I thought administration was the running of the office. The Xerox machine. Paying bills.
When I'm interviewing somebody, I take notes with a Bic Cristal, the classic black-cap, clear-body, medium-weight pen. It works on many levels: You can chew the cap, and if you're really bored, you can bite the end off the back.
I keep a picture of my beloved children close by. Also, water and plenty of pads and pens.
Skewered through and through with office-pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape.
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.
My father worked in Chrysler's drafting department and used to bring home tracing paper, No. 2 pencils, and masking tape from the office. With these, I used to trace off drawings from the 'Superman' and 'Batman' comics and put them up on my bedroom walls.
Staplers--- Excellent source of iron
Went to the paper shop - it had blown away.
...as for helping me in the outside world, the Convent taught me only that if you spit on a pencil eraser, it will erase ink.
I don't have a lot of paper in my immediate work environment, except when I'm doing things like checking the godforsaken proofs.
A Local Government Stationery Store is something to behold. It's like walking through the back of a cupboard into a really dull Narnia.
#3 pencils and quadrille pads.
All that Hubert needs over there is a gal to answer the phone and a pencil with an eraser on it.
I've got a phone, answer machine, TV set, computer, hand grenade - everything you need to run a business in Los Angeles.
Here is a pen and here is a pencil, here's a typewriter, here's a stencil, here's a list of today's appointments, and all the flies in all the ointments, the daily woes that a man endures -- take them, George, they're yours!
There's such a thing as too much point on a pencil.
On 'Ant-Man', I took a rubber stamp from the office of Hank Pym, who's played by Michael Douglas.
If you always use your stapler in one place, keep it there, instead of thinking that all the office supplies should go in one place. I've moved a lot of things around in my house because of that.
I come from a stupid family. My father worked in a bank. They caught him stealing pens.
Staples are only good if they truly suit our lifestyle.
The paper, the stapler, the staples, the tape. It makes me sick. Physical things. Forty years of loving someone becomes staples and tape.
When narratives fracture, when words fail, I take consolation from the part of my life that always works: the stationery order. The mail-order stationery people supply every need from royal blue Quink to a dazzling variety of portable hard drives.
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.
There was something very comfortable in having plenty of stationery.
