Sledgehammer Quotes

#1. To a hammer, every problem is a nail," we said on the team but we called him 'the screwdriver'. We were confronted with stubborn nails and we needed a sledgehammer.

Massimo Marino

#2. Every now and then life sold you an illusion of design. A coincidence, a parallel, a sledgehammer symbol. The goods were always faulty. You forked over the cash only to discover they'd fallen apart by the time you got home. But life kept at it. Life couldn't help it. Life was a compulsive salesman.

Glen Duncan

#3. Reformed theology isn't a sledgehammer with which to hit people, it's a pillow on which they can lay their weary heads.

Burk Parsons

#4. When one door closes, find another."
Kylie gazed back up. "And what if there isn't another door?"
"Then you try the window."
"And if there's not a window?" Kylie asked.
"Then you find a sledgehammer and make a window.

C.C. Hunter

#5. We took a sledgehammer to the rules of English and reassembled the pieces into a language only we understood.

Anthony Marra

#6. Unless you hit your television with a sledgehammer, you're not going to be able to be an individual.

Justin Theroux

#7. Monetary policy does not work like a scalpel but more like a sledgehammer.

Liaquat Ahamed

#8. The fact is that there is a contradiction going on but our brains don't like contradiction. So when Moe hits Curly on the head with a sledgehammer and Curly says, "ow" and Moe says, "Serves you right Numbskull", you can say that's because they're separate beings, and that's true.

Brad Warner

#9. At that exact moment, Nancy Grace, a CNN legal commentator who combines the nuance of a sledgehammer with the social graces of a harpy..

Charles P. Pierce

#10. I think topical songwriting is a real gift, and it's hard not to be pedantic and show up with the sledgehammer message.

Mary Chapin Carpenter

#11. Why slap them on the wrist with feather when you can belt them over the head with a sledgehammer.

Katharine Hepburn

#12. One might as well try to perform brain surgery with a sledgehammer.

Ben Bernanke

#13. Guilt wears track shoes. Sprint, marathon, or cross-country, it doesn't matter. It runs tireless to catch you, and it carries a sledgehammer.

Jamie Mason

#14. The only time I've tried to make plans, the cosmic sledgehammer has intervened and something else has happened. You just have to wait and see what comes your way, so that's what I do.

Peter Capaldi

#15. ISIS is a monstrosity. It didn't come from nowhere. It's one of the results of the U.S. hitting a very vulnerable society - Iraq - with a sledgehammer.

Noam Chomsky

#16. Booming and yet muffled, croaking, like an amplified premature burial, it called out "Merriiiiinnnnnn!" And then the massive and shiveringly hollow jolt of a single sledgehammer blow against the bedroom wall. "God

William Peter Blatty

#17. When you get real stage fright, it comes like a sledgehammer out of the blue in the middle of something that you know you've done too many times before, and there's no rhyme or reason for it. It's something quite different from being nervous. It's almost paralysing.

Billie Whitelaw

#18. Once again, I am sorry to take a sledgehammer to so small and fragile a nut, but I have to do so because more than 40 per cent of the American people believe literally in the story of Noah's Ark.

Richard Dawkins

#19. Why use a sledgehammer when a butterfly net will suffice?

Thea Harrison

#20. And his dick looks like a hot dog that got hit with a sledgehammer and sewn back together by a blind lady."
"Thanks, Port."
"You're welcome, D.

Jeremy Robert Johnson

#21. SOPA has been described as hitting a carpet tack with a sledgehammer. But technology was a sledgehammer to the music industry, one that allowed digital distributors like Apple to grow rich.

Peter Lerangis

#22. If I can capture truth in its simplest form, beauty will follow like a sledgehammer.

Mark Twain

#23. Sometimes someone just takes a sledgehammer to your heart and even if you still have feelings for them, you can't ever quite feel the way you used to. The innocent part is all gone.

Melissa Senate

#24. To encounter 'Beowulf' is like taking a sledgehammer to a quarry face. You must bang in there.

Seamus Heaney

#25. You'll see! We're going to the palace. Fetch Angua. We might need her. And bring the search warrant.
You mean the sledgehammer, sir?
Yes.

Terry Pratchett

#26. I can't die like this. I have things to do. My adventure has hardly begun. Everything goes black. I see Death. Ain't so fascinating. It's a sledgehammer.

Karen Marie Moning

#27. Wanting people to listen, you can't just tap them on the shoulder anymore. You have to hit them with a sledgehammer, and then you'll notice you've got their strict attention.

Kevin Spacey

#28. In Soviet thinking the concept of economy of force has little place. Whereas to an Englishman the taking of a sledgehammer to crack a nut is a wrong decision and a sign of mental immaturity ... in Russian eyes the cracking of nuts is clearly what sledgehammers are for.

Max Hastings

#29. Genius: 1. to believe your own thought. To believe that what is true for you is ultimately true. 2. a sledgehammer. 3. the fruit of labour and thought. 4. soul. 5. the ability to put into effect what is in your mind. 6. something one can become.

Heinrich Heine

#30. If criticism is needed, do it tactfully. Don't use a sledgehammer when a fly swatter will do the job.

Ann Landers

#31. I mean ... who was it that said if the door is locked, find a window. If the windows locked, well ... break it. If it won't break then find a freaking sledgehammer and make a new one.

C.C. Hunter

#32. Oh, thank goodness you're here," the priest said. "I think this poor boy tried to kill himself with a sledgehammer.

Joey Comeau

#33. I am so alone, all the time, even when I'm surrounded by people. Sometimes I get really tired of the walls, and I wish I had the strength to just go at them with a sledgehammer.

Karole Cozzo

#34. It is the direct man who strikes sledgehammer blows, who penetrates the very marrow of a subject at every stroke and gets the meat out of a proposition, who does things.

Orison S. Marden

#35. When you're a sledgehammer, you don't need to be unobvious. You just need one good hit.

Stylo Fantome

#36. You are about as covert as a sledgehammer.

Gail Carriger

#37. You don't live in the past; you take a sledgehammer to it to see what stands so that you can build on it.

Samuel L. Drew

#38. Your writing", she said to me, "it's so raw. It's like a sledgehammer, and yet it has humor and tenderness ...

Charles Bukowski