Sharpened Pencil Quotes

#1. Nothing in the world is like this-
a bright white page with
pale blue lines. The smell of a newly sharpened pencil
the soft hush of it
moving finally
one day
into letters.

Jacqueline Woodson

#2. One of life's fundamental truths states, 'Ask and you shall receive.' As kids we get used to asking for things, but somehow we lose this ability in adulthood. We come up with all sorts of excuses and reasons to avoid any possibility of criticism or rejection.

Jack Canfield

#3. But my very latest discovery made me feel better. I had found that every rooster has his own Spain and he has it under his feathers.

Nikolai Gogol

#4. Confidence is a pencil best sharpened with paper.

Kale Burton

#5. My idea of God is a not divine idea. It has to be shattered from time to time. He shatters it Himself. He is the great iconoclast. Could we not almost say that this shattering is one of the marks of His presence?..

C.S. Lewis

#6. Don't just die then, die trying.

Rick Yancey

#7. You ought to use a little of that siren song on Alan, my pearl. The boy needs to loosen his cravat.

Jaclyn Dolamore

#8. 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

#9. I feel homesick for this London I left behind.

Jennifer Niven

#10. I ordered another rum St. James and I watched the girl whenever I looked up, or when I sharpened the pencil with a pencil sharpener with the shavings curling into the saucer under my drink.

Ernest Hemingway,

#11. She's taken, shit dick. Go set up your room. Your machine has cobwebs on it.

Jamie McGuire