Hammer & Chisel Quotes

#1. 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

#2. In order to become the chisel that breaks the marble inside us, the artist must first become the hammer. [Soviet censor of paintings and photos]

Anthony Marra

#3. No historians or librar ians were harmed in the making of this book, but some were badgered extensively with questions.

Libba Bray

#4. There, scuttling across the floor, blind and querulous, is the old cell phone - scrabbling and bulky, trying to get away from you.

Jeff VanderMeer

#5. The possibilities of prayer are found in its allying itself with the purposes of God, for God's purposes and man's praying are the combination of all potent and omnipotent forces.

Edward McKendree Bounds

#6. Whatever you are made of, be the best of that.

Anne Hathaway

#7. Love and kindness are the hammer and chisel that gently chip through barriers and long-held beliefs to reveal the magnificent soul contained within every human.

Molly Friedenfeld

#8. What can a sculptor do without the chisel and the hammer? And what can an impostor politician do without the ignorant and the uneducated?

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#9. If we are of one mind,
thousands can be conquered.
If we are of one heart,
millions can be conquered.
If we are of one soul,
countless can be conquered.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#10. You may chisel a boy into shape, as you would a rock, or hammer him into it, if he be of a better kind, as you would a piece of bronze. But you cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does.

John Ruskin

#11. 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

#12. I was out training one black night when I heard a noise. I turned around and saw a leopard. I threw some stones at him and he went away, so I went on my way.

Filbert Bayi

#13. We should have gone over years before that. I always wanted to and I think most of the band did.

Roy Wood

#14. A marble cutter, with chisel and hammer, was changing a stone into a statue. A preacher looking on said: "I wish I could deal such changing blows on stony hearts." The workman answered: "Maybe you could, if you worked like me, upon your knees."

Arthur Tappan Pierson

#15. 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

#16. Broadway is really my life.

Vanessa Williams

#17. Let's here it for modern dentistry, eh? I said, and he grimaced. Actually, as much as people dislike going to the dentist now, try doing it two hundred years ago, when having a cavity meant some quack knocking it out with a chisel and a hammer in the market square. With no anesthetic.

Cate Tiernan

#18. Mandatory sentencing guidelines have become as complicated and detailed as the IRS code!

Harold H. Greene

#19. Nails are forged for pounding. Man is born to trouble. Man is born for trouble. Man is born to battle trouble. Man is born for the fight, to be forged and molded - under torch and hammer and chisel - into a sharper, finer, stronger image of God.

N.D. Wilson

#20. Of two evils, choose neither.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#21. If there is some good in me, it is because I was born in the subtle atmosphere of your country of Arezzo. Along with the milk of my nurse I received the knack of handling chisel and hammer, with which I make my figures.

Michelangelo

#22. I have my hormones balanced. Most doctors are giving women synthetic hormones, which just eliminate the symptoms, but it's doing nothing to actually replace the hormones you have lost. Without our hormones we die.

Suzanne Somers

#23. 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

#24. I am a cynical optimist. Big opening weekends are like cotton candy. The films you will remember over time are the films that stick in the consciousness of the audience in a good way.

Robert Redford

#25. 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

#26. I guess I like a lot of directors. Or at least I try to.

Jacques Rivette