Quotes About Sharp Pencils

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. What a happy woman I am, living in a garden, with books, babies, birds and flowers, and plenty of leisure to enjoy them. Sometimes I feel as if I were blest above all my fellows in being able to find happiness so easily.

Rosamunde Pilcher

#5. Ordinary people who walk with an extraordinary God of grace and power, really can make a difference in other as yet unreached lives.

Ross Paterson

#6. A peacemaker does not mean a peaceful person.

Lanza Del Vasto

#7. In terms of the spaceship Earth, the wrong crew is in command, and it's time for a mutiny.

Jose Arguelles

#8. About the only policies that can't be referred to as "deregulation" are ones that aim to reverse some other policy that has already been labeled "deregulation," which means it's important, in playing the game, to have your policy labeled "deregulation" first.

David Graeber

#9. George Foreman. A miracle. A mystery to myself. Who am I? The mirror says back. The George you was always meant to be. Wasn't always like that. Used to look in the mirror and cried a river.

George Foreman

#10. 'That another one of your rules, Bit? No touching, no kissing, no flirting?'
'You forgot no calling me Bit.'
'Yeah, I don't like that one. I don't think I like the no flirting either.'

J.L. Langley

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

Ze Frank

#12. Most people believe that the Creator of the universe wrote (or dictated) one of their books. Unfortunately, there are many books that pretend to divine authorship, and each makes incompatible claims about how we all must live.

Sam Harris

#13. Words are the basic tools, if you are a writer. But why? Why do you choose one set of tools rather than another?

James D. Houston

#14. Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.' " "William Morris.

Menna Van Praag

#15. You either have to find a way to be really creative materially, or you better have a trust fund. And, last I checked, I didn't have a trust fund.

Mark Bradford