Hammers Quotes

I would rather be the hammer than the anvil

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

Your body is like a piece of dynamite. You can tap it with a pencil all day, but you'll never make it explode. You hit it once with a hammer: Bang! Get serious. Do 40 hard minutes, not an hour and half of nonsense. It's so much more rewarding.

Sometimes, when we train, we simply have to go out to meet the Man with the Hammer

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

In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you'll dull and blunt the instrument you write with. But I would rather have it bent and dull and know I had to put it to the grindstone again and hammer it into shape and put a whetstone to it, and know that I had something to write about, than to have it bright and shining and nothing to say, or smooth and well-oiled in the closet, but unused.

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.

The book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer, the wheel. Once invented, it cannot be improved. You cannot make a spoon that is better than a spoon... The book has been thoroughly tested, and it's very hard to see how it could be improved on for its current purposes.

Treat your past as a book that you learn from instead of a hammer that you beat yourself up about.

When you have a hammer, all problems start to look like nails.

We're going to hammer guns on the anvil of relentless legislative strategy! We're going to beat guns into submission!

I feel like I'm ready for any dangerous situation that might come my way, provided I have a hammer on me.

If my wheel comes off and I hit the fence real hard, I get to whack every damn one of you with a hammer.

If your only tool is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail.

When my nephew was 3 and 4, he would say the most genius things. He said, You're hammer macho with FBI dogs. I thought it was just one of those great lines.

Now they always accuse me of carrying around a sledge hammer with which to pound the church members. Yes sir, I do pound them, every time I come down, I knock one of the halfway fellows out of the doorway, and every time I knock one out I get a sinner in.

A hammer shatters glass but it also forges steel.

There's something very romantic about self-destruction and sabotaging your life, and taking a hammer to it.

For all your days be prepared, and meet them ever alike. When you are the anvil, bear - when you are the hammer, strike.

What a doctor I've got - he's really mixed up. Last week, he grabbed my knee and told me to cough. Then hit me in the balls with a hammer.

A worker may be the hammer's master, but the hammer still prevails. A tool knows exactly how it is meant to be handled, while the user of the tool can only have an approximate idea.

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.

In real life it is always the anvil that breaks the hammer.

Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil.

There is a joke that your hammer will always find nails to hit. I find that perfectly acceptable

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

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

Temperance is the wisdom to know that not every constructive job requires a hammer.

Sometimes the sins you haven't committed are all you have to hold on to. If you're really desperate, you might need to grope, saying, for example, "I've never killed anyone with a hammer" or "I've never stolen from anyone who didn't deserve it.

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

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

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.

Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.

The first time I saw nitroglycerine was in the beginning of the Crimean War. Professor Zinin in St. Petersburg exhibited some to my father and me, and struck some on an anvil to show that only the part touched by the hammer exploded without spreading.

Remember that there's no one way of doing things. ... If you just get a hammer and hit it really hard, whatever it is, I guarantee you it'll open.

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.

If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

The eyes are hammers.

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.

Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.

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.

To the man with only a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.

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

At that time, a friend shall lose his friend's hammer, and the young shall not know where lieth the things possessed by their fathers that their fathers put there only just the night before.

The reason that clichés become clichés is that they are the hammers and screwdrivers in the toolbox of communication.

Whosoever holds this hammer, if he be worthy, shall possess the power of Thor.

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.

To someone with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

It's well known that the greatest defence against an intruder is the sound of a gun hammer being pulled back.

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