Sharpening Pencils Quotes

• 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.

  Nora Ephron

  New York, Fall, School

  FaceBook post by Nora Ephron from Oct 25, 2012

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• 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.

  Tom Hanks

  New York, Fall, School

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• Sobre el uso del lenguaje: es imposible afilar un lápiz con un hacha roma. Es igualmente vano intentar hacerlo con diez hachas romas en su lugar.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Estúpido, Hachas, Intentando

  Edsger W. Dijkstra (2012). "Escritos selectos sobre informática: A personal Perspective", p.130, Springer Science & Business Media.

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• 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.

  Miklos Laszlo

  Mistake, Butterfly, Saws

  "Fictional character: Kathleen Kelly". "You've Got Mail", www.imdb.com. 1998.

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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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• 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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• El cine sólo se convertirá en un arte cuando sus materiales sean tan baratos como el lápiz y el papel.

  Jean Cocteau

  Art, Raw Materials, Paper

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• 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.

  David Rees

  Wonder, Paid, If I Could

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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

  David Rees

  Dream, Dollars, Making Money

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• Me tomo la cultura pop muy en serio, creo que es muy importante, y el material que hago... no quiero que sea insustancial, aunque trate de algo absurdo, como afilar lápices. Creo que me lo debo a mí mismo y se lo debo a la gente que está realmente interesada en los lápices, y se lo debo a cualquiera, para hacer mi debida diligencia y darles algo real.

  David Rees

  Real, Pensar, Dar

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• 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."

  Isaac Asimov

  Writing, Exercise, Typewriters

  "Biografía/Citas personales". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  David Rees

  Difficult Times, Quitting, Census

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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