Jamie Hyneman Quotes

Friction is necessary for motion, labor necessary for birth.

I no longer run barefoot.

Every player has the option to have metal spikes or other spikes or whatever they feel most comfortable in.

It's not magic! It's physics. The speed of the turn is what keeps you upright. It's like a spinning top.

The great weight of the ship may indeed prevent her from acquiring her greatest velocity; but when she has attained it, she will advance by her own intrinsic motion, without gaining any new degree of velocity, or lessening what she has acquired.

You got to have a lot of mass to be able to produce a lot of ground reaction force, to function off of the ground, to press off of the ground.

I don't like drama, period.

I tend to wear the moulds in training, but I'll always wear studs in games, as I feel like I get more grip.

We join spokes together in a wheel, but it is the center hole that makes the wagon move.

Our job is to keep what is working intact and not destroy what we have got.

I'm pretty much the same person I was 20 years ago. My politics haven't changed. I have the same feeling of idealism. But I am a little bit wiser and more experienced.

We've been at peace about as long as e were at war.

The United States of America is the leading power in the world. Our friends and our adversaries respect us in large measure because they know that we are steady. We are fact-based. We are serious.

Getting too much money too soon can be really bad. There's a balance to be kept - the right balance between new experience and a certain stability in one's life. I'm conscious of all these things in a way that, earlier on, I was only conscious of circumstantial stuff, like, money.

The Absolute does not change, or re-evolve.

We all flee in hope of finding some ground of security

A time of historic change is no time for recklessness.

When your through changing, your through!

Peace needs and takes time, it needs and takes caution, it needs and takes patience after 30 years of terrorism and violence.

Happiness is equilibrium. Shift your weight.

tis true that tho' People can transcend their Characters in Times of Tranquillity, they can ne'er do so in Times of Tumult.

For those who can, one of the things to do is not to move. To stay put. That doesn't mean don't travel; it means have a place and get involved in what can be done in that place. That's the only way we're going to have a representative democracy in America. Nobody stays anywhere long enough to take responsibility for a local community.

Repetition makes us feel secure and variation makes us feel free.

I don't know what my life needs but I know I need some balance.

Climb onto my shoulders. I will not let you fall.