protected by an invisible Badass Shield, was simply standing in the middle of the mayhem, staring at the burning remains of the car. Luke, much like Lee, was standing smack in the chaos, pieces of car on fire all around him, and his eyes were on me.

Kristen Ashley

#29. I wasn't brave, or strong, or badass. And all those quirky lines I fed you? A foolish attempt at sounding strong.
The truth is: I was just a lost girl. Someone who was clueless on how to get out of the hole she'd dug for herself.
I didn't want to be the way I was. I wanted to be normal.

L. Duarte

#30. Finally I am becoming stupider no more.

Paul Erdos

#31. She resumed pacing, no longer able to focus on the words. Luke was coming back. Her Luke. Her hot, badass scientist.

Rachel Grant

#32. I could fall in love with a supernatural creature because I think it's hot having super powers and being a little bit of a badass.

Crystal Reed

#33. If we were in a spreadsheet, we'd be in different columns." She'd be under uptight/nerdy/homely girls, and he'd be under badass men with bodies of..um..Navy SEALS.
He grunted. "Just so you know, I hate spreadsheets with a hot, burning passion.

Dana Marton

#34. When I try to achieve greatness, it spits on me the night before.

Monroe Ariel

#35. I hate to admit it, but we're badass.

Dave Matthews

#36. That's why when major badasses greet each other in movies, they don't say anything, they just nod. The nod means, 'I' am a badass, and I recognize that you, too, are a badass,' but they don't say anything because they're Wolverine and Magneto and it would mess up their vibe to explain.

Cassandra Clare

#37. You know, you're hot and you've got that badass manly man thing going and I'm crazily attracted to you, but honestly, I suspect you're going to be a little too bossy for my tastes. Thanks for the offer on the whole
love-me-die-for-me thing, but I'll pass.

Stephanie Rowe

#38. President Obama pushed for fairness in the military, listening to commanders as we ended Don't Ask Don't Tell, and on how to allow women to officially serve in more combat jobs. Because America's daughters are just as capable of defending liberty as her sons!

Tammy Duckworth

#39. I need your strength. Yes i am a badass, but there are times that i need someone to hold me up too, and i didn't know until i found you that that doesn't make me weak, it means i have finally found my partner.

Kristen Proby

#40. A feeling of contentment flooded through me as I felt magic surging up from my feet. I flung another hand out, and the fog seemed to flinch in its rush to pull back. "Okay," Jenna said, tugging at my arm. "You're back to being a badass. Now, run.

Rachel Hawkins

#41. I think everyone's afraid of public speaking. There have been times where I've come out of my own show and been like, 'Oh, God, what am I doing?' ... You have to remind yourself that 'OK, I'm kind of a badass. I can handle it.'

Chelsea Handler

#42. 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

#43. The problem was that Simon did not know how to pack like a badass.

Cassandra Clare

#44. Alanna Carrington, head witch of the Philadelphia Coven, hurtled his way, and with her, trouble was a guarantee.

Katherine McIntyre

#45. Sophie glanced from me to Sabine, then back, scowling. "I'm not scared of her. I can handle myself."
"Yeah, and hissing kittens think they're badass too," Sabine said.

Rachel Vincent

#46. Nikolai's a badass Russian. Badass Russians only have three emotions: revenge, depression, and vodka.

Larry Correia

#47. It's good she hooked up with me, she's such a nut, she needs a badass to take her back.

Kristen Ashley

#48. IF YOU are a relatively small woman, and a man at least twice your size is bellowing at you in anger, and you're wearing a prisoner's uniform, and he has a pair of handcuffs on his belt, I don't care how much of a badass you think you are, you'll be fucking scared

Piper Kerman

#49. She was decidedly uncomfortable with the switchblade. Although she very much liked the idea of it---Blue Sargent, desperado; Blue Sargent, superhero; Blue Sargent, badass---she suspected that the only thing she would cut the first time she opened it was herself.

Maggie Stiefvater

#50. But Dobby shouted, "You shall not harm Harry Potter! ... He got up, face livid, and pulled out his wand, but Dobby raised a long, threatening finger. "You shall go now," he said fiercely, pointing down at Mr. Malfoy. "You shall not touch Harry Potter. You shall go now.

J.K. Rowling

#51. Tyler stood next to me, both looking at the big O of my mouth with blood all around it and the little slit of my eye staring up at us from the floor, and Tyler says, Cool.

Chuck Palahniuk

#52. Hot, a badass climber, and a firefighter. I think my panties just melted.

Pamela Clare

#53. Simon-"From now on I will only adress people by nodding at them." Clary-"That's stupid why would you do that?" Simon-"Because it says that 'I am a badass, and I recognive that you too, are a badass

Cassandra Clare

#54. Oh, hell, no. I saw you with the rifle." He glanced over at her, and his voice went a notch deeper. "It was fucking hot. I love a badass female.

Larissa Ione

#55. I'm not talking about faith in God, I'm talking about faith in Mark Watney

Andy Weir

#56. What do you do when you're swimming with sharks? You make sure you're the biggest, most badass thing in the pool.

Pippa DaCosta

#57. We talk often about choice. Well, ladies and gentlemen, it's time to choose.

Sandra Fluke

#58. You're a dad-ass. Like a badass but older.

Kaui Hart Hemmings

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

Clark Gable

#60. You could have told me you were a total badass. I imagine him shrugging. Yeah, I know. You're not the talkative type.

Anonymous

#61. Probably like a couple of years from now, there'll be a lot of girls here, and then it won't be just like all boys, so they'll have to build like another dorm for girls, so it'll be a huge impact if more girls start playing.

