Gail Carriger Quotes

There are certain things people always bring up with me. The accident. The drugs. And how tight my pants were.

I thought: This is not racing, it's a suicide mission.

We agreed to do it when I was drunk at his house one night, then on the day I had to have four large brandies - they didn't touch the sides at all. People just got on with it though. It didn't gather a crowd!

I came to San Antonio, and it's known for the River Walk. So I was just doing some sightseeing, I looked at the bridge and I thought, 'Man, if I do a flip off this bridge, that would be super-cool.' I don't recommend anybody jump off that bridge.

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

It’s very hard to write regulations that will prevent people from acting foolishly—particularly when acting foolishly has recently made them a lot of money.

Sometimes I was like Beavis and Butt-head growing up. I know people who lit their friend's house on fire accidentally.

Anytime something is a little new and a little fresh, it's going to be critiqued.

I ran away at 15 to chase a guy that I met who would become my boyfriend, and he was living in L.A.

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

They wanted to have a good time, but they were like children playing in the street; they could see one after another of them being killed--run over, maimed, destroyed--but they continued to play anyhow.

Criticism is easier to take when you realize that the only people who aren’t criticized are those who don’t take risks.

The only people who aren't going to be criticized are those who do absolutely nothing

One could safely say that David Lifton took folly to an unprecedented level. And considering the monumental foolishness of his colleagues in the conspiracy community, that's saying something.

It is the property of fools to be always judging.

You don’t have anything like this. For crying out loud, you only own one skirt!

I spent my 16th birthday high as a kite, jumping out of a tree topless in my local park just because it felt amazing hitting the ground.

IMBECILITY, n. A kind of divine inspiration, or sacred fire affecting censorious critics of this dictionary.

I am just discovering my fashion side. I have never felt anchored when it comes to fashion.

I've never known about anyone being helped by being told how wretched, miserable, sinful, and evil they are.

Does it make you brave to stick your hand in a bear's mouth? Would you do it again just because you didn't die?

You'll never do anything creative, innovative or world changing if you fear criticism. Pioneers are easy targets for arrows!

Beginning with a critique of my own limbs, which she said, justly enough, were nothing to write home about, this girl went on to dissect my manners, morals, intellect, general physique, and method of eating asparagus with such acerbity that by the time she had finished the best you could say of Bertram was that, so far as was known, he had never actually committed murder or set fire to an orphan asylum.

Students may feel the criticism is harsh, but I think it's possible they haven't had criticism before. It's my job to point out when something is badly done, or when there's no point of view. To build a brand you have to have something about you. If not personality, then some thought process. I'm 40, and they're young, so they're meant to be informing me. They should be bringing me a book or something that I haven't seen, not like some obscure chant book by Dominican monks, but an image of the way they see the world.

Economics is a form of brain damage.