Dorothy Parker Quotes

I've always written by hand. Mostly with a fountain pen, but sometimes with a pencil - especially for corrections.

I have a penchant for fresh notebooks and mechanical pencils. It seems every time I go to the store, I buy a new notebook. I have dozens of them just sitting around.

Near my desk, I keep a large plastic carton filled with fresh notebooks and stationery of various kinds, sizes, and qualities.

I love pens, especially when writing on good-quality paper. But I don't have a favorite - I try all kinds in all colors. Like most folks, I misplace them a lot, so I don't use anything too fancy.

Wearing down seven number two pencils is a good day's work.

I don't think I ever owned twenty pencils at one time. Wearing down seven number-two pencils is a good day's work.

Pens?" Chase echoed. Bridget rolled her eyes. "Pens are by far more stimulating than most people." "I'm kind of wondering what you're going with those pens," Chase said Madison scrunched up her nose. "Get your mind out of the gutter." "My mind is always in the gutter around you.

#3 pencils and quadrille pads.

There's such a thing as too much point on a pencil.

You can never earn in the outside world more than you earn in your own mind.

The world that you can go walk outside and walk around the block. That's reality. The reality that's being talked about is something else entirely.

The world outside had its own rules, and those rules were not human.

Being dyslexic can actually help in the outside world. I see some things clearer than other people do because I have to simplify things to help me and that has helped others.

False taste is always busy to mislead those that are entering upon the regions of learning; and the traveller, uncertain of his way, and forsaken by the sun, will be pleased to see a fainter orb arise on the horizon, that may rescue him from total darkness, though with weak and borrowed lustre.

The state of sleep is a state of freedom in which man is not occupied with the manipulation of the outside world.

but paper and ink have conjuring abilities of their own. arrangements of lines and shapes, of letters and words on a series of pages make a world we can dwell and travel in.

Outside is the world; it's there. Pop Art looks out into the world.

The world is all outside, it has no inside.

I disconnect the telephone to keep the outside world in it's correct place.

Most words evolved as a description of the outside world, hence their inadequacy to describe what is going on inside me.

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

I love highlighting. A good highlighter works on everyone.

After fulfilling its destructive urge towards everything that is noble and good on earth, it [naive Religion] sketches, in its opium intoxication, a picture of the future situation, which differs drastically from the order of this world, since everything changes and is renewed.

Believe everything you hear said of the world; nothing is too impossibly bad.

Let there be gall enough in thy ink, though thou write with a goose-pen, no matter.