Short Badass Quotes

#1. Leslie was one of those people who sat quietly at her desk, never whispering or daydreaming or chewing gum, doing beautiful schoolwork, and yet her brain was so full of mischief that if the teacher could have once seen through that mask of perfection, she would have thrown her out in horror.

Katherine Paterson

#2. So long as man is protected by madness - he functions - and flourishes.

Emile M. Cioran

#3. She always said that she respected and liked us all equally, and I have to say that that attitude didn't go down well with me, accustomed as I was to being singled out and held up in a special way.

Jamaica Kincaid

#4. Then everything was still. Absolutely still.

Mary Pope Osborne

#5. Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so.

Stephen Leacock

#6. My desire to experiment comes from my attention-deficit approach to cosmetics. I just get really bored, really easily.

Paloma Faith

#7. There are two classes of men; those who are content to yield to circumstances and who play whist; those who aim to control circumstances, and who play Chess

Mortimer Collins

#8. We're told another large-scale terrorist attack is inevitable by those people who have committed so many resources to preventing it. They likely know what they're talking about.

Greg Bear

#9. How would you like to bite that in the ass, develop lock jaw and be dragged to death?

Willie Nelson

#10. Every day you have to abandon your past or accept it and then, if you cannot accept it, you become a sculptor.

Louise Bourgeois

#11. She's very active. My mom is my manager and handles day-to-day business to keep the DeGarmo machine up and running! She's a huge, huge part of my career and my life.

Diana DeGarmo

#12. Simon looked for his friend Jace, who was kneeling by himself in the overgrown grass and sharpening a short blade against a stone. Simon assumed Jace had his reasons for this; or possibly he just knew he looked cool doing it. Possibly he and Isabelle could do a joint photo shoot for Badass Monthly.

Cassandra Clare

#13. A good mother loves fiercely but ultimately brings up her children to thrive without her. They must be the most important thing in her life, but if she is the most important thing in theirs, she has failed.

Erin Kelly