Top 100 Quotes About Hammers
#1. As hard as the diamonds in your smile,
the wind carries its hammers with no hands
and sustains a moan with no mouth,
seems to cradle solitude in its rough arms like firewood
to be burned in my house as it passes through
and asks, Where does she sparkle from?
B.J. Ward
#2. Mechanic slaves
With greasy aprons, rules, and hammers, shall
Uplift us to the view.
William Shakespeare
#3. There's two kinds of people in this world.There's hammers and nails ...
You decide what to be ..
Will Smith
#4. Axes bit wood into pieces and hammers nailed it back together. Humans could never accept the world as it was and live in it. They were always breaking it and living amongst the shattered pieces.
Robin Hobb
#5. Holly slides off the chairlift like a gymnast, and I slide off like a sack of hammers.
David Mitchell
#6. I carve stone. I've got hammers and chisels and I carve from sandstone. I just did a big mural of birds and trees.
Peter Weir
#7. They gave these screens to us as chains. Today, we make them hammers. Karnus
Pierce Brown
#8. The Church of Christ is an anvil which has worn out many hammers. Our opponents may boast of their strength, but they do not realize what they have challenged.
John Buchan
#9. I've come off horses and fought in medieval battles using axes, hammers and swords as well as fists. Getting your teeth knocked out is an occupational hazard.
James Cosmo
#10. We move like a platoon of silhouettes
balancing sledge hammers on our heads,
unaware our shadows have untied
from us, wandered off
& gotten lost.
Yusef Komunyakaa
#11. she say her head feel like its full of little white men with hammers.
Alice Walker
#12. The simplest way to prepare Dungeness crabs is to boil them in the shell and set them in front of your guests with crab crackers or crab hammers, cocktail forks, and plenty of napkins.
Tom Douglas
#13. I saw the mountain, impassible, cavernous, secret, where from morning to night I'd hear nothing but the wind, the curlews, the clink like distant silver of the stone-cutters' hammers.
Samuel Beckett
#15. Hark to the clinking of the hammers! Hark to the driving of the nails! What fun to build a gallows, the cure for all that ails!
Ransom Riggs
#16. Sure, things could always have been done better, but I just wish people would drop their political hammers for a few weeks, as happened in 2001, and work on the problem at hand.
Mitch Daniels
#17. All I hear are Satan's hammers and the war drums of hell, thank you.
Alexandra Bracken
#18. You don't have to just hit nails with hammers, you know; you can use a hammer to beat somebody's brains in, to make armor or break a car window. You can do all kinds of things with your instrument outside of its surface purpose. My bass is my crutch but the best crutch I could have.
Stephen Bruner
#19. When my hands can no longer make these hammers and strings play for you, my heart will always sing to you.
Karen Quan
#20. If only the Geologists would let me alone, I could do very well, but those dreadful Hammers! I hear the clink of them at the end of every cadence of the Bible verses
John Ruskin
#21. Color directly influences the soul. Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the hammers, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another purposively, to cause vibrations in the soul.
Wassily Kandinsky
#22. Crush humanity out of shape once more, under similar hammers, and it will twist itself into the same tortured forms. Sow the same seeds of rapacious licence and oppression over again, and it will surely yield the same fruit according to its kind.
Charles Dickens
#23. I love the wry motto of the Paleontological Society, meant both literally and figuratively, for hammers are the main tool of our trade: Frango ut patefaciam - I break in order to reveal.
Stephen Jay Gould
#24. Most of the stone a nation hammers goes toward its tomb only. It buries itself alive.
Henry David Thoreau
#25. If a Martian were watching our television shows, he'd conclude that guns were more common than hammers. They're not evil themselves--they're tools--but everywhere you go, bad people have them. It behooves the righteous to at least know how they work.
John Sandford
#26. Truth isn't handed *down*, brother. You beat it out with *hammers* and anneal it in your own *blood*.
Mike Carey
#27. Flying off the handle sometimes causes hammers and humans to lose their heads, as well as their effectiveness.
William Arthur Ward
#28. But still the block of Vengeance firm doth stand, and Fate, as swordsmith, hammers blow on blow.
Aeschylus
#29. I think we all get our own bag of hammers. We all get our own Parkinson's. We all have our own thing. I think that we'll look at it through the filter of that experience, and we'll say, "Yeah, I need to laugh at my stuff, too."
Michael J. Fox
#30. Opportunity knocks at every man's door once. On some men's door it hammers till it breaks down the door and then it goes in and wakes him up if he's asleep, and ever afterward it works for him as a night watchman.
