Kami Garcia Quotes

I've been reckless, but I'm not a rebel without a cause.

I was always the kid at school who thought it was a good idea to set off the fire alarm. And much as I'm aware that that's a trait which also propels other things which are good, I wish I could just pause and go, 'Is this really what you want to do?'

I don't care what consequence it brings, I have been a fool for lesser things.

I want to be a jerk like the rest of my friends, and have fun, and not care about the consequences, but I just can't now.

I lived for going down the rabbit hole of meeting weird people. Of course, come Monday I would be tallying up all the different situations, and each one was progressively more dangerous. I got lucky in that I didn't go to jail.

You might as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb.

My childlike qualities sometimes lead me to jump into projects without thinking of the consequences.

I think there's something in the human psyche that we're titillated by the person who flies too close to the candle and their wings get singed.

If you're going to do something wrong, do it big, because the punishment is the same either way.

I did everything by the seat of my pants. That's why I got hurt so much.

Nations, like individuals, cannot become desperate gamblers with impunity. Punishment is sure to overtake them sooner or later.

Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.

It does no harm to throw the occasional man overboard, but it does not do much good if you are steering full speed ahead for the rocks.

When you get into trouble 5000 miles from home, you have to have been looking for it.

Theodore Roosevelt would go to Halifax for half a chance to show off and to Hell for a whole one.

Sometimes I was like Beavis and Butt-head growing up. I know people who lit their friend's house on fire accidentally.

I don't know if it's a very smart idea to admire the living.

Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked.

I haven't got enough sense not to pitch.

I'm a bold man. I throw caution to the wind.

No one wanted me to be a conscientious objector. My parents certainly didn't want it. My teacher and mentor, Joe Brearley, didn't want it. My friends didn't want it. I was alone.

A lot of people say I'm reckless and I take too many shots. I take shots on the forehead. There's nothing wrong with that. It puts me in punching range.

I don't make the right choices. I simply don't.

I like to fly close to the edge. I like to play with fire.

I could jump out of this window feet first, which would be the safe way. But the way I'd do it would be to use a ramp, get a running start, dive through head first and maybe throw in a little roll at the end. Doing it that way makes it more spectacular.