Sharpener Quotes:

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

- Truman Capote

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: World, Pencil Sharpeners, Sharpener

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

- Robert Benchley

topic: Technology, Pieces, Complicated, Pencil Sharpeners, Sharpener

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

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

- Mother Teresa

topic: Love, Marriage, God, Love Letter, Making A Difference In The World

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

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

topic: Food, Cereal, Shaving, Pencil Sharpeners, Cheap Food

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

- Katie Price

topic: Creating, People, May, Pencil Sharpeners, Sharpener

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

- Harlan Howard

topic: Song, Writing, Exercise, Pencil Sharpeners, Sharpener

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

source: Source: therumpus.net

topic: People, Pockets, Pages, Sharpener

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

source: Source: therumpus.net

topic: Pencil Sharpeners, Sharpener

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

source: Source: www.billboard.com

topic: Writing, Scotch, Cards, Pencil Sharpeners, Sharpener

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

source: 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

topic: Believe, Fire, Long, Pencil Sharpeners, Sharpener

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

topic: People, Important, Invention, Pencil Sharpeners, Sharpener

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

- David Rees

source: 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

topic: Teeth, Use, Should, Toothbrushes, Pencil Sharpeners

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

topic: Color, People, Missing, Crayon, Periwinkle

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

topic: Desks, Limes, Brushes, Pencil Sharpeners, Sharpener