Margery Allingham Quotes

Things fall apart and happen out of stupidity and carelessness.

We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar.

A loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

I've always had this impulse to be destructive.

Ever since I was little, I've always liked to smash things.

I used to throw stuff out of the window and trash hotel rooms - and superglue all the drawers shut and superglue the toilet seat down and superglue the phone to the nightstand - and all kinds of stuff. I had a chain saw for a while. I didn't really use it but once or twice.

A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.

I'm super down with being irresponsible. I'm just trying to make sure my lack of responsibility no longer hurts people.

I used to just sign papers and not pay no attention to what I'm signing.

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

A loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

I never ever take into consideration the consequences of my actions until it's too late.

Go on, prove me wrong. Destroy the fabric of the universe. See if I care.

I was always drawn to the self-destructive kind of way. I thought there was something beautiful about it; I don't know why.

Recklessness is par for the course when you're 25.

A lot of people, given the chance, would blow up everything, and you and me.

We will not take care. We do not give a damn.

I think there's a lot of catastrophe in this world and a lot of cruelty and a lot of carelessness.

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

I created a lot of drama and mess in my life.

Unfortunately, there tends to be an easy way of doing things in life and the Haskell way. As a 12-year-old I knocked my front teeth out while chasing a friend in the rain. I'm the type who offers to serve wine at drinks parties and accidentally pours it down one of the guests.

If people insist on living as if there's no tomorrow, there really won't be one.

He wanted to heave the glasses against the wall. Break them, break everything he could reach. Beat it, rend it. He stared out the window, imagined the city in flames, consumed to ashes. And still it wasn't enough.

Undressing her was an act of recklessness, a kind of vandalism, like releasing a zoo full of animals, or blowing up a dam.

They'd smash up the world if they thought it would make a pretty noise.