Hammers Quotes - Page 14

• Little-known fact: When the stock exchange closes, the guy who comes out on the balcony with that big hammer slams it on the head of the person who lost the most money that day.

  George Carlin

  Money, Guy, Littles

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• ...[the photographer] can be considered a kind of disembodied burrowing eye, a conspirator against time and its hammers. His work, print after print of it, seems to call to be shown before the decay which it portrays flattens all... Here are the records of the age before an imminent collapse.

  Jack Kerouac

  Eye, Age, Decay

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• What a doctor I've got - he's really mixed up. Last week, he grabbed my knee and told me to cough. Then hit me in the balls with a hammer.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Doctors, Balls, Knees

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• Use a screwdriver instead of a hammer. Try to untighten the nut with your hand. Utilize the path of least resistance first.

  Tim Allen

  Hands, Nuts, Trying

  "Tim Allen: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. November 2011.

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• In general, therefore, color is a means of exerting a direct influence upon the soul. Color is the keyboard. The eye is the hammer. The soul is the piano with its many strings. The artist is the hand that purposefully sets the soul vibrating by means of this or that key.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Mean, Eye, Artist

  Wassily Kandinsky, Kenneth Clement Lindsay, Peter Vergo (1994). “Kandinsky, Complete Writings on Art”

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• The anvil is not afraid of the hammer.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Anvils, Not Afraid

  Charles Spurgeon (2012). “John Ploughman's Talks”, p.77, Whitaker House

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• The hammer doesn't build the house.

  Tony Horton

  House

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. January 31, 2014.

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• Getting to play with Thor's hammer while he stroked my bow

  Jeremy Renner

  Play, Bows

  "Jeremy Renner, Tom Hiddleston, Clark Gregg, Cobie Smulders and Joss Whedon Talk THE AVENGERS". Interview, collider.com. April 25, 2012.

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• I hammer on a theme until I'm tired of it and the audience is tired of it.

  Lewis Black

  Tired, Theme, Audience

  Interview with Tom Lewis, www.scpr.org. September 7, 2012.

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• A good leader has a plan that consists of changing simple pictures. Just because a group of people has a bunch of boards, hammers, and nails does not mean that they are building a house or even anything recognizable. Sometimes leaders think they are doing their job just because there is a lot of hammering going on. As a society we like the sound of hammering, but we are uncomfortable with the sound of thinking, which is silence.

  Laurie Beth Jones

  Leadership, Jobs, Mean

  Laurie Beth Jones (1995). “Jesus, CEO: using ancient wisdom for visionary leadership”, Hyperion Books

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• Man is born to trouble. Man is born for trouble. Man is born to battle trouble. Man is born for the fight, to be forged and molded--under torch and hammer and chisel--into a sharper, finer, stronger image of God.

  N.D. Wilson

  Fighting, Men, Battle

  N. D. Wilson (2013). “Death by Living: Life Is Meant to Be Spent”, p.69, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• It's well known that the greatest defence against an intruder is the sound of a gun hammer being pulled back.

  Vince Vaughn

  Gun, Sound, Defense

  "True Detective's Vince Vaughn on gun control, Edward Snowden and comedy". Interview with Jonathan Heaf, www.gq-magazine.co.uk. June 1, 2015.

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• Man is a long time coming. Man will yet win. Brother may yet line up with brother: This old anvil laughs at many broken hammers.There are men who can't be bought.

  Carl Sandburg

  Brother, Winning, Men

  Carl Sandburg (2015). “Harvest Poems: 1910-1960”, p.136, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When you are an Anvill, hold you still; when you are a hammer, strike your fill.

  George Herbert

  Strikes, Poor Richard, Stills

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.332

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• If my wheel comes off and I hit the fence real hard, I get to whack every damn one of you with a hammer.

  Dale Earnhardt, Jr.

  Real, Wheels, Fence

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• The fatuous idea that a person can be holy by himself denies God the pleasure of saving sinners. God must therefore first take the sledge-hammer of the Law in His fists and smash the beast of self-righteousness and its brood of self-confidence, self wisdom, and self-help. When the conscience has been thoroughly frightened by the Law it welcomes the Gospel of grace with its message of a Savior Who came-not to break the bruised reed nor to quench the smoking flax-but to preach glad tidings to the poor, to heal the broken-hearted, and to grant forgiveness of sins to all the captives.

  Martin Luther

  Self Confidence, Law, Ideas

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• Similar (of course, far from identical) irritations in similar conditions call out similar reflexes; the more powerful the irritation, the sooner it overcomes personal peculiarities. To a tickle, people react differently, but to a red-hot iron, alike. As a steam-hammer converts a sphere and a cube alike into sheet metal, so under the blow of too great and inexorable events resistances are smashed and the boundaries of "individuality" lost.

  Leon Trotsky

  Powerful, Blow, Iron

  Leon Trotsky, Max Eastman (2008). “History of the Russian Revolution”, p.70, Haymarket Books

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• I believe that inside every tool is a hammer.

  Adam Savage

  Believe, Tools, I Believe

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• A woman with organizing skills can run a construction company without ever picking up a hammer and nail.

  Warren Farrell

  Running, Skills, Nails

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• Its very pulse, if I may use the word, was like no other clock. It did not mark the flight of every moment with a gentle second stroke, as though it would check old Time, and have him stay his pace in pity, but measured it with one sledge-hammer beat, as if its business were to crush the seconds as they came trooping on, and remorselessly to clear a path before the Day of Judgment.

  Charles Dickens

  Crush, Pace, Use

  Charles Dickens (1871). “The Mystery of Edwin Drood and Other Pieces”, p.225

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• When you're a hammer (as the saying goes), all your problems look like nails. If you're a meteorite expert pondering the sudden extinction of boatloads of species, you'll want to say an impact did it. If you're an igneous petrologist, volcanoes did it. If you're into spaceborne bioclouds, an interstellar virus did it. If you're a hypernova expert, gamma rays did it.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Impact, Volcanoes, Rays

  Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.281, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Many hammer all over the wall and believe that with each blow they hit the nail on the head.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wall, Believe, Blow

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• The good nail will do its job regardless what kind of hammer comes its way and what kind of surface it sits on.

  Rita Zahara

  Inspirational, Jobs, Nails

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• Lay me on an anvil, O God.
  Beat me and hammer me into a steel spike.

  Carl Sandburg

  Prayer, Steel, Anvils

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.109, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Whatever has made, or does make, or may make music, should be held sacred as the golden bridle-bit of the Shah of Persia's horse,and the golden hammer, with which his hoofs are shod.

  Herman Melville

  Horse, Musical, Golden

  Herman Melville (2016). “Redburn.His First Voyage”, p.280, Herman Melville

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