Top 100 Cool Quotes of All Time

A short, finished list rather than an endless feed: 100 of the best cool quotes ever written, picked out of the full cool archive on QuoteForever. You will find Queen Latifah, Gerard Way, Selena Gomez and Steve Carell among them.

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1

The Internet is for haters. Everyone wants to knock somebody down, but it's cool.

2

It's cool to have a well run, comfortable and inviting home.

3

I don't think of myself as hot or cool or anything, just a dork.

4

I've never been cool - and I don't care.

5

The nerds are the ones that make the films and do loads of other really cool stuff in their life.

6

Music is for people. The word 'pop' is simply short for popular. It means that people like it. I'm just a normal jerk who happens to make music. As long as my brain and fingers work, I'm cool.

7

There aren't many poster children for cool angst. Everybody thinks it's cool if you're the bad girl.

8

It's cool to be recognised by your peers.

9

The cool parts - the parts that have won Dubai its reputation as 'the Vegas of the Middle East' or 'the Venice of the Middle East' or 'the Disney World of the Middle East, if Disney World were the size of San Francisco and out in a desert' - have been built in the last ten years.

10

I want to be a vampire. They're the coolest monsters.

11

I had a couple of really cool friends when I was a kid, and we'd find cool music and movies and show them to each other. My friend Dennis had a copy of 'A Clockwork Orange' and he'd already seen it once, and he was like, 'We need to watch this.' I was sleeping over his house - and I think we were literally 15 - and we watched it.

12

These days it's cool to be ethnic and to be different, but when I was a kid, it was not cool - at all. My friends would come over and my mom would make crepes with eggs, stuffed with mozzarella cheese, tomatoes and spinach. And they'd be like, 'What is this?'

13

The one cool thing with getting older is that you can actively choose to just be an eccentric.

14

I think you have to be cool to be a good flirt, and I don't think I'm very cool.

15

Sure, climbing Mount Everest would be cool, but that's something I would now like to do as a family. Big experiences like that I don't want to have on my own anymore. I want to share them.

16

I used to love to draw. I didn't want to go to art class because I felt that would be too corny when I was young, but architectural drafting was the cool thing to do because there was more precision. It taught me a lot about building and structures and doorways and frames and windowsills.

17

A girl came up to me in a bar and said she wanted to be my apple pie. I wish I'd said something cool, but I was stunned.

18

I don't need to hang out in a posse and try to act cool.

19

Adele's amazing, I think the world of her and her music and I think Tinie Tempah is cool. To work with someone like Kanye West would be awesome.

20

I always preferred to hang out with the outcasts, 'cause they were cooler; they had better taste in music, for one thing, I guess because they had more time to develop one with the lack of social interaction they had!

21

I like cool jackets - a nice fall or winter coat. You can get a lot of use out of it, and you'll wear it frequently, so it can really set the tone of your uniform for the season.

22

Good words cool more than cold water.

23

I suppose being fierce is a very good thing, and a very cool thing. But more than fierce, I think I'm a strong person and a strong individual. And that's what I take with me every day.

24

It's only recently women got to be action heroes on TV. Progress is slow, and often non-existent. There's plenty of cool comics with female characters... But all it takes is one Catwoman to set the cause back a decade.

25

It's so important to realize that every time you get upset, it drains your emotional energy. Losing your cool makes you tired. Getting angry a lot messes with your health.

26

I think people appreciate a songwriter who shows different sides. The whole angst thing is cool, but if that's all you've got, it's just boring. Everything I write, whether it's happy or sad, has a sense of humor to it.

27

Rather be dead than cool.

28

Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.

29

Belly buttons are cool!

30

For the last few years, it's been so chic for everybody to be miserable. Like if you're in with the cool crowd, you can't be happy.

31

I'm not the kind of person who tries to be cool or trendy, I'm definitely an individual.

32

I have, I admit, a low tolerance for detached chronicling and cool analysis.

33

Oh, my God, this amazing cool breeze is coming through my window and the sun is shining. I'm happy.

