Magliozzi Of Car Quotes

#1. The body consists of three parts: the brainium, the borax and the abominable cavity. The brainium contains the brain. The borax contains the heart and lungs and the abominable cavity contains the bowels of which there are five: a, e, i, o, u.

Tom Magliozzi

#2. Hello and welcome to this collection of calls put together specifically to embarrass the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Now you'll hear us tackle the very pillars of science: physics, chemistry, fluid dynamics and, of course, cream rinse.

Tom Magliozzi

#3. Some of our early work was two minutes twenty when it actually came out on vinyl, very, very, very short. Sometimes if you made a three-minute record they would make you do an edited version for radio, particularly in America.

Pete Townshend

#4. How do you keep a mattress on the roof of your car from flying?"
"Yeah, well, I don't know how many people know it, but a lot of people have learned that putting your arm up there to hold the mattress is not going to work.

Tom Magliozzi

#5. And therefore think him as a serpents egg, which, hatched, would as its kind grow mischievous, and kill him in the shell

William Shakespeare

#6. A successful trader is rational, analytical, able to control emotions, practical, and profit oriented.

Monroe Trout

#7. Man must be associated with his fellows.

James Larkin

#8. No, stones are something more - they are instruments of power.

Kajiwara Takeo

#9. It turns out that we're not the only ones who go out on a scientific limb as we discuss or attempt to discuss cars, car repairs and scientific education in America today.

Tom Magliozzi