Adam Savage Quotes

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• I couldn't live up to it. So I chose to run away.

  

  Ursula Andress
  • Up
  • Live
  • Run

• The lower caste people were killed as part of a conspiracy to dismiss my party's government.

  

  Lalu Prasad Yadav
  • People
  • Party
  • Government

• I avoid talking about the way I work. But in avoiding it I seem only to have encouraged people to focus their fantasies about me in an ever more fantastical way.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • People
  • Work
  • Me

• There's always a wine bully. The one person who did read the 'Wine Spectator,' who tells you what to drink and why the '97 is better than the '98. I want to punch the wine bully in the face. I want to make sure this generation of wine drinkers isn't elitist and snotty. I want it to be about family and bringing people together.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • People
  • Family
  • Why

• My workday begins around 11 A.M., with a cup of black coffee in each hand. If I had more hands, there would be more coffee.

  

  Aaron Levie
  • Black
  • Hand
  • Hands

• A novel requires a certain kind of world-building and also a certain kind of closure, ultimately. Whereas with a short story you have this sense that there are hinges that the reader doesn't see.

  

  Dan Chaon
  • World
  • Kind
  • Story

• Trust is not simply a matter of truthfulness, or even constancy. It is also a matter of amity and goodwill. We trust those who have our best interests at heart, and mistrust those who seem deaf to our concerns.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Heart
  • Best
  • Trust

• Being from Africa is the best thing that could have ever, ever happened to me. I cannot see it any other way. All of my fundamental principles that were instilled in me in my home, from my childhood, are still with me.

  

  Hakeem Olajuwon
  • Home
  • Best
  • Childhood

• Things I used to get in trouble for writing at 'SNL,' suddenly other people like it.

  

  Adam McKay
  • People
  • Writing
  • Trouble

• I have found, unfortunately, that if I take on too many projects at one time, there is a higher probability of those projects sucking.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Time
  • Found
  • Probability

• I love rock music, I love country music - I love all music, let's be honest!

  

  Fefe Dobson
  • Music
  • Country
  • Love

• I love Donna Summer, and I love ABBA. I love late '70s disco. I love the Bee Gees. I just love that period of recording.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Period
  • Recording
  • Disco

• Start your day in a upward direction, and the rest of the day will follow the uphill path.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Day
  • Rest
  • Path

• Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people’s habits. It just kept them inside the house.

  

  Alfred Hitchcock
  • People
  • House

• Therefore, everything seen – every object, that is, plus the process of looking at it – is a Duchamp. Turn it over and it is.

  

  Andy Warhol

• Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre

• The big new development in my life is, when I turned 80, I decided I no longer have to do four pages a day. For me, it's like retiring.

  

  Frederik Pohl
  • Life

• He doesn't know the meaning of the word fear, but then again he doesn't know the meaning of most words.

  

  Bobby Bowden
  • Words
  • Fear

• I knew it wasn't fair, I knew it was wrong, but I couldn't help it. And after a while, the anger I felt just sort of became part of me, like it was the only way I knew how to handle the grief. I didn't like who I'd become, but I was stuck in this horrible cycle of questions and blame.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Helping
  • Grief
  • Blame

• Well, I think, by definition, all power has limits.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Power
  • Limits
  • Definition

• Dewdrops, Nature's tears, which she Sheds in her own breast for the fair which die. The sun insists on gladness; but at night, When he is gone, poor Nature loves to weep.

  

  Philip James Bailey
  • Nature
  • Fair
  • Breast

• The Saudis have never shown any respect for human rights, either now or in the past. Even a petty burglar faces having one of his hands chopped off. The liberal press in America prefers to ignore all this, although they don't hesitate to blacken the reputation of Iran.

  

  Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
  • Humans
  • Rights
  • Reputation

• I am told that the clinical definition of insanity is the tendency to do the same thing over and over again and expect different results.

  

  Stephen F. Lynch
  • Results
  • Insanity
  • Clinical

• Stand back! I gotta get some rocket fuel out of the fridge!

  

  Adam Savage