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Quotes About Badass

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
Who among the Fae likes you enough to do that favor?" I knew the answer to that. No one. "The one I didn't kill when I demanded it. After I killed the other two." I smiled faintly. One word: badass. I want to be Jericho Barrons when I grow up.
~ Karen Marie Moning
I was the badass Consort and he was the grim Pack's executioner. Hugging him in the hallways would be entirely inappropriate.
~ Ilona Andrews
Butterflies were small and light, and very magic sensitive. For some reason I made them feel safe and they gravitated to me like iron shavings to a magnet. They ruined my ferocious badass image, but you'd have to be a complete beast to swat butterflies.
~ Ilona Andrews
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
Logic said that at some point he must've been a baby and then a child, but looking at him one was almost convinced that some deity had touched the ground with its scepter and proclaimed, "There shall be a badass," and Jim had sprung into existence, fully formed, complete with clothes, and ready for
~ Ilona Andrews
I can be a badass DJ when I want, but I am also an insufferable music snob.
~ Rachel Cohn
No one rocks a heavy machine gun like Michelle Rodriguez.
~ Paul W. S. Anderson
Ysolde: "You think so? Well maybe your precious Aisling just needs to watch out, because I'm not some pushover, you know. I'm a mage, and mated to the baddest ass in the dragon world." Brom looked speculatively at Baltic. "That's you?" Baltic: "Yes. If you were my son, as you should have been, you, too, would have a badass.
~ Katie MacAlister
Nora's startled intake of breath quickly followed, her eyes huge with horror behind her glasses. "Aisling! Dear god. What have you done?" "You know that badass demon lord who was after her blood?" Jim asked. Nora didn't back up the way Drake's mother did, but she did wrap her arms around herself, as if in protection. She nodded. "Well, guess whose ass is the baddest now?
~ Katie MacAlister
Her eyes skittered nervously across the people sharing the cabin with her. Captain Fowles and Lieutenant James, and Colonel Pearson himself. Weirdly, she felt comforted that he was here. Pearson was pretty badass when it came down to it, and even aliens might think twice about tangling with him.
~ Kenneth Oppel
Logic said that at some point he must've been a baby and then a child, but looking at him one was almost convinced that some deity had touched the ground with its scepter and proclaimed, "There shall be a badass," and Jim had sprung into existence, fully formed, complete with clothes, and ready for action.
~ Ilona Andrews
A bit dramatic, and yet it had the likely desired effect of turning a badass like me into just another frightened ape shivering in the darkness
~ Ilona Andrews
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
Acupuncturist: because badass miracle worker isn't an official job title
~ Internet meme
Like every other creature on the face of the earth, Godfrey was, by birthright, a stupendous badass, albeit in the somewhat narrow technical sense that he could trace his ancestry back up a long line of slightly less highly evolved stupendous badasses to that first self-replicating gizmo—which, given the number and variety of its descendants, might justifiably be described as the most stupendous badass of all time. Everyone and everything that wasn't a stupendous badass was dead.
~ Neal Stephenson
Your woman's a badass, Timur,he said. She can't cook worth shit, but she's a badass. [...] Don't ever cross her, Jeremiah warned. She knows more ways to kill a man than I do. Seriously, boss, don't do it. [...]She's inventive when it comes to killing men.He beckoned Timur closer and waited for him to bend down. He looked left and right to make certain no one would over hear him. You're so lucky, man. She's a total babe, he whispered. She's a mankiller, and that's hot as hell.
~ Christine Feehan
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
Studied objectively, Luke Skywalker was not very cool. But for kids who saw Empire, Luke was The Man. He was the guy we wanted to be. Retrospectively, we'd like to claim Han Solo was the single-most desirable character—and he was, in theory. But Solo's brand of badass cool is something you can't understand until you're old enough to realize that being an arrogant jerk is an attractive male quality.
~ Chuck Klosterman
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
I'm not a nerd — I'm an intellectual bad-ass.
~ Author Unknown
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
But Gale? Gale is a warrior. He's a rebel. He's a badass. He's a knight.
~ Leah Wilson
Sure, I know that," Lula said. "Nothing scares you. You're a big badass bounty hunter." "Damn right," I said. And then I concentrated on not hyperventilating.
~ Janet Evanovich