Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ani Difranco

Any tool is a weapon if you hold it right.

Donald Trump

I'm only thin-skinned when somebody says bad things that are false. For instance, if you hit me about something that's true, all right, the bankruptcy - I used that as a tool. I didn't ever file for bankruptcy.

Albert Hofmann

LSD is just a tool to turn us into what we are supposed to be.

Albert Brooks

Twitter, to me, works if you're funny. Twitter doesn't work as a promotional tool unless you do it very, very, very occasionally.

Clay Shirky

The tools that a society uses to create and maintain itself are as central to human life as a hive is to bee life. Though the hive is not part of any individual bee, it is part of the colony, both shaped by and shaping the lives of its inhabitants.

David Karp

Tumblr was simply a tool for anyone to make a blog like mine.

Dave Grohl

When I listen to music these days, and I hear Pro Tools and drums that sound like a machine - it kinda sucks the life out of music.

Alice McDermott

Language is the writer's only tool - we really don't have anything else - but our language contains within it our entire experience of the world.

Colin Greenwood

Coltrane would do what you'd get a Roland Pro Tools module to do but with a group of jazz musicians.

Daphne du Maurier

A bad workman blames his tools.

Dan Scanlon

A director can come from anywhere, but having a story background, if you have nothing else, is probably a good thing to have because it's really the one tool you need.

Amy Tan

Language is the tool of my trade -and I use them all - all the Englishes I grew up with

Derek Jeter

These are some of the tools that we use.

The tools we have today, we didn't have 10 years ago, or 20 years ago.

Karl Marx

The leading princes are the most servile tools of English despotism. . . . The native princes are the stronghold of the present abominable English system.

George Herbert

A bad workman quarrels with his tools.

Pat Robertson

Satan is a tool of God's love in the sense that he forces us to see God's loving patience.

Marshall McLuhan

First we build the tools, then they build us.

Marshall McLuhan

We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us.

R. Buckminster Fuller

A fool with a tool still remains a fool.

R. Lee Ermey

Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.

Mike Patton

The studio is my main compositional tool. And I used to be horrible in the studio. I didn't know any kind of technical stuff. But when you have something in your head, you've gotta figure out a way of executing it.

Mike Patton

If someone were to hire me for a film they'd be getting a certain kind of package, that's for sure, a certain set of tools. But I would listen to the director.

Michael Crichton

To apply general tools to specific problems is to fail.

Francis Collins

Science's tools will never prove or disprove God's existence.

Francine Rivers

I'm only a tool, beloved. Not your Savior

Jeremy Stoppelman

Consumers are empowered by Yelp and tools like it: before, when they had a bad experience, they didn't have much recourse. They could fume, but often nothing else other than tell their friends.

Jack Nicholson

Dissembling is a common tool of the anger junkie.

Jeff Bezos

We change our tools and then our tools change us.

Jeff Bridges

Myths are wonderful tools that we've had, oh, for eons now that help us navigate the situations we find ourselves in.

John Novak

With Lean Six Sigma, the tools are the easy part, changing organizational culture is the hard part.

Sebastian Pinera

Business is a useful tool in politics, but it's not enough. You need much more than to be a good businessman, to be a good politician.

Peter Drucker

Production is not the application of tools to materials, but logic to work.