Hammers famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I believe that inside every tool is a hammer.
-- Adam Savage -
If at first you don't succeed, get a bigger hammer.
-- Alan Lewis -
If you would win the world, melt it, do not hammer it.
-- Alexander MacLaren -
The first time I saw nitroglycerine was in the beginning of the Crimean War. Professor Zinin in St. Petersburg exhibited some to my father and me, and struck some on an anvil to show that only the part touched by the hammer exploded without spreading.
-- Alfred Nobel -
Smoking is similar to hitting yourself over the head with a hammer because, when you stop, you feel better
-- Allan Pease -
Fabio Capello needs to nail his hammers to the mast.
-- Andy Townsend -
Every time I get mad, I grab my hammer and make a bookshelf or something.
-- Anthony Mackie -
The implied threat of using nuclear weapons to curb guerrillas was as absurd as to talk of using a sledge hammer to ward off a swarm of mosquitoes.
-- B. H. Liddell Hart -
When my nephew was 3 and 4, he would say the most genius things. He said, You're hammer macho with FBI dogs. I thought it was just one of those great lines.
-- Beck -
There is a joke that your hammer will always find nails to hit. I find that perfectly acceptable
-- Benoit Mandelbrot -
If you have a hammer, use it everywhere you can, but I do not claim that everything is fractal.
-- Benoit Mandelbrot -
If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
-- Bernard Baruch -
Back of the beating hammer By which the steel is wrought, Back of the workshop's clamor The seeker may find the thought.
-- Berton Braley -
Treat your past as a book that you learn from instead of a hammer that you beat yourself up about.
-- Bill Whittle -
The Soviet Union could not exist without the image of the empire. The image of the empire could not exist without the image of force. The USSR ended the moment the first hammer pounded the Berlin Wall.
-- Boris Yeltsin -
You should never do two things. You should hammer one nail all your life, and I didn't do that; I hammered on a lot of nails like a xylophone.
-- Brion Gysin -
Lay me on an anvil, O God. Beat me and hammer me into a steel spike.
-- Carl Sandburg -
I held a nail in place and slammed it with the hammer. Best. Chore. Ever.
-- Cate Tiernan -
Its very pulse, if I may use the word, was like no other clock. It did not mark the flight of every moment with a gentle second stroke, as though it would check old Time, and have him stay his pace in pity, but measured it with one sledge-hammer beat, as if its business were to crush the seconds as they came trooping on, and remorselessly to clear a path before the Day of Judgment.
-- Charles Dickens -
We're going to hammer guns on the anvil of relentless legislative strategy! We're going to beat guns into submission!
-- Charles Schumer -
I feel like I'm ready for any dangerous situation that might come my way, provided I have a hammer on me.
-- Chris Hemsworth -
Leonardo's Mona Lisa is just a thousand thousand smears of paint. Michelangelo's David is just a million hits with a hammer. We're all of us a million bits put together the right way.
-- Chuck Palahniuk -
Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil.
-- Claude Adrien Helvetius -
If my wheel comes off and I hit the fence real hard, I get to whack every damn one of you with a hammer.
-- Dale Earnhardt, Jr. -
When all you've got is a hammer, bad service looks like a nail.
-- David "Doc" Searls -
If the only tool you have is a hammer, it's hard to eat spaghetti.
-- David Allen -
Sometimes the sins you haven't committed are all you have to hold on to. If you're really desperate, you might need to grope, saying, for example, "I've never killed anyone with a hammer" or "I've never stolen from anyone who didn't deserve it.
-- David Sedaris -
There are some people as obtuse in recognizing an argument as they are in appreciating wit. You couldn't drive it into their heads with a hammer.
-- Douglas William Jerrold -
For all your days be prepared, and meet them ever alike. When you are the anvil, bear - when you are the hammer, strike.
-- Edwin Markham -
It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.
-- Emily Dickinson -
You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright -
Remember that there's no one way of doing things. ... If you just get a hammer and hit it really hard, whatever it is, I guarantee you it'll open.
-- Fred Armisen -
If I had time and a hammer, I'd track down every bootleg copy and smash it.
-- George Lucas -
In real life it is always the anvil that breaks the hammer...
