Top 100 A Hammer Quotes
#1. Art is not a mirror held up to society but a hammer with which to shape it.
Bertolt Brecht
#2. There was a band in Australia named Midnight Oil, and they were a very, very political, and they literally hit you over the head with a hammer. U2 sometimes can hit you over the head with a rubber hammer.
Meat Loaf
#3. Too often our visions of the future
are dull and impotent
like a hammer beating the water.
Harley King
#4. Temperance is the wisdom to know that not every constructive job requires a hammer.
Wes Fesler
#5. Getting angry over something that won't change is like seeing what happens if you hit your hand with a hammer over and over again, and being surprised each time when it hurts. So you might as well stop doing it.
Mercedes Lackey
#6. I could well believe that it is God's intention, since we have refused milder remedies, to compel [Christians] into unity, by persecution even. Satan is without doubt nothing else than a hammer in the hand of a benevolent and severe God.
C.S. Lewis
#7. It was in this pub he'd learnt that, contrary to the belief of the majority of those laying bets, it is possible to flatten a hundred frogs with a hammer in less than thirty seconds. In short, it was a pub with a reputation. And very slimy walls.
Tony McGuin
#8. If I paint a hammer and sickle people may think it is a representation of Communism, but for me it is only a hammer and sickle. I just want to reproduce the objects for what they are, not for what they mean.
Pablo Picasso
#9. If I had time and a hammer, I'd track down every bootleg copy and smash it.
George Lucas
#10. It's a reality of art that the fewer lines you get, the harder it is. Cartooning is actually harder than realism. You have less to work with. It's like trying to build a house-if you have unlimited resources, you're in much better shape than if you get two bricks, a hammer, and a bent nail.
Ursula Vernon
#11. The crooks downtown figured out that comedy is like a hammer. It can put up a barn and it can knock down a wall. So they bought it outright and marketed it as Comedy Central.
Lenny Bruce
#12. I will never become a horse trainer, a biologist, a person competent with a hammer. My loves were my loves.
Jane Hirshfield
#13. Silvia told Jarvis how she had walked in on her baby daddy having sex with their young babysitter and she had beaten him in the back with a hammer, paralyzing him.
Aleta L. Williams
#14. There is a poignancy in all things clear, In the stare of the deer, in the ring of a hammer in the morning. Seeing a bucket of perfectly lucid water We fall to imagining prodigious honesties.
Richard Wilbur
#15. A big rock can handle a hammer blow, it just gets chipped a little, what it can't handle is erosion
Stefan Molyneux
#16. Jesus didn't just give hugs; He also gave a hammer. Paul didn't just pass on holy kisses; he also tirelessly dealt out swift and holy kicks to the rear end of the ancient church. The Bible has the manly stuff intact, and that is why it is such a great mystery how it got lost in the modern church.
Eric Ludy
#17. Like the twig furniture she made, thinking it was going to make us rich, only she's shit with a hammer and nails and the stuff ended up being deadly. You were practically begging for a colonoscopy if you sat on it.
Susan Juby
#18. All at once it hit him: this was power too, just as surely as smashing your fist into someone's face, just as surely as putting a hammer through someone's skull. The power to make another person crazy with pleasure instead of fear and pain, to have every cell in another person's body at your thrall.
Poppy Z. Brite
#19. 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.
#20. 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
#21. I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.
Abraham H. Maslow
#22. When the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.
Nelson DeMille
#23. A sign in the yard of a church next door said CHRIST IS THE ANSWER. (The question, of course, is: What do you say when you strike your thumb with a hammer?)
Bill Bryson
#24. When I was handed a hammer, my first project was building a three-story tree house.
Ty Pennington
#25. If you take a hammer and hit something over and over again, it's gonna be destroyed. I don't wanna destroy my body cause I want my body to last me as long as it possible can. If you train hard and push it everyday, your body is going to wear out. So I give my body time to recover.
Ronnie Coleman
#26. It's fine to be sexy, but you can be sexy without licking a hammer!
Katie Uhlaender
#27. A hammer made of deadlines is the surest tool for crushing writer's block.
Ryan Lilly
#28. Maybe it's naive to say, but it almost seems like, in the past, people tried to sell you something you would actually need, like a hammer or a broom or a toothbrush. But now there's this notion that they can sell you anything. And all they have to do is convince you that you need it.
Tracy Chapman
#29. You know what I think? I think everyone should be able, just once, to make an inanimate object come to life and be his pal. Like an orange. Or a hammer.
