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Quotes About Bravado

Even if you aren't sure of yourself, pretend that you are... most people prevaricate.
~ Anna Wintour
If Chief Keef can run around and say he's 300, I'm definitely 1400.
~ Trippie Redd
My first tape was 'Hey, I can do what y'all do.' It's new, flashy, and not through rap. It was a guy singing how cool he was. I'm here with big bro Drake; I'm his little gunner.
~ PartyNextDoor
You can scare off a lot of cowboys just by looking mean, I guess.
~ Larry McMurtry
Edward knelt by us, pulling the silver hood off the fire suit. He grinned at me. "Whose the biggest, baddest motherfucking necromancer?" I smiled at him, and said, "This girl." "Damn straight," he said.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
I was in love with a poet. I'm in it for the pleasure, I told my poet once, in a moment of bravado. The poet grinned at me. I'm in it for the pain, he said. It ended sadly. The kind of ending where you wait together, holding hands and weeping, while off in another room, love slowly dies.
~ Abigail Thomas
In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are.
~ Gore Vidal
Your mouth is writin' checks your butt can't cash
~ Jenny Han
He often carried a revolver—and often misplaced it, according to Inspector Thompson. From time to time, Thompson recalled, Churchill would abruptly brandish his revolver and, "roguishly and with delight," exclaim: "You see, Thompson, they will never take me alive! I will get one or two before they can shoot me down.
~ Erik Larson
He spat into the ocean and said, "Eat that, galanos. And make a dream you've killed a man.
~ Ernest Hemingway
There are guys who thrive completely on the action in the ring and see the promotion as a necessary evil, whereas I think it's so much easier to tell people what a tough guy you are, as opposed to backing it up.
~ Mick Foley
It's easy to sound good. All you do is leave in the parts where you act tough and forget the parts where you get shoved around.
~ Robert Crais
Stalking the Angel [Joe]"I could off anybody in this place five times over." [Elvis]"Could you off someone and get away with you here?" [Joe]Head shake. "I'm too good even for me.
~ Robert Crais
Insult me all you want, you red-eyed son of the devil," Ernie roared in a very good imitation of Muhammad Ali. "We both know who wears the pants in my house, if I choose to wear pants at all. I have committed to nothing, and I am the king of my castle!" "You want to call me back after you call and get permission?" "You know it, brother.
~ Robert Dugoni
What an enormous chutzpah you possess, I told him. What makes you better than the rest of us, and more fit to rule? The fact that I was able to occupy the throne, he replied. Try and take it.
~ Roger Zelazny
Nansen had moreover introduced a startling new concept into Polar exploration. He had deliberately cut off his lines of retreat. His route was from the desolate east coast to the inhabited west. This was not bravado, but calculated exploitation of the instinct of self-preservation. It drove him on; there was no incentive to look back.
~ Roland Huntford
The uproar didn't weaken Rockefeller's resolve, yet for all his bravado the boycott exacted a grave toll on his operations.
~ Ron Chernow
His mouth made him feel like he was gonna win. Not his hands, I had my hand. He had his lips.
~ Joe Frazier
Im still pullin out the phantom and these haters cant stand me nigga Im still doing my thing.
~ Drake
How is it that you're such an expert on home pregnancy kits?" You're asking that question of an Italian stallion like myself? The women call me 'sperm of thunder'. I don't dare stand too close for fear I may impregnate them with just a whiff of my manhood.
~ Jill Smolinski
Even a little dog can piss on a big building.
~ Jim Hightower
Bring the thunder. Some situations require extra inspiration and motivation to influence others; during those moments, act with fierce bravado.
~ Jim Knight
My name is Nicomo Cosca, famed solider of fortune, and I am here for dinner.
~ Joe Abercrombie
'Nutty Professor' was me going, 'Say what you want to say, but I can do this, and you can't, and nobody else in the town can do this.'
~ Eddie Murphy