Hammers Quotes - Page 8

• I quite liked Sharkey and George and then there was a cartoon with rapper MC Hammer in it - Hammertime - I loved that cartoon, it was genius! They don't make cartoons like that anymore.

  Robert Pattinson

  Life, Rapper, Cartoon

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• A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge hammer, seemed to flow through the whole group of people like an electric current, turning one even against one's will into a grimacing, screaming lunatic. And yet the rage that one felt was an abstract, undirected emotion which could be switched from one object to another like the flame of a blowlamp.

  George Orwell

  Flames, People, Desire

  George Orwell (1961). “1984”

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• When you have a hammer, all problems start to look like nails.
  But nations without great military power face the opposite danger: When you don't have a hammer, you don't want anything to look like nails.

  Robert Kagan

  Military, Opposites, Nails

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• When autumn returns with its long anticipated holidays, and preparations are made for a scamper in some distant locality, hammer and notebook will not occupy much room in the portmanteau, and will certainly be found most entertaining company.

  Archibald Geikie

  Notebook, Holiday, Autumn

  Sir Archibald Geikie (1858). “The Story of a Boulder: Or, Gleanings from the Note-book of a Field Geologist”, p.9

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

  Charles Schumer

  Gun, Anvils, Right To Bear Arms

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• Cheap music, childish images, the vulgate in language, in its crassest sense, can penetrate to the deeps of our necessities and dreams. It can assert irrevocable tenure there. The opening bars, the hammer-beat accelerando of Edith Piaf's Je ne regrette rien - the text is infantile, the tune stentorian, and the politics which enlisted the song unattractive - tempt every nerve in me, touch the bone with a cold burn and draw me into God knows what infidelities to reason, each time I hear the song, and hear it, uncalled for, recurrent inside me.

  George Steiner

  Dream, Song, Infidelity

  George Steiner (2010). “Real Presences: Is There Anything in What We Say?”, p.210, Faber & Faber

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• Rap, rap! upon the well-worn stone, How falls the polished hammer! Rap, rap! the measured sound has grown A quick and merry clamor. Now shape the sole! now deftly curl The glassy vamp around it, And bless the while the bright-eyed girl Whose gentle fingers bound it!

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Girl, Rap, Fall

  John Greenleaf Whittier (2012). “Songs of Labor and Reform From Volume III., the Works of Whittier: Anti-Slavery Poems and Songs of Labor and Reform”, p.32, tredition

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• There ought to be a man with a hammer behind the door of every happy man.

  Anton Chekhov

  Happiness, Men, Doors

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• 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, Doe, Use

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• A marble cutter, with chisel and hammer, was changing a stone into a statue. A preacher looking on said: "I wish I could deal such changing blows on stony hearts." The workman answered: "Maybe you could, if you worked like me, upon your knees."

  Arthur Tappan Pierson

  Prayer, Heart, Blow

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• I got the Hammer money, sweetie you can't touch this.

  Drake

  Humble, Bragging

  Song: Zone

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• An auctioneer is a man who proclaims with a hammer that he has picked a pocket with his tongue.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Business, Men, Pockets

  Cynic's Word Book (1906) p. 24

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• Pray devoutly, but hammer stoutly.

  John Ray

  Military, Praying

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• 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

  Philosophical, Mean, Past

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1973). “Beyond good and evil: prelude to a philosophy of the future”, Penguin Classics

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• But till we are built like angels, with hammer and chisel and pen, we will work for ourself and a woman, forever and ever, Amen.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Angel, Forever, Amen

  Rudyard Kipling (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated)”, p.6263, Delphi Classics

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• If you watch the award shows, you'll see variations of the hammer pants. It's always cool to see that and then every now and then, you'll see an artist who's pushing the envelope and it may not be all the way there but you can see where it's coming from. I'm always appreciative of seeing my influence.

  MC Hammer

  Artist, Awards, Variation

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• May God strike me down with a hammer on the head before I write a book with a teach-y goal!

  Kate DiCamillo

  Book, Writing, Goal

  Source: bookpage.com

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• The music takes you. It has to be alive. It's like you hammer something, and the way it happens to bleed leads you into new directions.

  Michael Gira

  Alive, Way, Like You

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I think his portraits of Jackie, Liz, Marilyn, Mao, Elvis, Lenin - and objects like the soup cans, the dollar signs, the hammer and sickle, it's all about icons. Its all about what people worship in an irreligious or secular world. In terms of Andy's personality and Andy Warhol as a human being who I was very close to, I still feel kind of sorry for him on a personal level. I mean, he was the ultimate example of great success wrapped around inner turmoil and emotional pain.

  Bob Colacello

  Sorry, Pain, Mean

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Individuals differ in how empathic they are. Some people would really flinch if they watched me hitting my hand with a hammer, and other people would just not care.

  Paul Bloom

  Hands, People, Care

  "Paul Bloom: The Trouble With Empathy". Interview with Allyson Kirkpatrick, www.guernicamag.com. February 1, 2016.

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• Every time I felt the pain coming on I'd go downstairs and hammer out an idea. After a few months I started to take a look at what I was making, I had for the first time in my life written a large grip of songs completely alone and without any expectations or plans of what they would be for.

  Frank Iero

  Song, Pain, Ideas

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• When I was a kid, I was always around boys. I was always trying to keep up with boys - skateboarding and snowboarding. If my brother was mowing the lawn, I had to mow the lawn. If my brother was using a hammer, I needed to use a hammer. I've always been a little bit of a feminist.

  Daria Werbowy

  Brother, Kids, Boys

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Lots of kids when they get their first instrument hammer away at it but they don't realise there are so many levels of dynamics with a guitar. You can play one note on a guitar and it really gets to people if it is the right note in the right place played by the right person.

  Gary Moore

  Kids, Guitar, Play

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• It sounds superficially fair. But it presupposes that that there is something in Christian theology to be ignorant about. The entire thrust of my position is that Christian theology is a non-subject. It is empty. Vacuous. Devoid of coherence or content. I imagine that McGrath would join me in expressing disbelief in fairies, astrology and Thor's hammer. How would he respond if a fairyologist, astrologer or Viking accused him of ignorance of their respective subjects?

  Richard Dawkins

  Christian, Ignorance, Astrology

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• Bloody Hammer is a screw capitalism song about college kids banging hammers on top of the roof.

  Roky Erickson

  Song, Kids, College

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