#hammer

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

#became #been #england #even #forging

When I was handed a hammer, my first project was building a three-story tree house. ↗

— Ty Pennington

#first #hammer #handed #house #i

Stephen Sondheim told me that Oscar Hammerstein believed everything that he wrote. So there's great truth in the songs, and that's what was so wonderful to find. ↗

— Bernadette Peters

#everything #find #great #great truth #hammerstein

Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#always #been #blood #cleaned #genius

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 August Riis

#before #blow #crack #did #gone

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer. ↗

— Will Rogers

#baby #come #congress #country #feel

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

#exactly #hammer #handled #how #idea

When I get really hammered I take my clothes off. That's a sure sign. It's been a long time since the last time I did that. Probably a year. ↗

— Michael Stipe

#clothes #did #get #hammered #i

Once during a taping there was an actor who kept blowing his lines. It happened again and again. Finally Norman Fell came out-he wasn't even in that scene. But Norman came out and you know what he did? He killed the guy with a hammer. ↗

— John Ritter

#again #blowing #came #did #during

I think that my vampires in general were influenced by my being allowed to watch the Hammer vampire films. Vampire Circus, also shown as Circus of Fear, was one of those movies. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#also #being #circus #fear #films