Hammers Quotes

I would rather be the hammer than the anvil

You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site.

Your body is like a piece of dynamite. You can tap it with a pencil all day, but you'll never make it explode. You hit it once with a hammer: Bang! Get serious. Do 40 hard minutes, not an hour and half of nonsense. It's so much more rewarding.

Sometimes, when we train, we simply have to go out to meet the Man with the Hammer

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 the instrument you write with. But I would rather have it bent and dull and know I had to put it to the grindstone again and hammer it into shape and put a whetstone to it, and know that I had something to write about, than to have it bright and shining and nothing to say, or smooth and well-oiled in the closet, but unused.

If you have a hammer, use it everywhere you can, but I do not claim that everything is fractal.

Our spoken word first hammers a thing desired into shape. Our continued spoken word brings this shaped substance forth and clothes it with a visible body.

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.

Treat your past as a book that you learn from instead of a hammer that you beat yourself up about.

If your only tool is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail.

When you have a hammer, all problems start to look like nails.

We're going to hammer guns on the anvil of relentless legislative strategy! We're going to beat guns into submission!

I feel like I'm ready for any dangerous situation that might come my way, provided I have a hammer on me.

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

When my nephew was 3 and 4, he would say the most genius things. He said, You're hammer macho with FBI dogs. I thought it was just one of those great lines.

Now they always accuse me of carrying around a sledge hammer with which to pound the church members. Yes sir, I do pound them, every time I come down, I knock one of the halfway fellows out of the doorway, and every time I knock one out I get a sinner in.

A hammer shatters glass but it also forges steel.

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

For all your days be prepared, and meet them ever alike. When you are the anvil, bear - when you are the hammer, strike.

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.

A worker may be the hammer's master, but the hammer still prevails. A tool knows exactly how it is meant to be handled, while the user of the tool can only have an approximate idea.

My great-grandfather Melvin had been a carpenter - so was my father - and they taught me the value of tools: saws, hammers, chisels, files and rulers. It all dealt with conciseness and precision. It eliminated guesswork. One has to know his tools, so he doesn't work against himself.

Communism has nothing to do with love. Communism is an excellent hammer which we use to destroy our enemy.

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

He that is good with a hammer tends to think everything is a nail.