#hamm

For my part, if I consider poetry as an object, I maintain that it is born of the necessity of adding a vocal sound (speech) to the hammering of the first tribal music. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

#born #consider #first #hammering #i

I like to sit in my backyard. I go out on the hammock and sit in silence and kind of meditate. Nature is calming, and it's nice to go out there and clear my head. ↗

— Devon Werkheiser

#calming #clear #go #hammock #head

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

Then you get into it, especially if you start talking about football, fighting and Muhammad Ali. Then the ladies get very bored and start delivering ultimatums. ↗

— Oliver Reed

#ali #bored #delivering #especially #fighting

To me, my biggest fear is getting a big head, and that is when I get the hammer. Because it's very easy in this game to believe you're something special. ↗

— Keith Richards

#believe #big #big head #biggest #easy

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