Hammer Quotes

• Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Enemy
  • Crush
  • Communism

• It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • To Be
  • Hammer
  • Anvil

• I'm a sort of nuts-and-bolts guy. I'm into turning wrenches and swinging a hammer and wrenching on cars.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Guy
  • Turning
  • Swinging

• While you're trying to get ahead, remember to get aheart as well. When your only problem IS a nail, all you want is a decent hammer.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Problem
  • Ahead
  • Nail

• I'll never sell 14 million like Hammer, I just wanna do a good Ice-T show.

  

  Ice T
  • Good
  • Never
  • Hammer

• 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.

  

  Jack Roy
  • Up
  • Doctor
  • Mixed Up

• Where do you get lumpy tiles? Well, of course, you don't. But I get a lot of toilets, and so you just dispatch a toilet with a hammer, and then you have lumpy tiles.

  

  Dan Phillips
  • You
  • Hammer
  • Toilet

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

  

  Kingsley Amis
  • Angry
  • Hammer
  • Thumb

• If there is some good in me, it is because I was born in the subtle atmosphere of your country of Arezzo. Along with the milk of my nurse I received the knack of handling chisel and hammer, with which I make my figures.

  

  Michelangelo
  • Atmosphere
  • Nurse
  • Received

• I work very hard to line up stereotypes and then smash them with a hammer.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Up
  • Work
  • Stereotypes

• When I need to nail that riff to the cross, Marshall will always provide the hammer!

  

  Dan Hawkins
  • Always
  • Need
  • Hammer

• I would rather be the hammer than the anvil.

  

  Erwin Rommel
  • Hammer
  • Anvil

• I enjoy just the raw human visceral reaction of jumping into the arena and just swinging the hammer and seeing what is left over afterwards. Twitter is just modern-day gladiatorial combat.

  

  Mike Cernovich
  • Enjoy
  • Human
  • Combat

• Actual philosophers... are commanders and law-givers: they say "thus it shall be!", it is they who determine the Wherefore and Whither of mankind, and they possess for this task the preliminary work of all the philosophical laborers, of all those who have subdued the past - they reach for the future with creative hand, and everything that is or has been becomes for them a means, an instrument, a hammer.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Work
  • Philosophers
  • Laborers

• Beethoven always sounds to me like the upsetting of a bag of nails, with here and there an also dropped hammer.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Hammer
  • Bag
  • Beethoven

• Retiring young isn't for everybody, even if you think it is. When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

  

  Pat Cadigan
  • Everybody
  • Retiring
  • Nail

• Use truth as your anvil, nonviolence as your hammer and anything that does not stand the test when it is brought to the anvil of truth and hammered with nonviolence, reject it.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Truth
  • Hammer
  • Reject

• 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
  • Death
  • Planet
  • Little Prince

• We hammer wood for a house, but it is the inner space that makes it liveable.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • House
  • Space
  • Hammer

• When the uncultured man sees a stone in the road it tells him no story other than the fact that he sees a stone ... The scientist looking at the same stone perhaps will stop, and with a hammer break it open, when the newly exposed faces of the rock will have written upon them a history that is as real to him as the printed page.

  

  Elisha Gray
  • Real
  • History
  • Stop

• Life is malleable and the hammer is desire.

  

  Anya Seton
  • Life
  • Desire
  • Hammer

• No doubt other writers have often put a thing more brilliantly, more subtly than even a very cunning artist in words can hope to emulate, a supreme phrase being a bit of luck that only happens now and then. And inasmuch as the condiments and secret travail of human nature are always the same, and that certain psychological moments must ever and ever recur, what more tempting than to pin down such a moment with the blow of a borrowed hammer?

  

  Ethel Smyth
  • Artist
  • Writers
  • Human Nature

• If the hammer and the shuttle could move themselves, slavery would be unnecessary.

  

  Aristotle
  • Slavery
  • Unnecessary
  • Shuttle

• 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
  • Moment
  • Pulse
  • Day Of Judgment

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