Quotes of: Axe Keyword

If you are strong, torture not the weak, And thus lay not the axe to thy empire.

Zafarnama

A smile to someone could make the difference between them going home and axe murdering their family or having a nice meal!

Stanley Victor Paskavich

Interviews are usually a follow-up, like a press junket or a publicity junket, or something like that, and I'm not doing any of that right now. I don't have any axes to grind.

Michael Nesmith

If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.

Lord Byron

Fans love McGwire for his powerful physique, for his on-field hugs of his son, the part-time bat boy. He is Big Mac, or Paul Bunyan in Cardinals red with a white-ash bat instead of an ax.

Bill Dedman

I've come off horses and fought in medieval battles using axes, hammers and swords as well as fists. Getting your teeth knocked out is an occupational hazard.

James Cosmo

Hilario: We'll fight with guns if we have them. If we don't, with machetes, axes, clubs, anything!

The Magnificent Seven

When 'Foyle's War' ended in 2010 after seven series, I was sad but not despondent. After all, ITV had already axed the show once in 2007, then brought it back due to public demand.

Honeysuckle Weeks

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge,fitter to bruise than polish." [ ]

Anne Bradstreet

I have no ax to grind. I was lucky. I played. How many guys play high school, college football never play pro football?

Art Donovan

I wonder Pa went so easy. I wonder Grampa didn' kill nobody. Nobody never tol' Grampa where to put his feet. An' Ma ain't nobody you can push aroun' neither. I seen her beat the hell out of a tin peddler with a live chicken one time 'cause he give he...

The Grapes of Wrath

We're enveloped in pitch black. "Wait here," I whisper. "Are you getting your ax?" "Handcuffs." "Kinky. But, okay, I'll try it.

Isla and the Happily Ever After

Sometimes the thing one wants most is the very thing that will get him killed with an axe.

The Zombie Sheriff Takes Tucson: A Love Story

I call the right axe Sorrow," she said. "You know what I call the left one?" "Happiness?" "Sorrow. I can't tell them apart.

Lev Grossman

If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually the tree has to fall down.

Jack Canfield

The sick in soul insist that it is humanity that is sick, and they are the surgeons to operate on it. They want to turn the world into a sickroom. And once they get humanity strapped to the operating table, they operate on it with an ax.

Eric Hoffer

Shosanna Dreyfus: [threatening a French film developer] You either do what the fuck we tell you, or I'll bury this axe in your collaborating skull.

Inglourious Basterds

Matt 'Axe' Axelson: [while sighting in a Taliban fighter] You can die for your country, I'm gonna live for mine.

Lone Survivor

An adaptation I was working on of Trollope's 'The Pallisers' has been axed by the BBC... I was also going to do Dickens' 'Dombey and Son' but they've asked me to do 'David Copperfield' instead.

Andrew Davies

At 'SNL,' I wrote political stuff, but I never felt the show should have an axe to grind. But when I left in '95, I could let my own beliefs out.

Al Franken

If he trips he must be sustained. If he makes mistakes they must be covered. If he sleeps he must not be wantonly disturbed. If he is no good he must be pole-axed

Winston S. Churchill