Uncool Quotes

#1. This book is dedicated to the uncool, uncoordinated, unexceptional, uncharming, uninteresting, and especially the unashamed. To everyone from the Awkwards to the Zeroes, living as the proud oddballs they are. This book is dedicated to my people.

Drew Hayes

#2. Being uncool is being pretty much the coolest you can be.

Rufus Wainwright

#3. I am sure that no one coming to this ceremony expected a High Court judge to use the occasion to talk about that four-letter word, love. But that's a good thing. In life, never be predictable. It's so uncool.

Michael Kirby

#4. I wanted to write in film or something like that. I thought acting was an embarrassing thing to say you wanted to do, especially when you're young. It seemed really uncool.

Max Minghella

#5. The halls are full of kids, scrawny ones and fat ones, cool ones and uncool ones, freaks and jocks, cheerleaders and dogs, burnouts and nerds. It's like Berlin, divided, except there are more walls in this city, and they're better guarded.

Brian Malloy

#6. The longer I live, the more I'm convinced the world is just one big high school, with the cool kids always targeting the uncool.

Greg Gutfeld

#7. It's weird for me to come from the 80s when metal was so uncool and see how far it has come.

Mike Scheidt

#8. This should have been a red flag, I realize in retrospect. Working really hard on anything is, by definition, not cool.

Leila Sales

#9. When I moved to London in the 1990s, it had changed a great deal. Racism had become deeply uncool. But there has been a return of racism in the guise of "antiterrorism." People who look like myself are immediately suspect. I've become extremely self-conscious about going into crowded public places.

Pankaj Mishra

#10. I never saw music in terms of men and women or black and white. There was just cool and uncool.

Bonnie Raitt

#11. Whether it's good for anything or not, cool or totally uncool, in the final analysis what's most important is what you can't see but can feel in your heart.

Haruki Murakami

#12. In the '90s, people wore scrunchies, but it was very uncool in the punk scene.

Kathleen Hanna

#13. The very nature of cool is that you think about it too much and it becomes uncool.

Don Johnson

#14. It's great that Mommy and Daddy did all that uncool work, so you could sit in your air-conditioned classroom and shit all over them, to the approving eye of your ponytailed professor.

Greg Gutfeld

#15. We became a band that was kind of a big band, kind of a band that quite uncool people listen to, people a lot like me. I've realized that's a much more beautiful fate than the plan I had.

Torquil Campbell

#16. People were so scared of telling the truth because the truth was chaotic and complicated and decidedly uncool, but uncool was the way I rolled. Or it would be if I used tired old phrases like 'That's the way I roll', which I so don't.

Sarra Manning

#17. Pam replied that she was too old to worry about being cool, but in fact she did worry about it, and that's one reason it was always nice to see Bobby, who was so uncool as to inhabit - in Pam's mind - his own private condominium of coolness.

Elizabeth Strout

#18. Going to parties by myself? Yeah, I don't know if it's super cool or super uncool. I haven't decided yet.

Christian Cooke

#19. Why is it suddenly uncool to spell? That's all I want to know.

MaryJanice Davidson

#20. I think Edward Sharpe's music is counter-cultural music in the strangest sense where you have a time now where love, optimism, hope and community are uncool and not part of the mainstream culture.

Alex Ebert

#21. Painting was a problem - you produce a thing, and then you sell it and get money, and that was quickly considered totally uncool.

Rachel Kushner

#22. I was the boy who liked to sing his own songs at talent shows, and I was suddenly officially uncool.

Josh Groban

#23. You belong in the most secret part of you. Don't worry about cool, make your own uncool. Make your own, your own world. If you fear, make it work for you - draw and paint your fear and anxiety.

Sol LeWitt

#24. I think being a wealthy member of the establishment is the antithesis of cool. Being a countercultural revolutionary is cool. So to the extent that you've made a billion dollars, you've probably become uncool.

Sean Parker

#25. I'm really tall, and I used slouch and think it was really uncool to stand up straight - now I wish I hadn't been quite so dumb!

Sarah Parish

#26. Our job is to love people. When it hurts. When it's awkward. When it's uncool and embarrassing. Our job is to stand together, to carry the burdens of one another and to meet each other in our questions.

Jamie Tworkowski

#27. A lot of people can be very scared about making themselves vulnerable and appearing uncool. I don't really give a damn; as long as it's funny, I'll do it [make fun of myself].

Steve Coogan

#28. Are Simon & Garfunkel cool, or are they just really uncool? I can't decide.

Steven Hall

#29. But the only true currency in this bankrupt world is what we share with someone else when we're uncool.

Nadia Bolz-Weber

#30. My own son feels I'm uncool but my grandson loves me. Being cool or uncool is a generational thing. But as a personal thing, I really love everybody in sight.

Jack Kirby

#31. I remember how Talia got me to talk about the gardening thing. I've never told anyone else about that, but with this girl, I sort of feel like I can be myself without worrying about looking uncool. After all, she doesn't even know what "cool" is.

Alex Flinn

#32. For some critics we might be uncool on account of our popularity.

Gavin Rossdale

#33. Don't worry about cool, make your own uncool.

Sol LeWitt

#34. Band geeks are the original," I explain. "Orchestra dorks are simply copying our amazingly uncool status.

Sarah Tregay

#35. This is how you know religion is failing because people think you're bonkers if you believe in God and also because it's so uncool believing in Jesus and everything.

