Adam Savage Quotes

This is the point in the show where we say, 'Oh, what else do we have in the van that's flammable?'

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• To be a great painter means to be a great poet: someone who transcends the limits of his language.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Great
  • Language
  • Limits

• Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Writing
  • Done
  • Nothing

• One cool thing is because Mom and Dad aren't into the Hollywood scene, they don't read 'US Weekly' or anything like that. They give me space. They don't care. They just want all of their children to be doing something that they love to do and be able to pay their insurance.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • Children
  • Love
  • Dad

• I used to believe that people are only born once, but now I feel I have been reborn, like I was given a new life. I see myself as a child, full of energy and hope.

  

  Bahman Ghobadi
  • People
  • Life
  • Believe

• On the tech side, little start-ups can do something magnificent. They don't need too much in terms of plants and infrastructure.

  

  Hamdi Ulukaya
  • Need
  • Too Much
  • Plants

• The course hitherto pursued in musical aesthetics has nearly always been hampered by the false assumption that the object was not so much to inquire into what is beautiful in music as to describe the feelings which music awakens.

  

  Eduard Hanslick
  • Music
  • Beautiful
  • Feelings

• Petrol price is a deregulated commodity, price of which is decided by our oil marketing companies based on input cost and other parameters.

  

  Veerappa Moily
  • Marketing
  • Cost
  • Oil

• The more famous you become, the less people will tell you your faults.

  

  Paloma Picasso
  • People
  • You
  • Famous

• The main event isn't bitcoin. It's using the blockchain to disrupt other industries and Wall Street.

  

  Patrick M. Byrne
  • Wall
  • Street
  • Blockchain

• I'm not afraid of a big studio film; I trust my instincts. But for me, it's not really about box office. It's about looking back on your work and not having to apologize for it.

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • Work
  • Trust
  • Looking Back

• Do not take up music unless you would rather die than not do so.

  

  Nadia Boulanger
  • Up
  • Music
  • You

• I guess we're all kinda searching for a connection with something that's relevant to our past and speaks to who we are, and maybe helps us make a connection to what we are, and where we come from.

  

  Usher
  • Past
  • Connection
  • Searching

• Do you want to know what scares the Washington cartel? Actually, not remotely. I don't scare them in the tiniest bit. What scares them is you. What scares them is that old Reagan coalition is coming back together, of conservatives.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Together
  • Want
  • Know

• Finally, two days ago, I succeeded- not on account of my hard efforts, but by the grace of the Lord. Like a sudden flash of lightning, the riddle was solved. I am unable to say what was the conducting thread that connected what I previously knew with what made my success possible.

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss
  • Success

• The lazy and the foolish compare him to Hemingway, which is a terrible injustice as Jim is both a better writer and a better man.

  

  Anthony Bourdain
  • Lazy

• Children see things very well sometimes - and idealists even better.

  

  Lorraine Hansberry
  • Children

• I mean, for Pete’s sake, you can’t get into the military, or used to not be able to get into the military, who knows now, if you had asthma, psoriasis, attention deficit disorder, but we’re going to bring in people with an extremely peculiar and rare mental illness...and have the taxpayers pay for it.

  

  Ann Coulter
  • People
  • Attention
  • Military

• Trying to learn from communities and engage with policy makers and community organizers all across the country is really important to me.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • Important
  • Country
  • Trying

• A person who does not read cannot think. He may have good mental processes, but he has nothing to think about. You can feel for people or natural phenomena and react to them, but they are not ideas. You cannot think about them.

  

  Rex Stout
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Feels

• In the cloud, customers don't want a six-month contract negotiation; that concept is absurd when you can implement a cloud-based suite from beginning to end in a month or a few months.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Beginning
  • End
  • Cloud

• I think high self-esteem is overrated. A little low self-esteem is actually quite good. Maybe you're not the best, so you should work a little harder.

  

  Jay Leno
  • Good
  • Work
  • High

• Society has changed so dramatically that it's empowered the individual, and technology has a lot to do with that. Years ago, if you had a bad experience at a restaurant, you could complain to the manager. Maybe you could picket. Now, you go online and write a review that may go viral.

  

  Brad Katsuyama
  • May
  • Experience
  • Bad

• I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.

  

  Mary Wortley Montagu

• This is the point in the show where we say, 'Oh, what else do we have in the van that's flammable?'

  

  Adam Savage