Badassery Magazine Quotes & Sayings

Ladies used to be fond of me: not all of them, but it happened, it happened. But I always liked side-paths, little dark back-alleys behind the main road- there one finds adventures and surprises, and precious metal in the dirt. I — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I am a fan of today's sound as long as we don't get too slick, and yet I am very reverent of my roots. — Wynonna Judd

That virtue only makes our bliss below,
And all our knowledge is ourselves to know. — Alexander Pope

No novel is anything, for the purposes either of comedy or tragedy, unless the reader can sympathise with the characters whose names he finds upon the pages. Let an author so tell his tale as to touch his reader's heart and draw his tears, and he has, so far, done his work well. Truth let there be, --truth of description, truth of character, human truth as to men and women. If there be such truth, I do not know that a novel can be too sensational. — Anthony Trollope

In a wacky way, she felt as if they belonged to each other. Two stray, bad-ass loners who didn't know how to handle people. — Jennifer Probst

This was the period when I used all the influence I had to get the British to abandon their export trade, and as much as possible convert all of their manufacturing facilities to the immediate needs of the war, including civilian, as well as military requirements. — W. Averell Harriman

I'm horrified of lobsters. And shrimp and lobsters are the cockroaches of the ocean. — Brooke Burke

God created the world to be praised on the subtle nature of his existence. — Kedar Joshi

It's a weird thing when you make records. You try to hear it before you make it, so you walk into the studio with this idea of what you expect to happen, and that usually changes. That usually turns into something else, and that's a good thing. — Dave Grohl

Everyone likes to reminisce, but not one wants to listen, and everyone feels annoyed when someone else tells a story. — Liu Cixin