Adam Savage quotes

I reject your reality and substitute my own.

• 11
• reality

I just had one of those "what the hell are we doing" moments.

• 10
• hell

Remember kids, I have life insurance.

• 4
• insurance

Am I about to feel really, really stupid?

• 4
• feel

The best-case scenario is that the glass shatters in my face! How do you think that makes me feel?

• 3
• face

That was cool and that sucked all at the same time.

• 3
• cool

Let's get on our knees and pray. I don't know to whom. Is there a patron saint of ballistics gel?

• 3
• gel

I have some ideas on how to fix that. They're not very good ideas, but at least they're ideas!

• 3
• fix

Bigger is always better.

• 3
• bigger

That was excellent! I mean, it didn't do anything, but it looked really cool!

• 3
• anything

Failure is always an option.

• 3
• failure

In the spirit of science, there really is no such thing as a "failed experiment." Any test that yields valid data is a valid test.

• 3
• data

I would have to say that looked like it hurt.

• 1
• hurt

My advice is keep your lips away from the spinning things.

• 1
• advice

Firemen have the coolest toys ever!

• coolest

That's the show. it's like 5 minutes of science and then 10 minutes of me hurting myself.

• hurting

My dignity and good television - they'll never meet.

• dignity

Jamie doesn't like to do anything hastily, and I like to do everything incredibly hastily. So therein you have the dichotomy of our patterns.

• anything

Jamie's gonna go take a break now, and i am going to continue the on-going process of making a fool of myself and go ahead and try it myself.

• ahead

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

• point

There is no dignity in television.

• dignity

Let's blow some stuff up.

• blow

Isn't television glamourous?

• glamourous

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

• cooling

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

• fridge

We're not leaving here without Buster, man. Leave no crash-test dummy behind!

• behind

I wouldn't say jamie is an evil genius. I'm not sure he's evil and I'm not sure he's a genius.

• evil

That aesthetic of the Star Wars universe: the do-it-yourself, hotrod ethic that George Lucas exported from his childhood, is exactly the same kind of soul behind what we do and build for the show. It may not look pretty, but it gets the job done.

• aesthetic

I'm not gonna shoot anyone with the pellet gun... Not unless I have to!

• anyone

The only thing that differentiates you and me from a couple of fourteen year old pyromaniacs is balistic glass!

• couple