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Time passed by. I had furnished steam hammers to the principal foundries in England. I had sent them abroad, even to Russia. At length it became known to the Lords of the Admiralty that a new power in forging had been introduced. -- James Nasmyth
If only the Geologists would let me alone, I could do very well, but those dreadful Hammers! I hear the clink of them at the end of every cadence of the Bible verses. -- John Ruskin
If only the Geologists would let me alone, I could do very well, but those dreadful Hammers! I hear the clink of them at the end of every cadence of the Bible verses -- John Ruskin
Don't force it... get a bigger hammer. -- Arthur Bloch
It is better to be the hammer than the anvil. -- Emily Dickinson
If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. -- Bernard Baruch
There's the occasional script that just hammers you, that you can't shower off. -- Mariska Hargitay
You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one. -- James Anthony Froude
I'll never sell 14 million like Hammer, I just wanna do a good Ice-T show. -- Ice T
He that is good with a hammer tends to think everything is a nail. -- Abraham Maslow
If the only tool you have is a hammer, it's hard to eat spaghetti. -- David Allen
Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy. -- Mao Zedong
If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. -- Abraham Maslow
There are more people killed with baseball bats and hammers than are killed with guns. -- Paul Broun
Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers, which are always repulsed by the anvil. -- Claude Adrien Helvetius
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it. -- Bertolt Brecht
I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places. -- John Ashbery
To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail. -- Abraham Maslow
Geoff Hurst had a hammer in his left boot and good left feet are like bricks of gold. -- Jimmy Greaves
Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces. -- Henry David Thoreau
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer. -- Will Rogers
I'm in my usual state up here in the commentary box: high tension, heart beating like a trip hammer, whatever that is. -- Murray Walker
I carve stone. I've got hammers and chisels and I carve from sandstone. I just did a big mural of birds and trees. -- Peter Weir
For all your days be prepared, and meet them ever alike. When you are the anvil, bear - when you are the hammer, strike. -- Edwin Markham
I've come off horses and fought in medieval battles using axes, hammers and swords as well as fists. Getting your teeth knocked out is an occupational hazard. -- James Cosmo
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. -- Beck
When I read the script sometimes, it's like 'Christ! Enough!' I can't sleep at night sometimes. There's the occasional script that just hammers you, that you can't shower off. -- Mariska Hargitay
Sure, things could always have been done better, but I just wish people would drop their political hammers for a few weeks, as happened in 2001, and work on the problem at hand -- Mitch Daniels
Sure, things could always have been done better, but I just wish people would drop their political hammers for a few weeks, as happened in 2001, and work on the problem at hand. -- Mitch Daniels
I love the wry motto of the Paleontological Society, meant both literally and figuratively, for hammers are the main tool of our trade: Frango ut patefaciam - I break in order to reveal. -- Stephen Jay Gould
The simplest way to prepare Dungeness crabs is to boil them in the shell and set them in front of your guests with crab crackers or crab hammers, cocktail forks, and plenty of napkins. -- Tom Douglas
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. -- Milan Kundera
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. -- Leland Stanford
I've always acknowledged my debt to Hammer. I've always said I'm very grateful to them. They gave me this great opportunity, made me a well known face all over the world for which I am profoundly grateful. -- Christopher Lee
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. -- Matt LeBlanc
My great-grandfather Melvin had been a carpenter - so was my father - and they taught me the value of tools: saws, hammers, chisels, files and rulers. It all dealt with conciseness and precision. It eliminated guesswork. One has to know his tools, so he doesn't work against himself. -- Yusef Komunyakaa
As a technology, the book is like a hammer. That is to say, it is perfect: a tool ideally suited to its task. Hammers can be tweaked and varied but will never go obsolete. Even when builders pound nails by the thousand with pneumatic nail guns, every household needs a hammer. -- James Gleick
If I'm going on any trip, driving music is key. Road Hammers is good driving music. I don't mind listening to my own stuff. You record it for a certain reason. You fall in a love with a certain song at a certain time and how you record it is a labour of love. You better love it. -- Jason McCoy
The eyes are hammers. -- Wassily Kandinsky
Fabio Capello needs to nail his hammers to the mast. -- Andy Townsend
The hammers must be swung in cadence, when more than one is hammering the iron. -- Giordano Bruno
Kneecaps only exist to get hit with claw-hammers; grace only exists to be fallen from. -- Glen Duncan
Most of the stone a nation hammers goes toward its tomb only. It buries itself alive. -- Henry David Thoreau
Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil. -- Claude Adrien Helvetius
No hammers fell, no ponderous axes rung,Like some tall palm the mystic fabric sprung.Majestic silence. -- Reginald Heber
But still the block of Vengeance firm doth stand, and Fate, as swordsmith, hammers blow on blow. -- Aeschylus
Bloody Hammer is a screw capitalism song about college kids banging hammers on top of the roof. -- Roky Erickson
Flying off the handle sometimes causes hammers and humans to lose their heads, as well as their effectiveness. -- William Arthur Ward
Welcome to Atlanta Jack and hammers and vogues Back to the mackin' and jackin' the clothes Adolescents packin the fo' -- Ludacris
When my hands can no longer make these hammers and strings play for you, my heart will always sing to you. -- Karen Quan
The reason that clichÃ©s become clichÃ©s is that they are the hammers and screwdrivers in the toolbox of communication. -- Terry Pratchett
Our spoken word first hammers a thing desired into shape. Our continued spoken word brings this shaped substance forth and clothes it with a visible body. -- H. Emilie Cady
The Church of Christ is an anvil which has worn out many hammers. Our opponents may boast of their strength, but they do not realize what they have challenged. -- John Buchan
Mysterious in the light of day, nature retains her veil, despite our clamours: That which she does not willingly display cannot be wrenched from her with levers, screws and hammers. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Man is a long time coming. Man will yet win. Brother may yet line up with brother: This old anvil laughs at many broken hammers.There are men who can't be bought. -- Carl Sandburg
Mother says there are locked rooms inside all women, kitchen of love, bedroom of grief, bathroom of apathy. Sometimes, the men, they come with keys, and sometimes the men, they come with hammers. -- Warsan Shire
Steed threatens steed, in high and boastful neighs Piercing the night's dull ear; and from the tents The armorers accomplishing the knights, With busy hammers closing rivets up, Give dreadful note of preparation. -- William Shakespeare
One half of my head, from the top of my skull to the cleft of my jaw, hammers, bangs, sizzles while the other half, serene and content, looks on at the agony next door. -- Rudyard Kipling
If you assume continuity, you can open the well-stocked mathematical toolkit of continuous functions and differential equations, the saws and hammers of engineering and physics for the past two centuries (and the foreseeable future). -- Benoit Mandelbrot
If you go through a lot of hammers each month, I don't think it necessarily means you're a hard worker. It may just mean that you have a lot to learn about proper hammer maintenance. -- Jack Handey

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