-- George Orwell -
There's something very romantic about self-destruction and sabotaging your life, and taking a hammer to it.
-- Gerard Way -
The hammers must be swung in cadence, when more than one is hammering the iron.
-- Giordano Bruno -
Kneecaps only exist to get hit with claw-hammers; grace only exists to be fallen from.
-- Glen Duncan -
At that time, a friend shall lose his friend's hammer, and the young shall not know where lieth the things possessed by their fathers that their fathers put there only just the night before ...
-- Graham Chapman -
Our spoken word first hammers a thing desired into shape. Our continued spoken word brings this shaped substance forth and clothes it with a visible body.
-- H. Emilie Cady -
Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.
-- Henry David Thoreau -
I heard through the nightThe rush and the clamour;The pulse of the fightLike blows of Thor's hammer;The pattering flightOf the leaves, and the anguishedMoan of the forest vanquished.
-- Henry Van Dyke -
I'll never sell 14 million like Hammer, I just wanna do a good Ice-T show.
-- Ice T -
Horror would not annoy a soldier any more than the sight of a hammer annoys a carpenter. It is sentimental to pretend that horror is not the tool of the soldier, just as the hammer is the tool of the carpenter. We live off death and the threat of death and we must take it calmly and use it well.... Eventually I came to enjoy killing, as a pianist enjoys the Czerny which keeps his fingers limber for the Beethoven.
-- Irwin Shaw -
Hammer and tongs! I am so torn between rage and joy, that if I do not burst, it will be a marvel!
-- J. R. R. Tolkien -
Time passed by. I had furnished steam hammers to the principal foundries in England. I had sent them abroad, even to Russia. At length it became known to the Lords of the Admiralty that a new power in forging had been introduced.
-- James Nasmyth -
I think if we can accept Thor as a frog and a horse-faced alien, we should be able to accept a woman being able to pick up that hammer and wield it for a while.
-- Jason Aaron -
Propaganda is a weapon that the Confederacy wields best, and wields heaviest. It is their hammer. And when all you have is a hammer, then everything looks like a nail.
-- Jeff Grubb -
And that's when I snapped up my left hand and smashed him in the face with the hammer I'd grabbed.
-- Jennifer Estep -
Getting to play with Thor's hammer while he stroked my bow
-- Jeremy Renner -
Geoff Hurst had a hammer in his left boot and good left feet are like bricks of gold.
-- Jimmy Greaves -
When you find your opponent's weak spot, hammer it.
-- John Heisman -
You can't drive a Spike with a Tack Hammer
-- John Philip Sousa -
Like other beautiful things in this world, its end (that of a shaft) is to be beautiful; and, in proportion to its beauty, it receives permission to be otherwise useless. We do not blame emeralds and rubies because we cannot make them into heads of hammers.
-- John Ruskin -
If only the Geologists would let me alone, I could do very well, but those dreadful Hammers! I hear the clink of them at the end of every cadence of the Bible verses.
-- John Ruskin -
Admire the diamond that can bear the hits of a hammer. Many deceptive preachers, when critically examined, turn out to be false.
-- Kabir -
The word that came to me now was "defiant." Because a person had to be defiant to be able to stand amid the wreckage of her life and instead of shaking a fist, pick up a hammer.
-- Karen White -
The busybodies have begun to infect American society with a nasty intolerance - a zeal to police the private lives of others and hammer them into standard forms - A Nation of Finger Pointers.
-- Lance Morrow -
She heard pa shouting,"Jiminy crickets!It's raining fish-hooks and hammer handles!
-- Laura Ingalls Wilder -
If the only tool you have is a hammer, all your problems begin to look like nails. - Abraham Maslow
-- Laurell K. Hamilton -
Sometimes, when we train, we simply have to go out to meet the Man with the Hammer
-- Laurent Fignon -
This camp is a forge for the army; it's testing our mettle. Instead of heat and hammer, our trials are cold and hunger. Question is, what are we made of?
-- Laurie Halse Anderson -
The country blacksmith who employs no journeyman is never conscious of any conflict between the capital invested in his anvil, hammer and bellows, and the labor he performs with them, because in fact, there is none.
