Freshly Sharpened Pencil Quotes & Sayings

It is ... impossible to keep one's excellence in a little glass casket, like a jewel, to take it out whenever wanted. On the contrary, it can only be conserved by continuous and good practice. — Adolf Anderssen

And suddenly they came out of the woodwork. I don't actually know what that expression means. What come out of the wood work? Cockroaches maybe. Mice? Are these rhetorical questions, like I just learned about on one of my rare visits to school? Was that a rhetorical question? Is it a paradox when you ask rhetorically if a rhetorical question is a rhetorical question? I think I'd better stop before I get a headache. — John Marsden

Life is a lifetime opportunity to make the right choice to be great. — Debasish Mridha

We didn't grow up with the sense that where we were was where we were gonna be. We grew up with the sense that where we were almost didn't matter, because we will be becoming something greater. — Will Smith

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends. — Baltasar Gracian

I hate lending, or borrowing - if you want me to read a book, tell me about it, or buy me a copy outright. Your loaned edition sits in my house like a real grievance. And in lieu of lending books, I buy extra copies of those I want to give away, which gives me the added pleasure of buying books I love again and again.
Jonathan Lethem — Leah Price

I don't think I have written a poem when I was completely sober. But I have written a few good ones or a few bad ones under the hammer of a black hangover when I didn't know whether another drink or a blade would be the best thing. — Charles Bukowski

I'm a 4-wheel-drive pickup type of guy. So is my wife. — Mike Greenwell

The ideal Christmas gift is money, but the trouble is you can't charge it. — Bill Vaughan

we all try to silence painful emotions. but when we succeed in feeling nothing we lose the only means we have of knowing what hurts us and why. — Stephen Grosz

You are always free to choose what you do with your life. To make changes in your future, make new choices today. — Brian Tracy

The dust returns to the ground it came from, and the spirit returns to God who gave it. — Moses

There should be as much difference between the worldling and the Christian, as between hell and heaven, between destruction and eternal life. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon