Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arthur Bloch

Don't force it... get a bigger hammer.

Billy Connolly

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

You don't need a $30 hammer to nail in a picture.

Abraham Maslow

When all you own is a hammer, every problem starts looking like a nail.

Jeff Valdez

When I got into this business, the 18-34-year-old thing was hammered into me.

Jared Dudley

We always talk about that killer instinct. You don't want to trade baskets at this time of the year, and I thought for the first time all year we really put the hammer down.

William Shakespeare

I have been studying how I may compare This prison where I live unto the world; And, for because the world is populous, And here is not a creature but myself, I cannot do it. Yet I'll hammer it out.

Bill Cowher

I went over it and over it and over it, really hammered on it. When I thought I'd mentioned it enough, I made sure I mentioned it again.

We've tried to hammer home a lot of different points.

We hammered the walls in the pouring rain, in the mud.

Emily Dickinson

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

John Heisman

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

The nail that sticks up will be hammered down.

Scioto just hammered us in the second and third quarters the last time we played them.

You're not getting much help from the commodities. People are trying to get a better sense. They don't know whether it's time to go in and pick away at some of the resources that have been hammered down or run for cover.

Erwin Rommel

I would rather be the hammer than the anvil

AUCTIONEER, n. The man who proclaims with a hammer that he has picked a pocket with his tongue.

That pitch to Wells, I left over the plate, and he hammered it.

Ron Hargrave

The rumors are lies. There were a lot of people said we're not going to play; that we don't have a contract. ... We got it worked out; got it hammered out.

I know we played them six years ago and they hammered us, 4-0.

Marcus Camby

It's real tough. It's tough for players getting hammered every day, ripped in the media every day. I've been there, so I know.

John Simpson

This is the most important thing they are doing right now and since the public is paying the bill, it should be hammered out in public.

They really like using real objects while they are playing. They like real kitchen items and real hammers and nails.

George Herbert

When you are an Anvill, hold you still; when you are a hammer, strike your fill.

Jason Statham

Your body is like a piece of dynamite. You can tap it with a pencil all day, but you'll never make it explode. You hit it once with a hammer: Bang! Get serious. Do 40 hard minutes, not an hour and half of nonsense. It's so much more rewarding.

Ron Gardenhire

In this league, you're going to get hammered if you just throw fastballs.

It's a goal. We don't have a hammer to make anybody.

It used to be that a hammer might be the first tool you pick up when tackling a home improvement project. Today it is the Internet. It's really the first tool in the home improvement tool box.

Rachel Caine

Sure. Knock yourself out. No, really. Hammer to the head, works every time.” Claire

Laurell K. Hamilton

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

John Philip Sousa

You can't drive a Spike with a Tack Hammer

Neal A. Maxwell

Sometimes we are so busy being the hammer or the anvil, that we forget who really needs the shaping.

Markus Zusak

Grimly, she realized that clocks don't make a sound that even remotely resembles ticking, tocking. It was more the sound of a hammer, upside down, hacking methodically at the earth. It was the sound of a grave.