Daily Inspiration Quote by Adam Savage

Savage’s line lands like a punchline because it’s basically OSHA distilled into a meme: practical, slightly paranoid, and funny enough that you’ll actually remember it when you’re about to do something dumb. “Keep your lips away” is deliberately intimate and absurd. It yanks shop safety out of the abstract realm of goggles and warnings and plants it in the body, where consequences feel immediate. Lips aren’t just another body part; they’re tied to identity, speech, vanity, flirtation. Threaten them and you’ve got attention.

The subtext is classic Adam Savage: the maker ethos is thrilling, but it’s not cosplay. Tools don’t care about your confidence, your creativity, or your YouTube comments. “Spinning things” is comically vague, which is the point. It covers lathes, drill presses, angle grinders, Dremels, even improvised contraptions - the whole seductive category of machines that look controllable right up until they aren’t. The vagueness also makes it portable, a rule-of-thumb you can carry into any workshop without sounding like a scold.

Context matters: Savage built a career translating dangerous, complex processes into approachable entertainment on MythBusters and beyond. The show’s real magic wasn’t explosions; it was modeling risk literacy as part of curiosity. This advice is the grown-up version of “don’t run with scissors,” delivered in the cadence of someone who’s seen enough close calls to respect the roulette wheel. It’s humor as a safety feature: a joke that keeps you intact.