Ian Gilmour Quotes

Nobody else is stupid enough to get themselves into the straits that I get into.

Sean Penn's really the only one stupid enough to put anything down on paper.

I've always been a fella who put most of my eggs in one basket and then take a dump in the basket but I really don't know.

I'm very accident-prone. The problem is I sort of just do things. I'm impulsive, and sometimes I don't think.

I know when I'm getting ready to mess up, I'm going to do it full-on.

I didn't play the game right because I saw a reward at the end of the tunnel.

I can't shoot myself in the foot before I get in the chorus line.

Men often act knowingly against their interest

I'll always find the hardest path. Needless to say, not always a good idea.

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?'

Too many talented and supremely calculating politicians, including Nixon and Clinton, have destroyed their careers, or come close, by acting in ways that were obviously against their own interests.

I'm a really good hacker, but I'm not a sensible person.

I was really, really wild in my early twenties and a bit self-destructive.

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.

I've always had this impulse to be destructive.

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

The riskiest thing you can do is get greedy.

I'm stupidly curious. I will go and touch anything until I find out that it's very harmful.

I'm sure there have been a lot of boys I've chased over the years that has been fueled by alcohol and stupidity. But that's kind of how things happen - sometimes you have to do something really stupid, and sometimes it works out, and sometimes you fall flat on your face.

That damn fool will get himself killed by some other damn fool.

Rash indeed is he who reckons on the morrow, or happily on days beyond it; for tomorrow is not, until today is past.

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

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

To seek trouble - this is not courage, this is madness. Courage is the willingness of man to sensibly face the troubles he cannot avoid.