Top 100 Ax Quotes
#1. Hard to believe that so nearby, just across the Channel, such atrocities could still occur in their supposedly civilized world, that one could wake up one morning and find oneself bereft of brothers, parents, friends, all with the slice of an ax.
Lauren Willig
#2. Death row is a nightmare to serial killers and ax murderers. For an innocent man, it's a life of mental torture that the human spirit is not equipped to survive.
John Grisham
#3. Even if you don't like a concert of mine, please, please applaud at the end anyway.
Emanuel Ax
#4. It's great! I used it (Dr.Ducks Ax Wax) to restore the finish of my 370/12/RM and I love the way it turned out!..
Roger McGuinn
#5. The receptionist at Horne, Buckman and Pierce, a classic battle-ax who was comfortably past her prime, eyed Loren as if she'd recognized her from a sex offender poster. Full frown in place, the battle-ax told her to sit. Randal
Harlan Coben
#6. I'm on the road right now ... all is well ... Dr.Ducks Ax Wax is great, loved it ...
Cesar Rosas
#7. Sometimes history cleaves and for one helpless moment stands still like the pause when the ax splits a log and the two halves rest on end waiting to fall.
Barbara Kingsolver
#8. His father had taught him never to split wood with an ax. A maul did the job best,
Selena Kitt
#9. If I were ever to go mad it would be on Thanksgiving Day, that day of guilt and grace when the family hangs upon you like an ax over a sacrificial victim, like the oven's heat on that poor bird.
Francine Du Plessix Gray
#10. All of us love applause, and so we should - it means that the listener likes us!
Emanuel Ax
#11. When you chopped logs with the ax and they split open they smelled beautiful, like Christmas. But when you split someone's head open it smelled like abattoir and quite overpowered the scent of the wild lilacs you'd cut and brought into the house only this morning, which was already another life.
Kate Atkinson
#12. MR.GOUDY: I believe you testified that you backed away from Aaron Wharton.
MR.COGBURN: That is right.
MR.GOUDY: You were backing away?
MR.COGBURN: Yes sir. He had that ax raised.
MR.GOUDY: Which direction were you going?
MR.COGBURN: I always go backwards when I am backing up.
Charles Portis
#13. Primarily, I am a prose writer with axes to grind, and the theatre is a good place to do the grinding in. I prefer comedy to 'serious' drama because I believe one can get the ax sharper on the comedic stone.
Gore Vidal
#14. Terrible's eyes narrowed; he gave Chess the kind of look most people reserved for ax murderers. Ax murderers who killed children. And kittens.
Stacia Kane
#15. We're enveloped in pitch black. "Wait here," I whisper.
"Are you getting your ax?"
"Handcuffs."
"Kinky. But, okay, I'll try it.
Stephanie Perkins
#17. If you're supposed to sock somebody in the jaw, and you sort of feel like doing it, you should do it. I'm just no good at it, though. I'd rather push a guy out the window or chop his head off with an ax than sock him in the jaw.
J.D. Salinger
#18. Everything's all fun and games until someone gets an ax in the chest.
Lynsay Sands
#19. A crossbow?" Pigeon asked.
I left my battle-ax in my other jeans," the man said.
Brandon Mull
#20. Risks? I have lived with the prospect of assassination for years. What risks? All men die, rich and poor alike. But if I am to die, then let it be while I fight, not like some bullock in a pen waiting for the ax to fall.
David Gemmell
#21. Jesus is taking an ax to our pride when He tells us the truth about our emptiness apart from Him.
Bill Mills
#22. The girl looked at the mess she had made, at the ax, the shattered immortal, and the gouts of dark blood all around, and vomited.
Tamora Pierce
#23. I got home, picked up my ax, turned on the four-track and just played it ... I played three solos back to back on Cemetery Gates ... the next morning, the second and third solos weren't bad, but the first had that first take magic ! .. I didn't touch it ...
Dimebag Darrell
#24. I have no ax to grind. I was lucky. I played. How many guys play high school, college football never play pro football?
Art Donovan
#25. DJ saw the change in his expression the moment before he dropped the ax, reached out with his gloved hand and, cupping her neck, drew her to him. "I believe you owe me a kiss.
B. J. Daniels
#26. I like Dr.Ducks Ax Wax ...
Joe Beck
#27. What a gorgeous day. What effulgent sunshine. It was a day of this sort the McGillicuddy brothers murdered their mother with an ax.
W.C. Fields
#28. But I am a sly and wicked narrator. If there is a secret to be plumbed for your benefit, Dear Reader, I shall strap on a head-lamp and a pick-ax and have at it.
Catherynne M Valente
#29. I have always thought that my ear is also very influenced by my eyes.
Emanuel Ax
#30. Burrich told me that the ax was not a sophisticated weapon, but was a very satisfactory one if used correctly.
Robin Hobb
#31. And as the ax bites into the wood, be comforted in the fact that the ache in your heart and the confusion in your soul means that you are still alive, still human, and still open to the beauty of the world, even though you have done nothing to deserve it.
