Ellen Hopkins 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.

Nearly everything that was fun, of course, was also a little dangerous: riding roller coasters, skydiving, gambling, sex.

I don't think we'll get caught, but the very possibility is half the fun.

It's a little dangerous to be a badass.

I like to go and do something adventurous. I like to go out and do some sort of crazy activity.

As long as it excites me, I am game for it.

Speed and danger don't always go together, but it's proper fun when they do.

I know it is a dangerous sport but this is something I like.

It's fun, in a way, to explore what's risky in one's life.

I'm mischievous. The idea of taking risks and having real-world consequences energizes me.

Lots of the things we do are dangerous, but life itself is dangerous; nothing is really worth bothering with that isn't full of danger

Everything that's fun in life is dangerous. Horse races, for instance, are very dangerous. But attempt to design a safe horse and the result is a cow ... It is impossible to be alive and safe.

I trust other people to tell me if it's too far or tasteless, because there's not too much that I won't do. I like to push the limits. Obviously, that's more dangerous and more fun for everybody.

I'm willing to fly close to the flame.

I have been a bit of a risk-taker all my life.

I think it's important to live with a certain danger and a certain risk.

Make it dangerous or it's not worth doing.

A certain amount of danger is essential to the quality of life.

The principal difference between an adventurer and a suicide is that the adventurer leaves himself a margin of escape (the narrower the margin the greater the adventure), a margin whose width and length may be determined by unknown factors but whose navigation is determined by the measure of the adventurer's nerve and wits. It is exhilarating to live by one's nerves or toward the summit of one's wits.

There's a fine line between being a sicko and an adventurous spirit.

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.

In my twenties, I was a huge, insane risk-taker.

Danger is cool.

I'm not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.

Sure, give me an adventure and I'll ride it.