Sinead O'Connor

#36. Uncool is a cool resting place. The pressure's off me.

Greg Behrendt

#37. The only true currency in this bankrupt world are the moments you share with someone when you're uncool.

Cameron Crowe

#38. Growing up, I was picked on a bit; I was pretty heavy-set, and then I was a theater kid. I just felt unpopular and uncool, so I think in my mind I had this idea of fame and being popular and how nice that would be. The reality of it is sometimes it's not nice.

Jack Falahee

#39. The idea that something is uncool because it's old or foreign has left the collective consciousness.

Brian Eno

#40. There's a great quote from the movie Almost Famous that says, The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool.

Brene Brown

#41. I remember the period in the 1980s where the Beatles were terminally uncool, and it seemed to me then like they were just my little secret, and the rest of the world didn't know anything about them.

Alasdair MacLean

#42. Punk came along and grunge made guitar solos uncool.

David Pajo

#43. One way to stay grounded in the entertainment industry is to surround yourself with very good people that will constantly remind you how uncool you are.

Lauren Conrad

#44. WTF? I am so tired I can't see straight. Kids have no bedtime in the summer? Screw that shit. I'll enforce it - if not for them, then for me. I want to pass out by eight now, which is uncool because the sun is still out. Can you give children melatonin? Or is Benadryl still the go-to?

Amber L. Johnson

#45. Behind closed doors, we're all the fat uncool kid.

Su-Mari Diedericks

#46. I named my album 'So Uncool' because it defies the ordinary: you're different from everyone else. It's like, being uncool makes you cool because you're different!

Keke Palmer

#47. I see uncool people!

Tonya Hurley

#48. Blessed are the uncool; for they shall be happy without needing the approval of others.

Rick Warren

#49. The thing is, it's not uncool to worry about people who seem like they're going on the wrong path. There's nothing cool about being self-destructive.

Patti Smith

#50. As a father, you immediately become uncool, especially the older they get. The older you get, it's inevitable that, as cool as you think you are, you're probably just as lame in your kids' eyes.

Mark Consuelos

#51. I am enormously uncool. I've made a cottage industry of being uncool. And I'm fine with that.

Chuck Palahniuk

#52. Cool is identified only by defining others as uncool. The velvet rope excludes before it invites.

Greg Gutfeld

#53. Kids are incredibly expensive. But it pays off later when they are better educated, bigger, and better-looking than you. And find you incessantly boring and uncool.

Denis Leary

#54. AMOS CONTI'S PRECEPT
Don't try too hard to be cool. It always shows, and that's uncool.

R.J. Palacio

#55. The subtle generational cues that make one thing cool and another uncool aren't always obvious to a parent. My children are my dinner-table sounding board. I've come up with some wonderful ideas that they universally dismissed as 'lame.'

Nolan Bushnell

#56. Any fool can do something cool and look cool, but it takes skill to make something uncool cool again.

Criss Jami

#57. You guys are weird," Tori said.
Simon sat on the crate beside me. "That's right. We are totally weird and completely uncool. Your popularity is plummeting just by being near us.

Kelley Armstrong

#58. According to Mr. Obama, exceptionalism is so yesterday, an uncool, antiquated and ultimately destructive notion.

Monica Crowley

#59. It's become uncool to play other people's songs, and that's absurd. It has got to change. It's the reason why everything's so mediocre.

Steven Van Zandt

#60. But who are we, really? Just a bundle of good genes and bad genes mixed with good habits and bad habits. And since there's no gene for coolness or confidence, then being uncool and unconfident are just bad habits, which can be changed with enough guidance and will power.

Neil Strauss

#61. Julie wanted to die of his own whiteness, to be drowned in the tide of his embarrassment on behalf of all uncool white people everywhere when they tried to be cool.

Michael Chabon

#62. I love somebody who can make me laugh and be a goofball. I think it's incredibly sexy if a guy can look uncool and completely not care. Also, somebody who likes to show affection. I show a lot of affection.

Jessica Biel

#63. Our job now, those of us simply observing today, shocked by this awful news, our job is to love people. When it hurts. When it's awkward. When it's uncool and embarrassing. Our job is to stand together, to carry the burdens of one another, and to meet one another in our questions.

Jamie Tworkowski

#64. I've played the violin since I was seven but stopped because there was a stage when it became 'uncool'. I was listening to Nirvana and wanted to play the guitar, so I ditched the violin.

Emun Elliott

#65. I'm sad that it's uncool or offensive to talk about environmental or human rights issues.

Grimes

#66. Tip: Unpopularity is a state of mind. Feel nerdy. Think uncool thoughts. It also helps to use the word "vaginal" a lot.

Jennifer Ziegler

#67. In school if you're different that's uncool. But I try to maintain confidence in who I am ... because ... you know ... I don't really want to change it.

Taylor Swift

#68. I come from a very uncool profession: being a washed up child actor.

Jenny Lewis

#69. Don't try too hard to be cool. It always shows, and that's uncool.
-Amos Conti

R.J. Palacio

#70. Most young people seem to be behaving very intelligently: They look at things once in a while, but then they find it so idiotic and uncool that they just look away again. That is, provided they're not growing up in a family in which a drunk father is already watching pornos in the morning.

Volkmar Sigusch

#71. No one at college ever goes to a party before ten-thirty at the very earliest! They'd rather die. It's so uncool to be early.

Francine Pascal