Dave Eggers
#31. Think of all the smart people made stupid by flaws of character. The finest watch isn't fine long when used as a hammer.
James Richardson
#32. Father Stalin, look at this Collective farming is just bliss The hut's in ruins, the barn's all sagged All the horses broken nags And on the hut a hammer and sickle And in the hut death and famine No cows left, no pigs at all Just your picture on the wall
Timothy Snyder
#34. The magical force that had sundered everything in the castle had occasionally made some very odd choices in its destruction - Sand found a hammer that had been broken only at the wooden handle and not any of the metal parts, and another hammer whose handle was whole while the metal was broken.
Merrie Haskell
#35. Just as to a man with a hammer, everything is a nail, so in the age of science and technology, everything is a scientific and technical matter to be solved by scientific and technical means.
Os Guinness
#37. America wielded her huge power in the world with a brash confidence that reminded him of a toddler who has got hold of a hammer.
Helen Simonson
#38. When the only tool you have in your toolbox is a hammer, every problem begins to look like a nail.
Abraham H. Maslow
#39. Each point feels like the blow from a hammer, smashing me down to size.
Victoria Aveyard
#40. If all you have is a hammer, everything seems to be a nail.
Robert Sedgewick
#41. Obedience is a knife that cuts the cord of bondage.
Silence is a hammer that shatters the walls of speech.
Stillness is strength; pain a soft bed.
Put down your basin; emptiness is the only vessel.
Brian Staveley
#42. This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
Will Rogers
#43. May God strike me down with a hammer on the head before I write a book with a teach-y goal!
Kate DiCamillo
#44. If I had a hammer, there'd be no more folksingers.
Billy Connolly
#45. If the only tool you have is a hammer, it's hard to eat spaghetti.
David Allen
#46. 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
#47. I can tell you now that if you break things off with Alana, I'm gonna want to high five you in the face with a hammer before we reach New York.
Eden Summers
#48. Her fire was roaring, her silhouette raising showers of orange sparks with a hammer made of shadow.
Naomi Novik
#49. I believe that inside every tool is a hammer.
Adam Savage
#50. I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.
John Ashbery
#51. To a hammer, every problem is a nail," we said on the team but we called him 'the screwdriver'. We were confronted with stubborn nails and we needed a sledgehammer.
Massimo Marino
#52. Armed with a hammer and sickle, singer and folklorist A. L. Lloyd hit the nail on the head and cut to the quick on page one of his monumental study of folk song: 'The mother of folklore is poverty.'3
Rob Young
#53. Attempting to write vocal oriented songs to me felt like going through the motions and if you are going to go through the motions you might as well just do any gig that caused you to do repetitive motions like banging a hammer or serving fries.
Ronnie Montrose
#54. Think of the tools in a tool-box: there is a hammer, pliers, a saw, a screwdriver, a rule, a glue-pot, nails and screws.
The function of words are as diverse as the functions of these objects.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#55. Grimly, she realized that clocks don't make a sound that even remotely resembles ticking, tocking. It was more the sound of a hammer, upside down, hacking methodically at the earth. It was the sound of a grave.
Markus Zusak
#56. It's Smith, actually.' Dr Smith smiled, bowing. 'I've remembered that my name is Smith. Almost definitely. Good old English name. Hopefully means 'noble valiant warriot' and not 'he who hits kittens with a hammer.' You'd be surprised the derivations of common surnames in the English countryside ...
James Goss
#57. When you have a hammer, all problems start to look like nails.
Robert Kagan
#58. Treat your past as a book that you learn from instead of a hammer that you beat yourself up about.
Bill Whittle
#59. The user of the electric light
or a hammer, or a language, or a book
is the content. As such, there is a total metamorphosis of the user by the interface. It is the metamorphosis that I consider the message.
Marshall McLuhan
#60. Just because you've got a mind like a hammer doesn't mean you have to treat everyone else like a nail
Terry Pratchett
#61. 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
#62. And men of science,' cries dixon, 'may be but the simple tools of others, with no more idea of what they are about, than a hammer knows of a house.
Thomas Pynchon
#63. He, too, had been glassed-in for a long time, by choice. Now and then he had lifted a hammer to shatter through to something, but he had never struck the blow because he didn't know what he wanted on the other side of the glass.
Dean Koontz
#64. In France every man is either an anvil or a hammer; he is a beater or must be beaten.
Voltaire
#65. Oh, a passing, skeptical kind of interest. I'm a hammer-and-nails kind of guy.
