Hammers Quotes - Page 16

• 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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• One Dad I know uses what I call Post-It® Note therapy on his children. He leaves sticky Post-It Notes everywhere ...in their lunch box, inside their shoes, on top of their sandwich before he wraps it up. He once went into his daughter's room, looking for his hammer, and on the back of her bedroom door were every Post-It Note he'd ever given her - over 250 in all with simple messages like 'Great job'...'I love you'...or 'You're special to me.' Do you think that girl knew, without a doubt, that her Dad valued her and loved her?

  Jack Canfield

  Girl, Daughter, Jobs

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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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• In my early 20s I was so miserable doing construction, I wanted something that paid money. I liked nice stuff. I liked cars and architecture, and things that cost money. I wanted to not swing a hammer, and make money… and not do stuff that was dirty. I attempted to get into comedy. I started to do stand-up, but I wasn’t very good at it.

  Adam Carolla

  Nice, Dirty, Naughty

  Interview with Ariel Adams, www.askmen.com. November 3, 2010.

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• The book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer, the wheel. Once invented, it cannot be improved. You cannot make a spoon that is better than a spoon... The book has been thoroughly tested, and it's very hard to see how it could be improved on for its current purposes.

  Umberto Eco

  Book, Purpose, Spoons

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• 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 with being Jewish. The Jews I knew growing up didn't do 'do-it-yourself.' When my father needed to hammer something he generally used his shoe, and the only real tool he owned was a pair of needle-nose pliers.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Growing Up, Real, Father

  Ayelet Waldman (2009). “Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace”, p.81, Anchor

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• There's something very romantic about self-destruction and sabotaging your life, and taking a hammer to it.

  Gerard Way

  Self, Destruction, Very Romantic

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• 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 similar levels of discomfort in animals seems to be a case of mistaken moral priorities.

  Julian Baggini

  Nice, Animal, Priorities

  "Be pragmatic, not obsessive" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. May 5, 2009.

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• In real life it is always the anvil that breaks the hammer.

  George Orwell

  Real, Anvils, Break

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.159, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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. They are what it is made for. But sometimes a tool may have other uses that you don't know. Sometimes in doing what you intend, you also do what the knife intends, without knowing.

  Philip Pullman

  Technology, Knives, Knowing

  Philip Pullman (2007). “The Amber Spyglass”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• 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 of stone wrenched from the earth or from dead trees. They would hammer paths of bare stone between their dwellings, and dirty the rivers and subdue the land until it could recall only the will of man. They could not stop themselves from doing what they did. They did not see what they did, and even if they saw, they did not know how to stop. They no longer knew what was enough.

  Robin Hobb

  Dirty, Men, Rivers

  Robin Hobb (2013). “The Complete Soldier Son Trilogy: Shaman’s Crossing, Forest Mage, Renegade’s Magic”, p.102, HarperCollins UK

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• There were not so many physical threats that could not be countered with a decent hammer.

  Steig Larsson

  Threat, Decent

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• What was beauty unless you intended to use it, like a hammer, or a key? It was just something for other people to use and admire, or envy, despise. To nail their dreams onto like a picture hanger on a blank wall. And so many girls saying, use me, dream me.

  Janet Fitch

  Beauty, Girl, Dream

  Janet Fitch (2013). “White Oleander”, p.184, Hachette UK

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• What did I care about my hammer, about my bolt, about thirst or death? There was, on one star, on one planet, on mine, the Earth, a little prince to be consoled! I took him in my arms. I rocked him. I told him, 'The flower you love is not in danger...I'll draw you a muzzle for your sheep...I'll draw you a fence for your flower...I' I didn't know what to say. How clumsy I felt! I didn't know how to reach him, where to find him...It's so mysterious, the land of tears.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Stars, Flower, Love Is

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• There was a saying that the strength of a man’s steel was only known under the hammer of circumstance. If anyone had asked me a few hours ago, I would have said that nearly five years of boyhood had hammered me into constant fear and excessive caution. But now I realised it had done the opposite. It had shaped me into someone who stepped forwards and reached for what she wanted. It was too late for me to tuck my hands behind my back and wait like a good woman.

  Alison Goodman

  Men, Hands, Years

  Alison Goodman (2011). “Eona”, p.46, Penguin

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• I wish i could tell you that through the tragedy i mined some undiscovered, life-altering absolute that i could pass on to you.I didn't.The cliches apply-people are what count,life is precious,materialism is over rated, and the little things matter,live in the moment-and i can repeat them to you ad nauseam.you might listen, but you won't internalize.Tragedy hammers it hm.Tragedy etches into your soul.You might not be happier.But you will be better.

  Harlan Coben

  People, Soul, Live In The Moment

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• Wrath clapped his brother on the shoulder. On the whole, though, the SOB was a total keeper. “Forgiven, forgotten.” “Feel free to hammer me anytime.” “Believe me, I do.

  J.R. Ward

  Brother, Believe, Wrath

  J.R. Ward (2011). “J.R. Ward The Black Dagger Brotherhood Novels 1-4”, p.151, Penguin

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• And that's when I snapped up my left hand and smashed him in the face with the hammer I'd grabbed.

  Jennifer Estep

  Hands, Left Hand, Faces

  Jennifer Estep (2012). “Mythos Academy Bundle: First Frost, Touch of Frost, Kiss of Frost & Dark Frost”, p.487, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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• Men can only think. Women have a way of understanding without thinking. Woman was created out of God's own fancy. Man, He had to hammer into shape.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Men, Thinking, Understanding

  Rabindranath Tagore (2016). “The Home and the World”, p.42, Rabindranath Tagore

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• A Dionysian life task needs the hardness of the hammer and one of its first essentials is without doubt the joy to be found even in destruction.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  War, Joy, Doubt

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Ecce Homo”, p.77, Courier Corporation

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• If I had time and a hammer, I'd track down every bootleg copy and smash it.

  George Lucas

  Track, Copies, Ifs

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• When I was handed a hammer, my first project was building a three-story tree house.

  Ty Pennington

  House, Tree, Three

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think if we can accept Thor as a frog and a horse-faced alien, we should be able to accept a woman being able to pick up that hammer and wield it for a while.

  Jason Aaron

  Horse, Thinking, Frogs

  "Marvel Comics Writers Explain Why They're Making Thor a Woman". Interview with Eliana Dockterman, time.com. July 15, 2014.

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• Some think the only way to get even, to get attention or advantage, or to win is to bash people. This kind of behavior is never appropriate. Oftentimes character and reputation and almost always self-esteem are destroyed under the hammer of this vicious practice.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Self Esteem, Communication, Character

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• Look, you see those groups talkin' about negativity and anger, and they'd do that for two albums, and then you'd see them change up. I knew they couldn't do a Kurt Cobain on their whole career. You can't stay like that all the time. It's like when Hammer tried to go gangster. You can't be something that you're not.

  Prince

  Change, Careers, Two

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