Pencils Quotes · Page 12

She longed for cutlasses, pistols, and brandy; she had to make do with coffee, and pencils, and verbs.

— Philip Pullman

The computer dictates how you do something, whereas with a pencil you're totally free.

— James Dyson

I'm born with a pencil in my hand. I did lots of sketching.

— Karl Lagerfeld

[Jason] faltered when he looked at Leo, who was mimicking taking notes with an air pencil. “Go on, Professor Grace!” he said,…

— Rick Riordan

Well, painting is the one thing I do, that is just me. It's me and easels, and the pencils. And as long…

— Joni Eareckson Tada

Oh relax." I waved my hand dismissively. "If he wanted to kill me, he already would have. I brought him all these…

— Kiersten White

Artists recognize other artists as soon as the pencil begins to move.

— Dan Simmons

“Years later, I remember the waxy taste of the yellow paint, the papery taste of splintered wood, the sharp metallic of the…

— Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich

You remember how you were taught to write. Your mother put a pencil in your hand, took your hand in hers, and…

— Anthony of Sourozh

It seemed cruelly unfair to me, even then, how fast your life can change before you have an opportunity to rethink your…

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

Mathematics is much more than computation with pencil and a paper and getting answers to routine exercises. In fact, it can easily…

— John A. Van de Walle

Many young painters would never have taken their pencils in hand if they could have felt, known, and understood, early enough, what…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The video camera dominates art. It's a bore, it makes everything look a bit the same. If you look at things with…

— David Hockney

A pencil in my hand, its secret life / is charcoal, the wood already burnt, / a sacrifice.

— Marianne Boruch

How late is it? How long have we been sitting here? I look at my watch – three thirty and the day…

— Jenny Downham

When I make my drawings... the path traced by my pencil on the sheet of paper is, to some extent, analogous to…

— Alberto Giacometti

It's income tax time again, Americans: time to gather up those receipts, get out those tax forms, sharpen up that pencil, and…

— Dave Barry

I don't know how many thoughts we have a second, but it's quite an amazing number, and just to pin down the…

— Robert Wyatt

I believe in the hand-brain, pencil-to-paper-brain connection. In fact, I teach and I have the first year students do all of their…

— Jennifer Tipton

Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is…

— Eugenio Montale

In order to create an image almost similar to that of a pencil case standing up and walking, I try to eliminate…

— Yohji Yamamoto

You can write a letter with a typewriter, a pencil, or a crayon. What you have to say is the important thing.

— Paul Strisik

Made with Pencils is grounded in the creativity of a few, propelled by the financial support of many, and most importantly, it's…

— Adam Braun

I do not believe in guilt, moderation or dull pencils.

— Nancy Lam

There's no need to sharpen my pencils anymore. They're sharp enough. Even the dull ones will make a mark.

— Ze Frank