34

The ballplayer who loses his head, who can't keep his cool, is worse than no ballplayer at all.

35

It's just cool for a girl to be able to do her own thing. I do a lot of movies, and I'm very lucky, and I'm not complaining. But in movies, alongside big action men, we've always got to take a step back and let the men shine.

36

Punk's influence on music, movies, art, design and fashion is no longer in doubt. It is used as the measurement for what is cool.

37

I live a very nice life. I have a wonderful time. But it's not lived drawing on a full level. I'm relaxed, cool, and enjoying it.

38

We're always bombarded with images from magazines of what looks cool and sexy.

39

I just tried to keep my cool and continue with my race plan: to win.

40

My friends are people who like building cool stuff. We always have this joke about people who want to just start companies without making something valuable. There's a lot of that in Silicon Valley.

41

I like the way Quentin Tarantino creates a scene using a series of close-ups or showing very cool images of a person or people walking on some ordinary street in slow motion. I wish I could achieve that kind of slow-motion effect in manga, but it's rather difficult to draw; the only things we can play with are tones of black and white.

42

There's a gap between what I want to do, what I do on camera, and what gets edited. Right? So the goal is to try and close the gaps. What's the biggest compliment is if I read a review and it's exactly what I wrote down in my diary before ever filming it. That's really cool. That's the biggest signifier of closing the gaps.

43

I think sometimes I guess you see records, say you want to get there and use that as motivation. In a way, it's kind of cool if there is a possibility to rewrite history and be up there with the greats of Olympic history.

44

Keep a cool head and a warm heart.

45

Long intros are cool because there's a little bit of anticipation, you know?

46

A part of me wants to sort of try and sound cool and feed this myth that I'm some sort of glamorous lothario, but I was raised by women - my mother and her mother and my aunts - and as a result, most of my friends have always been women.

47

I never really think of something in terms of what not to do. It's always what's appealing or what's cool.

48

Mike Myers as Austin Powers makes me laugh - that was genius - and Daffy Duck makes me laugh, but I like odd behavior. I don't like hip dialogue and one-liners and all that sort of cool, sophomoric comedy. It's just not for me.

49

Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.

50

The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool.

51

I think you create your own hipness.

52

When I'm wearing too-high heels and swaying my hips, I do that Sharon Stone kind of thing - she has the sexiest walk, a New York cool thing that throws you back.

53

I came from a crew, and to me, all the guys I rapped with were better than me, so I was surprised when I was the breakout one. It was definitely a cool thing.

54

My mom was my main influence growing up, and Phylicia Rashad reminded me a lot of my mother, just the way she handled certain things, she was... not soft-spoken but smooth-spoken. Just very calm, cool, collected about things.

55

When I was younger I did karate and martial arts, and I think it's really cool for girls to have those kinds of abilities.

56

How cool it is to see a bride walking down the aisle with a beautiful long gown with beautiful layers of tulle and organza, unveiling their mini dress at the party?

57

Spiderman can climb walls and he's got a cool outfit.

58

I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get.

59

Country's hip; it's cool music.

60

Apparently it's cool to watch The Daily Show.

61

I am working on a dress sock line of funky, colorful, cool designs.

62

Sometimes just when I say hello the right way, I'm like, 'Whoa, I'm so cool.'

63

I get around OK with a toolbox. As a kid, I picked up skills following my dad through the oil fields of Oklahoma and West Texas. My wife Janine is hard to impress, but she does think it's cool when I fix things around the house.

64

Being uncool is being pretty much the coolest you can be.

65

One of the biggest challenges we have, folks, is making liberty and freedom cool.

66

You know, the diversity that America has is so special. It's starting to really become a cool thing for young people.

67

In Hollywood today, it's cool for guys to wear nail polish and earrings in their lips and tongues. I don't get it.

68

Being cool, having a 'cool' energy is just not attractive to me.

69

My perfect guy wears converse, is totally laid back, and doesn't worry about being cool.