Mo'ne Davis

#62. People should either be caressed or crushed. If you do them minor damage they will get their revenge; but if you cripple them there is nothing they can do. If you need to injure someone, do it in such a way that you do not have to fear their vengeance.

Niccolo Machiavelli

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

Diana DeGette

#64. You don't even know me, or what I am capable of, boy.

S.R. Crawford

#65. Jim wasn't just a badass. He was a badass who wrote a book for badasses on how to be a badder badass.

Ilona Andrews

#66. Jamaica's probably the most dominant island as far as influence goes, as far as music and dancing and culture.

Joey Badass

#67. Everyone all right?"
Angela nodded. Holly looked up and smiled too, her smile shakier and thus more real than Ash's. "I'm okay," she said. "I see you are too. I also see you have a weapon that is on fire."
"I'm badass like that," Kami said, putting the branch down on the cobblestones.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#68. Lukas grinned at me. I didn't know how badass you are. That's kind of hot.

Lee Nichols

#69. I'll take this. I'll take this every day and every day I'll know in the end I beat that bastard. He might not have been alive to see it, but I bet his goddamned, motherfucking ass.
Seriously, he was hot when he was being all vengeful badass.

Kristen Ashley

#70. Regardless of anything, my dad wants me to "get that piece of paper!" - degree over everything.

Joey Badass

#71. It's going to give you nightmares for the rest of your wasted life.
Oh, my God, I was so badass. It was all I could do not to give a mwa ha ha!

James Patterson

#72. Wake up - time to die.

Brion James

#73. Everybody shut up. Let us work.

Kobe Bryant

#74. Your family is badass," Sam says. "They set a high bar of badassery.

Holly Black

#75. You think he's got 'government badass' tattooed on his chest?" I murmured.
A faint grimace skewed Luther's mouth. "And 'I'd tell you but I'd have to kill you' on his ass.

Ilona Andrews

#76. They focused a large amount of their wrath on people trying to add dialogue about feminism and diversity in gaming, condemning them as "Social Justice Warriors." (That label was always so weird to me, because how is that an insult? "Social Justice Warrior" actually sounds pretty badass.)

Felicia Day

#77. El Vibora - The Viper. A sexy, badass motherfucker. Part-time underground fighter and full-time thug. The primary concern when fighting El Vibora isn't winning ... it's not dying.

Kele Moon

#78. Soze shook his head. "If someone checks our Internet search records, don't you think it will look suspicious that before we called the police, we checked up on the evidence?"
Poe laughed mirthlessly. "We're Rose & Grave, junior. Everything we do looks suspicious.

Diana Peterfreund

#79. I'm only an old gleeeman,' he said from the door. 'Who could I possibly be dangerous to?

Robert Jordan

#80. I ain't got time to bleed.

Jesse Ventura

#81. Probably the most badass guy who ever lived on this planet!

Bruce Lee

#82. 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

#83. Don't be playful when I'm feeling emotional," I ordered.
To this, he strangely replied, "You get I'm a badass."
"Hard to miss, Deacon," I returned.
"Then don't tell me when to be playful. Badasses don't like that shit.

Kristen Ashley

#84. I swung the door open and seductively leaned against it. The ultimate badass looked like he was having a heart attack.

Christine Zolendz

#85. Perhaps I can stay by the fire and mend your socks and scream if I hear any strange noises.

Kristin Cashore

#86. I'm a pretty gentle person so I don't really have much of a thing of being a badass.

Lee Pace

#87. And if he's the sun finally on your horizon, I'm naming my first boy after him. Which, admittedly, is not a hardship since his name is badass and not Herbert. But, still.

Kristen Ashley

#88. Over my career I played some badass characters. So, people sometimes think I should have a .44 magnum. But that's not true, I don't have that. But I do fire them and I do enjoy target shooting and all that sort of thing. I'm not much of a hunter. I don't like killing animals, but I love to shoot.

Clint Eastwood

#89. You're livin' in Badass World, baby," he whispered in my ear. "Fair warning, until I fix what I cut in you, you're there to stay.

Kristen Ashley

#90. The thought had crossed my mind, that in order to save this world from Hell, I might have to become the Devil.

Dean F. Wilson

#91. The war mages might have been running a full-on offensive, but she'd been right there with them. She'd sent them screaming in terror. She'd imprisoned one like a bug under glass. She'd run one the hell down.
Mom, I realized in shock, had been kind of a badass.

Karen Chance

#92. I'm a geeky badass, and I'm loving it.

Leah Rae Miller

#93. Do not wish for quick results, nor look for small advantages. If you seek quick results, you will not reach the ultimate goal. If you are led astray by small advantages, you will never accomplish great things.

Confucius

#94. So you're a badass assassin, huh? You don't look like much to me. (Stranger)
You have three seconds to evaporate or I'm going to spray your brain matter all over your crew behind you. (Adron)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#95. Simply, with a Republican Congress sitting shotgun, Mitt Romney will put the middle class on the roof and take us for a long, painful ride.

Patty Murray

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

Laverne Cox

#97. Badass with a hint of lady.

Belle Aurora

#98. Directly above them, framed in the doorway from the Brain Room, stood Albus Dumbledore, his wand aloft, his face white and furious. Harry felt a kind of electric charge surge through every particle of his body - they were saved.

J.K. Rowling

#99. 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

#100. If God is all-powerful, He cannot be all good. And if He is all good, then He cannot be all-powerful. And neither can you be.

Jesse Eisenberg

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