Hammered Quotations

Rock pools, so-named because they have been hammered out of rocks at the ocean's edge, are one of Sydney's defining characteristics, along with the Opera House and Harbour Bridge, though not as well known.

Working crew made me realise that the actors are a very small part of a very big machine, with each part being vital to make the show work. It so important to remember that it's not about you, it's about the show, and working crew hammered that point home to me.

You wanna get the truth out of me, get me hammered.

When you try to formalize or socialize creative activity, the only sure result is commercial constipation. The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.

We're pleased with the compromise we hammered out with the EPP and we hope it will achieve a majority in the plenary.

The referee blew four times for penalties but gave us nothing. We got hammered first time. All we ask is some consistency from referees.

Now, you've got guys who haven't even played a down in their junior year, and they're being ranked and they're being hammered about who they like, ... They're getting tired of it by the time their senior year rolls around.

Rickie got a curve ball up in the fourth and hammered it. That was a big part of the ballgame.

Rickie got a curveball up a little bit and he hammered it. It was a big part of the game.

I make the argument, I got hammered for this, that parents should actually consider spending less time at work and more time with their families, ... ... I'll take the hit for saying parents need to parent.

Given how high the market is, if there's anyone missing their targets, they're really going to be hammered in a big way.

He (Kwiatkowski) just hammered it in the middle. We thought we scored the game winner (on Adams goal.) It's very disappointing.

King and Mapes were two keys to our success today. Annie is one of our senior co-captains and she?s very deserving of that. She showed up well today, hammered the ball and made good choices. Cheryl was very consistent from the service line ... as good as she?s been all year.

I think (the players) believed last year they had the ability. It wasn't ability last year that kept them from winning, but mostly off-the-field issues that just hammered on us. It wasn't good.

I think we did a bad job. We thought we had a free play (on first-and-5). We should have hammered it right at them. That screen was good for us last week. It wasn't as good today.

I think AOL has been hammered a lot because of concerns about free (Internet) service, about their slowing growth internationally and a few other issues including broadband, ... But you can't argue with 18 million customers. And of course their customer turnover rate has never been (lower). So, the company is holding to their customers longer, they have a much larger base. I think (Chief Executive Officer) Steve Case will find a way to make it through these issues.

I think it's wrong. It's discriminatory. They're penalizing schools that are clean. They can say what they want, but it's been a football issue all along, and now the lesser sports are getting hammered for it.

It has been hammered on an earnings warnings very recently, but their long-term earnings are very much intact; it is a compelling price in the low 40s.

I think that the social compact hammered out in the mid-20th century has been superseded by a new compact that is different and doesn't promise the potential for lifetime tenure. Workers are free agents.

I was way across the court. I was saying, 'No, Jeremy don't embarrass us,' but he got up and hammered it through.

I went over it and over it and over it, really hammered on it. When I thought I'd mentioned it enough, I made sure I mentioned it again.

Last week we got hammered because of drive-offs, ... It's all over our coverage area. It's not just one gas station.

Retailers must always be focused on knowing their customers. But in desperate times like these that message gets hammered home because the competition is so fierce for a limited amount of dollars.

My players have been rightly hammered from pillar to post this week but at least they rolled their sleeves up and didn't collapse after that dreadful start.

I was falling behind a little and then when I had to come over the plate it was getting hit pretty hard. That pitch to Wells I left over the plate and he hammered it.

I think people are pretty happy with the BHP result but the share price has not done much. These days you don't get rewarded for a good result just hammered for a bad one.

We noticed the school district was getting hammered with children, so we devised a plan that is age-restrictive.

We hammered the walls in the pouring rain, in the mud.

We hammered out what I think is a good bill. ... Not a perfect bill, but a good bill.

We played our tails off but just got hammered on the backboards. Our defense was as good as it's been, but we couldn't keep them off the glass.

We can sustain the expansion. Come January and February, people are going to get hammered with huge heating bills. But once they get past that, they'll be O.K. I have no beef with a forecast of 3.5 percent GDP growth next year.

When I first got here, he was talking about games from two years ago and mistakes he had made. He's been hammered so hard. It's something that we had to repair and fix, for him to live in the now and forget about the past.

We've been getting hammered a little bit. It's almost like we're not going to contribute to whatever happens this season. Guys are going to step up to the challenge this year, take it upon ourselves as a defensive unit to go out there and get it done. You'll see a big change in us this season.

When I got into this business, the 18-34-year-old thing was hammered into me.

Towns get hammered with exorbitant increases in special education costs year to year. Another significant problem is the continued lack of full funding needed for the No Child Left Behind Act. More and more of the burden is being thrust on property tax payers and towns.

We put that in all week. I had to hit him in the second window (deeper in the end zone). I thought the flat defender would come down when he saw the ball fake, but he didn't. Eric ran a good route and didn't get hammered at the line, and I hit him in the second window.

