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  • Once you use a toothbrush to clean a pencil sharpener, you should no longer use it to clean your teeth.

    Teeth   Use   Clean  
    David Rees (2012). “How to Sharpen Pencils: A Practical & Theoretical Treatise on the Artisanal Craft of Pencil Sharpening for Writers, Artists, Contractors, Flange Turners, Anglesmiths, & Civil Servants”, p.29, Melville House
  • 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.

    Source: therumpus.net
  • Once I read a story about a butterfly in the subway, and today, I saw one. It got on at 42nd, and off at 59th, where, I assume it was going to Bloomingdales to buy a hat that will turn out to be a mistake - as almost all hats are.

    "Fictional character: Kathleen Kelly". "You've Got Mail", www.imdb.com. 1998.
  • Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.

  • 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.

    Real   Thinking   Giving  
    Source: therumpus.net
  • About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead.

    Stupid   Axes   Trying  
    Edsger W. Dijkstra (2012). “Selected Writings on Computing: A personal Perspective”, p.130, Springer Science & Business Media
  • Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.

    Art   Lying   Long  
    Tremendous Trifles (1909) "On Lying in Bed"
  • Don’t you love New York in the fall? It makes me wanna buy school supplies. I would send you a bouquet of newly sharpened pencils if I knew your name and address. On the other hand, this not knowing has its charms.

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

    Source: therumpus.net
  • 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."

    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Don't you love New York in the fall? It makes me want to buy school supplies. I would send you a bouquet of newly sharpened pencils if I knew your name and address.

    New York   Fall   School  
    FaceBook post by Nora Ephron from Oct 25, 2012
  • 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.

    Source: therumpus.net
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