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Cool Quotes

Cool means whatever you decide it means.

This set pushes back against borrowed definitions of cool, arguing instead for setting your own standard rather than following magazines or TV. It also touches on how simple it's become to jump into a new scene. Related reading in Chill Quotes.

I'm influenced by Django Reinhardt, Stephane Grappelly, Roland Kirk, John Coltrane, B.B. King, and then by bluegrass. But when I was 16, bluegrass wasn't cool. We was rock n' rollers then: Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis.

Quotes by Dickey Betts

When I signed my contract to be in 'Grease 2,' my agent said, 'Well, she's going to have a number.' So I did! They wrote me a number where I was teaching Maxwell Caulfield how to be cool. It was...

Quotes by Didi Conn

It's cool to be healthy.

Quotes by Dick Gregory

I like to start with an idea, but then again, I might be sitting at the keyboard, and just playing a bunch of chords that sound cool together, and something just inspires an idea from that.

Quotes by Diane Warren

Oh yeah; I love when I'm writing something that makes me cry - that's so cool. If it got me to do that, it's going to get someone else to do that.

Quotes by Diane Warren

I definitely wasn't cool in high school. I really wasn't. I did belong to many of the clubs and was in leadership on yearbook and did the musical theater route, so I had friends in all areas. But I certainly...

Quotes by Dianna Agron

Orlando's a really cool guy. They hired him for 'Lord of the Rings' out of drama school. He's very new at this still and doesn't have a lot of experience. So we were in this together and we've tried to...

Quotes by Diane Kruger

I have a kind of boring personal life, to the paparazzi anyway, and I don't hang with the cool crowd.

Quotes by Diane Kruger

Doing 'Veronica Mars,' Rob Thomas is a genius. He's one of my best friends. I had this feeling like I couldn't write anything other than my stuff in Jersey and what we were talking about, like that little world, like...

Quotes by Diane Ruggiero

Cicadas, buckling and unbuckling their stomach muscles, yield the sound of someone sharpening scissors. Fall field crickets, the thermometer hounds, add high-pitched tinkling chirps to the jazz, and their call quickens with warm weather, slows again with cool.

Quotes by Diane Ackerman

It's been really cool to go to places I've never been to around the country and performing for people and bringing a fun show to entertain folks.

Quotes by Diana DeGarmo

'The White Album' is so cool because it was around the time when the Beatles started to not like each other, so they would each go off and do their own thing. It's all over the place, but that's what...

Quotes by Diana Silvers

I'm not a cool girl. I wish I was.

Quotes by Diana Silvers

I got to work with Juliette Lewis in my fourth real movie, which was such a cool full-circle moment. Her character in 'Gilbert Grape' is why I wanted to become an actress.

Quotes by Diana Silvers

If you go back to 'Pretty Fly,' it was a very popish song, but there was a satirical side to it, and I think that's cool. I like the idea that it's making people think just a little bit.

Quotes by Dexter Holland

One interviewer asked me: 'How do you feel that you've betrayed your father?' That wasn't really very cool.

Quotes by Dhani Harrison

I want Maggie Gyllenhaal. I don't know why. I don't think she necessarily looks like me or acts like me, I just think she's a cool actress and she could play me, so there you go.

Quotes by Diablo Cody

If there's anybody who's new to what I do, who maybe heard 'Liberation' or some of the songs off 'Epicloud' and thought, 'This is really cool, I could get into this,' you're going to hate 'Casualties.'

Quotes by Devin Townsend

Being a kid and growing up is such a cool part of life.

Quotes by Devon Werkheiser

Being a kid and growing up is such a cool part of life. When you're young, you have no worries, no drama, only your imagination. It's the best!

Quotes by Devon Werkheiser

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Frequently Asked Questions

What different ideas about 'cool' appear in these quotes?
They range from defining cool for yourself rather than following others, to calling something pretty cool, to appreciating the low barrier to entry in enthusiast press, to comparing Hollywood's social labels to a high-school caste system.
Is there a quote about defining 'cool' for yourself?
Yes. One quote says their definition of cool is "finding your own definition of cool and not necessarily taking your lead from what other people tell you." For more on this idea, see Cool People quotes.
Is there a quote calling something 'pretty cool'?
Yes - one speaker simply says, "Monster Hearts is pretty cool!" For more short, enthusiastic quotes, browse Chill quotes.
Is there a quote about enthusiast press?
Yes. One quote calls the low barrier to entry "A cool thing about enthusiast press," noting that anyone can decide to start publishing immediately. For more on this theme, see Cooler quotes.
Is there a quote comparing Hollywood to a high school caste system?
Yes - one quote describes Hollywood as "like a really sad, grown up version of high school" where people get labeled cool, not cool, jock, bombshell, or quirky, comparing it to "a caste system." For more on social status, see Status quotes.

Another quote compares Hollywood to a rigid high school caste system, sorting people into labels whether they fit or not. Continue with Cool People Quotes or Cooler Quotes.