Top 66 Hammer Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Hammer Quotes from famous people such as Ronnie Montrose, Matt LeBlanc, James Gleick, Wasim Akram, Ellie Taylor, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

Attempting to write vocal oriented songs to me felt lik

Attempting to write vocal oriented songs to me felt like going through the motions and if you are going to go through the motions you might as well just do any gig that caused you to do repetitive motions like banging a hammer or serving fries.
Ronnie Montrose
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
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
It doesn’t matter which era you play in. Wickets are the only way you can contain. Restricting the batsmen to six runs in the first over may look okay but in the next over they will hammer the other bowler. Giving ten runs and taking a wicket – I’ll take that any day.
Wasim Akram
I once hosted the Butcher Shop of the Year Awards. There’s nothing like performing to the personification of the phrase a ‘sausage fest’ to hammer home how you’ve hit the big time.
Ellie Taylor
If you’re designing a hammer, it’s clear that it should hit a nail. But when designing a home, it’s much more nuanced. You have to make sure there are qualities that nurture and enrich human life.
Evan Sharp
I took all my wax studies and threw them in the fire… that’s the way it is when something unpleasant happens to me. I take my hammer and I squash a figure.
Camille Claudel
Thankfully, I found a doctor at Presbyterian Hospital in New York, Scott Hammer, who diagnosed my chronic fatigue as the Epstein-Barr virus, and the medication I took either helped jump-start my immune system or made the virus dormant. I was very lucky.
Tucker Halpern
I ate supper after Dad saw the evening shift down the shaft, and I went to sleep to the ringing of a hammer on steel and the dry hiss of an arc welder at the little tipple machine shop during the hoot-owl shift.
Homer Hickam
I’ve been beaten. I know what that’s like. They say, ‘Who has been a nail can learn to be a hammer.’ So I know what it is to beat people.
David Milch
My place in Scotland is in the middle of nowhere, so you’ve just got a keyboard, guitar, a little drum machine and you know if you can work stuff out like that, if you can hammer out songs that sound good just with those three things and a voice, you’re on your way.
Jay Kay
I have the greatest sympathy with the growth of the socialist party. I think they understand the evils that surround us and hammer them into people’s minds better than we Liberals.
Charles Trevelyan
In 1956, the success of the Hammer films kick-started my career. That immediately gave me a name and a face to go with it. I will always be grateful to Hammer for that.
Christopher Lee
Right at the peak of my – I went on the Hammer tour and found out I was 6 weeks pregnant, and we had two more months to go. I had to come home and drop that baby and finish out some more shows and then I became a stay-at-home mommy.
Michel’le
I feel like my objective in music is to take a hammer and nail and chip away a piece of my heart and give it to someone, so I feel, with merch, it’s a tangible parallel of that.
Jessie Reyez
I am, it is safe to say, not a practical man. The few attempts I’ve made to hammer in a nail have ended in broken thumbs, burst pipes, and water spraying everywhere with the house on fire.
John Niven
Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.
Mao Zedong
When I was a kid, I was obsessed with Thor. I had a hammer.
Kristian Nairn
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
When you find your opponent’s weak spot, hammer it.
John Heisman
In the early ’60s, it was still a fairly subversive thing, though, to say that you should take a painting, cut it, set it on fire, step on it, hammer nails into it.
Elvis Mitchell
It really is amazing that some days you’ll come out and you’ll feel like you can beat anyone, and then some days you come out and you’ve got no confidence in the world, and you can’t break an egg with a hammer.
Jason Day
I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.
John Ashbery
You continue to try to hammer out fastball command the best you can.
Gerrit Cole
My cousin’s dad is MC Hammer, and another one of my cousins is Zaytoven. We all grew up together and it’s interesting to see how we turned out.
Saweetie
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
Will Rogers
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
The book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer, the wheel. Once invented, it cannot be improved. You cannot make a spoon that is better than a spoon… The book has been thoroughly tested, and it’s very hard to see how it could be improved on for its current purposes.
Umberto Eco
I demo all of my songs on Garage Band, where I pretty much play everything – not very well, but I manage to hammer out a drum beat and a bass idea.
Jenny Lewis
My father has been an inspiration – he instilled his work ethic without ever having to hammer it home. He was also very encouraging.
Katie Melua
Worst part of being a writer: having to tell my toddler that I can’t play with her because I’m working. Keep in mind that working consists of me at home with a laptop on my lap sitting on the couch. It doesn’t look like working. I don’t have a hammer or anything.
Chelsea Cain
I think the Hammer films really made death quite sexy.

