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Some fellow from the Third World kept hammering for prizes for a Communist film which was rotten. -- Patricia Highsmith
France is the only place where you can make love in the afternoon without people hammering on your door. -- Barbara Cartland
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron. -- Horace Mann
The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron. -- Horace Mann
I'm a Republican and I'm gonna stay a Republican because they need somebody like me to stay in the Party and keep hammering away. -- Charles Evers
Illogical thinkers throw names and slurs around because they have no arguments with which to rebut their opponents. Rational people have to keep hammering their points home. -- Ben Carson
When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. -- Jacob Riis
There are 435 members of Congress. There's one 'Morning Joe' show. Hopefully, we can keep hammering the argument that you can disagree with other people and have debates but remain civil. -- Joe Scarborough
One word from the Lord is like a piece of gold to a believer, who is like a jeweler, shaping and hammering out the promise for a number of weeks. -- Charles Spurgeon
What is guilt? Guilt is the pledge drive constantly hammering in our heads that keeps us from fully enjoying the show. Guilt is the reason they put the articles in Playboy. -- Dennis Miller
For my part, if I consider poetry as an object, I maintain that it is born of the necessity of adding a vocal sound (speech) to the hammering of the first tribal music. -- Eugenio Montale
You can't turn on your television without seeing these advertisements about clean coal, clean tar sands and the claim that there's more jobs associated with fossil fuels than other industries. That's of course not true. But they're hammering that into the voters' heads. -- James Hansen
There is something discordant about a team of speechwriters and political operatives hammering away to create an image of the 'real, inner' candidate. And, to be blunt, there is no necessary connection between a moving life experience and the skills necessary for leadership. -- Jeff Greenfield
Mama was a country woman with a whole lot of common sense. She understood what most of our neighbors didn't - that I shouldn't grow dependent on anyone except myself. 'One of these days, I ain't gonna be here,' she kept hammering inside my head. -- Ray Charles
Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before. -- Jacob Riis
I'd look at one of my stonecutters hammering away at the rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet, at the hundred and first blow it would split in two, and I knew it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before. -- Jacob Riis
I don't mean to offend anybody, but I think that we get a lot of scientists now who are bent into a system, and we lose some of their boldness by that. Obviously, you have to learn the ropes, but I think it's important to do that without hammering out the radicalness that makes innovation happen. -- Taylor Wilson
I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind's door at 4 A.M. of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends. -- Joan Didion
[Donald] Trump is most comfortable when he is hammering something. -- Chuck Todd
I dislike being an anvil for the hammering out of other people's virtues. -- Freya Stark
Haven't you guessed by now? I say, my heart hammering. My home is you. -- Cynthia Hand
The hammers must be swung in cadence, when more than one is hammering the iron. -- Giordano Bruno
I don't want to lose too much of the mystery by hammering every detail to death. -- Victoria Aveyard
The mother- poor invaded soul- finds even the bathroom door no bar to hammering little hands. -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Vengeance is in my heart, death in my hand,Blood and revenge are hammering in my head. -- William Shakespeare
Through the mad mystic hammering of the wild ripping hail The sky cracked its poems in naked wonder -- Bob Dylan
Knock and it shall be opened.' But does knocking mean hammering and kicking the door like a maniac? -- C. S. Lewis
Bobby Martin has another project. He's building a house. He's out there at 6 o'clock in the morning hammering nails. -- Frank Zappa
No wonder men got impervious to superficial pain, I thought. It came from this habit of hammering each other incessantly. -- Diana Gabaldon
I was walking home one night and a guy hammering on a roof called me a paranoid little weirdo. In morse code. -- Emo Philips
Under my leadership the Liberal Democrats would not be making polite interjections from the sidelines, we would be hammering on the doors of power. -- Menzies Campbell
If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skull, why then do we read it? -- Franz Kafka
Illogical thinkers throw names and slurs around because they have no arguments with which to rebut their opponents. Rational people have to keep hammering their points home. -- Ben Carson
Calvin is hammering nails into coffee table.Mom: CALVIN WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO THE COFFEE TABLE?!?Calvin: Is this some sort of trick question, or what? -- Bill Watterson
If you want to know why you didn't make a boat -- I'll tell you. You're just out there hammering the water. You're killing fish, not rowing. -- Jim Dietz
Those heart-hammering nightmares that start to lose coherence even as you're waking up from them, but that still manage to leave their moldering fingerprints all across your day. -- Mike Carey
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When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. -- Jacob Riis
Think not of yourself as the architect of your career but as the sculptor. Expect to have to do a lot of hard hammering and chiselingand scraping and polishing. -- B. C. Forbes
I think that in the sexual act, as delightful as it can be, the very physical part of it is, yes, a hammering away. So it has a certain brutality. -- Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
Red of the Dawn Is it turning a fainter red? so be it, but when shall we lay The ghost of the Brute that is walking and hammering us yet and be free? -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
I was walking down the street the other day and these construction workers were working on the roof hammering away. One of them told me I was a paranoid lunatic... in morse code. -- Emo Philips
It's possible to keep drawing this moment out, any moment, hammering it thinner and thinner like beaten gold, like iced chablis, whipping it, whipping it to cheap perfume, each word blown to aneurysm. -- Susan Mitchell

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