We had a really good couple of weeks of practice. We hammered a lot of areas they were struggling at before Christmas.

We just got absolutely hammered on the boards but Michigan State does that to a lot of people. I want to acknowledge the courage and the heart of that team following what I thought was the best preseason game I've ever seen to go to another overtime and be able to sustain that effort.

We controlled the game for most of it but let it slip away. We missed open looks. We could have hammered them. They got that little run and we never recovered.

This thing has taken on greed, panic and fear. Banks and trading companies are getting hammered and their business are doing well in this economy.

We went through the agreement Paul had proposed and hammered out something.

Even though the Swans have been there for over 20 years now and really built up a loyal following, AFL on television does not attract the sort of audiences we would like, ... We would just have got killed if we went in any earlier. We are putting it on at 10pm, which is not what I would call late, but we would get hammered if we put it on live.

Even in the first three nights of polling, when Mayor Bloomberg was being hammered for not participating in the Harlem debate, he was cruising along with a 19-point lead,

The rumors are lies. There were a lot of people said we're not going to play; that we don't have a contract. ... We got it worked out; got it hammered out.

Tens of thousands of people, including women and children, carried stones with bamboo baskets to build the airport, ... People hammered big stones into small pieces and then rammed the stone pieces with large rollers to make the runway solid.

Scioto just hammered us in the second and third quarters the last time we played them.

After you get hammered like we got hammered last week, it's encouraging to have the girls come back and play pretty solid.

The nail that sticks up will be hammered down.

Anywhere you have an active level of climbing, you're going to see fixed anchors. There are different kinds of fixed anchors, from a bolt drilled into a rock or an old-time piton hammered into a crack. It's everything from the actual hardware to nylon webbing wrapped around an outcrop. They provide protection for climbers and are particularly useful when you're coming down or rappelling.

That pitch to Wells, I left over the plate, and he hammered it.

Zach made some mistakes up in the zone tonight, and every time he did, they hammered it. The guys on their team hadn't been swinging the bats real well, but tonight they did.

You're not getting much help from the commodities. People are trying to get a better sense. They don't know whether it's time to go in and pick away at some of the resources that have been hammered down or run for cover.

This is an issue that a lot of people have spent a lot of time working on and it certainly is the governor's desire that an acceptable procedure be hammered out before we leave office.

The way she hammered off from the lead and challenged people to come after her was an attitude handed down to me.

This is the most important thing they are doing right now and since the public is paying the bill, it should be hammered out in public.

It's been a long time since we've been beaten like this. I wouldn't say we competed with Winterset tonight. Getting hammered at home like this is the disappointing thing.

That machine has sat and hammered away since 1994 with no major repairs, but we've had to repair something every year now for the last few years, so it was time to either get a new baler for $100,000 or try to do some refurbishing.

It's a magical thing that drops out of the sky into your lap, ... The Hammered Dulcimer.

They were better at pitch selection and had a better approach to hitting the ball. They just hammered the ball. It's one of the best performances I've seen in a long time for us.

It's real tough. It's tough for players getting hammered every day, ripped in the media every day. I've been there, so I know.

The Labour Party in 2011 was in an exceptionally bad place. We'd been hammered in an election. We didn't see the scale of it coming.

In a party tent poised somewhere between romance and avarice, an auctioneer hammered out the sale of the first of the costly baubles that were scattered as love tokens across the lives of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor.

I know we played them six years ago and they hammered us, 4-0.

I know it looked bad, ... He had hammered the ball on the first pitch last time, so I tried to go in.

In this league, you're going to get hammered if you just throw fastballs.

In the long term, this will provide strength for the Canadian dollar. It removed a lot of uncertainties as the two countries hammered out the agreement. This should benefit the Canadian economy and the currency.

If you were a Democrat, you'd probably get hammered for it. There's an irony there. You've got a Republican president overseeing the creation of a large, new department. But I don't think he'll get criticized for it.

Clearly, GM has been getting hammered in terms of its image relentlessly going on two years now. They are in crisis mode.

Religion is something that gets hammered in early, and never really goes away. And has powers to move which go beyond anything rational.

The exact curriculum has yet to be hammered out. But there are also plans for some interpretive trails with information markers along pathways that the general public could enjoy.

The idea of not going to school in my house? My dad would spank you raw. We had the value of education hammered into us at an early age. There was never any question we were going to college.

The girls had a decent day hitting the ball, but they hammered it in the third inning. (St. Mary's) changed their pitcher and everything turned around from there.

The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.

The Dow's getting hammered by all the bad news this morning,

The customer is getting hammered and there is no way our salaries are increasing that fast.

The last two years we've been hammered by graduation. It's a brand new team, a fresh start. If we get with the program, hopefully we'll play our best baseball in the second half of the league season.

Be a peg, hammered into the frozen ground, immovable.