David Eddings Quotes

I don't really know why, but danger has always been an important thing in my life - to see how far I could lean without falling, how fast I could go without cracking up.

I fare the best when I'm in dangerous situations.

I didn't do that many crazy things.

I'm retired from the daredevil business.

I'm not only the best-known daredevil on the face of the earth, I'm the oldest.

I suppose that's the European way, dangerous and hairy.

I'm an adrenaline junkie. I love climbing crazy trees or cliffs, which doesn't make my mom very happy.

To be a stunt person you kind of have to have a screw loose like you do in wrestling.

I've been sky-diving three times. I would go right now if someone told me the plane was about to take off. I love it. I'm an adrenaline junkie. I don't want to go bungee-jumping.

I like the challenge of doing things you know that you maybe shouldn't do.

I once wanted to be a stuntman. I was constantly on the front pages when I was a base jumper. But if I were a stuntman, my name would only appear right at the end of the closing credits, even though I'd risked my life for others.

You can't ask a guy like me why [I performed]. I really wanted to fly through the air. I was a daredevil, a performer. I loved the thrill, the money, the whole macho thing. All those things made me Evel Knievel. Sure, I was scared. You gotta be an ass not to be scared. But I beat the hell out of death.

A chasm reminds us that there is a fine line between bravery and idiocy.

Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate.

I've always been a fan of just extreme things. Whether it be in movies, books, TV or real life.

I'm not doing any crazy stuff any more. Like I used to do high falls; I used to jump from the motorcycle to the truck myself. That's unheard of today. Now nobody would ever do that. In those days it was stupid, man. I just did it because that's what it was, but that I don't do anymore.

We will meet; and there we may rehearse most obscenely and courageously.

Nicholas Temelcoff is famous on the bridge, a daredevil. He is given all the difficult jobs and he takes them. He descends into the air with no fear. He is a solitary. He assembles ropes, brushes the tackle and pulley at his waist, and falls off the bridge like a diver over the edge of a boat.

I've jammed enough things up my own ass just trying to come on any amphetamine based narcotic.

Any good Irwin can make going to the corner store for a candy bar and a Coke lood death defying and suicidal.

Yes, Bastille. I keep trying to get killed because it's inconvenient for you.

You know, the next time you're guilty of anything, the next time you're charged with anything, try saying, "Hey, hey, hey, I didn't mean to run the stop sign." Or, "I didn't mean to leave the bar and get behind the wheel. I really didn't. I didn't mean to get behind the wheel after having some adult beverages." See if that works for you. And if you're saying it's not the same thing, yes, it is.

It's a little dangerous to be a badass.

The craving to risk death is our last great perversion. We come from night, we go into night. Why live in night?

I've always gravitated towards people who are extreme. Whether its drugs, or kicking down doors. Normally, the people in my life had to escape to get back.