-- Leland Stanford -
I hammer on a theme until I'm tired of it and the audience is tired of it.
-- Lewis Black -
When I read the script sometimes, it's like 'Christ! Enough!' I can't sleep at night sometimes. There's the occasional script that just hammers you, that you can't shower off.
-- Mariska Hargitay -
I was going to be a writer. One person believed I could do it: my mom. Having her faith in me was like carrying around the Hammer of Thor.
-- Michael Easton -
I'm in my usual state up here in the commentary box: high tension, heart beating like a trip hammer, whatever that is.
-- Murray Walker -
Oh, a passing, skeptical kind of interest. I'm a hammer-and-nails kind of guy.
-- Nick Cave -
Victor: What does it feel like to be in love? Creature: It feels like everything is boiling over and spilling out of me; it feels like my lungs are on fire, and my heart is a hammer, and I feel like I can do anything...I feel like I can do anything in the world...
-- Nick Dear -
What was your secret?" That brought another smile. "Learn to laugh, otherwise, you'll beat them to death with a hammer first chance
-- Nora Roberts -
I do think a carpenter needs a good hammer to bang in the nail.
-- Oliver Reed -
Don't accept the limitations of other people who claim things are 'unchangeable'. If it's written in stone, bring your hammer and chisel.
-- Peter McWilliams -
Nico was gothic, but she was Mary Shelley gothic to everyone else's Hammer horror film gothic. They both did Frankenstein, but Nico's was real.
-- Peter Murphy -
Sure. Knock yourself out. No, really. Hammer to the head, works every time.†Claire
-- Rachel Caine -
We could be putting the hammer in Luton's coffin
-- Ray Wilkins -
No hammers fell, no ponderous axes rung,Like some tall palm the mystic fabric sprung.Majestic silence.
-- Reginald Heber -
It often takes two to do a good painting - one to paint it, and another to rap the painter smartly with a hammer before he or she can ruin it.
-- Richard Schmid -
The good nail will do its job regardless what kind of hammer comes its way and what kind of surface it sits on.
-- Rita Zahara -
When you have a hammer, all problems start to look like nails.
-- Robert Kagan -
When you have a hammer, all problems start to look like nails. But nations without great military power face the opposite danger: When you don't have a hammer, you don't want anything to look like nails.
-- Robert Kagan -
But till we are built like angels, with hammer and chisel and pen, we will work for ourself and a woman, forever and ever, Amen.
-- Rudyard Kipling -
And you will believe in love And all that it's supposed to be But just until the fish start to smell And you're struck down by a hammer.
-- Rufus Wainwright -
Cap and trade is a sledge hammer to freedom.
-- Rush Limbaugh -
A man who governs his passions is master of his world. We must either command them or be enslaved by them. It is better to be a hammer than an anvil.
-- Saint Dominic -
Praise God for the hammer, the file, and the furnace. The hammer molds us, the file sharpens us, and the fire tempers us.
-- Samuel Rutherford -
I have been dubbed 'the girl who puts the glamour into hammer'
-- Sophie Hitchon -
Whosoever holds this hammer, if he be worthy, shall possess the power of Thor.
-- Stan Lee -
There were not so many physical threats that could not be countered with a decent hammer.
-- Steig Larsson -
A furious Peeta hammers Haymitch with the atrocity he could become party to, but I can feel Haymitch watching me. This is the moment, then. When we find out exactly just how alike we are, and how much he truly understands me. "I'm with the Mockingjay," he says.
-- Suzanne Collins -
Those who hammer their guns into plows, will plow for those who do not.
-- Thomas Jefferson -
A woman with organizing skills can run a construction company without ever picking up a hammer and nail.
-- Warren Farrell -
My great-grandfather Melvin had been a carpenter - so was my father - and they taught me the value of tools: saws, hammers, chisels, files and rulers. It all dealt with conciseness and precision. It eliminated guesswork. One has to know his tools, so he doesn't work against himself.
-- Yusef Komunyakaa -
Don't expect to make a living on it. Be able to hammer a nail or do retail, doing your music on the side!
-- Jake Holmes -
I think it's part of everybody's childhood, there are some wonderful Hammer movies and there are some dreadful ones.
-- Jane Goldman
