Quotes About Short Pencils

#1. Writing down call numbers with short pencils, searching up and down aisles that would turn dark when the timers on the lights expired. She recalls, visually, certain passages in the books she'd read. Which side of the book, where on the page.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#2. You must feel comfortable with that fly rod in your hand before you spend time, money, and emotional capital on a fishing trip.

The Orvis Company

#3. I wonder what right we have to believe our childhood dreams will come true.

Carrie Ryan

#4. It is difficult to describe in short the enthusiasm and devotion provoked by and given to my research. We lived almost in poverty. I used pencils, two for a nickel, and could not buy a fountain pen, when I lost mine.

Immanuel Velikovsky

#5. People will say "You must miss playing to a thousand people." But I don't. I might miss playing. That's what I would miss, but I don't miss it, because I am playing.

Ian MacKaye

#6. I'm very easy to see on the podium because everyone else is small!

Svetlana Khorkina

#7. Just as once upon a time you could make the experience of religion or nature a great metaphor, so now it is with love. It's just not the kind of thing you can put at the center of a work of literature and have it really reveal us to ourselves.

Vivian Gornick