Hammer Quotes - page 2

At the door of every happy person there should be a man with a hammer whose knock would serve as a constant reminder of the existence of unfortunate people. (Anton Chekhov)
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. View quote
Milan Kundera
Grimly, she realized that clocks don't make a sound that even remotely resembles ticking, tocking. It was more the sound of a hammer, upside down, hacking methodically at the earth. It was the sound of a grave. View quote
Markus Zusak
Don't judge someone until you've stood at his forge and worked with his hammer, eh? View quote
Rick Riordan
Propaganda is a weapon that the Confederacy wields best, and wields heaviest. It is their hammer. And when all you have is a hammer, then everything looks like a nail. View quote
Jeff Grubb
Water, wind and birdsong were the echoes in this quiet place of a great chiming symphony that was surging around the world. Knee-deep in grasses and moon daisies, Stella stood and listened, swaying a little as the flowers and trees were swaying, her spirit voice singing loudly, though her lips were still, and every pulse in her body beating its hammer strokes in time to the song. View quote
Elizabeth Goudge
She heard pa shouting,"Jiminy crickets! It's raining fish-hooks and hammer handles! View quote
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Don't force it... get a bigger hammer. View quote
Arthur Bloch
Smoking is similar to hitting yourself over the head with a hammer because, when you stop, you feel better. View quote
Allan Pease
If at first you don't succeed, get a bigger hammer. View quote
Alan Lewis
I have the greatest sympathy with the growth of the socialist party. I think they understand the evils that surround us and hammer them into people's minds better than we Liberals. (Charles Trevelyan)
The trouble with most comedians who try to do satire is that they are essentially brash, noisy and indelicate people who have to use a sledge hammer to smash a butterfly. View quote
Imogene Coca
When you find your opponent's weak spot, hammer it. View quote
John Heisman
On 'The Guiding Light' I enjoyed working with Jamie Goodwin and Ellen Parker, who played my sister. I loved working with Jerry Ver Dorn and Jay Hammer. I mean, there's some great fun people that I've really enjoyed. View quote
Kassie DePaiva
The country blacksmith who employs no journeyman is never conscious of any conflict between the capital invested in his anvil, hammer and bellows, and the labor he performs with them, because in fact, there is none. View quote
Leland Stanford
I'm fascinated by the narrative of geology, and I'm a veritable pack rat of a collector on the road. I keep a rock hammer in my car. View quote
Marianne Wiggins
A branch of physics that I was working in for many years has lately become much less active. Many problems have been solved and others are so difficult that nobody knows what to do about them. This means that I do much less physics today than 15 years ago. By contrast, fractal tools have plenty to do. There is a joke that your hammer will always find nails to hit. I find that perfectly acceptable. The hammer I crafted is the first effective tool for all kinds of roughness and nobody will deny that there is at last some roughness everywhere. View quote
Benoît Mandelbrot
As a technology, the book is like a hammer. That is to say, it is perfect: a tool ideally suited to its task. Hammers can be tweaked and varied but will never go obsolete. Even when builders pound nails by the thousand with pneumatic nail guns, every household needs a hammer. View quote
James Gleick
Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
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. View quote
Beck
I took all my wax studies and threw them in the fire... that's the way it is when something unpleasant happens to me. I take my hammer and I squash a figure. (Camille Claudel)
Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
Art is not a mirror to hold up to society, but a hammer with which to shape it. View quote
Vladimir Mayakovsky
I would rather be the hammer than the anvil. View quote
Erwin Rommel
If you give a man a hammer, he thinks he can solve all problems by pounding. Well, God gave men penises.... View quote
Jacob M. Appel