Top 37 Quotes About Anvils
#1. Everyone stopped to blink at that for a second. I mean, come on. Impaled by a guided frozen turkey missile. Even by the standards of the quasi-immortal creatures of the night, that ain't something you see twice.
"For my next trick," I panted into the startled silence, "anvils.
Jim Butcher
#2. They talk about big skies in the western United States, and they may indeed have them, but you have never seen such lofty clouds, such towering anvils, as in Iowa in July.
Bill Bryson
#4. Whoever can endure unmixed delight, whoever can tolerate music and painting and poetry all in one, whoever wishes to be rid of thought and to let the busy anvils of the brain be silent for a time, let him read in the "Faery Queen."
James Russell Lowell
#5. This is what entertainment is all about- idiots, explosives and falling anvils.
John Calvin
#6. There was the sky, filled with flat-topped clouds, cruising like a fleet of anvils across the blue. George
Paul Harding
#7. Carpenters don't make their saws and hammers, tailors don't make their scissors and needles, and plumbers don't make their wrenches, but blacksmiths can make their hammers, tongs, anvils, and chisels
Daniel C. Dennett
#8. We endure the strokes like anvils or hard steel,
Till pain itself make us no pain to feel.
John Webster
#9. Anyone can kill a planet from orbit," Holden replied. "You don't even need bombs. Just push anvils out the airlock. That thing out there could kill ... Shit. Anything.
James S.A. Corey
#10. We will respond, even in the face of irony and slander, with the sweetness of love. We can afford to take this attitude because good anvils do not fear the blows of many hammers.
Richard Wurmbrand
#11. Our bodies are but the anvils of pain and disease and our minds the hives of unnumbered cares.
Walter Raleigh
#12. As great Pythagoras of yore,
Standing beside the blacksmith's door,
And hearing the hammers, as they smote
The anvils with a different note,
Stole from the varying tones, that hung
Vibrant on every iron tongue,
The secret of the sounding wire.
And formed the seven-chorded lyre.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#13. Point thy tongue on the anvil of truth.
Pindar
#14. Hasten slowly, and without losing heart, put your work twenty times upon the anvil.
[Fr., Hatez-vous lentement; et, sans perdre courage,
Vingt fois sur le metier remettez votre ouvrage.]
Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
#15. is a pearl, and a pearl buried in a dung heap is no less valuable for its surroundings.
Christine Merrill
#16. In France every man is either an anvil or a hammer; he is a beater or must be beaten.
Voltaire
#17. We're going to hammer guns on the anvil of relentless legislative strategy! We're going to beat guns into submission!
Charles Schumer
#18. The philosophers of the Middle Ages demonstrated both that the Earth did not exist and also that it was flat. Today they are still arguing about whether the world exists, but they no longer dispute about whether it is flat.
Vilhjalmur Stefansson
#20. As long as my music is real, it's no limit to how many ears I can grab.
Kendrick Lamar
#21. There isn't any reason to dislike people with whom you disagree. I have lots of friends who don't agree with me.
Bill O'Reilly
#22. I was a girl, I learned, who got what she wanted, but not without sadness, not without cutting a swath of destruction so wide it consumed my family. I almost fell into it, with them. I almost lost myself.
Anton DiSclafani
#23. Forge thy tongue on an anvil of truth and what flies up, though it be but a spark, will have light.
Pindar
#24. The Word of God is the anvil upon which the opinions of men are smashed.
Charles Spurgeon
#25. While it's typical to find steamed clam recipes which include a bit of bacon or sausage, you might not think of adding shredded ham hock, but it's another way to pair the lusty, smoky flavor of animal fat with the briny ocean flavor of shellfish.
Tom Douglas
#26. I wait until an investment idea is so good, it hits me over the head like an anvil.
Joel Greenblatt
#27. You're strictly a tulip girl - a red tulip girl.
Alyson Noel
#28. Sometimes we are so busy being the hammer or the anvil, that we forget who really needs the shaping.
Neal A. Maxwell
#30. There's a saying that goes, 'The universe gives you a whisper, then a nudge, then a push and then an anvil on your head.
Sara Genn
#31. When you leave the familiar and enter the unknown, your fear becomes refined by experience and hammered into tools of survival on the anvil of anxiety.
T.D. Jakes
#32. Thus at the flaming forge of life
Our fortunes must be wrought;
Thus on its sounding anvil shaped
Each burning deed and thought!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#33. At each moment, our seemingly objective world emerges from the dancing of consciousness with a single untruth: that there is something out there which is not us.
Eric Micha'el Leventhal
#34. Let me think ... I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?
Isaac Newton
#35. I don't believe you should be a virgin when you get married,' Sera said. 'You should experiment. Men do'
'Yes, but only if you're in love with them,' I said.
Melina Marchetta
#36. I dislike being an anvil for the hammering out of other people's virtues.
Freya Stark
#37. And take back ill-polished stanzas to the anvil.
Horace
