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• Many hammer all over the wall and believe that with each blow they hit the nail on the head.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wall, Believe, Blow

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• The good nail will do its job regardless what kind of hammer comes its way and what kind of surface it sits on.

  Rita Zahara

  Inspirational, Jobs, Nails

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• If I had a hammer, there'd be no more folksingers.

  Billy Connolly

  Ifs

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• It's not that he lacked poetry. But his poetry was of the body, not the mind. He spoke it in the way he moved, the way he held a hammer, rowed a boat, built a fire. I, on the other hand, was like a brain in a box, a beating heart in a coal scuttle.

  Meg Rosoff

  Heart, Fire, Hands

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• The Divine was expansive, but religion was reductive. Religion attempted to reduce the Divine to a knowable quantity with which mortals might efficiently deal, to pigeonhole it once and for all so that we never had to reevaluate it. With hammers of cant and spikes of dogma, we crucified and crucified again, trying to nail to our stationary altars the migratory light of the world.

  Tom Robbins

  Light, Trying, Nails

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.479, Bantam

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• Hammer and tongs! I am so torn between rage and joy, that if I do not burst, it will be a marvel!

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Joy, Rage, Torn

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.544, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If the only tool you have is a hammer, all your problems begin to look like nails. - Abraham Maslow

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Nails, Tools, Looks

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• A furious Peeta hammers Haymitch with the atrocity he could become party to, but I can feel Haymitch watching me. This is the moment, then. When we find out exactly just how alike we are, and how much he truly understands me. "I'm with the Mockingjay," he says.

  Suzanne Collins

  Party, Atrocities, Moments

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.370, Scholastic Inc.

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• It is like sitting in a traffic jam on the San Diego Freeway with your windows rolled up and Portuguese music booming out of the surround-sound speakers while animals gnaw on your neck and diseased bill collectors hammer on your doors with golf clubs.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Golf, Animal, Surround Sound

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness”, p.101, Pan Macmillan

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• 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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• Smoking is similar to hitting yourself over the head with a hammer because, when you stop, you feel better

  Allan Pease

  Feel Better, Smoking, Hitting

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• In general, therefore, color is a means of exerting a direct influence upon the soul. Color is the keyboard. The eye is the hammer. The soul is the piano with its many strings. The artist is the hand that purposefully sets the soul vibrating by means of this or that key.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Mean, Eye, Artist

  Wassily Kandinsky, Kenneth Clement Lindsay, Peter Vergo (1994). “Kandinsky, Complete Writings on Art”

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• 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

  Crush, Pace, Use

  Charles Dickens (1871). “The Mystery of Edwin Drood and Other Pieces”, p.225

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• Real isn't what they try to tell you. Time isn't. Grown-ups hammer down all these markers, bells, schedules, coffee-breaks, to stake down time so you'll start believing it's something small and mean, something that scrapes flake after flake off of everything you love till there's nothing left; to stake you down so you don't lift off and fly away, somersaulting through whirlpools of months, skimming through eddies of glittering seconds, pouring handfuls of hours over your upturned face.

  Tana French

  Real, Coffee, Believe

  Tana French (2014). “The Secret Place: Dublin Murder Squad: 5”, p.186, Hachette UK

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• Whatever has made, or does make, or may make music, should be held sacred as the golden bridle-bit of the Shah of Persia's horse,and the golden hammer, with which his hoofs are shod.

  Herman Melville

  Horse, Musical, Golden

  Herman Melville (2016). “Redburn.His First Voyage”, p.280, Herman Melville

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• Infants need the most sleep, and, what is more, get it. Stunning them with a soft, padded hammer is the best way to insure their getting it at the right times.

  Robert Benchley

  Sleep, Way, Needs

  Robert Benchley (2016). “My Ten Years in a Quandary and How They Grew”, p.100, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• I suppose that one of the psychological principles of advertising is to so hammer the name of your product into the mind of the timid buyer that when he is confronted with a brusk demand for an order he can't think of anything else to say, whether he wants it or not.

  Robert Benchley

  Thinking, Order, Names

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• If only the Geologists would let me alone, I could do very well, but those dreadful Hammers! I hear the clink of them at the end of every cadence of the Bible verses.

  John Ruskin

  Cadence, Bible Verse, Ends

  Thomas Carlyle, John Ruskin, George Allan Cate (1982). “The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and John Ruskin”, p.14, Stanford University Press

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• Think of the tools in a tool-box: there is a hammer, pliers, a saw, a screwdriver, a rule, a glue-pot, nails and screws.--The function of words are as diverse as the functions of these objects.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Thinking, Glue, Nails

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• I think we all get our own bag of hammers. We all get our own Parkinson's. We all have our own thing. I think that we'll look at it through the filter of that experience, and we'll say, "Yeah, I need to laugh at my stuff, too."

  Michael J. Fox

  Thinking, Laughing, Stuff

  "Michael J. Fox Talks THE MICHAEL J. FOX SHOW, How Much the Show Draws from Real Life, Parkinson’s Humor, Has He Seen MTV’s TEEN WOLF, and More". Interview with Christins Radish, collider.com. July 29, 2013.

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• I don't like gadgets for their own sake. I like gadgets that are tools. And I like simple gadgets that do one thing really well like a hammer.

  Rob Corddry

  Simple, Tools, Gadgets

  "Rob Corddry Talks ESCAPE FROM PLANET EARTH, Voicing His First Animated Feature, Earning an Eagle Scout Badge, WARM BODIES and PAIN & GAIN". collider.com. February 13, 2013.

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• Kim Newman brings Dracula back home in the granddaddy of all vampire adventures. Anno Dracula couldn't be more fun if Bram Stoker had scripted it for Hammer. It's a beautifully constructed Gothic epic that knocks almost every other vampire novel out for the count.

  Christopher Fowler

  Fun, Home, Adventure

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• The reason that clichés become clichés is that they are the hammers and screwdrivers in the toolbox of communication.

  Terry Pratchett

  Communication, Reason, Toolbox

  "Guards! Guards! (Discworld, Book 8)". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1989.

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• The crooks downtown figured out that comedy is like a hammer. It can put up a barn and it can knock down a wall. So they bought it outright and marketed it as Comedy Central.

  Lenny Bruce

  Wall, Barns, Crooks

  "The Lenny Bruce Interview, Jill Bourque’s How We First Met and Stage Time With Steven Alan Green". jewishjournal.com. April 7, 2013.

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• If you nail a tool shed closed, how do you put the hammer away?

  George Carlin

  Nails, Tools, Shed

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