Paul Harding
#32. When one plays a Steinway, there is a warmth and nobility in the sound that is unequalled by any other instrument.
Emanuel Ax
#33. He was a gentle and sensitive soul, and therefore had a short temper, which is why he went straight after everything with an ax ...
Bohumil Hrabal
#34. We seem to have set up some very arcane rules as to when it is actually OK to applaud.
Emanuel Ax
#35. Greetings, ax murderer! I was just wondering how you like your eggs?
Libba Bray
#36. The sheer force of the music calls for a wild audience reaction.
Emanuel Ax
#37. He sang the song of the sword, keening as he fed his blade, and Rollo, standing thigh-deep in the creek, ax swinging in murderous blows, blocked the enemy's escape. The Frisians, transported from confidence to bowel-loosening fear, began to drop their weapons.
Bernard Cornwell
#38. Yeah." I gulped, my eyes still trained on the gun. "Guns don't hurt people ... people do," Ax said softly. "Remember that." "I do." I met his gaze. "Because in the end, it wasn't the gun that broke my heart - it was you.
Rachel Van Dyken
#39. Her father had built from ax-hewn planks thatched with bamboo and grass. The floor was dirt, but it was clean. Her mother, Foua, sprinkled it regularly with
Anne Fadiman
#40. Every time I have had a problem, I have confronted it with the ax of art.
Yayoi Kusama
#41. A lot of it just has to do with luck, serendipity.
Emanuel Ax
#42. Well, until man is redeemed he will always take a fly rod too far back, just as natural man always overswings with an ax or golf club and loses all his power somewhere in the air; only with a rod it's worse, because the fly often comes so far back it gets caught behind in a bush or rock.
Norman Maclean
#43. On Thursday, a passenger forced his way into the cockpit of a United Airlines flight from Miami, but was subdued after the co-pilot hit him with a small ax. Good to see our airlines are being kept secure by the latest in 12th century technology.
Dennis Miller
#44. You can cut down a tree with a hammer, but it takes about 30 days. If you trade the hammer for an ax, you can cut it down in about 30 minutes. The difference between 30 days and 30 minutes is skills.
Jim Rohn
#45. It was dramatic to watch my grandmother decapitate a turkey with an ax the day before Thanksgiving. Nowadays the expense of hiring grandmothers for the ax work would probably qualify all turkeys so honored with gourmet status.
Russell Baker
#46. How wonderful it is to play with someone you feel very close to.
Emanuel Ax
#47. In A.J.'s experience, she wasn't really the kind of woman men would break down a door to get to. Well, maybe if a house was on fire and they were a Good Samaritan with ax and an air mask.
J.R. Ward
#48. A man should not love the moon. An ax should not lose weight in his hand. His garden should smell of rotting apples And grow a fair amount of nettles.
Czeslaw Milosz
#49. [T]ax cuts are not just something that all taxpayers deserve, but also the best way to curb government spending. It is the best kind of tax reform. If the money never reaches the table, Congress can't gobble it up.
Zell Miller
#50. I enjoyed it (Dr.Ducks Ax Wax) .. in fact I'm all out ...
Dick Dale
#51. Eadlyn, you're under a lot of stress. We understand. And short of becoming an ax murderer, there's nothing you could do to make me love you less."
I laughed. "An ax murderer? That's your limit?"
"Well...maybe even then." She winked at me.
Kiera Cass
#52. If one could run the story of that first human group like a speeded-up motion picture through a million years of time, one might see the stone in the hand change to the flint ax and the torch.
Loren Eiseley
#53. It works ... (Dr.Ducks Ax Wax & String Lube) .. makes the strings last longer ...
Larry Coryell
#54. Silently, she began to recite the names of her dead. And as the overseer raised his whip, she added her name to the end of that list and swung her ax into his gut.
Sarah J. Maas
#55. We were ensconced as guests of the exclusive Beverly Hilton Hotel, an edifice so swank that the fire ax in the hall outside our suite said: "In case of fire-break crystal."
Jack Paar
#56. Leadership used to be about ideas, setting an example and doing the right thing. Today, if you make enough money for the firm (and are not currently an ax murderer) you will be promoted into a position of influence.
Greg Smith
#57. how will I know which one he is?' I asked puzzled by how serious they all were, like he was some ax murdrer or something.
Suranne,
Chapter 1
Shanice Williams
#58. Just then the door flew open, and Ambrose burst through, yelling like a madman and swinging a battle-ax in one hand.
Amy Plum
#59. Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move your initiatives forward each day. If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually, the tree has to fall down.
Jack Canfield
#60. I don't care how much hardware you throw at an audience. If they are not emotionally invested in the thing, it's zero. I can name a slew of films, but I have no ax to grind. I understand the commerce of Hollywood probably better than anyone.
Bill Paxton
#61. The women who inspired this play deserved to be smacked across the head with a meat ax and that, I flatter myself, is exactly what I smacked them with.
Clare Boothe Luce
#62. When the ax came into the forest the trees said the handle is one of us.
