(22 quotes found)
“Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.”
Albert Einstein
“[With a large Aboriginal contingent that proves central to the plot, The Proposition certainly takes an axe to some pieties about Australia's past.] That was the thing that the indigenous actors were really pleased about, ... To be in a film where they got an opportunity to fight back.”
Nick Cave
“I've always been a big believer in transfers -- I understand the mentality, ... I've always believed transfers have an axe to grind. They come in with an incredible hunger, and I love the year they sit out, improve their academics and their game, and learn the system. And for us, these are really, really, really good basketball players.”
Travis Ford
“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
“Yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the coulters, and for the forks, and for the axes, and to sharpen the goads.”
Bible
“He was going to split my head with an axe, ... He was berserk, he was screaming. I fired two shots into the wall, and I forced him to lie face down on the floor.”
Wayne Webster
“When I hear the word Heidegger I reach for my axe. He may have swiped it.”
John McCarthy
“All our lauded technological progress -- our very civilization - is like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal.”
