Hammers Quotes

286 Hammers quotes by 235 unique authors

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… — James Gleick
Sleep seems to hammer out for me the logical conclusions of my vague days, and offer them to me as dreams. — D. H. Lawrence
He tunneled into stories where weak men changed into strong half-animals or used eye beams or magic hammers to power through steel or climb up… — Alice Sebold
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… — Ernest Hemingway
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,… — Markus Zusak
Do as little harm to others as you can; make any sacrifice for your true friends; be responsible for yourself and ask nothing of others;… — Dean Koontz
Pain! Deep, tearing, throbbing, needle-sharp, hammer-blunt pain â€“ ripping through his body and through his mind, twisting deep in his guts and slicing at his… — Stuart Hill
Under the Mountain dark and tall The King has come unto his hall! His foe is dead, the Worm of Dread, And ever so his… — J.R.R. Tolkien
It's funny: I always imagined when I was a kid that adults had some kind of inner toolbox full of shiny tools: the saw of… — Anne Lamott
She wanted to feel him pound away her fears, a hammer to smash through all her guilt and pain and emptiness. — Tina St. John
Clap! Snap! the black crack! Grip, grab! Pinch, nab! And down down to Goblin-town You go, my lad! Clash, crash! Crush, smash! Hammer and tongs!… — J.R.R. Tolkien
He fumbles at your spirit As players at the keys Before they drop full music on; He stuns you by degrees. Prepares your brittle substance… — Emily Dickinson
So it has come, the day of testing. Without warning, without fanfare, it is here, and he is in the middle of it. In his… — J M Coetzee
... when I saw any of those kinds of beauty I knew I was alive, and not just in the sense that when I hit… — Neal Stephenson
Pirate Dreams Needles and pins, Needles and pins, Sew me a sail to catch me the wind. Sew me a sail strong as the gale,… — Shel Silverstein
Buffett found it 'extraordinary' that academics studied such things. They studied what was measurable, rather than what was meaningful. 'As a friend [Charlie Munger] said,… — Roger Lowenstein
Donâ€™t judge someone until youâ€™ve stood at his forge and worked with his hammer, eh? — Rick Riordan
It's not that he lacked poetry. But his poetry was of the body, not the mind. He spoke it in the way he moved, the… — Meg Rosoff
If the only tool you have is a hammer, all your problems begin to look like nails. - Abraham Maslow — Laurell K. Hamilton
The Divine was expansive, but religion was reductive. Religion attempted to reduce the Divine to a knowable quantity with which mortals might efficiently deal, to… — Tom Robbins

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