(12 quotes found)
“QUILL, n. An implement of torture yielded by a goose and commonly wielded by an ass. This use of the quill is now obsolete, but its modern equivalent, the steel pen, is wielded by the same everlasting Presence.”
Ambrose Bierce
“Last of all Hurin stood alone. Then he cast aside his shield, and wielded an axe two-handed; and it is sung that the axe smoked in the black blood of the troll-guard of Gothmog until it withered, and each time that he slew Hurin cried 'Aure entuluva!”
J.R.R. Tolkien
“Another hand thy sword shall wield,Another hand the standard wave,Till from the trumpet's mouth is pealedThe blast of triumph o'er thy grave.”
William Cullen Bryant
“Everywhere, unthinking mobs of 'independent thinkers' wield tired cliches like cudgels, pummeling those who dare question 'enlightened' dogma. ... Cliches begin arguments, they don't settle them.”
Jonah Goldberg
“This is a powerful club Intel wields because it is a monopolist, ... These customers have no other alternative (than) the Intel microprocessors they use in their leading-edge systems.”
William Baer
“Conditions are ripe for triumph, ... We will win. And we will wield great power here.”
Daniel Ortega
“Jameson is a literature professor but his teaching is based on an uninformed opinion. All he's done is wield ideologies out of a 19th-century theory.”
David Horowitz
“Well there are those that you wield and those that you join.”
Richard Murdoch
“has wielded a considerable supply-side stick, which accounts for the administration's aggressive tax cutting.”
Jude Wanniski
“He does wield a pretty heavy stick. Gov. Richardson wants you to be with him 100% of the time. If you're with him 99% of the time, you're his enemy.”
Dan Foley
