Sharpener Quotes

• The pencil sharpener is about as far as I have ever got in operating a complicated piece of machinery with any success.

  Robert Benchley

  Technology, Pieces, Complicated

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• Tumbarse en la cama sería una experiencia perfecta y suprema si uno tuviera un lápiz de color lo suficientemente largo para dibujar en el techo.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Arte, Mentira, Largo

  Tremendas bagatelas (1909) "Sobre acostarse en la cama"

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• Soy un pequeño lápiz en la mano de un Dios que escribe, que está enviando una carta de amor al mundo.

  Mother Teresa

  Amor, Matrimonio, Dios

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• No soy más que un pequeño lápiz en la mano de un Dios que escribe

  Mother Teresa

  Escribir, Manos, Marcar la diferencia

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• ¿Sabes de qué están hechos los cereales del desayuno? Está hecho de esas pequeñas virutas de madera rizadas que se encuentran en los sacapuntas.

  Roald Dahl

  Food, Home Cooking, Cereal

  Roald Dahl (2007). “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”, p.126, Penguin

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• Some people may be famous for creating a pencil sharpener. I'm famous for my tits.

  Katie Price

  Creating, People, May

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• Muchas de las canciones que escribes son sólo para hacer ejercicio, para sacar punta a los lápices.

  Harlan Howard

  Song, Writing, Exercise

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• I'm one of the world's greatest pencil sharpeners.

  Truman Capote

  World, Pencil Sharpeners, Pencils

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The thing I hear about a lot is when people over-sharpen their pencil with a single-blade pocket-sharpener and then when they put the pencil to the page, their tip breaks and pencil points always break irregularly. It always gets all jagged and you have to refresh the point. That's a common complaint.

  David Rees

  People, Pockets, Pages

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• I never thought I would make a living as a pencil-sharpener. The first goal was: I don't want to lose money. And then the goal was: I want to see if 100 people buy my pencils. I just kept upping the benchmarks.

  David Rees

  People, Goal, Want

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• I drink a lot, probably too much. My scene while writing lyrics is always a bottle of scotch and stacks of note cards, pencil and pencil sharpener. I throw around note cards and drink.

  Ben Folds

  Writing, Scotch, Cards

  Fuente: www.billboard.com

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• I believe I saw a woodcock. He had a long bill like putting a fire hydrant into a pencil sharpener, then pasting it onto a bird and letting the bird fly away in front of me with this thing on its face for no other purpose than to amaze me.

  Richard Brautigan

  Believe, Fire, Long

  Richard Brautigan (1989). “Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America, The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster, and In Watermelon Sugar”, p.65, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Just because a lot of people know something nominal doesn't make it important. A lot of people know what a pencil sharpener is, but that doesn't make it the most important invention of the 20th century.

  Ben Affleck

  People, Important, Invention

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

  David Rees

  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

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• La vida es como una caja de lápices de colores. La mayoría de la gente es de las cajas de 8 colores, pero lo que realmente buscas son las cajas de 64 colores con los sacapuntas en la parte de atrás. Yo me considero una caja de 64 colores, aunque me faltan algunos.

  John Mayer

  Color, Gente, Falta

  "Las mejores interpretaciones de películas de terror excelentemente aleatorias", por Lauren Sarner, www.inverse.com. 27 de octubre de 2015.

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• On my desk, I always have a lemon or a lime drying. I love the fragrance. Also, a Staedtler eraser, a brush for the eraser and a pencil sharpener.

  Maira Kalman

  Desks, Limes, Brushes

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