Top 100 A Hammer Quotes
#1. The song 'If I Had a Hammer' is geared toward people who don't have a hammer. Maybe before I had a hammer I thought I'd hammer in the morning and hammer in the evening. But once you get a hammer, you find you don't really hammer as much as you thought you would.
Ellen DeGeneres
#2. I never grew up reading or fantasizing about fairy tales. I was always too busy, like, outside being a kid.
Armie Hammer
#3. Art is not a mirror held up to society but a hammer with which to shape it.
Bertolt Brecht
#4. Fear is a hammer, and when the people are beaten finally to the conviction that their existence hangs by a frayed thread, they will be led where they need to go.
Dean Koontz
#5. A rose looks grey at midnight, but the flame is just asleep. And steel is strong because it knows the hammer and white heat.
Johnny Cash
#6. It's not that he lacked poetry. But his poetry was of the body, not the mind. He spoke it in the way he moved, the way he held a hammer, rowed a boat, built a fire. I, on the other hand, was like a brain in a box, a beating heart in a coal scuttle.
Meg Rosoff
#7. If a man has a weak arm, give him a heavy hammer to exceed himself!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#9. I held a nail in place and slammed it with the hammer. Best. Chore. Ever.
Cate Tiernan
#10. He that is good with a hammer tends to think everything is a nail.
Abraham Maslow
#11. I'm very lucky that my husband is a true partner in child-rearing. If I get home late, he gets home early or vice-versa. I travel more, and he's able to spell me when I'm gone.
Bonnie Hammer
#12. Like a butcher without a knife, a knight without a sword, and a farrier without a hammer, you cannot have a town without rules; if there were a town like that, a great big anarchy would reign there, just as in the realm of animals!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#13. I hurled my fear and my loneliness, my love and my respect, my rage and my pain. I made of my thoughts a hammer, infused with the fires of creation and tempered in the icy power of the darkest guardian the earth had ever known.
Jim Butcher
#14. If I hammer my own thumb while doing some DIY, it's not nice, but it's not the end of the world. To care obsessively about similar levels of discomfort in animals seems to be a case of mistaken moral priorities.
Julian Baggini
#16. Every hammer has the innate capacity to strike a nail. Every human mind has the innate capacity for greatness. But not every hammer is properly used, nor is every human mind.
Brian Herbert
#17. All our heroism stems from our womenfolk. A man without a woman is like a pistol without a hammer;;the woman sparks the charge
Victor Hugo
#18. He raised the hammer and slammed it down on Skrymir's forehead. Skrymir opened one eye sleepily. "I think a leaf just fell on my head and woke me up," he said.
Neil Gaiman
#19. Congratulations. So far, you've both scored a hundred percent on the quiz."
"Quiz?" Liam blinked, then looked at Hammer, his eyes wide. "Shit, we didn't study, mate."
"If Seth is giving the quiz, we're good. He can't be smarter than us," Hammer said in a stage whisper.
Shayla Black
#20. Quote #2
I had let my tools drop from my hands. Of what moment now was my hammer, my bolt, or thirst, or death? On one star, one planet, my planet, the Earth, there was a little prince to be comforted.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#21. O, what I owe to the file, the hammer, and the furnace of the Lord Jesus! I know that he is no idle husbandman - he purposes a crop.
Samuel Rutherford
#22. 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
#23. A worker may be the hammer's master, but the hammer still prevails. A tool knows exactly how it is meant to be handled, while the user of the tool can only have an approximate idea.
Milan Kundera
#24. ... it is to your credit that you recognize that if he was a monster then it was other monstrous things which made him so. The iron forged on the anvil cannot be blamed for the hammer...
Terry Pratchett
#25. Technology is usually fairly neutral. It's like a hammer, which can be used to build a house or to destroy someone's home. The hammer doesn't care. It is almost always up to us to determine whether the technology is good or bad.
Noam Chomsky
#26. Lloyd cut his eyes at Dior's dad and made a mental note to kill him good and slow, like maybe beat his ass with a hammer, cut his shriveled up balls off. Both
Leo Sullivan
#27. My wife comes from a foodie family so I've been indoctrinated into that. I had sweetbreads the other night, and I have to say, not my favorite thing in the world You're eating a gland.
Armie Hammer
#28. I think Brian Moore's gnashers are the kind you get from a DIY shop and hammer in yourself. He is the only player we have who looks like a French forward.
Paul Randall
#29. What a doctor I've got - he's really mixed up. Last week, he grabbed my knee and told me to cough. Then he hit me in the balls with a hammer.
Rodney Dangerfield
#30. I have a stunt double; his name is Glen Levy, and he has the hardest punch in the world. Seriously, it's actually been recorded by 'National Geographic.' He calls it the Hammer Fist.
