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

• 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

• I was bribed into starting swimming with the promise of sweets and by being told that you can win medals. My mum had given me a bag of medals which she had won when she was young, so the idea of winning medals was very exciting.

  

  Alistair Brownlee
  • She
  • Winning
  • Promise

• For all its ups and downs and challenges, I love writing. We only grow through adversity, so I welcome the difficulties, knowing bumps in the road are my greatest teachers.

  

  Lori Wilde
  • Writing
  • Road
  • Adversity

• I married a man who isn't afraid to wash a dish, scrub a toilet, or have his unibrow waxed into submission by a licensed professional.

  

  Jen Lancaster
  • Professional

• Wallflowers may not be the prettiest of blooms, but at least they don’t get trampled.

  

  Courtney Milan
  • Do Not
  • Blooms
  • Trampled

• Horses don’t think the same as humans. Something that’s most unique about the horse, that I love, is not what he possesses but what he doesn’t possess. And that is greed, spite, hate, jealousy, envy, prejudice. The horse doesn’t possess any of those things. If you think about people, the least desirable people to be around usually possess some or all of those things. And the way God made the horse, he left that out.

  

  Buck Brannaman
  • Hate
  • Humans
  • Envy

• One of the cool things about amateur athletics is that, I think, the pursuit is sort of the pursuit of excellence for nothing more than trying to be excellent.

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
  • Trying
  • Cool
  • Excellence

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

  

  Adam Savage