"If I make the lashes darkAnd the eyes more brightAnd the lips more scarlet,Or ask if all be rightFrom mirror after mirror,No vanity's displayed:I'm looking for the face I hadBefore the world was made."

"We're allowed to explore the world at large on these things; the urban-legend aspect of it is just kind of an excuse."

"If I haven't had any long term psychological side effects from all the things I've already done on this show, this isn't gonna hurt much more."

"Prayer doesn't work because someone out there is listening, it works because someone in here is listening. I've paid attention. I've pictured what I want to happen in my life. I've meditated extensively on my family, my future, my past actions and what did and didn't work for me about them."

"There are women who are wishing that they were that piece of tape right now."

"The idea of an ordered and elegant universe is a lovely one. One worth clinging to. But you don't need religion to appreciate the ordered existence. It's not just an idea, it's reality. We're discovering the hidden orders of the universe every day."

"I felt like I had kind of played it out, and I wanted to see what was next, and then came Mythbusters. You know, it's the best job I've ever had, on its worst day it's better than anything else, but it's a huge amount of responsibility, and there are days when just going into work and building something from someone else's drawing sounds like going back to heaven."

"The skeptical community is absolutely near and dear to the 'Mythbusters' heart and there's no small reason that they've embraced us. That's our people. That's the way we like to think."

"Growing up in New York, I was sort of shocked when I realized that my children are Californians. They are 14 years old, and I explain to them frequently that they will never realize the glory of a snow day. You wake up and the world says, 'Oops, it's too much fun to go to school, you've got to stay home and deal with the snow!'"

"I think the whole thing that Jamie [Hyneman] and I have in working together is that we are constantly simplifying each other's designs, and we both appreciate that the quickest and the dirtiest solution is usually the most elegant, the least expensive, and the fastest."

"We cleared all traces of our occupation out of M6 and moved to M7, and it's been quite smooth over there. We chose a place all the way at the end of an industrial park."

"You think it horrible that lust and rageShould dance attendance upon my old age;They were not such a plague when I was young;What else have I to spur me into song?"

"Life moves out of a red flare of dreams into a common light of common hours, until old age bring the red flare again."

"I am of a healthy long lived race, and our minds improve with age."

"Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation."

"Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends."

"In dreams begins responsibility."

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."

"Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself."

"One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end."

"People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind."

"I find it's too much for me to read endless critiques, even if we're being well-defended, of exactly what we're doing. When someone tells us something we're doing wrong on the boards, we try to respond, we try to be responsive to the fan boards, but yeah, I can't read them."

"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!"

"How hard can it be to blow up a room full of gasoline?!"

"After all those years of doing remote detonations, where we just push a button and something explodes, to actually see a nice big fat line of black smoke heading toward something that will blow up is very satisfying."

"Failure is always an option"

"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."

"Gravity. It's not just a good idea; it's the law!"

"Am I missing an eyebrow?"

"Audiences of critical thinkers are my favorite kinds of audiences. There are jokes I tell in the show that don't get laughs unless I am in front of an audience of critical thinkers. Put me in front of a crowd of science teachers or astronauts! The guileless aren't our audience - it's the critical thinkers we love."

"The explosions, like the urban legends, are a great way of bringing people in to watch, because it's really fun, and you know we're always going to give you a satisfying ending."

"Technology is usually there to let some process go on hidden in the background. For us on 'MythBusters,' we're always trying to make the process apparent. So, we have learned to try and never rely on a technological solution when an analogue one is in front of us."

"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."

"Of course, I love tools. I also love arranging them, to the point where I came up with a name for my organizing metric: first-order retrievability."

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

"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."

"I think LEGOs are one of the best toys ever developed."

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

"Firemen have the coolest toys ever!"

"Bigger is always better."

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

"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."

"Sticks and stones can only break bones; but words can shatter the soul"

"Bad spellers of the world untie!"

"My workplace is wherever I'm making something, which could be in a field in gold country, or in an abandoned warehouse on a military base."

"Jack of all trades, master of none, though often better than a master of one."

"There's a fire starting in my heart"

"I know you haven't made your mind up yet, But I will never do you wrong. I've known it from the moment that we met, No doubt in my mind where you belong."

"I don't make music for the eyes, I make music for the ears."

"When the evening shadows and the stars appear, And there is no one there to dry your tears, I could hold you for a million years To make you feel my love."