Sharpest Pencil Quotes

#1. I am the sharpest pencil because I live outside the box.

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#2. The meat's so tough that it got up off the plate and beat the shit out of the coffee, which was too weak to defend itself.

Harry Brandt

#3. The citizens have "the extraordinary and exhausting practice of sitting down to dinner at any time between 10m and 11 p.m. I found it challenging to stay animated and conversational when my normal bedtime was usually about the time that the first course was being cleared".

Tony Leon

#4. It's so strange how one day you can be on this earth, and the next day not.

R.J. Palacio

#5. I think I've found out who I am and what we've been looking for. We don't have to search for my identity anymore. This is it-we're doing it!

Patsy Cline

#6. She was trying to write a novel, it was so slow, you had to destroy so much and start again; so hard to discover whether one was really a writer or just a victim of a literary home environment.

John Fowles

#7. I can again thy former light restore,
Should I repent me: but once put out thy light,
Thou cunning'st pattern of excelling nature,
I know not where is that Promethean heat
That can thy light relume.

William Shakespeare

#8. He knew how intelligent men could be broken by the stupidity of their superiors, how weeks of patient work night and day could be cast aside by such a man

John Le Carre

#9. Either inventing internal worlds or having no world at all to inhabit,

John Darnielle