Quotes by Hammers At that time, a friend shall lose his friend's hammer, and the young shall not know where lieth the things possessed by their fathers that their fathers put there only just the night before. Graham Chapman hammersnightfather How much happier you would be, how much more of you there would be, if the hammer of a higher God could smash your small cosmos. Gilbert K. Chesterton cosmoshammerswould-be When you are an Anvill, hold you still; when you are a hammer, strike your fill. George Herbert poor-richardhammersstrikes 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. H. Emilie Cady hammersclothessubstance I'm superstitious. Before I start a movie, I always kill a hobo with a hammer. Gwyneth Paltrow hobossuperstitioushammers The ship, built on one element, but designed to have its life in another, seemed an image of the soul, formed and fashioned with many a weary hammer-stroke in this life, but finding its true element only when it sails out into the ocean of eternity. Harriet Beecher Stowe hammersoceansoul Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces. Henry David Thoreau hammerspowerfulpeace Growth chestnuts have to be placed on the unyielding anvil of biophysical realities and then crushed with the hammer of moral argument. Herman E. Daly hammersgrowthreality I heard through the nightThe rush and the clamour;The pulse of the fightLike blows of Thor's hammer;The pattering flightOf the leaves, and the anguishedMoan of the forest vanquished. Henry Van Dyke hammerspulseblow I'll never sell 14 million like Hammer, I just wanna do a good Ice-T show. Ice T hammersiceshows Horror would not annoy a soldier any more than the sight of a hammer annoys a carpenter. It is sentimental to pretend that horror is not the tool of the soldier, just as the hammer is the tool of the carpenter. We live off death and the threat of death and we must take it calmly and use it well.... Eventually I came to enjoy killing, as a pianist enjoys the Czerny which keeps his fingers limber for the Beethoven. Irwin Shaw hammerssoldiersight So it has come, the day of testing. Without warning, without fanfare, it is here, and he is in the middle of it. In his chest his heart hammers so hard that it too, in its dumb way, must know. How will they stand up to the testing, he and his heart? J. M. Coetzee hammersdumbheart ...[the photographer] can be considered a kind of disembodied burrowing eye, a conspirator against time and its hammers. His work, print after print of it, seems to call to be shown before the decay which it portrays flattens all... Here are the records of the age before an imminent collapse. Jack Kerouac hammerseyeage Don't expect to make a living on it. Be able to hammer a nail or do retail, doing your music on the side! Jake Holmes hammersnailsretail 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 hammersragejoy Most of the stone a nation hammers goes toward its tomb only. It buries itself alive. Henry David Thoreau hammerspridecivilization I have found that the person with a sense of story built in from childhood is in better shape than one who has not had stories . . One knows what stories can do, how they can make up worlds and transpose existence into these worlds. . . .One learns that worlds are made by words and not only by hammers and wires. James Hillman wirehammerschildhood Time passed by. I had furnished steam hammers to the principal foundries in England. I had sent them abroad, even to Russia. At length it became known to the Lords of the Admiralty that a new power in forging had been introduced. James Nasmyth hammersrussiaengland I think it's part of everybody's childhood, there are some wonderful Hammer movies and there are some dreadful ones. Jane Goldman hammerschildhoodthinking I will never become a horse trainer, a biologist, a person competent with a hammer. My loves were my loves. Jane Hirshfield trainershammershorse«123456789»
