Dorothy Parker Quotes

If I don't drive around the park, I'm pretty sure to make my mark. If I'm in bed each night by ten, I may get back my looks again. If I abstain from fun and such, I'll probably amount to much; But I shall stay the way I am, Because I do not give a damn.

I don't expect to seem cool to everyone; nor do I want to be. I think that's the opposite of the definition of cool. So I don't care at all.

I use my dress to wipe up my drink, I care less and less what people think.

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

The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn.

I don't care about labels or anything.

The whole world might not understand. I don't really care.

What Do You Care What Other People Think?

I’m not insane, I’m voluntarily indifferent to conventional rationality.

At twenty the things for which one does not care a damn should, properly, be many.

I don't give a damn what people think.

Basically I don't care what people think of me. I'm not in the communications business.

It's no fun to be yellow. Maybe I'm not all yellow. I don't know. I think maybe I'm just partly yellow and partly the type that doesn't give much of a damn if they lose their gloves. One of my troubles is, I never care too much when I lose something - it used to drive mother crazy when I was a kid. Some guys spend days looking for something they've lost. I never seem to have anything that if I lost it I'd care too much. Maybe that's why I'm partly yellow. It's no excuse, though. It really isn't. What you should be is not yellow at all.

Never give up and never conform.

What is right for one soul may not be right for another. It may mean having to stand on your own and do something strange in the eyes of others. But do not be daunted, do whatever it is because you know within it is right for you.

I disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. I refuse to live in the ordinary world as ordinary women. To enter ordinary relationships. I want ecstasy. I am a neurotic — in the sense that I live in my world. I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.

I refuse to follow the rules where society tries to control people with low self esteem.

The trouble with this world is that everybody has to compromise and conform.

I've always been this way. This is who I am. Take it or leave it. You'll either hate me or you'll love me. I have a strong personality which isn't necessarily good or bad. I really don't mind what people in Oklahoma who I don't know think of me. I really only care about the people in my life.

The most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity and to not give in to peer pressure to try to be something that you're not.

But I must admit I didn´t like that idea; do the same thing as everyone else. Eating to live, living to eat - that had been the nightmare of my adolescence. If it meant going back to that, if would be just as well to turn on the gas at once. But I suppose everyone thinks of things like that: let´s turn on the gas at once. And you don´t turn it on.

Don't know which one is worse, doing your own thing or just being cool.

Mad people = People who stand alone and burn. I'm attracted to them because they give me permission to do the same.

He's a freak. Just like me. Just like all those Kane-a-nites out there! And you know what, Freaks are cool!