Quotes About Audacity

The pistol is not a weapon, it is an impertinence.

It's rare to find a film that goes for broke and says, 'To hell with the consequences.'

I've never lacked guts, for good or bad.

Passion is needed for any great work, and for the revolution, passion and audacity are required in big doses.

Born in Kansas City, Missouri, and knowing nothing about Picasso, I had the audacity to knock on his door, became his friend, and took thousands of photographs, of him, his studios, his life and his friends.

Here I was, having done a thriller and a horror movie - why did I have the audacity to make a romantic fantasy? How can I continue to make genre films? Well, maybe I don't want to continue to make genre films.

But I fell back on those immortal words at the base of all good decision making: Fuck it.

Let's punk this bitch. - Nisha

How art thou, thou globby bottle of cheap stinking chip-oil? Come and get one in the yarbles, if you have any yarbles, you eunuch jelly, thou.

Chorus of old men: If we give them the least hold over us, 'tis all up! their audacity will know no bounds! We shall see them building ships, and fighting sea-fights like Artemisia; nay if they want to mount and ride as cavalry, we had best cashier the knights, for indeed women excel in riding, and have a fine, firm seat for the gallop. Just think of all those squadrons of Amazons Micon has painted for us engaged in hand-to-hand combat with men.

L'audace—toujours l'audace!

My mind is like a racing engine, tearing itself to pieces because it is not connected up with the work for which it was built. Life is commonplace; the papers are sterile; audacity and romance seem to have passed forever from the criminal world. Can you ask me, then, whether I am ready to look into any new problem, however trivial it may prove?

She had always enjoyed the carte blanche accorded to mobsters, aristocrats, circus clowns, and lunatics

Those who remarked in the countenance of this young hero a dissolute audacity mingled with extreme haughtiness ... could not yet deny to his countenance that sort of comeliness which belongs to an open set of features, well formed by nature, modeled by art to the usual rules of courtesy, yet so far frank and honest, that they seemed as if they disclaimed to conceal the natural working of the soul.

Smart people have the brains, but stupid people have the balls

Be daring. Better to fail spectacularly then stay safe and achieve meh. -- Anonymous

Keep being bold on the page, and in life, and people cannot ignore you forever.

If there were honorary degrees for assholes, he'd be a doctor of everything," Lily said.

I seem to be good at asking for trouble.

Avevo sempre rimpianto che, ai tempi moderni, non ci fosse più sulla terra qualche limite vietato, come per gli antichi le Colonne d'Ercole, perché mi sarebbe piaciuto di oltrepassarlo io per primo, sfidando il divieto con la mia audacia.

Perdoa-se tudo, contanto que você tenha uma profissão, um subtítulo sob seu nome, um selo sobre seu nada. Ninguém tem a audácia de gritar: "Não quero fazer nada!"; se é mais indulgente com um assassino do que com um espírito liberado dos atos. Multiplicando as possibilidades de submeter-se, abdicando de sua liberdade, matando em si mesmo o vagabundo, foi assim que o homem refinou sua escravidão e submeteu-se aos fantasmas.

We forgive only madmen and children for being frank with us: others, if they have the audacity to imitate them, will regret it sooner or later.

Men demonstrate their courage far more often in little things than in great.

Put a grain of boldness into everything you do.