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

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

Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.
Mao Tse-Tung

Don't force it, get a bigger hammer.
Arthur Bloch

For all your days be prepared, and meet them ever alike. When you are the anvil, bear - when you are the hammer, strike.
Edwin Markham

Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.
Terry Pratchett

He that is good with a hammer tends to think everything is a nail.
Abraham Maslow

Heat can also be produced by the impact of imperfectly elastic bodies as well as by friction. This is the case, for instance, when we produce fire by striking flint against steel, or when an iron bar is worked for some time by powerful blows of the hammer.
Hermann von Helmholtz

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

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 E. Trevelyan

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

I think that my vampires in general were influenced by my being allowed to watch the Hammer vampire films. Vampire Circus, also shown as Circus of Fear, was one of those movies.
Laurell K. Hamilton

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

I wrote the original Mike Hammer as a comic, Mike Danger.
Mickey Spillane

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

I'm in my usual state up here in the commentary box: high tension, heart beating like a trip hammer, whatever that is.
Murray Walker

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

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

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

If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Abraham Maslow