Quotes About Hammers

#1. Life is malleable and the hammer is desire.

Anya Seton

#2. 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

#3. He that is good with a hammer tends to think everything is a nail.

Abraham Maslow

#4. Mechanic slaves
With greasy aprons, rules, and hammers, shall
Uplift us to the view.

William Shakespeare

#5. There's two kinds of people in this world.There's hammers and nails ...
You decide what to be ..

Will Smith

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. Holly slides off the chairlift like a gymnast, and I slide off like a sack of hammers.

David Mitchell

#9. 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

#10. Pray devoutly, but hammer stoutly.

John Ray

#11. We could be putting the hammer in Luton's coffin

Ray Wilkins

#12. The hammer doesn't build the house.

Tony Horton

#13. 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

#14. Art is not a mirror but a hammer.

John Grierson

#15. If my only tool is a hammer, then every problem is a nail.

Sholem Asch

#16. Getting to play with Thor's hammer while he stroked my bow

Jeremy Renner

#17. They gave these screens to us as chains. Today, we make them hammers. Karnus

Pierce Brown

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. she say her head feel like its full of little white men with hammers.

Alice Walker

#22. I will punish the hammer and turn him into a mallet.

Tito Ortiz

#23. A hammer shatters glass but it also forges steel.

Confucius

#24. Hammer your thoughts into unity.

William Butler Yeats

#25. 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

#26. If you have a hammer, use it everywhere you can, but I do not claim that everything is fractal.

Benoit Mandelbrot

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. The anvil breaks a legion of hammers - by quietly bearing their blows.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#30. 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

#31. When you are an Anvill, hold you still; when you are a hammer, strike your fill.

George Herbert

#32. Just because we have the best hammer does not mean that every problem is a nail.

Barack Obama

#33. 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

#34. 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

#35. 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

#36. If you nail a tool shed closed, how do you put the hammer away?

George Carlin

#37. 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

#38. All I hear are Satan's hammers and the war drums of hell, thank you.

Alexandra Bracken

#39. 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

#40. When my hands can no longer make these hammers and strings play for you, my heart will always sing to you.

Karen Quan

#41. 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

#42. 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

#43. The anvil is not afraid of the hammer.

Charles Spurgeon

#44. 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

#45. 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

#46. 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

#47. All this is, is a nine hundred dollar hammer.

Joe Teti

#48. 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

#49. Sometimes we are so busy being the hammer or the anvil, that we forget who really needs the shaping.

Neal A. Maxwell

#50. 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

#51. 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

#52. Most of the stone a nation hammers goes toward its tomb only. It buries itself alive.

Henry David Thoreau

#53. I hammer on a theme until I'm tired of it and the audience is tired of it.

Lewis Black

#54. 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

#55. 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

#56. The Soviet Union could not exist without the image of the empire. The image of the empire could not exist without the image of force. The USSR ended the moment the first hammer pounded the Berlin Wall.

Boris Yeltsin

#57. When all you own is a hammer, every problem starts looking like a nail.

Abraham Maslow

#58. The busybodies have begun to infect American society with a nasty intolerance - a zeal to police the private lives of others and hammer them into standard forms - A Nation of Finger Pointers.

Lance Morrow

#59. Mike Hammer drinks beer because I can't spell Cognac.

Mickey Spillane

#60. Truth isn't handed *down*, brother. You beat it out with *hammers* and anneal it in your own *blood*.

Mike Carey

#61. A man who governs his passions is master of his world. We must either command them or be enslaved by them. It is better to be a hammer than an anvil.

Saint Dominic

#62. I have been studying how I may compare This prison where I live unto the world; And, for because the world is populous, And here is not a creature but myself, I cannot do it. Yet I'll hammer it out.

William Shakespeare

#63. When you are a hammer, all of your problems will look like nails to you.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#64. Growth chestnuts have to be placed on the unyielding anvil of biophysical realities and then crushed with the hammer of moral argument.

Herman E. Daly

#65. I got the Hammer money, sweetie you can't touch this.

Drake

#66. There ought to be a man with a hammer behind the door of every happy man.

Anton Chekhov

#67. I was never an Angry Young Man. I am angry only when I hit my thumb with a hammer.

Kingsley Amis

#68. Flying off the handle sometimes causes hammers and humans to lose their heads, as well as their effectiveness.

William Arthur Ward

#69. But still the block of Vengeance firm doth stand, and Fate, as swordsmith, hammers blow on blow.

Aeschylus

#70. Individuals differ in how empathic they are. Some people would really flinch if they watched me hitting my hand with a hammer, and other people would just not care.

Paul Bloom

#71. The music takes you. It has to be alive. It's like you hammer something, and the way it happens to bleed leads you into new directions.

Michael Gira

#72. 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

#73. There is no way to understand the public reaction to the sight of a Freak smashing a coconut with a hammer on the hood of a white Cadillac in a Safeway parking lot unless you actually do it, and I tell you it's tense.

Hunter S. Thompson

#74. You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site.

Frank Lloyd Wright

#75. If you would win the world, melt it, do not hammer it.

Alexander MacLaren

#76. 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

#77. 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

#78. Infants need the most sleep, and, what is more, get it. Stunning them with a soft, padded hammer is the best way to insure their getting it at the right times.

Robert Benchley

#79. 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

#80. Cap and trade is a sledge hammer to freedom.

Rush Limbaugh

#81. Admire the diamond that can bear the hits of a hammer. Many deceptive preachers, when critically examined, turn out to be false.

Kabir

#82. 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

#83. Praise God for the hammer, the file, and the furnace. The hammer molds us, the file sharpens us, and the fire tempers us.

Samuel Rutherford

#84. No hammers fell, no ponderous axes rung,Like some tall palm the mystic fabric sprung.Majestic silence.

Reginald Heber

#85. 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

#86. I'm superstitious. Before I start a movie, I always kill a hobo with a hammer.

Gwyneth Paltrow

#87. There are more people killed with baseball bats and hammers than are killed with guns.

Paul Broun

#88. 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

#89. The hardest part about being in radiohead is being inside a giant head that is a radio. Ha ha, little english humour there, or is it a hammer?

Thom Yorke

#90. 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

#91. 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

#92. 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

#93. Communism has nothing to do with love. Communism is an excellent hammer which we use to destroy our enemy.

Mao Zedong

#94. Oh, a passing, skeptical kind of interest. I'm a hammer-and-nails kind of guy.

Nick Cave

#95. We mystify the art of moviemaking, but it's not amystical science. You take a good screenplay, put a group togetherand you hammer it out.

Bill Paxton

#96. 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

#97. Kneecaps only exist to get hit with claw-hammers; grace only exists to be fallen from.

Glen Duncan

#98. I think if we can accept Thor as a frog and a horse-faced alien, we should be able to accept a woman being able to pick up that hammer and wield it for a while.

Jason Aaron

#99. It often takes two to do a good painting - one to paint it, and another to rap the painter smartly with a hammer before he or she can ruin it.

Richard Schmid

#100. 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