“Tweeting is like sending out cool telegrams to your friends once a week.”
Cool is one of those qualities that disappears the moment you try too hard to have it. These quotes explore style, composure, confidence, and the effortless quality that makes certain people magnetic. Some are serious, some are funny, all are worth a second read.
“I mean, I get letters in the mail because I had a heart defect when I was one, I had surgeries and stuff. And so you get these letters in the mail that just, they are crazy, they are just like, yes, well our son is dealing with the same thing and we saw you on TV and I mean it is such a cool thing to inspire and kind of give hope.”
“Tweeting is like sending out cool telegrams to your friends once a week.”
“I kinda see everyone as competition. I'm a very competitive person. But I think that's good. Competition is great. And as long as it's friendly and not a malicious thing, then I think it's cool.”
“It's cool just because I've had this dream of changing the sport of swimming and it's finally happening.”
“Parenthood and family come first for me, and when I'm not working I'm cool with the Teletubbies.”
“When I was younger, I had a perm, and it was really big. My mom was a hairdresser, so even my dad had a perm! I looked like a poodle, but it was cool at the time.”
“I remember being on film sets when I was younger, and only men got to do the cool action movies. So I thought, 'Maybe I'll get to produce one day and get to do cool stuff too,' which is what happened when we did 'Charlie's Angels.' Starting my production company was a big turning point for me.”
“I think it's so cool to be tall. Even when I'm not wearing heels people tell me I'm tall and I always take it as a complement. The good thing is I can always see everybody in the room.”
“To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.”
“What's cool is when you're able to give your audience imagination and you don't have to cage them in like animals.”
“I mean, I get letters in the mail because I had a heart defect when I was one, I had surgeries and stuff. And so you get these letters in the mail that just, they are crazy, they are just like, yes, well our son is dealing with the same thing and we saw you on TV and I mean it is such a cool thing to inspire and kind of give hope.”
“I never cut class. I loved getting A's, I liked being smart. I liked being on time. I thought being smart is cooler than anything in the world.”
“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.”
“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.”
“The funny thing is, the girls that I'm always up against for roles are pretty nice and cool, like Emma Watson. She's awesome.”
“Maybe that first, gigantic deficit the Reaganites piled up was an accident, just a combination of deluded 'supply side' tax cuts and a huge bag of good stuff for the Pentagon. But pretty quickly conservatives discovered that deficits, when done correctly, did something really cool: deficits defunded the Left.”