Quotes About Recklessness

She had what I'd call a lemming ass - that is, an ass that you would follow right over the edge of the cliff.

Vanity is both a great motivator and a great deceiver, and the idea of leaving behind an everlasting legacy can spur even the most cautious person to proceed recklessly.

You can never prepare yourself enough to see your mug shot and DUI.

Necking a girl in an Internet cafe, luring her into the PG accommodation, I have never done such a daring role before.

I had the taste of the alcohol since I was 11. It allowed me to be clever, charming and to behave outrageously. Acting also allowed me not to be me. So I could indulge every fantasy in this paradise of America.

I went and got a tattoo of James Dean on my shoulder without actually seeing him in any movies.

I was having a great time, enjoying the best summer of my life, fucked up. Fucked up is good.

We were just a couple of fallen angels, rolling the dice of our lives. We'd heard all the horror stories of early marriages and fast divorces and broken hearts. But we knew none of them would happen to us, because as Dexy's Midnight Runners sang to Eileen, we were far too young and clever.

The thing about drugs and sex is that you lose all your inhibitions. I've had sex in trains, planes, wine bars... and quite a few car parks!

Let us drink to pointless heroism.

Men kept sticking their hands in the fire thinking this time it would not burn, so

A fool puts her hand into a hollow tree without finding out what's inside first.

It's my fault for not shooting the son of a bitch while he was drinking. I didn't know who he was at the time, but I should have shot him on suspicion. And then I plumb forgot about it all day. I'm getting too foolish to live.

None of it was sensible, yet he had to admit there was something about such follies that he liked. The sensible way, which he had pursued once or twice in his life, had always proved boring, usually within a few days. In his case it had led to nothing much, just excessive drunkenness and reckless card playing. There was more enterprise in certain follies, it seemed to him.

Boys and girls hid in the library stacks or behind the gym and flew at each other with no promise of love or even kindness, tasting one another in clumsly attempts to steal pleasure before they could be hurt or hated.

I scared myself, because once you've thought long and hard enough about doing something that is colossally stupid, you feel like you've actually done it, and then you're never quite sure what your limits are.

There are two things people in their twenties do better than anyone else: get drunk and fall down and experience unplanned pregnancies. That, Greta, is your specialty. That is your area of expertise, dear girl, not calling other women out for failing to be tablecloth woke.

To Be Young (is to be sad, is to be high)

What happened?""I f***ed Titan.""Ah.""Actually, it was more like 'Yes, please, may I have another?

As far as I know, there's nothing more dangerous than a man who doesn't care if he lives or dies.

I don't think it's much use your looking for the brains: a creature who twice walked into a lions den can't have got any.

False confidence often leads to disaster.

so much like riding dangerous women with whiskey coloured eyes - such women as once fell dead with their lovers with fire in their heads and slippery froth on thighs

It is the most ambitious and driven among us who are the most sorely in need of having our reckless hopes dampened through immersive dousings in the darkness which religions have explored. This is a particular priority for secular Americans, perhaps the most anxious and disappointed people on earth, for their nation infuses them with the most extreme hopes about what they may be able to achieve in their working lives and relationships.