Hammer Quotes

332 Hammer quotes by 261 unique authors

Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up. — Terry Pratchett
I do think a carpenter needs a good hammer to bang in the nail. — Oliver Reed
To me, my biggest fear is getting a big head, and that is when I get the hammer. Because it's very easy in this game… — Keith Richards
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer. — Will Rogers
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… — Leland Stanford
I'll never sell 14 million like Hammer, I just wanna do a good Ice-T show. — Ice T
Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces. — Henry David Thoreau
Before I was married, I didn't consider my failure to manage even basic hand tools a feminist inadequacy. I thought it had more to do… — Ayelet Waldman
I'm in my usual state up here in the commentary box: high tension, heart beating like a trip hammer, whatever that is. — Murray Walker
There's something very romantic about self-destruction and sabotaging your life, and taking a hammer to it. — Gerard Way
Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy. — Mao Zedong
If I hammer my own thumb while doing some DIY, it's not nice, but it's not the end of the world. To care obsessively about… — Julian Baggini
In real life it is always the anvil that breaks the hammer... — George Orwell
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it. — Bertolt Brecht
Those who hammer their guns into plows, will plow for those who do not. — Thomas Jefferson
Not hammer-strokes, but dance of the water, sings the pebbles into perfection. — Rabindranath Tagore
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… — Graham Chapman
Do not, do not, do not books for ever hammer at people like perpetual bells? When, between two books, silent sky appears: be glad — Rainer Maria Rilke
The intentions of a tool are what it does. A hammer intends to strike, a vise intends to hold fast, a lever intends to lift.… — Philip Pullman
A terrible premonition washed over me. This was how the whole world would end.... They would devour the forest and excrete piles of buildings made… — Robin Hobb

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