Cool sayings and quotes are an important part of any culture. Certain phrases and words help create a new kind of language, and that language is uniquely part of each generation. The catch phrase "groovy," undeniably calls up memories of the 60's, while phrases like "nifty" and "keen" are throwbacks to even earlier decades. In the 1990's, phrases like "tight," and "sweet" were popular. Who knows which phrases will become popular in the new decade to come?
Cool sayings and cool quotes are also important because they help describe the priorities of the people using them. For example, in the early part of the 2000's, the phrase "pimp" started being used to positively describe things. This is likely due to the increasing influence of rap music and its values on mainstream culture.
Cool Quotes
- Time is an illusion, lunchtime, doubly so. -Douglas Adams
- People who say they don't care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don't care what people think.- George Carlin
- The wise man can pick up a grain of sand and envision a whole universe. But the stupid man will just lie down on some seaweed and roll around until he's completely draped in it. Then he'll stand up and go, 'Hey, I'm Vine Man.' - Jack Handey
- Money doesn't make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million. - Arnold Schwarzenegger
- Life becomes useless and insipid when we have no longer either friends or enemies. -Queen Christina of Sweden
- Nature abhors a hero. For one thing, he violates the law of conservation of energy. For another, how can it be the survival of the fittest when the fittest keeps putting himself into situations where he is most likely to be creamed? - Solomon Short
- There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. - Mark Twain
- Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. -Oscar Wilde
Cool Sayings - Adjectives that Mean "Cool"
- A-1
- Tight
- Sweet
- All Good
- Spiffy
- Off the Hook
- Raw
- Sick
- Killer
- Awesome
- Stellar
- Swingin'
- Rockin'
- Gnarly
- Gravy
- Hip
- Swell
- Pimp
- Choice
- Bad
- Ill
- The Bomb
- Rad, Radical
- Chill
- Cool
- Groovy
- Fat, Phat
- Keen
- Nifty
- Far Out
- Out of Sight
- Wicked (Originally English Slang)
- Capitol (Originally English Slang)
- Uber (Originally German)
- Kosher (Originally Hebrew)
- Primo (Originally Italian)
Hidden in these phrases, of course, are many contradictions. How can "bad" and "all good" have such similar meanings? And why are negative sounding words, such as "bad," "sick," "ill," and "wicked," sometimes endowed with positive qualities in slang? The answer to these questions remains a mystery.
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