Top 10 Ax Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Ax Quotes from famous people such as Billy Joel, Bill Dedman, Gore Vidal, Bill Paxton, Anne Bradstreet, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

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In an age of incompetence, I’ve been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That’s my job.
Billy Joel
Fans love McGwire for his powerful physique, for his on-field hugs of his son, the part-time bat boy. He is Big Mac, or Paul Bunyan in Cardinals red with a white-ash bat instead of an ax.
Bill Dedman
Primarily, I am a prose writer with axes to grind, and the theatre is a good place to do the grinding in. I prefer comedy to ‘serious’ drama because I believe one can get the ax sharper on the comedic stone.
Gore Vidal
I don’t care how much hardware you throw at an audience. If they are not emotionally invested in the thing, it’s zero. I can name a slew of films, but I have no ax to grind. I understand the commerce of Hollywood probably better than anyone.
Bill Paxton
Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.
Anne Bradstreet
The women who inspired this play deserved to be smacked across the head with a meat ax and that, I flatter myself, is exactly what I smacked them with.
Clare Boothe Luce
Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move your initiatives forward each day. If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn’t matter if it’s an oak or a redwood; eventually, the tree has to fall down.
Jack Canfield
A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.
Franz Kafka
If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn’t matter if it’s an oak or a redwood; eventually the tree has to fall down.
Jack Canfield
The bottom line, addressing defense spending cuts with a meat ax like sequestration will damage defense readiness for decades to come.
Ander Crenshaw