Finley Peter Dunne
#31. If you assume continuity, you can open the well-stocked mathematical toolkit of continuous functions and differential equations, the saws and hammers of engineering and physics for the past two centuries (and the foreseeable future).
Benoit Mandelbrot
#32. When I read the script sometimes, it's like 'Christ! Enough!' I can't sleep at night sometimes. There's the occasional script that just hammers you, that you can't shower off.
Mariska Hargitay
#33. No hammers fell, no ponderous axes rung,Like some tall palm the mystic fabric sprung.Majestic silence.
Reginald Heber
#34. 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
#35. There are more people killed with baseball bats and hammers than are killed with guns.
Paul Broun
#36. My great-grandfather Melvin had been a carpenter - so was my father - and they taught me the value of tools: saws, hammers, chisels, files and rulers. It all dealt with conciseness and precision. It eliminated guesswork. One has to know his tools, so he doesn't work against himself.
Yusef Komunyakaa
#37. Like other beautiful things in this world, its end (that of a shaft) is to be beautiful; and, in proportion to its beauty, it receives permission to be otherwise useless. We do not blame emeralds and rubies because we cannot make them into heads of hammers.
John Ruskin
#38. Mother says there are locked rooms inside all women, kitchen of love, bedroom of grief, bathroom of apathy. Sometimes, the men, they come with keys, and sometimes the men, they come with hammers.
Warsan Shire
#39. Way over half the murders committed in this country are by close friends or relatives of the deceased. A gun makes a loud and satisfying noise in a moment of passion and requires no agility and very little strength. How many murders wouldn't happen, if they all had to use hammers and knives?
John D. MacDonald
#40. So it has come, the day of testing. Without warning, without fanfare, it is here, and he is in the middle of it. In his chest his heart hammers so hard that it too, in its dumb way, must know. How will they stand up to the testing, he and his heart?
J.M. Coetzee
#41. Kneecaps only exist to get hit with claw-hammers; grace only exists to be fallen from.
Glen Duncan
#42. Time passed by. I had furnished steam hammers to the principal foundries in England. I had sent them abroad, even to Russia. At length it became known to the Lords of the Admiralty that a new power in forging had been introduced.
James Nasmyth
#43. Well, when you give me an offer like that, Addolgar the Cheerful, I don't see how any female with a passionate love of hammers can turn you down ...
G.A. Aiken
#44. [the photographer] can be considered a kind of disembodied burrowing eye, a conspirator against time and its hammers. His work, print after print of it, seems to call to be shown before the decay which it portrays flattens all ... Here are the records of the age before an imminent collapse.
Jack Kerouac
#45. Fabio Capello needs to nail his hammers to the mast.
Andy Townsend
#46. If I'm going on any trip, driving music is key. Road Hammers is good driving music. I don't mind listening to my own stuff. You record it for a certain reason. You fall in a love with a certain song at a certain time and how you record it is a labour of love. You better love it.
Jason McCoy
#47. Bloody Hammer is a screw capitalism song about college kids banging hammers on top of the roof.
Roky Erickson
#49. 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
#50. A furious Peeta hammers Haymitch with the atrocity he could become party to, but I can feel Haymitch watching me. This is the moment, then. When we find out exactly just how alike we are, and how much he truly understands me.
"I'm with the Mockingjay," he says.
Suzanne Collins
#51. Helgarson won't tell me, but it must have been bad. His fangs pop out if you just say 'Thor' aloud, and he hunts carpenters simply because they use hammers.
Kevin Hearne
#52. Life hammers us all. Too many times we become things we never thought we'd be. For many reasons.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#53. Our spoken word first hammers a thing desired into shape. Our continued spoken word brings this shaped substance forth and clothes it with a visible body.
H. Emilie Cady
#54. Fat Charlie wondered what Rosie's mother would usually hear in a church. Probably just cries of "Back! Foul best of Hell!" followed by gasps of "Is it alive?" and a nervous inquiry as to whether anybody had remembered to bring the stakes and hammers.
Neil Gaiman
#55. Mysterious in the light of day, nature retains her veil, despite our clamours: That which she does not willingly display cannot be wrenched from her with levers, screws and hammers.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#56. The words were clumsy in my mouth, like typing with hammers.
David Levithan
#57. I would never directly contradict anything Neil deGrasse Tyson says, because - compared to Neil deGrasse Tyson - my skull is a bag of hammers. I'm
Chuck Klosterman
#58. Nature may be dumb as a sack of hammers, Zeb used to say, but it's smarter than you.
Margaret Atwood
#59. 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
#60. Steed threatens steed, in high and boastful neighs Piercing the night's dull ear; and from the tents The armorers accomplishing the knights, With busy hammers closing rivets up, Give dreadful note of preparation.
