Quotes About Recklessness

I was going nine times a week. You get to a point where you don't really know who you are. You're running on high octane, and you'll take all comers in every arena because there was no police. Every arena, you'd take on everybody that would come in the ring.

I did everything by the seat of my pants. That's why I got hurt so much.

I would climb on roofs and jump off using my parents' bed sheet, hoping it would open like a parachute. I was always getting hurt, breaking a leg, you know, bruising, cracking my head open.

It looks like I'm this huge shark going in for the kill... I don't know what I was thinking.

His denials had always gotten him off the hook before, but his repeated success at wiggling out of tight situations incubated a dangerous hubris, which in turn increased his sexual recklessness

Because they were young. Because one is young only once in a life lived only once. Because recklessness is the only fist to throw at nothingness. How much aliveness can one bear?

The alternative—sanity—became insane. Because they were young. Because one is young only once in a life lived only once. Because recklessness is the only fist to throw at nothingness. How much aliveness can one bear?

Writer's block results from too much head. Cut off your head. Pegasus, poetry, was born of Medusa when her head was cut off. You have to be reckless when writing. Be as crazy as your conscience allows.

There is a theory that bravery and intrepidness and extreme risk taking are all sorts of madness, and that only one person in 1,000 or 100,000 is born without the normal safety rail of self-preservation, the pressing need to turn around and go home when it's dark, cold and frightening.

Makers of curious experiments in phenomena of extranatural vision are no better than the eaters of opium and hasheesh. They are children who injure themselves recklessly.

A good American goes for it, just does it, slakes it, eats it, kills it, the more the better, damn the torpedoes!

Sometimes, what the hell , go all out and be totally lurid.

Adventure is what happens when you just did something stupid.

Sir, a man may turn rogue in sheer thoughtlessness. You lose your head over a pretty girl, you fight another man about her, there is a catastrophe, you have to take to the mountains, and you turn from a smuggler into a robber before you have time to think about it.

At the age of two-and-a-half, I was run down by a truck. I had gone rogue in the house while my mother was bathing my sister. I went outside and met a friend who promised me candy. Afterward, I walked back by myself across the road where I fell down in the street. A 15-year-old boy delivering bread struck me down.

I go through money like a bloke with three arms.

There is not an amount of money that a writer can earn that I can't blow.

If you're going to be a bum, be the biggest. If you're going to blow it, blow it big.

Half of my success is my fearlessness and recklessness - of just seeing the end and not stopping until you get there.

I think every model has times when they get obnoxious and crazy. You all of a sudden realize you are young and beautiful and you have money, and you just kind of go nutty for awhile.

I thought: This is not racing, it's a suicide mission.

There are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.

That's the good part about dying; when you've got nothing to lose, you run any risk you want.

That's the good part of dying; when you've nothing to lose, you run any risk you want.