Well, you've got to be known for something. The danger of extreme versatility is that you don't spring to mind for anything.
A writer who is in a hurry to be understood today or tomorrow runs the danger of being misunderstood the day after tomorrow.
That is why, as soon as I felt a real attraction for my first passion which was the motorcycle, and in spite of the danger it could represent, they encouraged me.
I was ordered not to go out to Abu Ghraib after dark early on, because Abu Ghraib was extremely dangerous.
A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all human morality.
The Broadway audience is made up of a greater percentage of tourists now. There's not nearly as much variety and danger and challenge in what's being offered.
I've learned that guns are exceptionally challenging to use effectively, with a power that must be respected. But mostly what I've learned is that they're a lot of fun, and dangerously appealing to an active imagination.
Every time I am in danger of believing the glamour of my own press, some incident inevitably brings me back to earth.
I myself had to grow a longer beard and Afghan clothes. I was in danger of being kidnapped by smugglers, though I didn't know it at the time.
It's the same each time with progress. First they ignore you, then they say you're mad, then dangerous, then there's a pause and then you can't find anyone who disagrees with you.
October is a fine and dangerous season in America. a wonderful time to begin anything at all. You go to college, and every course in the catalogue looks wonderful.
Every study on crime and or firearms proves time and time again, that 99.99999% of American gun owners do not commit crimes or use our firearms in any dangerous or improper way.
Marquise de Merteuil: You'll find the shame is like the pain, you only feel it once.
Madame de Rosemonde: [referring to the Vicomte de Valmont] What is true of most men is doubly so of him.
Helen's Mother: A mother's arms are strong when her child is in danger.
Dolores Umbridge: Predict something. Sybil Trelawney: Erm. You... are in great danger! Dolores Umbridge: Lovely!
Ellis: He's not dangerous. Neckbone: [sighs] Sounds like a shitload of state troopers thinks differently.
Politicians as a class are dangerous, that people who are seeking power over us are not, by definition, our friends.
I always thought that poetry is the verdict that others give to a certain kind of writing. So to call yourself a poet is a kind of dangerous description. It's for others; it's for others to use.
Religion is dangerous because it allows human beings who don't have all the answers to think that they do.
I think that the romantic impulse is in all of us and that sometimes we live it for a short time, but it's not part of a sensible way of living. It's a heroic path and it generally ends dangerously.
