265 Quotes About Badass

In the broad field of Russian letters in the USSR, I was the one and only literary wolf. I was advised to dye my fur. Absurd advice. You can dye a wolf, clip a wolf - he still doesn't look like a poodle.- to Joseph Stalin, May 30, 1931

It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to strip them of human dignity, to reduce them to objects of pity. This has never been clearer than in the view of Africa from the American media, in which we are shown poverty and conflicts without any context.

Because if we the storytellers don't do this, then the bad people will win.

Maybe I was a pirate in my past life. I didn’t kill people, though. I was just a badass

Only one thing counts in this life - get them to sign on the line that is dotted.

We used to build civilizations. Now we build shopping malls.

Architecture is inhabited sculpture.

Never order food in excess of your body weight.

Pet the cat dude," says Sam. "She brought you a present. She wants you to tell her how badass she is." "You are a tiny tiny killing machine." Daneca coos. "What's she doing?" I ask. "Purring!" says Daneca. She sounds delighted. "Good kitty. Who's an amazing killing machine? That's right. You are! You are a brutal brutal tiny lion! Yes, you are.