It would be amazing to tell my grandchildren, like, 'Yeah, I was paid to sharpen 1,000 pencils.' — David Rees Copy Share Image
Corporate documents, like football game plans, are not easily drafted in a stadium, with thousands of very interested fans participating, each with… — Jon Postel Copy Share Image
News reports can overwhelm us. We can be appalled, we can sympathise. But what is hard to grasp is the sense that,… — Ralph Fiennes Copy Share Image
I keep two sentimental mementos on my desk to remind me of two favorite men. There is an inkwell that my Uncle… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
The piano may do for love-sick girls who lace themselves to skeletons, and lunch on chalk, pickles and slate pencils, but give… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I actually write a lot, but mostly just daily gibberish. I am a documentation addict: "I just peed. I walked down the… — Brian Chippendale Copy Share Image
The tools of the academic designer are a piece of paper and a pencil with an eraser. If a mistake is made,… — Hyman Rickover Copy Share Image
I think I am becoming obsessive-compulsive. David Beckham apparently turns all the Diet Coke cans in his fridge to face the same… — Andrew O'Hagan Copy Share Image
There's still plenty of lead in this pencil, but I only write to one person now. — Rod Stewart Copy Share Image
I managed to work for more than 50 years with just paper, pencils and film. My son's generation and the one coming… — Hayao Miyazaki Copy Share Image
What release to write so that one forgets oneself, forgets one's companion, forgets where one is or what one is going to… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Before I knew the camera, I knew about images. It's all about trying to make light with a pencil or with a… — Malick Sidibe Copy Share Image
Far away, where the swallows take refuge in winter, lived a king who had eleven sons and one daughter, Elise. The eleven… — Hans Christian Andersen Copy Share Image
The point of departure must always be a vision of the truth. The eye is the route of the soul, and the… — Rosa Bonheur Copy Share Image
I can draw pencil lines to show something is moving, but if I'm writing, I struggle with how to write it. The… — Brian Selznick Copy Share Image
The best-run churches and organizations are masters of the midcourse correction. They plan in pencil. — Larry Osborne Copy Share Image
A lot of songs you write are just for exercise - just pencil sharpeners. — Harlan Howard Copy Share Image
I believe I saw a woodcock. He had a long bill like putting a fire hydrant into a pencil sharpener, then pasting… — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
I was playing with pencils while the other girls were playing with dolls. — Sasha Pivovarova Copy Share Image
I believe every pencil has to be sharpened every now and then to stay sharp, or you dull out. So my records,… — Ice Cube Copy Share Image
I never had the exposure to techniques and so forth that children have today with art workshops, but I always had crayons… — Robert Indiana Copy Share Image
I didn't want to be a sideman. My own style was coming out and I was into my own writing. I wrote… — Shuggie Otis Copy Share Image