Top 213 Sharpening Pencils Quotes & Sayings

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

#3 pencils and quadrille pads.

People think, "Wow, people in America have so much money, they're sending hundreds of pencils to this guy." I don't think those people realize that most people who are buying these pencils are buying them as art objects or conversation pieces.

Invention is activity of mind, as fire is air in motion; a sharpening of the spiritual sight, to discern hidden aptitudes.

I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.

I liked sharpening pencils and I was like, "Oh, I wonder if I could get paid to do it." And I figured it out and I did it.

We can work on sharpening our prescribing practices, working with clinicians to ensure we're treating pain safely and effectively.

One of my earliest ventures was when I was nine years old. I realized there was a shortage of pencils at school, so I started Rent-a-Pencil. But I made a fundamental mistake. Everybody stole my pencils.

I believe it doesn't really matter where you work as long as you work. Keep sharpening your teeth.

?The party that leans upon the workers but serves the bourgeoisie, in the period of the greatest sharpening of the class struggle, cannot but sense the smells wafted from the waiting grave.

Everybody makes mistakes, that's why they put erasers on pencils

I don't think I ever owned twenty pencils at one time. Wearing down seven number-two pencils is a good day's work.

Comedians are really writers who don't have pens and pencils about them, but they riff.

There's no need to sharpen my pencils anymore. They're sharp enough. Even the dull ones will make a mark.

It would be amazing to tell my grandchildren, like, 'Yeah, I was paid to sharpen 1,000 pencils.'

During the lockout year, my focus was the basics, sharpening my moves, my fundamentals.

My teacher once told me – ”No one is perfect……..that is why pencils have erasers.”

Wearing down seven number two pencils is a good day's work.

If we can't, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.

I am not talking about the American people and the British people, I am talking about those mercenaries. ... They have started throwing those pencils, but they are not pencils, they are booby traps to kill the children.

I don't want boys to use their pencils for improper writing.

I play around with my Japanese Garden. Since Im half way to 70 today I need to start pruning trees and sharpening plants like an old fart.

When I sit down at the typewriter, I write. Someone once asked me if I had a fixed routine before I start, like setting up exercises, sharpening pencils, or having a drink of orange juice. I said, "No, the only thing I do before I start writing is to make sure that I'm close enough to the typewriter to reach the keys."

Procrastination is something you do yourself. You know: "I gotta sharpen these pencils before I start. I got 20 pencils, they're looking kinda dull." Well, the pencils aren't calling you and alluring you and inviting you and offering you anything. They're just sitting there. You're the one who's procrastinating.

I assumed that the pencil market was collapsing, but then it turns out that from 2010 to 2011 in the United States, pencil consumption went up by over six percent. I mean, those are all foreign-made pencils. Those are probably Chinese pencils, mostly, and Mexican pencils. I mean, it is an archaic communication technology, but it is still ubiquitous.

I didn't dare to dream of making money. But now of course, I've made many thousands of dollars sharpening pencils.

Why are pencils equipped with erasers if not to correct mistakes?

Night wasn't so much falling as sharpening its claws.

I like 'pencil-necked weasel'. It has 'pencil' in it. Pencils are good things. You can draw or write things with pencils. I think it's what you call someone when you're worried that using a long word like 'intellectual' may have too many syllables. It's not something that people who have serious, important things to say call other people.

Depression, for me, wasn't a dulling but a sharpening, an intensifying, as though I had been living my life in a shell, and now the shell wasn't there. It was total exposure.

The choice between a Labour government and a Tory one is sharpening minds.

We are all pencils in the hand of God.

The People's Liberation Army should play the role of shock troops, overcoming fatigue and sharpening vigilance to make new contributions.

Our greatest responsibility is not to be pencils of the past.

Giant agencies are wobbling like drunkards... the rest of you should be sharpening your knives.

I still got bars, I just use 'em differently. I'd say I'm a better singer than I am a rapper at this point because I've been sharpening my sword.

Everyone has pencils in their house, no matter how hip and contemporary they are.

My problem with mechanical pencils is that I break the lead tips constantly.

#3 pencils and quadrille pads.(when asked what CAD tools he used to design the Cray I supercomputer )

Companies get into grooves and they keep sharpening what they are doing, when in fact what they really need to do sometimes is to stop and do something completely differently.

I wanted to get paid to sharpen pencils originally just because I thought it would be fun.

Of course politics is an interesting and engrossing thing. It offers no immutable laws, nearly always prevaricates, but as far asblather and sharpening the mind go, it provides inexhaustible material.

I'm a good neurosugeon. That's not a boast but a way of acknowledging the innate ability God has given to me. Beginning with determination and using my gifted hands, I went on for training and sharpening for my skills.

I take pop culture really seriously, I think it's really important, and the stuff that I make...I don't want it to be insubstantial, even if it's about something wacky, like sharpening pencils. I feel like I owe it to myself and I owe it to people who are really interested in pencils and I owe it to anybody to do my due diligence and give them something real.

I started sharpening pencils at the census and how that was a difficult time in my life because my marriage was ending and I had quit cartooning and I didn't know what to do with myself.

The hard part of writing at all is sitting your ass down in a chair and writing it. There's always something better to do, like I've got an interview, sharpening the pencils, trimming the roses. There's always something better to do. Going to a writer's club?

I do not believe in guilt, moderation or dull pencils.

Teachers should not need to have to buy books for the kids, or pencils and pens. That's absurd.

Each day, we're sharpening Iowa's competitive edge in education and expanding our workplace partnerships with job-ready, STEM savvy, lifelong learners.

I managed to work for more than 50 years with just paper, pencils and film. My son's generation and the one coming up after can't work with just paper and pencils any more. I managed to avoid using a computer. I don't even have a cellphone. I feel lucky I managed to live like that.

You learned in school that you have pencils and paper only because the trees gave themselves in unconditional sacrifice.

Comedians are really writers who don't have pens and pencils about them, but they riff.

Whether I'm playing right now or not, I still have an opportunity to get better in practice. It's like sharpening my blade.

Leaving us with Eric is like hiring a babysitter who spends his time sharpening knives.

I've never liked spending a lot of time on beauty stuff. I have two eye pencils that I use, and that's it.

I talked to people in the pencil industry and I talked to people as I was sharpening their pencils about the frustrations they have with pencils, so I really did do my research and I do know more about pencils than most people.

I hardly ever use pencils. I'm left-handed and it's really messy if you're left-handed because of the graphite smudging. I use them more now than I used to because there's, like, 15,000 pencils all over my house.

I have rewritten — often several times — every word I have ever published. My pencils outlast their erasers.

The freeway is the last frontier. It is unsurpassed as a training ground for the sharpening of survival skills.

This writing business. Pencils and what-not. Over-rated, if you ask me. Silly stuff. Nothing in it.