“I don't lecture and I don't grind any axes. I just want to entertain.”
Gregory Peck
“I wouldn't refuse stardom, recognition, acclaim. I had no axe to grind either way... I wasn't wishing I was somewhere else, somebody else, richer or more famous. I was happy and secure with who I was, what I was and where I was. I didn't have to have what they all had.”
Dirk Benedict
“The problem begins when you start having volunteers selectively enforcing laws, especially volunteers that have a particular axe to grind and are all of one race and are focusing it on another race. That's when we say that it's racism.”
Brent Wilkes
“This is a site built by teachers for teachers. We have no commercial axe to grind.”
David Holland
“I have a built-in bias against reporters who have axes to grind. I think there are reporters that allow their own bias to encroach on their journalism, and that's a crime against journalism.”
Don Hewitt
“I do an awful lot of appearances, and to have one person always grinding the same axe would not be a good idea.”
David Attenborough
“And many strokes though with a little axe hew down and fell the hardest-timbered oak.”
William Shakespeare
