Adam Savage Quotes

I am now standing in a mixture of cooling fluid, gasoline, and cola.

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• I was a huge ham in school in Atlanta.

  

  Hannah Storm
  • School
  • Huge
  • Atlanta

• Above all, we must avoid the pitfalls of tribalism. If we are divided among ourselves on tribal lines, we open our doors to foreign intervention and its potentially harmful consequences.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • Doors
  • Lines
  • Consequences

• What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since the overwhelming majority of people in Ireland and Northern Ireland voted in favour of the agreement signed on Good Friday 1998, paving the way for Northern Ireland to become the exciting and inspirational place that it is today.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • People
  • Good
  • Future

• Men weren't always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Men
  • Happy
  • Woman

• Our need for that exterior god that sits up there and judges us... will diminish and eventually disappear.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Up
  • God
  • Will

• When I was 3 or 4, I seemed to be bursting with music. They played Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie, Frank Sinatra in the house, so I learned my vocabulary from song lyrics - I was literally singing before I was talking.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Music
  • House
  • Song

• The best way for me to procrastinate as a writer is research.

  

  Quiara Alegria Hudes
  • Me
  • Best
  • Research

• The Garden of Wonders project encompasses the knowledge that Be Open has accumulated over the years of work on different continents and different spheres.

  

  Yelena Baturina
  • Work
  • Different
  • Knowledge

• Usually my characters, though young, tend to be street-wise.

  

  Rachel Cohn
  • Wise
  • Young
  • Characters

• I am a Gemini and can adapt to most atmospheres. You get two for the price of one when you are a Gemini.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Adapt
  • Gemini
  • Atmospheres

• A duel is just two murderers who agree to take turns trying to kill each other.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Trying

• Damn everyone to Hell. And damn the bloody forest. And God, too, for that matter.He looked up fearfully from his chill handful of water, but his silent blasphemy went unpunished.

  

  Tad Williams
  • Up
  • God
  • Water

• Students coming from father-present families score higher in math and science even when they come from weaker schools.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Father
  • Science
  • Present

• Nostalgia is one of the legitimate and certainly one of the most enduring of human emotions; but the politics of nostalgia is at best distracting, at worst pernicious.

  

  Irving Kristol

• The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • Power
  • Nature

• People are always afraid of the unknown - and banding together against the Thing That Is Different From Us is a time-honoured tradition for rallying the masses.

  

  Jodi Picoult
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• To be a poet, it's a challenge to do it in poverty, to do it in wealth. To do it in the academy, to do it in a relationship where you're happy. Everything changes the game. To do it in the awkward state of love, despair, dying. You just have to work it.

  

  Eileen Myles
  • Work
  • Happy
  • Game

• One of the great changes wrought by the increased public awareness of Alzheimer's - and thank you, Nancy Reagan, you wonderful tough old dame, you - is that people in the early stages of the disease are now speaking out while they still have the capacity to do so.

  

  Charlie Pierce
  • People
  • Great

• Impossibility never prevented anything from happening.

  

  Errico Malatesta
  • Impossibility
  • Prevented

• As Chloe, I can honestly say I've never uttered a syllable of a curse word, not even behind closed doors.

  

  Chloe Grace Moretz

• I try to think of myself as a struggling competitor or specialist at my craft, much like a singer, dancer, comedian, or actor. So I'm struggling to do my craft and I'm continually trying to learn to do it better. I think that's what's really been my secret.

  

  Kai Greene
  • Thinking
  • Trying
  • Struggle

• I'm not doing my philanthropic work, out of any kind of guilt, or any need to create good public relations. I'm doing it because I can afford to do it, and I believe in it.

  

  George Soros
  • Believe
  • Afford
  • Philanthropic

• No celebrity bullshit,no self promotion,an amazingly gifted player who remained an unaffected human being

  

  Roy Keane
  • Player
  • Humans
  • Gifted

• I am now standing in a mixture of cooling fluid, gasoline, and cola.

  

  Adam Savage