Bill Hammer Quotes & Sayings

Here is my Farm Relief bill: Every time a Southerner plants nothing on his farm but cotton year after year, and the Northerner nothing but wheat or corn, why, take a hammer and hit him twice right between the eyes. You may dent your hammer, but it will do more real good than all the bills you can pass in a year. — Will Rogers

The worst thing to tell a free people in a country that's still mostly free is that they are not allowed to read something. — Michael Moore

I think the media needs a little criticizing now, as it did in the '80s, don't you? — Jose Padilha

If you were that sort of girl, then ... " Merik lifted a hand to her jaw - tentative at first, then more confident when she didn't pull away. "Then I would start here and move down your throat." His fingers whispered over her neck, to her collarbone - and Merik was pleased by how punctuated her breaths grew. How much her lips trembled. — Susan Dennard

In one recent experiment, Damasio and his colleagues had subjects listen to stories describing people experiencing physical or psychological pain. The subjects were then put into a magnetic resonance imaging machine and their brains were scanned as they were asked to remember the stories. The experiment revealed that while the human brain reacts very quickly to demonstrations of physical pain-when you see someone injured, the primitive pain centers in your own brain activate almost instantaneously- the more sophisticated mental process of empathizing with psychological suffering unfolds much more slowly. It takes time, the researchers discovered, for the brain "to transcend immediate involvement of the body" and begin to understand and to feel "the psychological and moral dimensions of a situation." (p220) — Nicholas Carr

The wise know their days are numbered and act accordingly. — Michael Hyatt

If you don't hunt, you don't eat — Michelle Outlaw

It is like sitting in a traffic jam on the San Diego Freeway with your windows rolled up and Portuguese music booming out of the surround-sound speakers while animals gnaw on your neck and diseased bill collectors hammer on your doors with golf clubs. — Hunter S. Thompson

In general, it can be said that no contemplative life is possible without ascetic self-discipline. One must learn to survive without the habit-forming luxuries which get such a hold on men today. I do not say that to be a contemplative one absolutely has to go without smoking or without alcohol, but certainly one must be able to use these things without being dominated by an uncontrolled need for them. — Thomas Merton

If you're a long-time Thor fan you know there's kind of a tradition from time to time of somebody else picking up that hammer. Beta Ray Bill was a horse-faced alien guy who picked up the hammer. At one point Thor was a frog. So I think if we can accept Thor as a frog and a horse-faced alien, we should be able to accept a woman being able to pick up that hammer and wield it for a while, which surprisingly we've never really seen before. — Jason Aaron

When you reach a place where you feel blocked, lower your standards and keep on going. There is no possible way to do permanent damage to a piece of writing. You cannot ruin it. You can only make it a little better a little at a time. — Richard Bausch

They say that abandonment is a wound that never heals. I say only that an abandoned child never forgets. — Mario Balotelli

Hospitality is the practice that keeps the church from becoming a club, a members-only society. — Diana Butler Bass

We, all of us in the First World, have participated in something of a binge, a half century of unbelievable prosperity and ease. We may have had some intuition that it was a binge and the earth couldn't support it, but aside from the easy things (biodegradable detergent, slightly smaller cars) we didn't do much. We didn't turn our lives around to prevent it. Our sadness is almost an aesthetic response - appropriate because we have marred a great, mad, profligate work of art, taken a hammer to the most perfectly proportioned of sculptures. — Bill McKibben

Admittance into the true church of Christ is based on regeneration, not merely on an affirmation of a creed or doctrine. The — John Bunyan

Like Jonah, the whale had swallowed me; unlike him, I believed I would spend eternity inside the belly of the beast. — Bob Kerrey

This is the material, by the way, that has kept me virtually anonymous in America for the past 15 years. Gee, I wonder why we're hated the world over? Look at these fat Americans in the front row - 'Why doesn't he just hit fruit with a hammer?' Folks, I could have done that, walked around being a millionaire and franchising myself but no, I had to have this weird thing about trying to illuminate the collective unconscious and help humanity. Fucking moron. — Bill Hicks

We mystify the art of moviemaking, but it's not amystical science. You take a good screenplay, put a group togetherand you hammer it out. — Bill Paxton

I find that people ... very few people think that what they're doing is bad, and usually the people who think what they're doing is bad it has more to do with guilt. — Jon Favreau

A sign in the yard of a church next door said CHRIST IS THE ANSWER. (The question, of course, is: What do you say when you strike your thumb with a hammer?) — Bill Bryson

Her happiness floated like waves of ocean along the coast of her life. She found lyrics of her life in his arms but she never sung her song. — Santosh Kalwar

Treat your past as a book that you learn from instead of a hammer that you beat yourself up about. — Bill Whittle