Ax Quotes
On persistence, writing, and hard choices
These ax quotes span budget-cutting debates, the patient logic of chopping down a tree one swing at a time, and a writer's ideal of having no ax to grind, a theme close to our Book quotes.
I have no political ax to grind; I just find it absurd that huge billion-dollar corporations can take over elections. I just find it insane that, for instance, we give tax breaks to people like myself making millions of dollars,...
It's time to look beyond the budget ax to assure access to health care for all. It's time to look for bipartisan solutions to the problems we can tackle today, and to work together for tomorrow - building a health...
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I wrote strong advocacy stories, and when I got to fiction, I made a deliberate effort to leave that behind and enter a country where I had no ax to grind, no advocacy issues that I was carrying with me.
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.
Able Quotes
I'm pretty nice. I'm far from an ax murderer. I've never been mean to anyone in my life.
The electric guitar and its players hold a place of privilege in the annals of rock music. It is the engine, the weapon, the ax of rock.
The women who inspired this play deserved to be smacked across the head with a meat ax and that, I flatter myself, is exactly what I smacked them with.
Age Quotes
In an age of incompetence, I've been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That's my job.
I don't care how much hardware you throw at an audience. If they are not emotionally invested in the thing, it's zero. I can name a slew of films, but I have no ax to grind. I understand the commerce...
I almost chopped my thumb off once. Just before I left home, I was about ten or eleven years old, and I was trying to open a bone. Can you imagine that? A bone! I was trying to get the...
I have no ax to grind. I was lucky. I played. How many guys play high school, college football never play pro football?
Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.
Assure Quotes
The bottom line, addressing defense spending cuts with a meat ax like sequestration will damage defense readiness for decades to come.
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The most memorable line frames a book itself as an ax, meant to break through the frozen sea inside a reader - proof persistence can be quiet as well as forceful.
