Tom Magliozzi Sayings

#1. It's the anonymity of the war that makes the killing possible. When the nameless dead are named again on tombstone and on cenotaph, then they regain the identity they lost as soldiers, and take their place in grief and memory, the ghosts of sons and lovers.

Diana Gabaldon

#2. 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

#3. I was always ambitious - not to make money: to be published.

Edmund White

#4. Do it while you're young. You may never have another chance to do anything this stupid again!

Tom Magliozzi

#5. In Leon's account of his life, no-one was mean-spirited, no-one schemed or lied or betrayed; everyone was celebrated at least in some degree ... Leon turned out to be a spineless, grinning idiot.

Ian McEwan

#6. If you're going to die on screen, you've got to be strong and in good health.

Greta Garbo

#7. Having gone through so many of the personal things I've gone through, its about creating an (online) space for girls to be heard. I don't profess to have all the answers. But Ask Elizabeth is a space where girls are not alone.

Elizabeth Berkley

#8. We are always creating new tools and techniques to help people, but the fundamental framework is remarkably resilient, which means it must have something to do with the nature of organizations or human nature.

John P. Kotter

#9. We all would like to think that there are clear boundaries that separate truth from lies and reality from fantasy. I used to think that but I don't anymore. I've found that those boundaries can be vague, obscure, and frequently changing.

Dana Caldarone

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. It has thrown off its disguise as a meal and has revealed itself to me for what it is, a large dead bird. I'm eating a wing. It's the wing of a tame turkey, the stupidest bird in the world, so stupid it can't even fly any more. I am eating lost flight.

Margaret Atwood

#13. At the beginning of every semester, I ask my graduate students whether there is something I should read that will help me understand their work.

Alice McDermott

#14. We grew up quickly, surrounded by guys eighteen and older, in their prime. They lived to surf, drink, raise hell and score heavily with women. I saw these guys going up and down the coast on surf trips, drinking and bagging girls, and all I could think of was 'What a neat life!'

Greg Noll

#15. Kids: get away from the cell phones, get away from the computers, and mail someone a fish before it's too late.

Tom Magliozzi

#16. 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

#17. with people dressed in swim

Emily March

#18. When we leave society and come into the presence of Nature, we become children again; and the fictions of thought and action assumed among men drop off like a garment.

Amelia Barr

#19. When people talk to me about tyranny, it makes me laugh and gives me the impression that people suffer from amnesia.

Jean-Claude Duvalier