Top 59 Hammer Nail Quotes
#1. 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
#2. When the hammer strikes a nail, the extreme force of the blow on the broad head is transmitted without loss to the point. The head of the nail is the whole of eternity and the point of that nail is pressed to the center of the human heart. " [ quoting Simone Weil from memory ]
George Oppen
#3. Did you know? Did the cross cast a shadow on your cradle? Did you shudder each time your hammer struck a nail? How much heaven and how much earth were in this baby at his birth? Did you know, or did you wonder?
Todd Agnew
#4. Truax held up a business card. Randolph "The Hammer" Tinker Attorney at Law "I nail justice in the face.
Chris Genoa
#6. It just goes to show that no matter how great a nail you give humanity, we'll manage to hammer it into the ground crooked. We suck. It's the nature of our species.
Ilona Andrews
#8. A woman with organizing skills can run a construction company without ever picking up a hammer and nail.
Warren Farrell
#9. If your only tool is a hammer then every problem looks like a nail.
Abraham H. Maslow
#10. If your only tool is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail.
Mark Twain
#11. To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.
Abraham H. Maslow
#12. 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
#13. Some people are so weak that whenever they see a hammer, they immediately turn into a nail!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#15. Just because you've got a mind like a hammer doesn't mean you have to treat everyone else like a nail
Terry Pratchett
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. The weight is just a tool. Do you focus on the hammer or the nail? You better focus on the thing you're trying to hit.
Kai Greene
#20. When I need to nail that riff to the cross, Marshall will always provide the hammer!
Dan Hawkins
#21. If all you have is a hammer, everything seems to be a nail.
Robert Sedgewick
#22. When the only tool you have in your toolbox is a hammer, every problem begins to look like a nail.
Abraham H. Maslow
#23. 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
#25. The secret of this sport is, while you're the nail, hang in there, let them hit you, until the day you become the hammer, then you smash them back!
Renzo Gracie
#26. If the only hammer you are given is the Internet, it's not surprising that every possible social and political problem is presented as an online nail.
Evgeny Morozov
#27. I do think a carpenter needs a good hammer to bang in the nail.
Oliver Reed
#28. When the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.
Nelson DeMille
#29. 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
#30. 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
#31. When all you are is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a nail.
Patrick Weekes
#32. He that is good with a hammer tends to think everything is a nail.
Abraham Maslow
#33. 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
#34. Hammer the lies! Nail the truth." ~ Angelica Hopes, If I Could Tell You
Angelica Hopes
#35. 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
#36. If my only tool is a hammer, then every problem is a nail.
Sholem Asch
#37. 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
#38. The chip that functions abnormally will be desoldered, as they say.
Charles Stross
#39. When you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail; when you are a baby, everything looks like something to suck.
Nicholas Day
#40. Just because we have the best hammer does not mean that every problem is a nail.
Barack Obama
#41. 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
#42. 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
#43. When the only tool you own is a hammer ... " "Every problem begins to resemble a nail.
Kresley Cole
#44. 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
#45. If you nail a tool shed closed, how do you put the hammer away?
George Carlin
#46. I held a nail in place and slammed it with the hammer. Best. Chore. Ever.
Cate Tiernan
#47. You can't hammer in a nail with words ... "
"No, but you can start a war with them.
Ben Galley
#48. If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
T. Colin Campbell
#49. When you have a hammer in your hand, everything around you starts looking like a nail.
Auliq Ice
#50. When you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail; and when you're a left-wing sorehead, everything is an occasion to damn the rich.
George Scialabba
#51. I am, it is safe to say, not a practical man. The few attempts I've made to hammer in a nail have ended in broken thumbs, burst pipes, and water spraying everywhere with the house on fire.
John Niven
#52. Buffett found it 'extraordinary' that academics studied such things. They studied what was measurable, rather than what was meaningful. 'As a friend [Charlie Munger] said, to a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
Roger Lowenstein
#53. Her words were like the hammer. My stance was of a nail. I didn't need those callous words on my once strong shell. Hammered. Hammered. Words on my shoulder blades. All of my great feelings concave.
Antonia Perdu
#54. Slow power can grind away any stagnant enemy. But fast power, one that can travel where you go, do what you wish it to as effectively as a hammer hitting a nail, that is the power that lops off heads and steals crowns. Can I trust you with it?
Pierce Brown
#55. When all you own is a hammer, every problem starts looking like a nail.
Abraham Maslow
#56. Borrowing a hammer from Walker Lauren, she pounded the tickets into the office door with a nail. Hawke, passing by, helpfully held the tickets in place while she hammered the nail. He didn't say a word, his expression so bland it was clear he was highly amused.
Nalini Singh
#57. I'm tired of being the nail...I wanna be the hammer for once!
Ryan O'Connor
#58. A child doesn't understand a hammer until he's mashed his finger at a nail.
Get up and stop whining, maggot! You have forgotten the face of your father!
Stephen King
#59. 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