Nick Cave
#66. Each moment of zazen is equally wholeness of practice, equally wholeness of realization. This is not only practice while sitting, it is like a hammer striking emptiness: before and after, its exquisite peal permeates everywhere. How can it be limited to this moment?
Dogen
#67. I rather doubt he had the sense to see the truth: that there are wounds worse than fatal, which the law's little binary distinctions-guilty/innocent, criminal/victim-cannot fathom, let alone fix. The law is a hammer, not a scalpel.
William Landay
#68. Some people are so weak that whenever they see a hammer, they immediately turn into a nail!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#69. The hardest part about being in radiohead is being inside a giant head that is a radio. Ha ha, little english humour there, or is it a hammer?
Thom Yorke
#70. Use a screwdriver instead of a hammer. Try to untighten the nut with your hand. Utilize the path of least resistance first.
Tim Allen
#71. El clavo que sobresale siempre recibe un martillazo." The nail that sticks out always gets hit by a hammer. We
Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz
#72. To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.
Abraham H. Maslow
#73. Give a small boy a hammer and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding.
Abraham Kaplan
#74. I don't like gadgets for their own sake. I like gadgets that are tools. And I like simple gadgets that do one thing really well like a hammer.
Rob Corddry
#75. I'm superstitious. Before I start a movie, I always kill a hobo with a hammer.
Gwyneth Paltrow
#76. She wanted to feel him pound away her fears, a hammer to smash through all her guilt and pain and emptiness.
Lara Adrian
#77. If your only tool is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail.
Mark Twain
#78. Her heart, she had discovered in the last half year, was of durable stuff. You could test its mettle with a hammer.
Paul Russell
#79. Worst part of being a writer: having to tell my toddler that I can't play with her because I'm working. Keep in mind that working consists of me at home with a laptop on my lap sitting on the couch. It doesn't look like working. I don't have a hammer or anything.
Chelsea Cain
#80. Loneliness, mother said, is like a hammer blow that shatters glass but hardens steel.
Amos Oz
#81. Are we not all shaped by our experiences? Are we not the sum of our memories? The sages of the dwarves say that just as the thousand blows of a hammer shape a blade, so to do the thousand experiences of a man shape him.
Jonathan Moeller
#82. And there was nothing you could do about a woman like that. She just turned herself into a hammer and you ran right into her.
Terry Pratchett
#83. If your only tool is a hammer then every problem looks like a nail.
Abraham H. Maslow
#84. Is life a hammer to beat me down?
Sapphire.
#85. A woman with organizing skills can run a construction company without ever picking up a hammer and nail.
Warren Farrell
#87. My fingers darted, then danced, then flew. I played hard as a hailstorm, like a hammer beating brass. I played soft as sun on autumn wheat, gentle as a single stirring leaf.
Patrick Rothfuss
#88. Daryl Dixon: [about Merle] Toughest asshole I ever met, my brother. Feed him a hammer, he'd crap out nails.
The Walking Dead
#89. Admire the diamond that can bear the hits of a hammer. Many deceptive preachers, when critically examined, turn out to be false.
Kabir
#92. She had been swimming in a big pink aquarium, and she never thought that somebody would come along with a hammer and break it until she was gasping for her life and everything she had taken for granted, for permanent, was gone.
Marge Piercy
#93. I do understand why a desperate engineer still use a hammer
to solve a hard problem. I think, that made him more humane.
Toba Beta
#94. The poet drafts his work as a writer but edits it as a sculptor, with his pen as a chisel and his mind a hammer.
Agona Apell
#95. When I saw any of those kinds of beauty I knew I was alive, and not just in the sense that when I hit my thumb with a hammer I knew I was alive, but rather in the sense that I was partaking of something
something was passing through me that it was in my nature to be a part of.
Neal Stephenson
#96. It still beat with a trip and a hammer, for that is the way a heart must go. But, whereas before it had woven only dark things when it dwelled upon my cousin, now within the fabric of my heart there ran, for him and him alone, one single strand of pure, untarnishable gold.
Cameron Dokey
#97. We have emotions for a reason; for instance, imagine pain. You have pain so that if you touch something that's hot, or if you slam your hand with a hammer, you will pull your hand away and not do that again.
Leonard Mlodinow
#98. I borrowed a hammer and the garage and disposed of both phones. I was pretty sure that I could have just pulled the batteries, but pretty sure wasn't good enough, so I used a hammer.
Patricia Briggs
#99. 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
#100. There's something very romantic about self-destruction and sabotaging your life, and taking a hammer to it.
Gerard Way
