Pencils Quotes · Page 5

I wear anything I feel like. If I want to put on a pair of Converse with a pencil stuck through them,…

— Willow Smith

So, did you stab Edward Cullen with a pencil or what? I've never seen him act like that.

— Stephenie Meyer

I hate those cheap pencils with erasers that mess up the paper more than the mistake you want to erase.

— Anonymous

Take away a painter's vanity, said a famous landscape painter, and he will never touch a pencil again.

— Walter J. Phillips

Begin my studies with the paper and this pencil and i'm working through the grammar of my fears.

— Emily Saliers

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

— Ze Frank

It's not how big your pencil is; it's how you write your name.

— Dave Mustaine

I have rewritten — often several times — every word I have ever published. My pencils outlast their erasers.

— Vladimir Nabokov

I thought the Secret Service would protect me from the press, but they were at my house to protect me from assassins…

— Michael Reagan

Well, the way I play, I try not to be a 'repeater pencil', ya dig? Originality's the thing. You can have tone…

— Lester Young

If you feel tempted to use a picture of two hands shaking in front of a globe, put the pencil down, step…

— Nancy Duarte

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

The computer is really like a pencil, you know. It used to be. The pencil can do anything you want to, but…

— Massimo Vignelli

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

— David Rees

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

It is a pity he did not write in pencil. As you have no doubt frequently observed, the impression usually goes through…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

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

— Yohji Yamamoto

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

You know that fiction, prose rather, is possibly the roughest trade of all in writing. You do not have the reference, the…

— Ernest Hemingway

University President: Why is it that you physicists always require so much expensive equipment? Now the Department of Mathematics requires nothing but…

— Isaac Asimov

Still I should paint my own places best; painting is with me but another word for feeling, and I associate "my careless…

— John Constable

The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead In fact…

— Robert Breault

Trying to be a professional dancer, paying my rent by posing nude for art classes, staring at people staring at me naked.…

— Madonna Ciccone

I managed to work for more than 50 years with just paper, pencils and film. My son's generation and the one coming…

— Hayao Miyazaki

A lot of songs you write are just for exercise - just pencil sharpeners.

— Harlan Howard

All that Hubert needs over there is a gal to answer the phone and a pencil with an eraser on it.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

If we can't, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.

— Barbara Kingsolver

Anything that's popular gets made into a diet. Acai is no more of a diet than the eraser on your No. 2 pencil.

— Chris Kilham

What are you gonna do, angel face? Stab me with your eyebrow pencil?

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

The best-run churches and organizations are masters of the midcourse correction. They plan in pencil.

— Larry Osborne

An honest man with an open Bible and a pad and pencil is sure to find out what is wrong with him…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

Pencils could be made with erasers at both ends, but what would be the point?

— Nikhil Saluja

There is a difference if we see something with a pencil in our hand or without one.

— Paul Valery

I like pencil skirts because they hug me in all the right places.

— Mandy Moore

Some people may be famous for creating a pencil sharpener. I'm famous for my tits.

— Katie Price

Keep a note pad and pencil on your bedside table. Million-dollar ideas sometimes strike at 3 A.M.

— H. Jackson Brown, Jr

There's still plenty of lead in this pencil, but I only write to one person now.

— Rod Stewart

Homework, I have discovered, involves a sharp pencil and thick books and long sighs.

— Katherine Applegate

It's easier to make changes with a pencil than a wrecking bar.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Once you use a toothbrush to clean a pencil sharpener, you should no longer use it to clean your teeth.

— David Rees