Alice Walker
#63. She boasted the general battle-ax demeanor of an especially strict governess. This was the kind of woman who took her tea black, smoked cigars after midnight, played a mean game of cribbage, and kept a bevy of repulsive little dogs.
Alexia liked her immediately.
Gail Carriger
#64. When there is pain
There is sadness
When there is sadness
There is hatred
One who fall from this will never rise up
Ax Vasto
#65. Humor is not an end in itself, but a tool to understanding. A dense head must be tickled with an ax.
Bauvard
#66. If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six hours sharpening the ax.
Abraham Lincoln
#67. This asshole had better open the door," Jackal growled, spinning his fire ax in a graceful arc as the horde came on. "I didn't come all the way to Eden to be eaten at the damn gates. Some might call it ironic, but that just pisses me off.
Julie Kagawa
#68. Sometimes I wish that applause would come just a bit later, when it is so beautifully hushed that I feel like holding my breath in the silence of the end.
Emanuel Ax
#69. I can only put it sufficiently curtly in a careless simile. A Socialist means a man who thinks a walking-stick like an umbrella because they both go into the umbrella-stand. Yet they are as different as a battle-ax and a bootjack.
G.K. Chesterton
#70. We should welcome applause whenever it comes.
Emanuel Ax
#72. I kind of felt like a new kind of princess. A warrior princess, ready to swing her battle-ax through hordes of the fashion-challenged and the socially unfortunate.
Rachel Vincent
#73. Sydney did not believe in life after death, but in her experience, admitting this could lead to long and complicated discussions in which people seemed to think that since she did not believe in God or the afterlife, there was nothing to stop her from becoming an ax murderer.
Maureen F. McHugh
#74. This weapon [an ax] is primitive but effective. And it's also guaranteed to be fifty-percent painless. You see, it takes two people to operate, and the person at this end [the handle] doesn't feel a thing.
Alfred Hitchcock
#75. I use Dr.Ducks Ax Wax on my entire collection of vintage guitars ... it's the best polish I've ever used ...
Bob Daisley
#76. I have survived. I am here. Confused, screwed up, but here. So, how can I find my way? Is there a chain saw of the soul, an ax I can take to my memories or fears?
Laurie Halse Anderson
#77. A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.
Kafka, Franz
#78. Army? I don't need an army when I've got my ax!
Markus Heitz
#79. I'm not sure the prince was ever taught the polite way to speak to people," Cleo replied. "And yet," Magnus said, "you're still following me, aren't you?" "For now. But you should remember that charm opens far more doors than harsh words do." "And a sharp ax will open every door." The
Morgan Rhodes
#80. For most people, I'm just Alice. But I don't mind. Now, if I were Alice the ax murderer, then I'd hate it.
Ann B. Davis
#83. Fans love McGwire for his powerful physique, for his on-field hugs of his son, the part-time bat boy. He is Big Mac, or Paul Bunyan in Cardinals red with a white-ash bat instead of an ax.
Bill Dedman
#84. A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man?
Henry Ward Beecher
#85. Even bullets are nothing compared to the ax murderers in people's eyes.
Pamela Spiro Wagner
#86. When you operate in an overbuilt metropolis, you have to hack your way with a meat ax,
Robert Moses
#87. A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.
Franz Kafka
#88. Next you'd see a raft sliding by, away off yonder, and maybe a galoot on it chopping ... you'd see the ax flash and come down-you don't hear nothing; you see the ax go up again, and by the time it's above the man's head then you hear the k'chunk!-it had took all that time to come over the water.
Mark Twain
#89. Then in 1914 things changed. Partageuse found that it too had something the world wanted. Men. Young men. Fit men. Men who had spent their lives swinging an ax or holding a plow and living it hard. Men who were the prime cut to be sacrificed on tactical altars a hemisphere away.
M.L. Stedman
#91. I have been trying to find out exactly when listeners and performers decided that applause between movements would not be allowed, but nobody seems to have been willing to admit that they were the culprit.
Emanuel Ax
#92. By design McCandless came into the country with insufficient provisions, and he lacked certain pieces of equipment deemed essential by many Alaskans: a large-caliber rifle, map and compass, an ax. This has been regarded as evidence not just of stupidity but of the even greater sin of arrogance.
Jon Krakauer
#94. All the Danish leaders, had carved into our shield wall with his great war ax, I had faced him, beaten him, and sent him to join the einherjar, that army of the dead who feast and swive in Odin's corpse hall. What
Bernard Cornwell
#95. Every age cuts and pastes history to suit its own purposes; art always has an ax to grind.
Ada Louise Huxtable
#96. But you should remember that charm opens far more doors than harsh words do." "And a sharp ax will open every door.
Morgan Rhodes
#97. Hope is not like a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky ... hope is an ax you break down doors with in an emergency.
Rebecca Solnit
#98. Tug the pug? Wax his ax? Wobble his knob? "Did you guys hold a Who Can Come Up with the Worst Euphemism contest at some point and not invite me?" he called up
Julie Ann Walker
#100. Applause should be an emotional response to the music, rather than a regulated social duty.
Emanuel Ax
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