Craig Horner
#32. An auctioneer is a man who proclaims with a hammer that he has picked a pocket with his tongue.
Ambrose Bierce
#33. I'm fascinated by the narrative of geology, and I'm a veritable pack rat of a collector on the road. I keep a rock hammer in my car.
Marianne Wiggins
#34. Aunt Maria would mildly observe that, next time Uncle Podger was going to hammer a nail into the wall, she hoped he'd let her know in time, so that she could make arrangements to go and spend a week with her mother while it was being done.
Jerome K. Jerome
#35. Beethoven always sounds to me like the upsetting of a bag of nails, with here and there an also dropped hammer.
John Ruskin
#36. For nearly twenty minutes, neither of the men spoke. A fly buzzed noisily about the room, and the ticking of the clock was like the beat of a hammer.
Oscar Wilde
#37. 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
#38. When I arrive in Los Angeles in the entertainment community, and I use implements like a shovel and a hammer, our society has distanced itself so far from working with its hands that those incredibly pedestrian skills are perceived as somehow being extraordinary.
Nick Offerman
#39. Really?" Mister Sun said. "You killed a man with the same knife you use to make brunch, and you're suddenly squeamish about a hammer.
Warren Ellis
#40. I rub my tender chest. Mandy did my back hair, too, and I don't know which side of me hurts worse. There is man-pain like a hammer striking your finger and then there is Epilady pain.
Stephanie Rowe
#41. Why did you even bring a whip?"
"Because Tristan wouldn't let me bring the Thor hammer. Besides, you never know when you'll need a whip. What if we need to climb something really tall or swing across a deep chasm?
Chelsea Fine
#42. Knitting is something you can do, even when your heart is going like a trip-hammer and the pit of your stomach feels all gone and your thoughts are catawampus. Then when I see the headlines, be they good or be they bad, I calm down and am able to go about my business again.
L.M. Montgomery
#43. And we will NOT let Campbell's Soup, Old Navy, or anybody ELSE, HAMMER into the minds of girls as YOUNG as SIX YEARS OLD that they should ALWAYS hate their bodies and ALWAYS be on a diet!
Jello Biafra
#44. When a person encounters his own statue and takes a hammer to it, performance art adds depth to greatness.
Bauvard
#45. In most quarrels there is a fault on both sides. A quarrel may be compared to a spark, which cannot be produced without a flint, as well as steel. Either of them may hammer on wood forever; no fire will follow.
Charles Caleb Colton
#46. I can't think of anything better to do with a life than to wear it out in efforts to be useful to the world.
Armand Hammer
#47. Reign of blows cascading down upon your shoulders Far too many men dressed up as soldiers The lamb is brought to the ground Under the weight of the Crown A crown of thorns and dark deeds The swastika and the hammer and sickle Are symbols that reap only weeds
Andy Partridge
#48. As a fluke, my great-grandfather hit one of the largest oil reserves in California.
Armie Hammer
#49. My batting average has been good, so people ask how much luck is involved. I tell them when I work 14 hours a day, 7 days a week, I get lucky.
Armand Hammer
#50. If my only tool is a hammer, then every problem is a nail.
Sholem Asch
#51. If at first you don't succeed, get a bigger hammer.
Alan Lewis
#52. I'm a sort of nuts-and-bolts guy. I'm into turning wrenches and swinging a hammer and wrenching on cars.
Adam Carolla
#53. We can beat our swords into plowshares, and we can beat our plowshares into swords, but as far as computers go, a hammer can only change the shape of the junk, not it's function.
Jury Nel
#55. Truly stupid wizards have the life expectancy of a glass hammer.
Terry Pratchett
#56. behind the wall." The next day, Hem and Haw returned with tools. Hem held the chisel, while Haw banged on the hammer until they made a hole in the wall of Cheese Station C. They peered inside but found no Cheese. They were disappointed but believed they could solve the problem. So they started
Spencer Johnson
#57. Hit her with a hammer
teeth smashed in
red tongues twitching
look inside a skeleton
P.J. Harvey
#58. 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
#59. And therefore a giant hammer of pure stupidity lashed out of the screen and felled me again. I lay mewling, clutching my head with my sweaty hands, whimpering for my Mommy to make it stop. MAKE IT STOP!
But it did not stop. It. Did. Not. Stop.
The Desolation of Tolkien
John C. Wright
#60. Before my first novel, I was dating a woman who later went to prison for bashing a guy with a hammer.
Gary Shteyngart
#61. People outdoors here just scuttle in vectors from air conditioning to air conditioning. The sun is a hammer. I can feel one side of my face start to cook. The blue sky is glossy and fat with heat, a few thin cirri sheared to blown strands like hair at the rims.
David Foster Wallace
#62. Smoking is similar to hitting yourself over the head with
a hammer because, when you stop, you feel better
Allan Pease
#63. I will punish the hammer and turn him into a mallet.
