Ellen Hopkins Quotes

I love the fast lane.

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

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

I like adventure.

I'm really into extreme sports and just having fun.

Of course risk-taking does not always pay off, but it's a lot of fun!

Stunts are really fun.

I like to find adventure.

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

I love the challenge of any adventure.

I think that's when I have the most fun: when things are on the line.

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

Adventure, yeah. I guess that's what you call it when everybody comes back alive.

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

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

How can I explain purposely setting foot on a path so blatantly treacherous? Was the fun in the fall?

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

Make it dangerous or it's not worth doing.

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.

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.

Life is dangerous. That's what makes it interesting.

The adrenaline and stress of an adventure are better than a thousand peaceful days.

Trouble can be a lot of fun. It's the straight and narrow that makes life tedious and boring.

I love doing stunts.