Top 300 Damn Quotes

You’ve got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body’s sermon on how to behave.

Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.

In middle school, we are all so damn insecure. It was the worst time for me, really destructive, like slapping myself across the face but loving it. Now I have to be an adult and change myself. I have to be a bigger person.

I don’t give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.

They are damn good projects – excellent projects. That goes for all the projects up there. You know some people make fun of people who speak a foreign language, and dumb people criticize something they do not understand, and that is what is going on up there – God damn it!

Well, if you find a note tonight that sounds good, play the same damn note every night!

I was born in ’72, and my dad was county judge of El Paso from ’82 to ’86. He was just as independent as he could be, and had an amazing joy in life and in being with people, which, from my perspective as a kid, was that he was always going to do the right thing, and damn the consequences – political or otherwise.

I touched Roger’s bat and held it to my heart. My bat will lie next to his. I’m damn proud of that.

A lot of people I’ve played with see me as a scorer and a shooter. I’m still fast and everything like that, but then, when they see me dunk, it’s like ‘Oh, damn.’

I just want to ball. I just want a chance to win a championship. I just want to win. I wake up every day smiling. Why? Because I’ve got my people around me. I really don’t give a damn what anybody thinks about me or what I say or what I do.

Well I have a microphone and you don’t so you will listen to every damn word I have to say!

I have been a waitress, and I was a damn fine waitress too, let me tell you.

I don’t care what ‘Pitchfork’ says. They write from a place that’s a little too self-aware for me to really give a damn about what they’re talking about.

One day a whole damn song fell into place in my head.

What I have learned is that a whole lot of people with degrees don’t know a damn thing, and a lot of people with no degrees are brilliant.

No one’s gonna give a damn in July if you lost a game in March.

‘Jaws’ freed me to discover that a successful movie didn’t make a damn bit of difference to my life.

When I looked at the skeleton of ‘Damn Yankees,’ I saw an indestructible story, absolutely original characters, one of the freshest, sassiest American scores of the century, and some outmoded equipment.

You buy any book on color theory today, and it’s just complete poppycock. Everybody comes out of school painting pink, purple and green. The whole damn cartoon industry has pink purple and green on their mind.

The only thing I can do is fight. Win or lose, I’m here every damn time.

My rookie year, I bought a new Range Rover, and, knowing what I know about traffic stops in this country, I made damn sure that the tint on the windows was legal. Somehow, though… I just kept getting pulled over for my tint.

Once you realize just the sort of glut of books that exists out there, it does become incumbent on you not to add to it unless you have a damn good reason.

My dad, as much as I love him, has one of those signs – ‘The Isbell’s’ – on his front door, and he’s got the damn apostrophe in there. I haven’t strangled him yet.

I have a message about how you should completely be yourself and not give a damn what everyone thinks about you. Look how you like; you’re amazing how you are.

Deep Purple is a damn good band and we’ve made a niche in rock ‘n’ roll history. Maybe not a huge one but enough to be very proud of.

My point was to always have my spectators leave saying ‘hot damn I got my money’s worth.’

You can’t sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You’ve got to throw the ball over the damn plate and five the other man his chance. That’s why baseball is the greatest game of them all.

If no pain, then no love. If no darkness, no light. If no risk, then no reward. It’s all or nothing. In this damn world, it’s all or nothing.

No damn man kills me and lives.

I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated, I would be a damn fool.

You’ve got to believe in your damn self and do the damn thing, so I’m a big believer in self-belief, man, and going out there and working hard and sacrificing.

Easy reading is damn hard writing.

A damn independent boy; independent as a hog on ice.

I’m so damn lucky to still be here at 85. If I get a hangnail, I don’t dare complain! Life is good. I wake up humming.

I don’t know what they’ll say when I die. I don’t give a damn, but they’ll probably cry.

I don’t accept ‘political rapper’ because I don’t give a damn about either political party. I give a damn about the people. My rap comes from a sociological standpoint rather than picking a particular side or dogma or ideology. I just want people to be free to do what they want, as long as they don’t harm others.

I’m a dirty south goon – damn right, I ain’t no West coast gangster.

The hardest thing to teach young writers is that it’s wonderful to tell your truth. And that’s what you should do. But it damn well better be beautiful.

A teenager usually wants to try to get people to notice him in some way, to feel like someone gives a damn. Me, all that attention, I just wanted to fade into the background. Be invisible. Disappear.

Substitute ‘damn’ every time you’re inclined to write ‘very’; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

People are so busy positioning themselves before the screen and talking on the damn cellphones, communicating, that we’re not reading, and in fact we’re not really communicating, either. We’re not talking to each other. There’s just all these screens and wires and technology in between.

That’s the trouble with being me. At this point, nobody gives a damn what my problem is. I could literally have a tumor on the side of my head and they’d be like, ‘Yeah, big deal. I’d eat a tumor every morning for the kinda money you’re pulling down.’

I try to swim every damn day I can, and I’ve learned to scuba dive and snorkel.

Voting is crucial, and I don’t give a damn how you look at it: there are efforts to stop people from voting. That’s not right. This is not Russia. This is the United States of America.

I think I could probably make $5 to $10m movies for a very long time and live a perfectly good life doing it. I’d probably get paid as well as a surgeon, which is pretty damn remarkable for a guy who went to film school.

They are trying to lock up as many of us up as possible to put us in penitentiaries for free labor. You have the government paying private prisons to feed and clothe each inmate, turning it into a damn business. And African Americans are set up for getting arrested.

I’m not a great player, but I’m a damn good one.

You have to go to sleep at night staring at the wall, thinking, ‘Damn, I can’t wait for it to be morning so I can have the ball at my feet again!’ You can only play your best football in these conditions.

I never expect those type of dudes to even listen to my music but for one of those Juggalos to come up to me like, ‘Man, that ‘All My Life’ record, man you was talking to me.’ That struck me like, ‘Damn, maybe people, you never know who’s listening and who you might be touching with your music.’

I’m damn successful but I got here by not taking crap. I still don’t take crap, so if anybody needs a champion, let it be me.

I’ll have you understand I am running this court, and the law hasn’t got a damn thing to do with it!

It’s not true that life is one damn thing after another; it’s one damn thing over and over.

When everybody looks at our generation of kids, they always call us the misfits – you know, like we just don’t give a damn.

Laws against things like drugs are inhumane, and create an inhumane society and inhumane law enforcement. I know what’s causing violence in America – the damn drug laws.

Don’t care what people say. Don’t give a damn about their laws.

The pleasure of jogging and running is rather like that of wearing a fur coat in Texas in August: the true joy comes in being able to take the damn thing off.

‘Being Mary Jane,’ I really want everybody to see what we’ve done. I’ve never watched a project that I’ve worked and thought, ‘Damn that’s really good. It’s so juicy, and it’s hit after hit.’

For 10 or 11 years, I had my kids, I wrote four or five books, and I was working all the damn time.

If an ad campaign is built around a weak idea – or as is so often the case, no idea at all – I don’t give a damn how good the execution is, it’s going to fail.

I’m damn proud to be a Seattle Mariner.

Damn everything but the circus.

I came out because I fell in love. It wasn’t a terrible, horrible, damn thing. I was in love with somebody, and I wanted to scream it from the rooftops.

I’m sick of fighting all these damn wrestlers.

I’m just looking for that one song that I know everybody’s going to be like, ‘Damn, that’s a good song.’