William Shakespeare
#61. Even now, that day reminds me that raindrops are stronger than hammers.
Marilyn Hilton
#62. Rude cross lay flat upon the barren earth and on it was bound a man - half-naked, wild of aspect with his corded limbs, glaring eyes and shock of tangled hair. His executioners were Roman soldiers, and with heavy hammers they prepared to pin the victim's hands and feet to the wood with iron spikes.
H.P. Lovecraft
#63. Narnia. The happy land of Narnia
Narnia of the heathery mountains and the thymy downs, Narnia of the many rivers, the plashing glens, the mossy caverns and the deep forests ringing with the hammers of the Dwarfs ...
C.S. Lewis
#64. Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers, which are always repulsed by the anvil.
Claude Adrien Helvetius
#65. Around them, late afternoon sun glistened off waves that slapped against the sides of the deck. Seabirds dipped in and out of the deep blue water. It would have been a perfect, tranquil scene except for the pounding of hammers and the whir of a saw.
Miranda Liasson
#66. Man is a long time coming. Man will yet win. Brother may yet line up with brother: This old anvil laughs at many broken hammers.There are men who can't be bought.
Carl Sandburg
#67. One half of my head, from the top of my skull to the cleft of my jaw, hammers, bangs, sizzles while the other half, serene and content, looks on at the agony next door.
Rudyard Kipling
#68. Welcome to Atlanta
Jack and hammers and vogues
Back to the mackin' and jackin' the clothes
Adolescents packin the fo'
Ludacris
#69. He started at a sporting goods store, where he bought several models of steel tent stakes, icepicks ("sailors buy them," an employee told him), hammers, and rubber mallets. No one even raised a brow at his purchase of Homicidal Maniac Variety Pack - As Seen On TV.
Nina Post
#70. The hammers must be swung in cadence, when more than one is hammering the iron.
Giordano Bruno
#71. Life is malleable and the hammer is desire.
Anya Seton
#72. He that is good with a hammer tends to think everything is a nail.
Abraham Maslow
#73. Nico was gothic, but she was Mary Shelley gothic to everyone else's Hammer horror film gothic. They both did Frankenstein, but Nico's was real.
Peter Murphy
#74. O, what I owe to the file, the hammer, and the furnace of the Lord Jesus! I know that he is no idle husbandman - he purposes a crop.
Samuel Rutherford
#75. Pray devoutly, but hammer stoutly.
John Ray
#76. We could be putting the hammer in Luton's coffin
Ray Wilkins
#79. If my only tool is a hammer, then every problem is a nail.
Sholem Asch
#80. Getting to play with Thor's hammer while he stroked my bow
Jeremy Renner
#81. I will punish the hammer and turn him into a mallet.
Tito Ortiz
#82. A hammer shatters glass but it also forges steel.
Confucius
#84. If you have a hammer, use it everywhere you can, but I do not claim that everything is fractal.
Benoit Mandelbrot
#85. 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
#86. When you are an Anvill, hold you still; when you are a hammer, strike your fill.
George Herbert
#87. Just because we have the best hammer does not mean that every problem is a nail.
Barack Obama
#88. 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
#89. The implied threat of using nuclear weapons to curb guerrillas was as absurd as to talk of using a sledge hammer to ward off a swarm of mosquitoes.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#90. If you nail a tool shed closed, how do you put the hammer away?
George Carlin
#91. And you will believe in love And all that it's supposed to be But just until the fish start to smell And you're struck down by a hammer.
Rufus Wainwright
#93. The ship, built on one element, but designed to have its life in another, seemed an image of the soul, formed and fashioned with many a weary hammer-stroke in this life, but finding its true element only when it sails out into the ocean of eternity.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
#94. 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
#95. All this is, is a nine hundred dollar hammer.
Joe Teti
#96. Victor: What does it feel like to be in love? Creature: It feels like everything is boiling over and spilling out of me; it feels like my lungs are on fire, and my heart is a hammer, and I feel like I can do anything ... I feel like I can do anything in the world ...
Nick Dear
#97. Sometimes we are so busy being the hammer or the anvil, that we forget who really needs the shaping.
Neal A. Maxwell
#98. How much happier you would be, how much more of you there would be, if the hammer of a higher God could smash your small cosmos.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#99. I hammer on a theme until I'm tired of it and the audience is tired of it.
Lewis Black
#100. What happens if a big asteroid hits Earth ? Judging from realistic simulations involving a sledge hammer and a common laboratory frog, we can assume it will be pretty bad.
Dave Barry
