We need to sharpen our focus & live to the point just like a pencil. — Robin S
I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil. — Truman Capote
The best design tool is a long eraser with a pencil at one end. — Marty Neumeier
Said Hamlet to Ophelia, I'll draw a sketch of thee. What kind of pencil shall I use? 2B or not 2B? — Spike Milligan
Etch your vision in stone-but sketch your strategy in pencil. — Steven Furtick
The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead. — Robert Brault
The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead. — Robert Breault
A formal manipulator in mathematics often experiences the discomforting feeling that his pencil surpasses him in intelligence. — Howard Whitley Eves
My heart is a colored pencil but my brain is an eraser — George Watsky
If you put in the work to sharpen the steel, it will eventually turn into needles. — Vietnamese Proverbs
I must say, I am trying to live my life with a sharpie marker approach. You can't erase the strokes you've made, but each step is much bolder and more deliberate. — Dianna Agron
A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine. — Alan Turing
A lot of songs you write are just for exercise - just pencil sharpeners. — Harlan Howard
Why are pencils equipped with erasers if not to correct mistakes? — Nellie L. McClung
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
Pencil Quotes
Life without you is like a broken pencil, there's no point. — Tyga
I am nothing; I am but an instrument, a tiny pencil in the hands of the Lord with which He writes what he likes. However imperfect we are, he writes beautifully. — Mother Teresa
We could learn a lot from crayons; some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, while others bright, some have weird names, but they all have learned to live together in the same box. — Robert Fulghum
3 lessons to be learn from a Pencil.Pain always sharpens you!Everything you do leaves a mark!What's inside you is useful, not what's outside!
It's like my whole world is coming undone, but when I write, my pencil is a needle and thread, and I'm stitching the scraps back together. — Julia Alvarez
Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Your body is like a piece of dynamite. You can tap it with a pencil all day, but you'll never make it explode. You hit it once with a hammer: Bang! Get serious. Do 40 hard minutes, not an hour and half of nonsense. It's so much more rewarding. — Jason Statham
I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.
Architects should be educated, skillful with the pencil, instructed in geometry, know much history, have followed the philosophers with attention, understand music, have some knowledge of medicine, know the opinions of the jurists, and be acquainted with astronomy and the theory of the heavens — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere. — Joyce Meyer
My teacher once told me – ”No one is perfect……..that is why pencils have erasers.” — Mahesh Bhatt
Mathematics is the cheapest science. Unlike physics or chemistry, it does not require any expensive equipment. All one needs for mathematics is a pencil and paper. — George Polya
Sharp Quotes
It takes courage...to endure the sharp pains of self discovery rather than choose to take the dull pain of unconsciousness that would last the rest of our lives. — Marianne Williamson
Run my dear, from anything that may not strengthen your precious budding wings. Run like hell my dear, from anyone likely to put a sharp knife into the sacred, tender vision of your beautiful heart. — Hafez
You will accomplish more by kind words and a courteous manner than by anger or sharp rebuke, which should never be used except in necessity. — Angela Merici
When we no longer have good cooking in the world, we will have no literature, nor high and sharp intelligence, nor friendly gatherings, no social harmony. — Marie-Antoine Careme
The difference between Pride Jaguar and the Drago-Kazov? A Jaguar will stab you in the back to gain an advantage. a Dragan will stab you just to see if his knife is sharp. — James Marsters
I never hit a shot, not even in practice, without having a very sharp, in-focus picture of it in my head. — Jack Nicklaus
War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend. — J. R. R. Tolkien
Do not use the sharpness of your speech on your mother who taught you how to speak. — Ali ibn Abi Talib
...he who has seen the intimate beauty of nature cannot tear himself away from it again. He must become either a poet or a naturalist and, if his eyes are keen and his powers of observation sharp enough, he may well become both. — Konrad Lorenz
Sharp Edges Quotes
A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. — Washington Irving
Don't necessarily avoid sharp edges. Occasionally they are necessary to leadership. — Donald Rumsfeld
Fear of failure is what fuels me, keeps me on edge and sharp. I'm not as good when I'm comfortable. — Alex Rodriguez
Watch constantly against those things which are thought to be no temptations. The most poisonous serpents are found where the sweetest flowers grow. Cleopatra was poisoned by an asp that was brought to her in a basket of fair flowers. Sharp-edged tools, long handled, wound at last. — Charles Spurgeon