Tito Ortiz
#65. If you give a man a hammer, he thinks he can solve all problems by pounding. Well, God gave men penises ...
Jacob M. Appel
#66. A hammer shatters glass but it also forges steel.
Confucius
#67. When all you know is how to use a hammer, you think hitting should solve every problem.
Nana Awere Damoah
#68. I was always Armie. There couldn't be a 90-year-old Armand and a 9-day-old one. And I heard enough jokes about baking soda.
Armie Hammer
#69. Mentally, many of the residents are still, as they say, sharp like a tack, but some are now more like the other end of the tack, having been hit with the hammer of life much too often. You know, missing a few candles from their menorah.
Mark Reutlinger
#70. If you have a hammer, use it everywhere you can, but I do not claim that everything is fractal.
Benoit Mandelbrot
#71. When you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail; when you are a baby, everything looks like something to suck.
Nicholas Day
#72. God-given prayer and praise have as their essence a waiting on God, a willingness to be wrought upon by the hammer and the fire of the Almighty, until the chains of self-centered desires fall away from the personality, and the love of Christ become the deepest hunger of the inner life.
C. John Miller
#73. 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
#74. Writing is the hammer & chisel that breaks down the established way of thinking. A concrete event, then an abstraction. An image, then a thought. Finally, writing builds another establishment with the fragments.
Diane Glancy
#75. My first memory of the public library is of lugging home a volume of Norse myths as heavy as a thunder-god's hammer.
Dave Morris
#76. There's something very romantic about self-destruction and sabotaging your life, and taking a hammer to it.
Gerard Way
#77. When you are an Anvill, hold you still; when you are a hammer, strike your fill.
George Herbert
#78. You need a bad operation.
Gimme the scissors, hammer, flame.
Kool Keith
#79. I am first and foremost a catalist; I put people and situations together.
Armand Hammer
#80. Just because we have the best hammer does not mean that every problem is a nail.
Barack Obama
#81. If need be, the round man can prove a most blunt barrier.
Just ask the man with the hammer.
Steven Erikson
#82. Whatever betterment we have today was carved out of a world of stone by men of the hammer, not men of hope.
Dagobert D. Runes
#83. 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
#84. Reengineering posits a radical new principle: that the design of work must be based not on hierarchical management and the specialization of labor but on end-to-end processes and the creation of value for the customer.
Michael Martin Hammer
#85. What was beauty unless you intended to use it, like a hammer, or a key? It was just something for other people to use and admire, or envy, despise. To nail their dreams onto like a picture hanger on a blank wall. And so many girls saying, use me, dream me.
Janet Fitch
#86. There were two auditions for 'The Social Network,' one with Aaron Sorkin and one with David Fincher. I was a nervous wreck. I was like, 'Okay, how do I hold the paper without my hands making it shake?'
Armie Hammer
#87. 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
#88. Silence fell like a hammer made of feathers. It left holes in the shape of the sound of the sea.
Terry Pratchett
#89. 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
#90. When the only tool you own is a hammer ... " "Every problem begins to resemble a nail.
Kresley Cole
#91. A quiet life," Stheno replied. "You wouldn't think it was a lot to ask."
The Hammer
K.J. Parker
#93. I used a sophisticated method to remove sections of plastic (hammer), then carefully removed the solid foam insulation (hammer again).
Andy Weir
#94. Peace ... Henrietta was not quite sure what it was but she knew it was very important. If one wanted it, Grandfather had told her once, one must not hit back when fate hit hard but must allow the hammer-strokes to batter out a hollow place inside one into which peace, like cool water, could flow.
Elizabeth Goudge
#95. It's something that I think I'm going to have to fight against for most of my career, for people to take me seriously as an actor as opposed to a good-looking guy. It's not what I want to be known as.
Armie Hammer
#96. Hammer down product fundamentals first. Make sure you've got something that works before doubling down on promotion and marketing. Create a groundswell of organic support, and only then leverage PR and advertising to spread the word.
Ryan Holmes
#97. I did a production of Macbeth in the 1960s in which I had a swordfight in the final scene. But the blade fell off my sword just as I was stabbing the guy. I ended up having to hammer him to death.
Alan Dale
#98. There's a dream in the
space between the hammer and the nail: the dream of
about-to-be-hit, which is a bad dream, but the nail will
take the hit if it gets to sleep inside the wood forever.
Richard Siken
#99. If you nail a tool shed closed, how do you put the hammer away?
George Carlin
#100. When you make a drama, you spend all day beating a guy to death with a hammer, or what have you. Or, you have to take a bite out of somebody's face. On the other hand, with a comedy, you yell at Billy Crystal for an hour, and you go home.
Robert De Niro
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