Hammer Quotations

Hammer down product fundamentals first. Make sure you've got something that works before doubling down on promotion and marketing. Create a groundswell of organic support, and only then leverage PR and advertising to spread the word.

The art of storytelling is in development, not fact sheets. There are posts you have to hammer into the ground from the start just to get going, but if they don't hold up the house you build, you can change them or take them out.

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.

My two most valuable tools are an eraser in the drawing room and a sledge hammer on the build site.

I grew up loving monsters. I'm just a total monster geek. When I was a kid, I had the Aurora monster models, and I would make them. I loved the Universal horror movies and the Hammer movies. I just had an affinity for them.

I grew up on all sorts of horror - Hammer Horror and Vincent Price's 'Theatre Of Blood.' I loved the hidden, scary layers, but there wasn't that much around for youngsters in terms of horror books. I can remember reading Stephen King's 'Salem's Lot' and 'Cujo,' but I thought there should be more for teenaged horror fans.

Obviously, I've played some good tournaments in U.S. Opens. And that's the way I want to play this week. You know, not hammer your driver out there.

(The plan) is something we need to do, but we also need more discussion among the board and hospital staff to make sure we are all in agreement and to hammer out details.

Shooting yourself in the foot. That's what you call that. We talked a couple of days ago about staying crisp and not making simple mistakes, but that's what we did today. We can't have a lapse of concentration like that. But you have to keep the hammer down. You can't take the approach of: 'we've got a faster boat so we won't push it too hard,' because that's when it comes back and bites you.

I fought it hammer and tong, but the drummers had inoperable bricks in their head about it. What's worse is that they now want to remove all Dead music from the Web.

Captain Hammer is obviously the most fun to write because he is not so bright. And 'not so bright' is comedy gold. Not to mention 'kind of a...' Captain Hammer's high school was named after him. While he was still attending.

Guys figured, why be out on the road for three weeks when they could swing a hammer during the day, make more money and sleep in their own bed each night?

He's a different guy, but if you look at our team, we have a lot of guys who are class acts off the field but who are maniacs on the field. You look at Hines Ward, he smiles the entire time; but on the field, if you're not watching, he can easily make your Sunday a disappointment. Jerome Bettis is a yes-sir, no-sir guy, but on the field he can hammer you, too. That's just the makeup of our team.

What you do is you just hammer on that (needed) skill and you give them lots of practice in that skill over and over again. It's just like anything else. You learn it by doing it ... Then when you get to the test, you've practiced that skill so it becomes easier and easier for you to do it.

He was kicking their butts. He had this huge litigation hammer hanging over their head. They knew he would chew them up and spit them out if they didn't ante up.

. . . human speech is like a cracked tin kettle, on which we hammer out tunes to make bears dance when we long to move the stars.

Have you ever watched a stonecutter at work? He will hammer away at a rock for perhaps a 100 times without a crack showing in it. Then, on the 101st blow, it will split in two. It is not that blow alone which accomplished the result, but the 100 others that went before as well.

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.

He got our Hammer Award for two big blows.

Regardless of the medium, rewriting and more rewriting is still necessary. No one gets anything right the first time, and since I don't write with a hammer and chisel, it's relatively easy for me to change. It's just words on paper. Words are free. You don't go to the store and order a pound of words, or five hundred words, and pay your three dollars. They're free.

I saw what he was doing, but that doesn't change your thinking any. You know you've got to make birdies. You've got to keep the hammer down here.

Our hammer throwers threw good today, all four of them. I was really happy with the way they threw.

I think they are a little more conscious about eating right. I know the kids are because I hammer it into them.

I think it's been a down year for the conference. The guys on TV seem to hammer our league and that doesn't help. With the bad press we've gotten, it doesn't surprise me we're only going to get three or four teams in.

Waiting one year is not going to affect the fund. We'll hammer out the differences and come back next year.

That was a huge swing for us. We could have been one down, then came back and scored and then put the hammer down.

My coach and I sort of had a plan to take it a bit easy in throws four and five and try and save up something big for the last one. I wasn't trying to build the drama, I just had to save myself up a bit, work on my speed and then just really hammer it. As soon as I let it go I knew I was in business. It's an amazing feeling.

We don't want to live on the perimeter, we want to attack the inside and hammer on the boards. When you have a 6-4 point guard and two 6-3 swingmen, you have an opportunity to keep the ball alive and make some things happen inside, and that's what we're banking on.

We drafted Terrell Owens in the first round ... YOU hammer out his extension.

We hope (Gilson) has a really good hammer competition and she hasn't made a regional mark in the hammer yet. I'm also looking for them to do well in the discus as well.

We have to sit down, hammer out the issues, and make sure whatever judgment calls we make, it all works out for the children.

We've marched down the field and are inside the 10-yard line. The speaker is increasingly confident we can hammer the language on an agreement soon.

