It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

- Emily Dickinson

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

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

I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.

- John Ashbery

I guess if I had to put it into a single phrase, the moral of the Frank stories is that the hammer never really falls.

- Jim Woodring

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

- James Anthony Froude

When you find your opponent's weak spot, hammer it.

- John Heisman

I'll never sell 14 million like Hammer, I just wanna do a good Ice-T show.

- Ice T

In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

There's something very romantic about self-destruction and sabotaging your life, and taking a hammer to it.

- Gerard Way

I'm a sort of nuts-and-bolts guy. I'm into turning wrenches and swinging a hammer and wrenching on cars.

- Adam Carolla

Where do you get lumpy tiles? Well, of course, you don't. But I get a lot of toilets, and so you just dispatch a toilet with a hammer, and then you have lumpy tiles.

- Dan Phillips

When I need to nail that riff to the cross, Marshall will always provide the hammer!

- Dan Hawkins

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

Not every Hammer film was perfect.

- Christopher Lee

If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

- Bernard Baruch

There is a joke that your hammer will always find nails to hit. I find that perfectly acceptable.

- Benoit Mandelbrot

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

If at first you don't succeed, get a bigger hammer.

- Alan Lewis

Don't force it, get a bigger hammer.

- Arthur Bloch