Hammers Quotes - Page 15

• 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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• 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 to believe you're something special.

  Keith Richards

  Believe, Games, Special

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• 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

  Book, Sky, Two

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• 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 discernment, the hammer of wisdom, the sandpaper of patience. But then when I grew up I found that life handed you these rusty bent old tools - friendships, prayer, conscience, honesty - and said 'do the best you can with these, they will have to do'. And mostly, against all odds, they do.

  Anne Lamott

  Prayer, Honesty, Kids

  Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, p.92, Anchor

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• She wanted to feel him pound away her fears, a hammer to smash through all her guilt and pain and emptiness.

  Tina St. John

  Pain, Guilt, Pounds

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• 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! Knocker and gongs! Pound, pound, far underground! Ho, ho! my lad! Swish, smack! Whip crack! Batter and beat! Yammer and bleat! Work, work! Nor dare to shirk, While Goblins quaff, and Goblins laugh, Round and round far underground Below, my lad!

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Crush, Laughing, Black

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.39, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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, to a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

  Roger Lowenstein

  Meaningful, Men, Nails

  Roger Lowenstein (2013). “Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist”, p.318, Random House

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• Don’t judge someone until you’ve stood at his forge and worked with his hammer, eh?

  Rick Riordan

  Judging, Hephaestus

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• Friend, my enemy, I call you out. You, you, you there with a bad thorn in your side. You there, my friend, with a winning air. Who pawned the lie on me when he looked brassly at my shyest secret. With my whole heart under your hammer. That though I loved him for his faults as much as for his good. My friend were an enemy upon stilts with his head in a cunning cloud. -Dylan Thomas

  Dylan Thomas

  Lying, Heart, Winning

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• She heard pa shouting,"Jiminy crickets!It's raining fish-hooks and hammer handles!

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Rain, Hook, Cricket

  Laura Ingalls Wilder (1973). “On the Banks of Plum Creek”, Turtleback

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• This camp is a forge for the army; it's testing our mettle. Instead of heat and hammer, our trials are cold and hunger. Question is, what are we made of?

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Army, Trials, Heat

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2012). “Forge”, p.121, Simon and Schuster

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• You've got to shake your fists at lightning now, you've got to roar like forest fire You've got to spread your light like blazes all across the sky They're going to aim the hoses on you, show 'em you won't expire Not till you burn up every passion, not even when you die Come on now, you've got to try, if you're feeling contempt, well then you tell it If you're tired of the silent night, Jesus, well then you yell it Condemned to wires and hammers, strike every chord that you feel That broken trees and elephant ivories conceal

  Joni Mitchell

  Jesus, Passion, Tired

  Song: Judgement of the Moon and Stars, Album: For the Roses, 1972

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• For a moment everything was clear, and when that happens you see that the world is barely there at all. Don't we all secretly know this? It's a perfectly balanced mechanism of shouts and echoes pretending to be wheels and cogs, a dreamclock chiming beneath a mystery-glass we call life. Behind it? Below it and around it? Chaos, storms. Men with hammers, men with knives, men with guns. Women who twist what they cannot dominate and belittle what they cannot understand. A universe of horror and loss surrounding a single lighted stage where mortals dance in defiance of the dark.

  Stephen King

  Loss, Dark, Gun

  Stephen King (2016). “11/22/63: A Novel”, p.791, Simon and Schuster

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• It's normal at this point for the fear-anger syndrome to take over and make you want to hammer on that side plate with a chisel, to pound it off with a sledge if necessary. You think about it, and the more you think about it the more you're inclined to take the whole machine to a high bridge and drop it off. It's just outrageous that a tiny little slot of a screw can defeat you so totally.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Thinking, Bridges, Sides

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• Dwarfs were not a naturally religious species, but in a world where pit props could crack without warning and pockets of fire damp could suddenly explode they'd seen the need for gods as the sort of supernatural equivalent of a hard hat. Besides, when you hit your thumb with an eight-pound hammer it's nice to be able to blaspheme. It takes a very special and strong-minded kind of atheist to jump up and down with their hand clasped under their other armpit and shout, "Oh, random-fluctuations-in-the-space-time-continuum!" or "Aaargh, primitive-and-outmoded-concept on a crutch!

  Terry Pratchett

  Religious, Atheist, Strong

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• Han spotted a child‟s homespun dolly in the ditch, pressed into the mud. He reined in, meaning to climb down and fetch it so he could clean it up for his little sister. Then he remembered that Mari was dead and had no need of dollies anymore. Grief was like that. It gradually faded into a dull ache, until some simple sight or sound or scent hit him like a hammer blow.

  Cinda Williams Chima

  Children, Grief, Blow

  Cinda Williams Chima (2011). “The Exiled Queen (The Seven Realms Series, Book 2)”, p.12, HarperCollins UK

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• I held a nail in place and slammed it with the hammer. Best. Chore. Ever.

  Cate Tiernan

  Nails, Chores

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• Count up the almonds, Count what was bitter and kept you waking, Count me in too: I sought your eye when you glanced up and no one would see you, I spun that secret thread Where the dew you mused on Slid down to pitchers Tended by a word that reached no one’s heart. There you first fully entered the name that is yours, you stepped to yourself on steady feet, the hammers swung free in the belfry of your silence, things overheard thrust through to you, what’s dead put it’s arm around you too, and the three of you walked through the evening. Render me bitter. Number me among the almonds

  Paul Celan

  Heart, Eye, Names

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• Getting angry over something that won't change is like seeing what happens if you hit your hand with a hammer over and over again, and being surprised each time when it hurts. So you might as well stop doing it.

  Mercedes Lackey

  Hurt, Hands, Might

  Mercedes Lackey (2011). “Beauty and the Werewolf”, p.159, LUNA

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• Far over the Misty Mountains cold, To dungeons deep and caverns old, We must away, ere break of day, To seek our pale enchanted gold. The dwarves of yore made mighty spells, While hammers fell like ringing bells, In places deep, where dark things sleep, In hollow halls beneath the fells. The pines were roaring on the heights, The wind was moaning in the night, The fire was red, it flaming spread, The trees like torches blazed with light.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Sleep, Dark, Night

  J. R. R. Tolkien, “Over The Misty Mountains Cold”

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• Victor: What does it feel like to be in love? Creature: It feels like everything is boiling over and spilling out of me; it feels like my lungs are on fire, and my heart is a hammer, and I feel like I can do anything...I feel like I can do anything in the world.

  Nick Dear

  Heart, Fire, Doe

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• The eyes are hammers.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Eye

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• I have a box inside me now that never used to exist. I never needed it before. It's down in my deepest, darkest corner, and it's airtight, soundproofed and padlocked. It's where I keep the thoughts I don't know what to do with, that could get me into trouble. Eating Unseelie hammers on the inside of that lid incessantly. I try to keep kissing Barrons in that box, too, but it gets out sometimes.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Kissing, Trying, Sometimes

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.493, Dell

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• In France every man is either an anvil or a hammer; he is a beater or must be beaten.

  Voltaire

  Men, Anvils, France

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• I was never an Angry Young Man. I am angry only when I hit my thumb with a hammer.

  Kingsley Amis

  Men, Thumbs, Young

  1979 Dissociating himself from that literary grouping, in The Eton College Chronicle, Jun.

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