The fact of the matter is (Brazil's) currency had to fall. The whole (Brazilian) economy and interest rates were being held hostage to the currency. You had to keep interest rates high, and therefore hammer the economy in an attempt to hold the currency up.

We've been hitting our foul shots the last few weeks. That came in handy today because Old Bridge kept coming at us. We could never put the hammer down on them because Bennett and the other guys kept knocking down shots.

We're appealing to the public to help us to hammer home the message that this tax is not supported by the public or businesses.

You don't need a $30 hammer to nail in a picture.

We didn't play real well all season and realistically, we should have beaten them twice. They didn't hammer us. We should have beaten them twice. I think Seattle's a pretty hard-nosed, athletic group of guys that will match up pretty well.

The real thumb can move in five types of way. We have managed to create a thumb that can mimic at least two of these like hold a ball, move the thumb and middle finger, as when unlocking the door or gripping an object like a hammer or microphone,

When people repress grief, the grief finds its way out, typically as guilt or anger. Certainly using a hammer appropriately can be a way to exorcise their anger.

We knew that we were better in the paint than they were. We worked to get the ball inside and to hammer the boards for rebounds.

We've tried to hammer home a lot of different points.

With this hand you can clutch objects such as a ball, you can move the thumb out to one side and grip objects with the index finger in the way you do when opening a lock with a key, and you can wrap your fingers around an object in what we call the power grip - like the one you use when you hold a hammer or a microphone.

We're just looking forward to getting home, but it's not going to be us not seeing each other or anything like that. We can't wait to get back into the garage, hammer out ideas for songs, go out for dinners together, work on the new album. You know, do sh-- like that.

We stressed in the locker room that we wanted to really bring the hammer down and that goal really drove the nail into Waterville and we kept the puck deep in their zone from there and didn't allow too many good shots on goal.

There are commercials that are funny, but you might forget the product. A standard commercial might hammer that point home better.

I've come to the point in my life where less is more. The minute the last hammer fell on the last nail I called the real estate office.

I've been involved in this a long time, ... Until the hammer falls at the end, there is always a chance.

You aren't going to see any resolution from Delphi, GM or the unions without the hammer of a judge hanging over them.

The Sony brand remains very powerful. Competitors have managed to hammer away but the brand is still well-known and stands for high quality. They've got to become the company that they used to be, which was highly innovative.

( The state )has a budget hammer and regulatory power. Are they using it to the best effect?

We've played a little bit of small ball, it's just not winning. We're making some bad pitches, and they're not missing them, either. When we make mistakes, they hammer them. ... We've been hurt by the long ball, which is uncharacteristic of our pitching staff.

We've just tried to hammer into them, just trying to make sure they stay down with everything - breaking balls, fastballs. Let's miss down and in and out instead of up and over the plate.

We always talk about that killer instinct. You don't want to trade baskets at this time of the year, and I thought for the first time all year we really put the hammer down.

The water's rising pretty fast, ... I got a hammer and an ax and a crowbar, but I'm holding off on breaking through the roof until the last minute. Tell someone to come get me please. I want to live.

You get out the hammer and chisel. If the bullets are behind steel, you've got to get them out.

What happens if a big asteroid hits Earth? Judging from realistic simulations involving a sledge hammer and a common laboratory frog, we can assume it will be pretty bad.

We've got a 24-ounce ball ping hammer we're going to use. The nice thing about this hammer is the weight is going to break the tile for you so you don't have to put a lot into it.

Breaking stone with a hammer is a familiar and acceptable way of working the material, but is in fact a more violent response than firing.

We are still trying to hammer down the exact scope of any negotiations.

We did a couple of little simple beaded tulle jackets. There are tulle blouses, tulle baseball jackets that have silver hammer work on them. So they're very sporty, but very relaxed and elegant at the same time,

Adam's a very funny guy. The show is kind of wild. We're a bunch of locker room guys trying to fix up a house. Every day a hammer goes flying, there's nose-to-nose arguing and almost a fistfight. It's always something. We're a bunch of misfits. But it's been great. It's a very, very funny show to watch.

Somebody wants to change the color of the party, ... Somebody wants to take away the hammer and sickle from our flag -- and replace them with a computer and satellite.

The governor continues to be encouraged that in the very near future ... we will be able to hammer out a compromise.

The governor did what she does best, bring all parties together in good faith to the negotiating table, and hammer out an agreement that's good for the people of Washington.

Rowing is a power and finesse sport. These girls have really been putting the hammer down on rowing machines. I'm looking for them to not only push their teammates but also be one of the main driving forces in the boat.

AUCTIONEER, n. The man who proclaims with a hammer that he has picked a pocket with his tongue.

A lot of these teams pick up what we call ?the heroes?. My guys are just league players, but we love to play. And we hammer the ball.

