#hammer

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

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 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

#crack #go #hammering #help #his

You’re all alone. No one wants you anymore. How long did you think we would all stay? You’ve killed each and every person who ever loved you. Even your children won’t want you. They will see what you have done. You must be the first ward in history to treat your guardian so badly that he left you. Do you think your mistress will stay? No. Elizabeth will take what she wanted and then she will leave you too. ↗

— S.K.N. Hammerstone

#skn-hammerstone #the-deceived #vessel-of-souls #ya #ya-horror

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

#because #gonna #hammering #i #keep

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

#break #figuratively #hammers #i #i love

Some fellow from the Third World kept hammering for prizes for a Communist film which was rotten. ↗

— Patricia Highsmith

#fellow #film #hammering #kept #prizes

I do think a carpenter needs a good hammer to bang in the nail. ↗

— Oliver Reed

#carpenter #good #hammer #i #i do

After the Rodgers and Hammerstein revolution, songs became part of the story, as opposed to just entertainments in between comedy scenes. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#became #between #comedy #entertainments #hammerstein

In the Rodgers and Hammerstein generation, popular hits came out of shows and movies. ↗