70

I have a day job Monday to Friday. I work at a record label in Brooklyn called Ba Da Bing. It's a great indie label and I listen to music all day. I meet people online and find out about the cool new music blogs.

71

I love working with young people and young filmmakers, and I love working on first films. I think it's cool. It's fun. I just take it as it comes.

72

The secret was to just be cool, stay in God's graces, and work it out.

73

I hate it when people come up to me on trains and ask 'Are you Soulja Boy?' If people want pictures or autographs, that's cool, but I don't like the dumb questions.

74

I used to make up stuff in my bio all the time, that I used to be a professional ice-skater and stuff like that. I found it so inspirational. Why not make myself cooler than I am?

75

Maybe the coolest people are the ones who don't care about being cool.

76

For the better part of my adult life, I proudly avoided nerd/nimrod/goober status. I was always just cool enough.

77

Nothing is cooler and more attractive than a big comeback, and that'll be me.

78

The cool thing about reading is that when you read a short story or you read something that takes your mind and expands where your thoughts can go, that's powerful.

79

All of my favorite people - people I really trust - none of them were cool in their younger years.

80

Vegetarians are cool. All I eat are vegetarians - except for the occasional mountain lion steak.

81

I think when you are a cool guy but also a hot guy, that makes you even more sexy.

82

Growing up, Guess always had these amazing billboards and cool affordable clothing. I wore it then, and I still wear it now! It's come full-circle. When I design the clothes, I have a very good team around me, showing me different pieces and cuts.

83

We have newsreaders behaving like actors, lowering their voices if it's a sad story, as if we didn't know it's a sad story. There isn't a single cool newsreader.

84

I would miss months of school and then return with bright blond hair. Needless to say, there was bullying. I wasn't beaten up daily, but there was name-calling and jealousy. You have to bear in mind that 'Harry Potter' wasn't cool. I wasn't part of the 'Terminator' franchise.

85

I really liked the snake that breaks out of the cage in the beginning of the movie. I saw it in real life, and it was really cool. Really big and fat. The owls are cool as well, but you can't really pet them.

86

Stop being conned by the old mantra that says, 'Leaders are cool, managers are dweebs.' Instead, follow the Peters Principle: Leaders are cool. Managers are cool too!

87

I try to explain to people that the only way to be cool is to be who you truly are, and the only way to live life is to do the things that you want to do and be the person that you want to be no matter who that is or what that is or how you have to do it. That's the only way you can be genuinely happy.

88

I'm a flamboyant type of guy, a cooler version of Liberace.

89

Being cool is being your own self, not doing something that someone else is telling you to do.

90

Someone once told me that something they really liked about me was that they thought that I was really down to earth and not high-maintenance. I think that was cool. It's important to stay grounded.

91

You get a timeless cool card in New York.

92

When I see someone I think is cool, he's a pretty well-adjusted individual. He's not too affected one way or the other by what's happening, no matter what's going through his mind.

93

One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.

94

Coming from Haiti and growing up in Brooklyn, there's a lot of European influence when I get dressed up. I wear a lot of fitted suits, elegant cuts; I think it's cool to mash up a lot of different looks.

95

Spider-Man's probably my favorite. You see, Batman is a billionaire and there's nothing really cool about a billionaire saving the world. But Spider-Man is Peter Parker, a conflicted character who puts on a suit and saves the world. I love that.

96

Personally, I was never the cool kid. I was always sort of a bookworm.

97

It's cool to have critical success because it's always nice for your peers to say, 'Good job.' But who cares about them?

98

People always come up to me now and say, 'Watchmen' is the best superhero movie ever made.' I'm always saying 'That's super cool. That's nice of you to say.' But it happens now, more and more and more than it did when it first came out.

99

I am a bit of a bad boy. I have tattoos and I mess around. That's part of my image, so it's cool.

100

I'm a massive fan of Drake, and we walked right past him. He's too cool to be clapping One Direction though.

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