All of my business life, the Fed has played defense. Now it's crossed the scrimmage line and started playing offense. It's brought us to rates so low that even multimillionaires can't live off the yield. The Fed wants you to buy bonds, buy stocks, start a business, hire some people, and it is going to continue to hammer at you until you do it.

I knew Hammer liked 4 and we had a couple of discussions and it meant something to him so I ended up switching, ... I've got a lot of respect for the guy. He's played a lot of years and been a good player and a great pick up for us so I thought I'd welcome him here. If it makes him play better, I guess it's worth it.

If our concerns are addressed, then I will stand up at that podium with Marion Hammer and we will jointly support protecting the rights of citizens and protecting the rights of private property owners in Florida.

No longer will we see an agenda tilted to the far right. It will require people to hammer out a true consensus and compromise, and I think that will be good for America.

I'm not doing too good right now. The water's rising pretty fast. I got a hammer and an ax and a crowbar, but I'm holding off on breaking through the roof until the last minute. Tell someone to come get me please. I want to live.

I'm going to hammer out a lot on the West Coast. It's definitely a dream of mine to play there. I pretty much watched videotapes falling asleep, watching Augusta, for a long, long time.

The attorney general has a hammer we don't have. A lot can come up. There are a lot of balls in the air.

The best way to describe the pain is if someone were to take a hammer and pound your thumb over and over.

Everybody's surprised by Kyle, but I'm not. He's going to do nothing but get better. He's becoming more of a factor. I saw him go inside and put the hammer on a linebacker. There's a lot of things he's doing right.

It used to be that a hammer might be the first tool you pick up when tackling a home improvement project. Today it is the Internet. It's really the first tool in the home improvement tool box.

Does the process dump the Sunnis by the wayside or do they stay and hammer out a compromise?

It's better to continue the negotiating process than sow the seeds for civil war, which is the alternative. Every effort must be made to hammer out an agreement by all sides because the alternative is bloodshed and endless violence.

I occasionally used to pop into Hammer House to say hello, cadge a drink or something and Jim was always great I also used to see a lot of him at Variety Club things, where he did wonderful work. He thoroughly deserved his knighthood.

I heard he was beat with a hammer or something.

If you want to start it, accept it. That's what we did when we were players. We used to go hammer and tongs at it, and some of the things that were said were nasty, but if someone wants to start a verbal in any walk of life, they have to accept it.

I don't know how much credit I can take for him. He has a very wide range of skills. There's an old analogy that you can do lots of jobs with a hammer and a screwdriver, but it's better to have a few more tools in the box. Dan seems to have a full tool box.

There's such vitriol and backlash out of consumers to price increases that you want to get it over all at once. If you have to use a hammer to hit your thumb, would you rather five small taps or one hit? That's essentially what's going on. On the way down, there's nervousness about whether the commodity markets are going to spin around and take all your margins again.

They've taken this hammer and basically tried to impose legal restrictions via contract. And I don't know with the great majority of the public, if it is going to sit that well, it is a little heavy handed.

It was most of all, safe. There's nothing really that the opposition can get a handle on and hammer the government with in that throne speech.

It was a matter of when the hammer was going to drop. The reality of it all gets closer. It's starting to hit home.

It was a cracking game of football, with two teams going hammer and tongs for 90 minutes. These players always keep going to the end and have done that four or five times already this season.

After he gave up that homer in the sixth, I think he had a little talk with himself. He just put the hammer down after that. He wanted to pitch a complete game.

Apple true believers are going to hammer this a thousand different ways on the details, but it caught the essence of Jobs and Gates,

...the hardest hammer can only strike the nail squarely when guided by the softer hand; in other words, the pursuit of truth was most effective when tempered with fairness...

The hammer over the co-operator's head is the importance of the prosecutor giving full credit for the co-operation at the time of sentencing.

The hammer was the most competitive event on the women's end because Oregon brought their best. We went 1-3 and they went 2-4.

The first week will be very, very light moderate training and that will leave me six weeks till the fight and then I can start going hammer and tongs from there.

The city is confident that its actions with regard to the Hammer Flat area of impact expansion were entirely lawful and appropriate.

This is all in an attempt to raise money for the attorney. We are looking at placing an injunction on the ordinance. . . . If we hammer at them and get the injunction . . . I think they will reconsider what help they need to give these parks.

All I can say is that those nails dodged the hammer a lot. I would not hire Walton and Artis to work on my house.

It's like any other dream, everyone takes out their hammer and chisel and go after that rock until finally somebody finishes it.

It's tough sometimes. Sometimes you just want to turn around and two-hand a guy in the face. But you can't. You've got to just calm yourself down and skate away. It's hard sometimes, especially if the guy got you pretty good and you want to turn around and hammer him.

It really is a case of taking a sledge hammer to crack a nut.