Ax Quotes

81 Ax quotes by 68 unique authors

Ax: 100 Every thing doth naturally persevere in yt state in wch it is unlesse it bee interrupted by some externall cause, hence... [a] body… — Isaac Newton
A precisian professor had the habit of saying: "... quartic polynomial ax^4+bx^3+cx^2+dx+e , where e need not be the base of the natural logarithms." — John Edensor Littlewood
For most people, I'm just Alice. But I don't mind. Now, if I were Alice the ax murderer, then I'd hate it. — Ann B. Davis
The symbol of the race ought to be a human being carrying an ax, for every human being has one concealed about him somewhere, and… — Mark Twain
Their preservation depends upon a sentiment. As sentiment never yet annihilated a paying industry, we cannot hope to stay, wholly, the ax and saw of… — Frank Howard Clark
America once had the clarity of the pioneer ax. — Robert Osborne
Missionarying was a better thing in those days than it is in ours. All you had to do was to cure the head savage´s sick… — Mark Twain
I cannot see the short, white curls Upon the forehead of an Ox, But what I see them dripping with That poor thing's blood, and… — Mark Twain
When you operate in an overbuilt metropolis, you have to hack your way with a meat ax, — Robert Moses
I have no ax to grind. I was lucky. I played. How many guys play high school, college football never play pro football? — Art Donovan
In an age of incompetence, I've been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a… — Billy Joel
A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us. — Franz Kafka
The women who inspired this play deserved to be smacked across the head with a meat ax and that, I flatter myself, is exactly what… — Clare Boothe Luce
It's time to look beyond the budget ax to assure access to health care for all. It's time to look for bipartisan solutions to the… — Ron Wyden
With blue vinyl-tile floor, pale-green wainscoating, pink walls, a yellow ceiling, and orange-and-white stork-patterned drapes, the expectant fathers' lounge churned with the negative energy of… — Dean Koontz
A crossbow?” Pigeon asked. I left my battle-ax in my other jeans,” the man said. — Brandon Mull
From the corner of his eye, Eragon saw Orik hewing Urgal necks with mighty blows of his ax. — Christopher Paolini
I have survived. I am here. Confused, screwed up, but here. So, how can I find my way? Is there a chain saw of the… — Laurie Halse Anderson
When you chopped logs with the ax and they split open they smelled beautiful, like Christmas. But when you split someone's head open it smelled… — Kate Atkinson
...people don't respect the morning. An alarm clock violently wakes them up, shatters their sleep like the blow of an ax, and they immediately surrender… — Milan Kundera
When the ax came into the forest the trees said the handle is one of us. — Alice Walker
You're a very amusing fellow," he told Halt. "I'd like to brain you with my ax one of these days." Erak to Halt. — John Flanagan
Erak. The one they call the Oberjarl," the Arridi answered him. Impulsively, Axl took a pace forward, raising his ax threateningly. You'll have to go… — John Flanagan
The need is not really for more brains, the need is now for a gentler, a more tolerant people than those who won for us… — Loren Eiseley
I'd like to take a walk far back in the flinty hills and search for a souvenir, an old double-bitted ax stuck deep in the… — Wilson Rawls

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