Her fingers moved among barnacles and mussels, blue-black, sharp-edged. Neon red starfish were limp Dalis on the rocks, surrounded by bouquets of stinging anemones and purple bursts of spiny sea urchins. — Janet Fitch
A whetstone is no carving instrument, And yet it maketh sharp the carving tool; And if you see my efforts wrongly spent, Eschew that course and learn out of my school; For thus the wise may profit by the fool, And edge his wit, and grow more keen and wary, For wisdom shines opposed to its contrary. — Geoffrey Chaucer
There's a fine edge to new grief, it severs nerves, disconnects reality--there's mercy in a sharp blade. Only with time, as the edge wears, does the real ache begin. — Christopher Moore
Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. — Washington Irving
I'll tell you, my friends: it's all in the nerves. The nerves that tense and relax as you approach the edges of companionship and love. The razor-sharp edges of companionship and love. — Roberto Bolano
'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures. — Michel de Montaigne
Sharp Eyes Quotes
There is probably nothing finer than to climb free and unencumbered by equipment, reveling in the gymnastic upward movement, like Preuss or a Dulfer before you, relying only upon yourself, keeping a sharp eye on things, feeling the rock beneath your feet and fingertips. — Hermann Buhl
The common man, no matter how sharp and tough, actually enjoys having the wool pulled over his eyes, and makes it easier for the puller. — P. T. Barnum
You can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug, especially when its waving a razor sharp hunting knife in your eye. — Hunter S. Thompson
To perceive victory when it is known to all is not really skilful... It does not take much strength to lift a hair, it does not take sharp eyes to see the sun and moon, it does not take sharp ears to hear the thunderclap. — Sun Tzu
Smile, it's better than a poke in the eye. — Douglas Horton
One day passes and another day comes along, and everything happens the same. But basically, we are so afraid of the brilliance coming at us, and the sharp experience of our life, that we can't even focus our eyes. — Chogyam Trungpa
When you meet the man [Brassai] you see at once that he is equipped with no ordinary eyes. And the sharpness of vision and depth of insight are revealed in Brassai's lifelong photographic exploration of Paris - its people, places, and things. — Henry Miller
Affection should not be too sharp eyed, and love is not made by magnifying glasses. — Thomas Browne
They may not look dangerous, but if angered [bowtruckles] will gouge out human eyes with their fingers, which, as you can see, are very sharp and not at all desirable near the eyeballs. — J. K. Rowling
After the sharp-eyed jay and the roaring lion, peace will come on dove's gentle wing. — Erin Hunter
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
Map out your future, but do it in pencil. — Jon Bon Jovi
The use of the right word, the exact word, is the difference between a pencil with a sharp point and a thick crayon. — Peter Marshall
I am but a small pencil in the hand of a writing God — Mother Teresa
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
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
Homework, I have discovered, involves a sharp pencil and thick books and long sighs. — Katherine Applegate
I believe every pencil has to be sharpened every now and then to stay sharp, or you dull out. So my records, I chose to speak on what black people do, what white people do, what women do, what men do. — Ice Cube
One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds. — Unknown
I use a special tool. I make it myself; very sharp steel point and a handle like a pencil. For me it is a pencil. Maybe I have a special talent, a feeling you might say that lets me control it, to express my ideas as though I were sketching black on white. — Ugo Mochi
Dim loneliness came imperceivably into the fields and he turned back. The birds piped oddly; some wind was caressing the higher foliage, turning it all one way, the way home. Telegraph poles ahead looked like half-used pencils; the small cross on the steeple glittered with a sharp and shapely permanence. — A. E. Coppard
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
There's no need to sharpen my pencils anymore. They're sharp enough. Even the dull ones will make a mark. — Ze Frank
Writing is simple. First you have to make sure you have plenty of paper... sharp pencils... typewriter ribbon. Then put your belly up to your desk... roll a sheet of paper into the typewriter... and stare at it until beads of blood appear on your forehead. — Unknown
Now I will give you a piece of advice. I will tell you something that I absolutely believe you should do, and if you do not do it you will never be a witer. It is a certain truth. When your pencil is dull, sharpen it. And when your pencil is sharp, use it until it is dull again. — Mary Ruefle
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
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
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
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