Quotes About Risk

Think you can maybe not die for five minutes?" "I'll try,"I told him seriously. "You know, if anyone else said that, it would be funny.

Doing funny scary is something that is rarely good and rarely works, and it's also something that's incredibly hard to market.

Comedy is not commercial; it is risky, because what is funny in one place isn't always funny somewhere else.

Hip hop is kinda funny because the further you get into it the more at risk you are.

You must never imagine, that just because something is funny, it is not also dangerous.

If you wagered $5,000 on each of my winning NFL picks in 2012 and $500 ($550) on each of my losing picks, you'd be ahead $70,050. Wow.

There are a lot of mysterious things about boats, such as why anyone would get on one voluntarily.

Generally it's not a good idea to wear Banana Republic - type khaki journalist clothes in a war zone. You might look too much like something that's supposed to be shot, such as a journalist.

I bought a million lottery tickets. I won a dollar.

I was skydiving horizontally.

I find comedy to be really scary, because it can go so wrong so easily, and the margin for error is so huge - and I guess that's what makes it funny, that tension.

The dice are stacked against them

If at first you don't succeed then skydiving definitely isn't for you.

Jin looked both ways for the Quicksilver Dragon before crossing the canal.

Boy, you knock on the devil's door and he will head slam you through the wall.

His eyes widened. Oh, hell, you think I'm going to let him bite me? No way. It's too risky and way too guy.

It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye. Then it's fun and games you can't see anymore.

It means the third rail has seven hundred volts of direct current running through it. Touch it and you're human popcorn

Smartass Disciple: Why men don't ready yet to join the intergalactic confederation?Master of Stupidity: Men could make them laugh to death. It'd be too risky for them.

Maggie wasn't without her concerns, though. "What if he's crazy?""Yeah, that's a definite possibility, " he agreed."What if he's not your type?""Then we'll only hook up in dark places.

Are you sure this is a good idea?' I ask.'No, ' says Amber. 'Let's do it.

...space flight still had a long way to go to catch up with the safety record of the milkshake industry.

The first time you went out, you became mixed up with a group of radical political terrorists.""That could have happened to anyone!

You're not worried about being compromised, are you?" he asked. "Because I've already done that.