Marya Hornbacher Quotes

When I was younger, I was very wild, and I didn't really have my head screwed on properly.

I've always been a little out of control since I was a kid.

I find it easier to abstain than do a little bit of anything. I'm not a 'little bit' kind of dame. I want it all, whatever I do.

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

I tend to sort of dive into things without worrying about risk or anything. Like, when I get an idea, I tend to just go for it and see what happens.

Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet

What youth considers liberation, maturity considers tasteless excess.

If people do things without thinking them through, that rubs me up the wrong way.

I am very impulsive and very stupid sometimes, but I am very clean.

I can be as crazy as anybody and go over lines I should not go over.

I fought Swanson when I was injured and I shouldn't have but I wanted to.

At this point, I just do whatever... I want, to my detriment.

Anything worth doing is worth over-doing. Moderation is for cowards.

Rashness succeeds often, still more often fails.

I've always been impulsive. My thinking is usually pretty good, but I always seem to do it after I do my talking — by which time I've generally destroyed all basis for further conversation.

I guess there's just a time for doing dumb things.

Today we are always as ready to judge as we are to fornicate.

Come on,"he said, gesturing toward the exit. "let's take a walk." "Where?" "It doesn't matter. We just need you calmed down or you'll be in no shape to fight." "Yeah? Are you afraid of my possibly insane dark side coming out?" "No, I'm afraid of your normal Rose Hathaway side coming out, the one that isn't afraid to jump in without thinking when she believes something is right." I gave him a dry look. "Is there are a difference?" "Yes. The second one scares me.

(I'm) much more ... standoffish and hot headed, more intense (than Rashad). Not so dead set on doing the right thing more so than the right now thing; at that age anyway.

Branch Rickey once said of me that I was a man with an infinite capacity for immediately making a bad thing worse.

When there is pleasure, there is often abandon, and mistakes are made.

I often don't think a lot about the ramifications of anything I do.

Rashness attends youth, as prudence does old age.

And people with obsessions, reflected Bond, were blind to danger.

A Creole woman is like a child, she wants to possess everything immediately; like a child, she would set fire to a house in order to fry an egg. In her languor, she thinks of nothing; when passionately aroused, she thinks of any act possible or impossible.