Hammering Quotes
49 quotes by 38 authors
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Don't get discouraged if you're hammering away at a sentence or a paragraph or a chapter, and it keeps coming out wrong. You're allowed to…
— Tana French
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The journalists have constructed for themselves a little wooden chapel, which they also call the Temple of Fame, in which they put up and take…
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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If you have a little inteligence, sooner or later the question is bound to arise: What is the point of it all? Why? It is…
— Rajneesh
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Vengeance is in my heart, death in my hand,Blood and revenge are hammering in my head.
— William Shakespeare
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When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a…
— Jacob August Riis
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A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
— Horace Mann
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What is guilt? Guilt is the pledge drive constantly hammering in our heads that keeps us from fully enjoying the show. Guilt is the reason…
— Dennis Miller
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Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at…
— Jacob August Riis
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I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or…
— Joan Didion
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No wonder men got impervious to superficial pain, I thought. It came from this habit of hammering each other incessantly.
— Diana Gabaldon
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Knock and it shall be opened.' But does knocking mean hammering and kicking the door like a maniac?
— C.S. Lewis
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Calvin is hammering nails into coffee table. Mom: CALVIN WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO THE COFFEE TABLE?!? Calvin: Is this some sort of trick question,…
— Bill Watterson
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Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely his own, nor can he…
— Henry David Thoreau
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I have told many, yet when I go down that last trail, I know there will be a thousand stories hammering at my skull, demanding…
— Louis L'Amour
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Our love of lockstep is our greatest curse, the source of all that bedevils us. It is the source of homophobia, xenophobia, racism, sexism, terrorism,…
— Anna Quindlen
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If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skull, why then do we read it?
— Franz Kafka
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Those heart-hammering nightmares that start to lose coherence even as you're waking up from them, but that still manage to leave their moldering fingerprints all…
— Mike Carey
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It was at first almost as if he hadn't wanted to kiss her. His mouth was hard on hers, unyielding; then he put both arms…
— Cassandra Clare
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Our vision is so limited we can hardly imagine a love that does not show itself in protection from suffering.... The love of God did…
— Elisabeth Elliot
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Still sitting, he reached out and pulled me toward him. We stayed there, looking at each other, his hand still wrapped in my shirt hem,…
— Kelley Armstrong
Who Wrote These Hammering Quotes
38 authors contributed a total of 49 Hammering Quotes, led by these top contributors: