Coolness Quotes

“The only true currency in this bankrupt world are the moments you share with someone when you're uncool.”
― Cameron Crowe

“Any fool can do something cool and look cool, but it takes skill to make something uncool cool again.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“Beware, Underlanders, time hangs by a thread.
The hunters are hunted, white water runs red.
The Gnawers will strike to extinguish the rest.
The hope of the hopeless resides in a quest.

An Overland warrior, a son of the sun,
May bring us back light, he may bring us back none.
But gather your neighbors and follow his call
Or rats will most surely devour us all.

Two over, two under, of royal descent,
Two flyers, two crawlers, two spinners assent.
One gnawer beside and one lost up ahead.
And eight will be left when we count up the dead.

The last who will die must decide where he stands.
The fate of the eight is contained in his hands.
So bid him take care, bid him look where he leaps,
As life may be death and death life again reaps.”
― Suzanne Collins, Gregor the Overlander

“You're a fine fastidious young man, as proud as a lion, as gentle as a girl. You'd make a good catch for the devil.”
― Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot

“Try again, I've gotten much better at detecting your bullshit”
― Alexandra Bracken, In the Afterlight

“A person who is truly cool is a work of art. And remember, original works of art cost exponentially higher than imitations. Just take a look at the the coolest people in history. They will always be a part of history for being extremely original individuals, not imitations.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“The world needs someone they can admire from a distance; from a very far distance.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“For you know that it's a fool who plays it cool, by making his world a little colder.”
― Paul McCartney, Paul McCartney

“COOL·NESS [KOOL-NIS] -noun
CATCHING your mom gazing at the crazy crowd like she finally gets it
WATCHING your dad head-banging like he’s Finn’s twin brother
LEARNING that your new friends Tash and Kallie are a thousand times more complicated than you realized, and loving them for it
FEELING every one of your boyfriend’s pounding drumbeats, and thinking it’s the most romantic music ever written
REALIZING you’re completely unique . . . even in a crowd”
― Antony John, Five Flavors of Dumb

“I'm so cool that the kids come to my bedroom and go, 'Mom! Turn the music down!”
― Melissa Etheridge

“Hating the cool kids takes an awful lot of energy, and I'd given up on it a long time ago.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“The beautiful thing about meditation is that it allows you to access that cool guy or girl inside of you that's waiting to come out. You'll be able to access the part of you that people like to be around. The part of you that feels upbeat about things. That feels like you're moving toward your goals without frustration and anxiety. That feels ecstatic to be alive! The more I meditate, the more I have these moments.”
― Russell Simmons, Success Through Stillness: Meditation Made Simple

“We can't arrange gods by coolness. That would lead to too many fights.”
― Rick Riordan, The Burning Maze

“The ironic thing is though, at Williamson I don't have to "play it cool"--I'm cool by default because I'm one of the only black kids there.....

Funny how it works with white kids though. It's dope to be black until it's hard to be black.”
― Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give

“Fashion is simply a guideline for style-less people to appear stylish.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

“Cats speak the language of comfort and coolness and therefore we feel comfortable and cool whenever we see a cat!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“The defining characteristic of a hipster—the thing everyone agreed on, and most hated about them—wasn't so much their taste, but their contempt and condescension toward those less cool than themselves.”
― Mara Wilson, Where Am I Now?

“Like I said, at Williamson I'm cool by default because I'm black. I can go out there and do a silly dance move I made up, and everyone will think it's the new thing. White people assume all black people are experts on trends and shit.”
― Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give

“In the nineties, doing nothing on purpose was a valid option, and a specific brand of cool became more important than almost anything else. The key to that coolness was disinterest in conventional success. The nineties were not an age for the aspirant.”
― Chuck Klosterman, The Nineties

“I don´t listen to hoax or rumours,
but I like a good sense of humour.
If you are wrong, be wise, apologize. Otherwise, be kind and rewind.
Gone with the wind...”
― Ana Claudia Antunes, A-Z of Happiness: Tips for Living and Breaking Through the Chain that Separates You from Getting That Dream Job

“I know what I want to hear. I want to hear the "Believe it or Not" song. I want to play that shit loud. Really belt out the "Should have been somebody eeeeeelse" part, with a little bit of Zack de la Rocha venom. That would be pretty awesome right about now.

But the other part of me, the part that wanted to be cool, knew that it was a much better idea to say, "Let's play the fucking Misfits." Because that's what you say to the cool guy in the combat boots who wants to smoke in your house. Because he's going to snarl-smile at you and say, "Fuck yeah!" And you're feel cool by association.

"Let's play the fucking Misfits," I said.

John snarl-smiled and saluted me with rock horns. "Fuck yeah."

Told you.”
― Eric Spitznagel, Old Records Never Die: One Man's Quest for His Vinyl and His Past

“My sisters and I stand on the deck, the shale tile cool against the soles of our feet - for a week it seems we never have to wear shoes - and take turns twirling, the matching turquoise silk skirts my mother bought us sliding coolly up our legs, our laughter flying out over the ocean. We are all light and happy and far, far away from home.”
― Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich, The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir

“every one knows that in most people's estimation, to do anything coolly is to do it genteelly.”
― Herman Melville

“I do not recall our Lord ever saying one could not be 'cool'. It is only a problem if one esteems 'coolness' above that which is righteous and true, which is, when we give it its way, really what many of us do. 'Coolness' is too transient to be of any real and meaningful, lasting significance, and it is often in great conflict with one being one's most honest, most vulnerable self. That, and in reality, some of the coolest people are actually those who least concern themselves with being cool anyway, those who make 'trying to be cool' less evident.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

“Well you, young man, need to learn about what is much more important than cool. And that is: what is beautiful.”
― John Butler

“Confidence and self-assuredness is like an invisible magnet. When you have it, others are drawn to you as confidence equals coolness. When you don't have it, the magnet flips and repels people. A man who isn't confident is hiding something.”
― Dan Born, Finally Understanding Carnal Knowledge

“I used to try to be cool. I said things that I didn't believe about other people and celebrities and myself. I wrote mean jokes for cheap, edgy laughs. I neglected good friendships for shallow ones. I insisted I wasn't a feminist. I nodded along with casual misogyny in hopes that shitty dudes would like me.”
― Lindy West, Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman

“That which is cool is driven by the soul.”
― Adrienne Posey

“What exactly is he trying to sell?’ Ignoring Catherine Austin, Dr Nathan walked over to the photographs of the isolation volunteers on the enamel wall beside the window. The question revealed either astonishing ignorance or a complicity in that conspiracy of the unconscious he had only now begun to unravel. He turned to face the young woman, irritated as always by her strong, quizzical gaze, an overlay of her own potent sexuality. ‘ You, Dr Austin. These advertisements constitute an explicit portrait of yourself, a contour map of your own body, an obscene newsreel of yourself during intercourse.’ He rapped the magazines with his gold cigarette case. ‘These images are fragments in a terminal moraine left behind by your passage through consciousness.”
― J.G. Ballard, The Atrocity Exhibition

“There are two things which are undeniably cool: walking away from explosions without looking back and turning up late to parties.”
― Frances White