Hammer Quotes

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

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

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.

I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.

Imagine this guy hits Mike Hammer over the head with a wooden coathanger and knocks him out. You hit Mike Hammer over the head with a wooden coathanger, he'll beat the crap out of you.

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

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

Heat can also be produced by the impact of imperfectly elastic bodies as well as by friction. This is the case, for instance, when we produce fire by striking flint against steel, or when an iron bar is worked for some time by powerful blows of the hammer.

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

When I was handed a hammer, my first project was building a three-story tree house.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

When you find your opponent's weak spot, hammer it.

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

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.

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

Don't force it, get a bigger hammer.

I have the greatest sympathy with the growth of the socialist party. I think they understand the evils that surround us and hammer them into people's minds better than we Liberals.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

If at first you don't succeed, get a bigger hammer.

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