About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead.
Edsger Dijkstra
Every linguistic sign is located on two axes: the axis of simultaneity and that of succession.
Roman Jakobson
Everybody favours free speech in the slack moments when no axes are being ground.
Heywood Broun
I don't lecture and I don't grind any axes. I just want to entertain.
Gregory Peck
Interviews are usually a follow-up, like a press junket or a publicity junket, or something like that, and I'm not doing any of that right now. I don't have any axes to grind.
Michael Nesmith
We must wake up to the insane reality of our time. We are all irresponsible, unless we demand from the responsible decision makers that modern armaments must no longer be made available to people whose former battle axes and swords our ancestors condemned.
Thor Heyerdahl
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