Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Spurgeon

The anvil is not afraid of the hammer.

E. Helm

My father-in-law had an anvil and he gave it to me. I noticed it had a name on it. I thought that was interesting, so I tried to get all the different kinds I could.

Claude Helvetius

Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers, which are always repulsed by the anvil

Billy Casper

Golf puts a man's character on the anvil and his richest qualities -patience, poise, restraint - to the flame.

Thomas Malory

Whoso pulleth out this sword of this stone and anvil is rightwise king born of all England.

Neal Pollack

We now have evidence that Saddam Hussein is in possession of cartoon trucks. Because (they) are cartoon trucks, that means that they can fall into a very deep canyon with an anvil attached to them and still survive.

Arabian Proverb

When you are an anvil be patient; when a hammer, strike

Jean Verbos

Right now we're working on funding for several projects. One is a new water system for Indianhead and a pumping station. They will get some work. Anvil Location in Bessemer Township is going to get a new water system.

English 20th Century Proverbs

The church is an anvil which has worn out many hammers.

Aasif Mandvi

You can get samosas in any pub in England today, pretty much. So, "Gunga Din" has come back.

Alan Shearer

There's no way the future's over for Martin Keown, Tony Adams or David Seaman.

Alan Shearer

You only get one chance of an England debut.

Charles Stewart Parnell

Why should Ireland be treated as a geographical fragment of England - Ireland is not a geographical fragment, but a nation.

Sergio Aguero

When I moved from Independiente to Atletico Madrid, I was only 18, and I found it hard to adapt. But what surprised me most about moving to England was how fast the game was. I like it, but it is so quick.

Jim Calhoun

When I walk down with Cousy I'm walking in as the face of New England as the face of so many people who weren't fortunate enough to get into what I got into.

Tom Odell

Everyone in England knows about Burberry, and it kind of represents a standard of being well-dressed... But the nice thing is, they have a lot of clothes, so I still feel like myself whenever I'm wearing their clothes.

Tao Okamoto

I remember when I saw 'X-Men' the first time, I was living in England as an exchange student, and my first boyfriend, who's an Englishman, made me watch the movie... He was very jealous that I liked Hugh Jackman so much.

Charles E. Wilson

Furthermore, the spirit of enterprise which had its first intellectual development in England has especially flourished here as well as throughout all of Canada, while the same spirit has become less virile in the land of its origin.

J. K. Rowling

You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

Mary Shelley

I do not wish them to have power over men, but over themselves.

J. K. Rowling

What's coming will come and we'll just have to meet it when it does.

John Galsworthy

If you do not think about your future, you cannot have one.

Augustine Birrell

History is the great dust-heap... a pageant and not a philosophy.

Augustine Birrell

An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.

Ann Macbeth

It will never be Hollywood, the same way people think it should be. I think it will grow and it will be healthy and it will expand into more than one production house.

Ann Macbeth

We are not yet at the point where our size, our being the drama industry, is sufficient to support full time professional crews, and that is very very important.

Evelyn Waugh

What is youth except a man or woman before it is ready or fit to be seen?

Jonathan Zittrain

(With the DMCA) you have the sword of Damocles,

Tom Cech

It's kind of a double-edged sword for these farmers.

Rasim Ljajic

This threat hangs like a sword over our necks.

Jim Butcher

There are old swordsmen and bold swordsmen. But few old, bold swordsmen.