Susan Minot Quotes

There's a feeling of immortality you have in youth. You just don't see the dangers around you, or, if you do, maybe you're even excited by them.

With young people, there's often that carelessness, allowing yourself to get into danger - recklessness, I suppose.

Of course when I was young, I was a little bit crazy.

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

When you're 20, we all make stupid and impulsive decisions.

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

In general - especially in my youth - I was a bit wild.

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

Some people will go for the quick joke and not pay attention to the consequences.

At the end of the day, when you're young you think you're invincible.

Sometimes when you're young and a little more immature, you can overdo things or not really have your legs under you.

When one is young, one can become distracted and overconfident.

I was pretty immature, and some of it came from just wanting to have fun.

You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

I've been known to turn up drunk at triathlons and do very well. I'm more of a heat-of-the-moment type of guy. A friend will tell me about something coming up, maybe that weekend, and usually not an abundance of thought goes into my doing it.

I did throw a lot of eggs into one basket, as you do in your teenage years - 'I am buying these records, I am wearing this'. I did quite a bit of that. You have to do it, wear your stupid shoes, wear your stupid hair.

When one kicks over a tea table and smashes everything but the sugar bowl, one may as well pick that up and drop it on the bricks, don't you think?

I'm not an academic type in term of personality. I had my share of madness as a teenager.

When I started modeling, I was young and sort of a bit reckless - I wanted to make money and didn't really care about anything else.

So young and so wrong.

Growing up, I probably raised a bit more hell than I should have.

Things fall apart and happen out of stupidity and carelessness.

Had I been older - maybe 25 or 30 - I would have never tried half the things I did because I would have rationalized everything and never did it.

In my misspent youth, I was risky.

As you get older, you overthink and can talk yourself out of anything. It's good to be a bit reckless and experimental.