Pickax Quotes

#1. It's not easy to look the way I do: in popular culture, one only sees a face like mine on the Phaontom of the Opera, on Freddie Krueger from Elm Street, or on Leatherface from deep in the heart of Texas. Sure, a burn victim may "get the girl" - but usually only with a pickax.

Andrew Davidson

#2. Don't cut bangs with a hatchet. Don't do brain surgery with a pickax.

Joanne Greenberg

#3. The medium of exchange in a gold mine is the pickax.

Terry Pratchett

#4. It's Tolstoy, by the way," I say as I open the door.
He turns around. "What?"
Shut up, I tell myself. Shut up.
"The writer of Anna Karenina. Not Trotsky. Trotsky was a revolutionary who was stabbed with a
pickax in Mexico in 1940. But I can understand how the T thing could confuse you.

Melina Marchetta

#5. The surprise lay in the third niche of the high altar, on the side where the Gospels were kept. The stone shattered at the first blow of the pickax, and a stream of living hair the intense color of copper spilled out of the crypt.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#6. Once you have swung a pickax that will reveal the curve of a street four thousand years covered over which was once an active, much-traveled highway, you are never quite the same again.

Thornton Wilder

#7. In the Mass and in Eucharistic Adoration we meet the merciful love of God that passes through the Heart of Jesus Christ.

Pope John Paul II

#8. Oh! sad is the night-time,
The night-time of sorrow,
When through the deep gloom, we catch but the boom
Of the waves that may whelm us to-morrow.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#9. You see Justin Bieber and Robert Pattinson, what they go through, and dude, that's not as exciting as it looks.

Chris Pine

#10. I think I've become more aware of aging in the last couple of years because of friends dying of cancer or friends' parents dying and myself - I'm still healthy, but I'm aging, and that's something that I think about more, even though I shouldn't be too concerned.

Jose Gonzalez

#11. As a filmmaker, you have to understand the essence of the book and tell the story you want to see on the screen, and hopefully please yourself - because you can't possibly please everyone.

Evangeline Lilly

#12. Germans Francis Grund, and Francis Lieber, and the Pole Adam G. de Gurowski all wrote about the striking social equality they found in America, the absence of differences in status. They all noted the American obsession with work and the restless quest for the "almighty dollar."18

Alexis De Tocqueville

#13. It felt good doing a physical job, and going home each evening feeling like I had really done a day's work.

James D'arcy

#14. Writing a column, a weekly column for the New York Times, is really tough, and I wasn't prepared for the demands that that involved.

David Plotz

#15. When you are new to the business, you think if you give a really bad performance, that's one they will print. You will be judged. You just have to be brave.

Robbie Coltrane