Sharp Pencils Quotes:

Writing is simple. First you have to make sure you have plenty of paper... sharp pencils... typewriter ribbon. Then put your belly up to the desk... roll a sheet of paper into the typewriter... and stare at it until beads of blood appear on your forehead.

- Jeff MacNelly

source: "Fictional character: Prof. Cosmo Fishhawk". "Shoe" by Jeff MacNelly, 1977-2000.

topic: Writing, Simple, Typewriters, Foreheads, Beads

A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.

- Joyce Meyer

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring, Sharp Pencils

Homework, I have discovered, involves a sharp pencil and thick books and long sighs.

- Katherine Applegate

topic: Book, Long, Homework, Sharp Pencils

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

topic: Art, Lying, Perfect, Crayon, Pencil Sharpeners

Map out your future, but do it in pencil.

- Jon Bon Jovi

topic: Educational, Inspiration, Goal, Sharp Pencils

Don't you love New York in the fall? It makes me want to buy school supplies. I would send you a bouquet of newly sharpened pencils if I knew your name and address.

- Nora Ephron

topic: New York, Fall, School, Fall Autumn, Sharp Pencils

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

- Mother Teresa

topic: Writing, Hands, Making A Difference, Love Letter, Little Hands

You can lead a horse to water, but a pencil must be led.

- Stan Laurel

topic: Horse, Water, Pencils, Horticulture, Old Proverb

In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.

- Vincent Van Gogh

topic: Artist, Drawing, Goes On, Drawing And Painting, Painting And Art

Map out your future - but do it in pencil. The road ahead is as long as you make it. Make it worth the trip.

- Jon Bon Jovi

topic: Travel, Journey, Long, Sharp Pencils

I know of no painless process for giving birth to a picture idea. When I must produce, I retire to a quiet room with a supply of cheap paper and sharp pencils; my brain knows it's going to take a beating.

- Norman Rockwell

source: Susan E. Meyer, Norman Rockwell (1981). “Norman Rockwell's people”, ABRAMS

topic: Ideas, Giving, Brain, Quiet Room, Painless

Don’t you love New York in the fall? It makes me wanna buy school supplies. I would send you a bouquet of newly sharpened pencils if I knew your name and address. On the other hand, this not knowing has its charms.

- Tom Hanks

topic: New York, Fall, School, Sharp Pencils, Sharpening Pencils

Healthcare is growing now at about 10 per cent per annum in the U.S. top line, versus 3 per cent for the economy. As someone with a sharp pencil and an eye for this kind of thing, this can't last.

- James Chanos

topic: Eye, Growing, Lines, Versus, Sharp Pencils

Oh relax." I waved my hand dismissively. "If he wanted to kill me, he already would have. I brought him all these sharp pencils, ideal for stabbing, and he's been a perfect gentleman.

- Kiersten White

topic: Hands, Perfect, Gentleman, Stabbing, Paranormalcy

At first, when California started winning its water lawsuits and shutting off cities, the displaced people just followed the water-right to California. It took a little while before the bureaucrats realized what was going on, but finally someone with a sharp pencil did the math and realized that taking in people along with their water didn't solve a water shortage.

- Paolo Bacigalupi

topic: Math, Winning, Cities, Sharp Pencils

There's an easy method for finding someone when you hear them scream. First get a clean sheet of paper and a sharp pencil. Then sketch out nine rows of fourteen squares each. Then throw the piece of paper away and find whoever is screaming so you can help them. It is no time to fiddle with paper.

- Daniel Handler

topic: Squares, Pieces, Paper, Sharp Pencils