Hammer Quotes

If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Abraham Maslow

Problem, Nail, Tend

Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.
Henry David Thoreau

Powerful, Her, Gentle

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
Will Rogers

Country, Same, Baby

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.
Emily Dickinson

In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
Bernard Baruch

Everything, Looks, Nail

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

Love, Enemy, Crush

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

Fear, Game, Special

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

Days, Meet, Prepared

Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.
Terry Pratchett

Once, Genius, Blood

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.
Milan Kundera

May, Idea, While

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

Dangerous, Situation, Might

I do think a carpenter needs a good hammer to bang in the nail.
Oliver Reed

Good, Needs, Nail

I'm in my usual state up here in the commentary box: high tension, heart beating like a trip hammer, whatever that is.
Murray Walker

Heart, Here, Whatever

The country blacksmith who employs no journeyman is never conscious of any conflict between the capital invested in his anvil, hammer and bellows, and the labor he performs with them, because in fact, there is none.
Leland Stanford

Country, Between, Fact

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

Good, Money, Nice

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, Cars, Turning

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

Good, Show, Million

The trouble with most comedians who try to do satire is that they are essentially brash, noisy and indelicate people who have to use a sledge hammer to smash a butterfly.
Imogene Coca

Try, Trouble, Butterfly

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

Failure, Father, Real

I think that my vampires in general were influenced by my being allowed to watch the Hammer vampire films. Vampire Circus, also shown as Circus of Fear, was one of those movies.
Laurell K. Hamilton

Fear, Movies, General

When you make a drama, you spend all day beating a guy to death with a hammer, or what have you. Or, you have to take a bite out of somebody's face. On the other hand, with a comedy, you yell at Billy Crystal for an hour, and you go home.
Robert De Niro

Home, Death, Comedy

This whole acting thing was always just for me and was always an absolute shot in the dark. If it didn't pan out, I had my hammer and tool belt, banging nails again tomorrow if I had to.
Matt LeBlanc

Tomorrow, Dark, Acting

I took all my wax studies and threw them in the fire... that's the way it is when something unpleasant happens to me. I take my hammer and I squash a figure.
Camille Claudel

Fire, Happens, Took

My place in Scotland is in the middle of nowhere, so you've just got a keyboard, guitar, a little drum machine and you know if you can work stuff out like that, if you can hammer out songs that sound good just with those three things and a voice, you're on your way.
Jay Kay

Work, Good, Guitar

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.
James Anthony Froude

Yourself, Character, Cannot

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.
Beck

Great, Thought, Said

Every time I get mad, I grab my hammer and make a bookshelf or something.
Anthony Mackie

Time, Mad, Grab

There is a joke that your hammer will always find nails to hit. I find that perfectly acceptable.
Benoit Mandelbrot

Find, Joke, Hit

I wrote the original Mike Hammer as a comic, Mike Danger.
Mickey Spillane

Danger, Original, Comic

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