Quote

Sometimes my brain writes a check that reality can't cash.

Adam Savage

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Adam Savage
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 15
Actor
Artist
Engineer
Film Actor
Film Producer
Industrial Designer
Sculptor
Teacher
Television Presenter
New York City
New York
Adam Whitney Savage
Writing
Writes
Check
Cash
Checks
Brain
Reality
Sometimes

More quotes by Adam Savage

Image
I had saved a few hundred photos of dodo skeletons into my 'Creative Projects' folder - it's a repository for my brain, everything that I could possibly be interested in. Any time I have an Internet connection, there's a sluice of stuff moving into there, everything from beautiful rings to cockpit photos.
Adam Savage
Image
We don't necessarily stand by our faults every time, but we will always stand by our methodologies and ethos.
Adam Savage
Image
It's a treat to see the sun rise over the desert. What am I saying? It's a treat to fire off a rocket car over the desert!
Adam Savage
Image
I've always thought something that makes you laugh, it makes you laugh because there's a little bit of truth to it.
Adam Savage
Image
Bad spellers of the world untie!
Adam Savage
Image
Deadlines refine the mind. They remove variables like exotic materials and processes that take too long. The closer the deadline, the more likely you'll start thinking waaay outside the box.
Adam Savage
Image
The best-case scenario is that the glass shatters in my face! How do you think that makes me feel?
Adam Savage
Image
I go home at the end of the day and I rarely talk about what I did that day. So my wife's experience is just like that of anybody else whose husband goes away to a blue collar job and comes home bruised and dirty and often proud of the work that they're doing.
Adam Savage
Image
The only thing that differentiates you and me from a couple of fourteen year old pyromaniacs is balistic glass!
Adam Savage
Image
Failure is always an option.
Adam Savage
Image
The coolest toys don't have to be bought they can be built. In fact, sometimes the only way they'll ever exist is if you make them yourself.
Adam Savage
Image
We didn't set out to be educators or even scientists, and we don't purport that what we do is real science but we're demonstrating a methodology by which one can engage and satisfy your curiosity.
Adam Savage
Image
I would have to say that looked like it hurt.
Adam Savage
Image
The 'Mythbusters' crew, we monitor the Discovery boards, we look for the new ideas that are being forwarded on those boards, and we keep track of what's going on, we keep updated.
Adam Savage
Image
New York State is giant and has some of the most beautiful landscape on the Eastern seaboard. There is so much history in New York State, from the Erie Canal to the Catskills, the birth of American stand-up comedy.
Adam Savage
Image
Remember kids, I have life insurance.
Adam Savage
Image
Fractals, the theory of relativity, the genome: these are magnificently beautiful constructs.
Adam Savage
Image
I am now standing in a mixture of cooling fluid, gasoline, and cola.
Adam Savage
Image
I like to work fast. I despise not having the right tool or, worse, knowing I have it but not being able to find it. It's a pointless delay that wrecks my pace - and mood.
Adam Savage
Image
When I finally got up to Industrial Light And Magic to work on the 'Star Wars' movies as a model-maker, it felt like dying and going to heaven.
Adam Savage