{"quotes":[{"text":"There's something very romantic about self-destruction and sabotaging your life, and taking a hammer to it.","author":"Gerard Way","tags":["life","hammer","something "],"id":65543,"author_id":"Gerard+Way"},{"text":"He tried to measure his day by tallying the hours on his wrist.I wiped it off and called him a prisoner.He placed the hours on a scalewith hours from former days to compare.I took a hammer and broke it all.He bent down and picked up the shards of minutes firstthen swept the seconds.I told him he’d missed a spot;there were some sparkling specks left.'What are they?' he asked.'Those are moments,' I said.'What are they made of?' he asked.They are times, I thought, when you win a raceor win a heart.They are times when you give birth or lay something, someone to rest.When you wake up in the morning with a smile because anything is possible.When someone compliments the thing you hate most about yourself.Times when you are embarrassed.Times when you are hurtful.Times when you relish in a hearty meal.Times when you service others and are content with a well-spent day.'What are they made of?' he asked again.'They are made up of times when we are fully present.'I picked up one of the specks with the tipof my finger.'Do you remember this?' I asked.'Of course,' he said, 'I was whistling in the kitchen that morning.''Why?' I asked.'Because of the knowledge that I was loved.","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["birth","broke","compare","compliment","content","cute","day","embarrass","former","hammer","heart","hours","hurtful","inspiration","kamand","kamand-kojouri","kojouri","lesson","love","love-poem","loving","meal","measure","minutes","moments","morning","place","possible","present","prisoner","prose","quote","race","scale","seconds","service","speck","spot","tally","times","whistle","win","wipe","wisdom","wrist"],"id":81048,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"},{"text":"A hammer made of deadlines is the surest tool for crushing writer's block.","author":"Ryan Lilly","tags":["book","books","creative-process","crush","crushing","deadline","deadlines","discipline","hammer","motivation","motivational","writers","writers-block","writing","writing-philosophy","writing-process"],"id":115949,"author_id":"Ryan+Lilly"},{"text":"Hands can cook, hands can create, hands can kill. There is no better tool than our hands.","author":"Amit Kalantri","tags":["adage","advertisement","alliterations","amit-kalantri","amit-kalantri","amit-kalantri-writer","art","blog","blogging","book-writing","catch-lines","catchphrases","characters","comedy","cook","craft","create","creative-writing","essay","funny","hammer","hands","humor","inspirational","kill","knowledge","machines","motivational","movie","movie-dialogue","novel-writing","philosophy","proverbs","public-speaking","punchline","quotes","rhetoric","script","script-writing","scriptwriting","slogans","social-networking","speech","speechwriting","story","tag-lines","tool","toolbox","two-hands","wisdom","wit","witty","witty","workmanship","writing"],"id":130716,"author_id":"Amit+Kalantri"},{"text":"I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.","author":"Abraham H. Maslow","tags":["assumptions","hammer","instrumentalism","problem-solving","psychology","science","temptation"],"id":163976,"author_id":"Abraham+H.+Maslow"},{"text":"- 'I just... I was thinking of Achilles. It's our anniversarý tomorrow, and I'd really like to get him a present. Maybe I could sneak out tonight and be back in time for... For Patrick's visit tomorrow.'- 'Ohh, what are you going to get him?'Hell. This was torture in itself.- 'A new hammer. One with my name engraved on the side.' - Sure. Why not?She sighed happily.- 'That's a cute idea!","author":"Emma Winters","tags":["anniversary","cute","hammer","idea","present","romantic","torture"],"id":173128,"author_id":"Emma+Winters"},{"text":"Silence fell like a hammer made of feathers. It left holes in the shape of the sound of the sea.","author":"Terry Pratchett","tags":["feathers","hammer","holes","nation","sea","silence"],"id":189964,"author_id":"Terry+Pratchett"},{"text":"A hammer with flowers is still a hammer for the nail!","author":"Mehmet Murat ildan","tags":["flowers","hammer","hammer","hammers","ildan-wisdom","ildan-wise-sayings","ildan-words","mehmet-murat-ildan","mehmet-murat-ildan","nail","nails","turkish-","turkish-literature","turkish-playwrights","turkish","turkish","turkish-wisdom-words","turkish-writers"],"id":190929,"author_id":"Mehmet+Murat+ildan"},{"text":"A hammer with flowers is still a hammer for the nail!","author":"Mehmet Murat ildan","tags":["flowers","hammer","hammer","hammers","ildan-wisdom","ildan-wise-sayings","ildan-words","mehmet-murat-ildan","mehmet-murat-ildan","nail","nails","turkish-","turkish-literature","turkish-playwrights","turkish","turkish","turkish-wisdom-words","turkish-writers"],"id":190929,"author_id":"Mehmet+Murat+ildan"},{"text":"Henry...Your father was a brave man.'He continued attacking the metal with a sledgehammer, brutally hacking at the anvil. She wasn't sure he had heard her. Then, he stopped short, the hammer hanging heavy in the air, the fire snapping in front of him.'I was close enough to smell it,' he seethed, not turning. 'But I was afraid. I hid fro.","author":"Sarah Blakley-Cartwright","tags":["adrian-lazar","afraid","brave","condolences","destroying","emotional","father","guilt","hammer","henry-lazar","leave","punish","save","valerie","wolf"],"id":211404,"author_id":"Sarah+Blakley-Cartwright"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":21,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}