John Darnielle Quotes

I once dated a girl that was wild. She was so wild that one night she gave her phone number to the mechanical bull.

For about two years, I was a little wild. I was out partying, having adventures.

I do really crazy things all the time, but I can't think of anything offhand.

I like to get wild.

I usually get myself into situations that cause sparks. I mean I'm a girl that likes the storms. I love feeling alive, I love walking out in the cold in my bare feet and feeling the ice on my toes.

Sometimes I think I need to get crazy. Go to Vegas.

I'm very impatient. I am. That's the bane of my game. I don't think about what I'm going to do - I just go hit it, I don't stop to wait and think. Costs me two shots a round.

I have no qualms: no shame, no guilt, no embarrassment. I tend to act out a lot.

I was kind of wild. I enjoyed myself as a young man. I was moving 100 miles per hour - on and off the field.

Sometimes you got to specifically go out of your way to get into trouble. It's called fun.

Sleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whisky and drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind but falling in love and not getting arrested.

When I was young and didn't have money, I liked gambling because winning and losing was fun for the rush of it. The amount of money that I would have to put down now to get that rush, there is no f'ing way I'm going to do it. It's just stupid. I would rather get that rush some other way.

Everything that's fun in life is dangerous. And everything that isn't fun is dangerous too. It's impossible to be alive and safe.

The world is wider in all directions, more dangerous and bitter, more extravagant and bright. We are making hay when we should be making whoopee; we are raising tomatoes when we should be raising Cain and Lazarus.

It is not a question of living dangerously. That formula is too arrogant, too presumptuous. I don't care much for bull-fighters. It's not the danger I love. I know what I love. It is life itself.

I'm a guy who wants to party and have as many adventures as possible.

I was living a dangerous life before I started boxing.

I just try to see what happens when you put your feet on the accelerator.

I do like to do mad stuff on occasions.

Let's borrow life preservers and jump over. I think we should do something spectacular. I feel that all our lives have been too restrained.

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 just think you need to spice up life every now and then with a bit of adventure and excitement.

I didn't say no because between safety and adventure I choose adventure.

People want somebody to be a daredevil, even if they're not going to be a daredevil themselves.