Sharpener Quotes

• The pencil sharpener is about as far as I have ever got in operating a complicated piece of machinery with any success.

  Robert Benchley

  Technology, Pieces, Complicated

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• Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Art, Lying, Long

  Tremendous Trifles (1909) "On Lying in Bed"

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• I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Marriage, God

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• I am but a small pencil in the hand of a writing God

  Mother Teresa

  Writing, Hands, Making A Difference

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• Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It's made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!

  Roald Dahl

  Food, Home Cooking, Cereal

  Roald Dahl (2007). “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”, p.126, Penguin

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• Some people may be famous for creating a pencil sharpener. I'm famous for my tits.

  Katie Price

  Creating, People, May

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• A lot of songs you write are just for exercise - just pencil sharpeners.

  Harlan Howard

  Song, Writing, Exercise

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• I'm one of the world's greatest pencil sharpeners.

  Truman Capote

  World, Pencil Sharpeners, Pencils

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The thing I hear about a lot is when people over-sharpen their pencil with a single-blade pocket-sharpener and then when they put the pencil to the page, their tip breaks and pencil points always break irregularly. It always gets all jagged and you have to refresh the point. That's a common complaint.

  David Rees

  People, Pockets, Pages

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I never thought I would make a living as a pencil-sharpener. The first goal was: I don't want to lose money. And then the goal was: I want to see if 100 people buy my pencils. I just kept upping the benchmarks.

  David Rees

  People, Goal, Want

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I drink a lot, probably too much. My scene while writing lyrics is always a bottle of scotch and stacks of note cards, pencil and pencil sharpener. I throw around note cards and drink.

  Ben Folds

  Writing, Scotch, Cards

  Source: www.billboard.com

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• I believe I saw a woodcock. He had a long bill like putting a fire hydrant into a pencil sharpener, then pasting it onto a bird and letting the bird fly away in front of me with this thing on its face for no other purpose than to amaze me.

  Richard Brautigan

  Believe, Fire, Long

  Richard Brautigan (1989). “Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America, The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster, and In Watermelon Sugar”, p.65, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Just because a lot of people know something nominal doesn't make it important. A lot of people know what a pencil sharpener is, but that doesn't make it the most important invention of the 20th century.

  Ben Affleck

  People, Important, Invention

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• Once you use a toothbrush to clean a pencil sharpener, you should no longer use it to clean your teeth.

  David Rees

  Teeth, Use, Clean

  David Rees (2012). “How to Sharpen Pencils: A Practical & Theoretical Treatise on the Artisanal Craft of Pencil Sharpening for Writers, Artists, Contractors, Flange Turners, Anglesmiths, & Civil Servants”, p.29, Melville House

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• Life is like a box of crayons. Most people are the 8-color boxes, but what you're really looking for are the 64-color boxes with the sharpeners on the back. I fancy myself to be a 64-color box, though I've got a few missing.

  John Mayer

  Color, People, Missing

  "The Best Excellently Random Horror Movie Performances" by Lauren Sarner, www.inverse.com. October 27, 2015.

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• On my desk, I always have a lemon or a lime drying. I love the fragrance. Also, a Staedtler eraser, a brush for the eraser and a pencil sharpener.

  Maira Kalman

  Desks, Limes, Brushes

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