Sharpening Quotes

Sharpening Quote of the day

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.

I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.

The People's Liberation Army should play the role of shock troops, overcoming fatigue and sharpening vigilance to make new contributions.

For everybody in their busy lives, you need to invest in sharpening your tools, and you need to invest in longevity.

The healthy being craves an occasional wildness, a jolt from normality, a sharpening of the edge of appetite, his own little festival of Saturnalia, a brief excursion from his way of life.

Giant agencies are wobbling like drunkards... the rest of you should be sharpening your knives.

Night wasn't so much falling as sharpening its claws.

I believe it doesn't really matter where you work as long as you work. Keep sharpening your teeth.

We manipulate nature as if we were stuffing an Alsatian goose. We create new forms of energy; we make new elements; we kill crops; we wash brains. I can hear them in the dark sharpening their lasers.

I play around with my Japanese Garden. Since Im half way to 70 today I need to start pruning trees and sharpening plants like an old fart.

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.

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.

The choice between a Labour government and a Tory one is sharpening minds.

Invention is activity of mind, as fire is air in motion; a sharpening of the spiritual sight, to discern hidden aptitudes.

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

The time that I would spend revisiting my old Get Your War On strips is more profitably spent Googling myself and reading comments about how people hate my pencil-sharpening business.

Companies get into grooves and they keep sharpening what they are doing, when in fact what they really need to do sometimes is to stop and do something completely differently.

The freeway is the last frontier. It is unsurpassed as a training ground for the sharpening of survival skills.

I've been really surprised about a lot of the negative comments about artisanal pencil sharpening. Like, it really rubs some people the wrong way.