Sharpen The Ax Quotes

#1. We must take time out to sharpen the ax or we'll exhaust ourselves trying to fell trees with a blunt instrument.

Ira Chaleff

#2. But we are each created in God's image and must be allowed to seek our path to Him in our own way.

C.W. Gortner

#3. We always tend to distrust geniuses about genius, as if what they say didn't arouse much empathy in us, or as if we were waiting till some more reliable source of information came along ...

Randall Jarrell

#4. The public has no idea that the deficit has been falling like a stone.

Paul Krugman

#5. The signifieds butt-heads with the signifiers
and we all fall down slackjawed to marvel at words
while across the sky sheet impossible birds
in a steady illiterate movement homewards.

Joanna Newsom

#6. That's a song about reaching deep inside yourself where you can completely be who you are.

Terri Clark

#7. Man keeps inventing things all the time.

Mikhail Kalashnikov

#8. A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man?

Henry Ward Beecher

#9. I love, love, love fantasy, like 'Lord of the Rings' and things like that.

Molly Quinn

#10. How long shall we blunder along without the aid of unpartisan and authoritative scientific assistance in the administration of justice, no one knows; but all fair persons not conventionalized by provincial legal habits of mind ought, I should think, unite to effect some change.

Learned Hand

#11. Most of my favourite moments in film have been when I've had an opportunity to say something from scratch, something original, whether I jotted down a few lines or it came out in improvisation.

Nicolas Cage

#12. There are several books out on punk history, but I haven't read any of them. I was there.

Greg Ginn

#13. Social media has made the web all about me, me, me.

Erik Qualman

#14. I don't feel burdened, but I do feel a little frustrated. Because I see the problem, and I can see the solution - but there are two strongly different points of view on this - like the Republicans and Democrats.

Donna Karan

#15. Obamacare is terminal. It is going to fail under the crushing weight of its own flawed design.

Glenn Thompson