I think the Hammer films really made death quite sexy.
Emil Ferris
There’s something very romantic about self-destruction and sabotaging your life, and taking a hammer to it.
Gerard Way
There was a band in Australia named Midnight Oil, and they were a very, very political, and they literally hit you over the head with a hammer. U2 sometimes can hit you over the head with a rubber hammer.
Meat Loaf
Your body is like a piece of dynamite. You can tap it with a pencil all day, but you’ll never make it explode. You hit it once with a hammer: Bang! Get serious. Do 40 hard minutes, not an hour and half of nonsense. It’s so much more rewarding.
Jason Statham
In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I used to have a Milton steel water bottle that I would wield like a hammer, almost! My answer to all my bullies was to take out my bottle and hit them.
Masaba Gupta
The ‘Planet of the Apes’ movies made me wanna – probably unconsciously – be an actor. Seriously. And The Mummy – and ‘Hammer horror’ movies. ‘Fantastic.’ I loved stuff like that, and that stuff probably did more than anything to make me wanna do it.
Paul Giamatti
When I need to nail that riff to the cross, Marshall will always provide the hammer!
Dan Hawkins
Self-sabotage is the proverbial hammer over the head that finally wakes us up, demanding that we pay attention. For most of us, it takes something devastating to crack us open, to get us out of our minds and into our hearts.
Debbie Ford
The Eubanks are very different. If you look at the promotional videos they’ve done it’s a bit ‘Homes Under the Hammer.’
George Groves
When the woodpecker is searching for food, or laying siege to some hidden grub, the sound of his hammer is dead or muffled and is heard but a few yards. It is only upon dry, seasoned timber, freed of its bark, that he beats his reveille to spring and wooes his mate.
John Burroughs
Russia is now very far from being a communist country, but when I walked around Moscow, I kept glimpsing these haunting images. There were statues of Lenin and some neon signs of the hammer and sickle. I remembered myself then as a little girl, living under that oppression.
Martina Navratilova
With any player, especially at quarterback, I don’t care if you’re talking Tom Brady or Peyton Manning or Drew Brees: you want to make sure to continue to hammer down the fundamentals, and it all starts with your feet. Everything starts with footwork.
Sean McVay
You need a screwdriver for screws and a hammer for nails. Anybody that’s trying to screw in a nail with a screwdriver… that ain’t too smart.
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The best of Johnny Lever’s films are ‘Baazigar,’ ‘Kareeb’ and ‘Love Ke Liye Kuch Bhi Karega.’ I just love his work in ‘Baazigar,’ where he plays a servant and tries to hammer a nail on a wall and is unsuccessful.
Asrani
Some guys talk about swinging through the ball, but I think about impact like hammering a nail. My dad actually had me hammer nails to understand the concept.
Xander Schauffele
I always liked the idea that Thor was the god who’d wake up every day and look at that hammer and not know whether he was going to pick it up. Only the worthy can lift the hammer of Thor, and I love the idea of a god who was always questioning his own worthiness.
Jason Aaron
I did a production of Macbeth in the 1960s in which I had a swordfight in the final scene. But the blade fell off my sword just as I was stabbing the guy. I ended up having to hammer him to death.
Alan Dale
I always feel like the hammer’s going down right around the corner, and I think that level of constant anxiety is what keeps us from getting too lazy.
Christopher Miller
A woman with organizing skills can run a construction company without ever picking up a hammer and nail.
Warren Farrell
It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.
Emily Dickinson
Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.
Henry David Thoreau