The intellectual is, quite simply, a human being who has a pencil in his or her hand when reading a book. — George Steiner Copy Share Image
He loved the scratching of pencil against paper when he was focused: it meant something was happening. — John Green Copy Share Image
The song was there before me, before I came along. I just sorta came down and just sorta took it down with… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
I always tell people that my life is in pencil; I have to keep an eraser in my hand because I could… — Linda Gray Copy Share Image
I hardly ever use pencils. I'm left-handed and it's really messy if you're left-handed because of the graphite smudging. I use them… — David Rees Copy Share Image
What's this? That little red-haired girl dropped her pencil... Gee... It's got teeth marks all over it... She nibbles her pencil... She's… — Charles M. Schulz Copy Share Image
I've found from years of trial that the only way I can work is to make sketches in pencil from Nature, purely… — E. J. Hughes Copy Share Image
But, I don't know, the violence, I can't even talk about. We don't do a lot of violent shows. When I started… — Aaron Spelling Copy Share Image
If she were a writer she would collect her pencils and notebooks and favourite cat and write in bed. Strangers and lovers… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
Most of the reefs [around Christmas Island] are dead, most of the corals are dead, overgrown by algae, and most of the… — Enric Sala Copy Share Image
I believe that many who find that "nothing happens" when they sit down, or kneel down, to a book of devotion, would… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The man who has learned that three plus one are four doesn't have to go through a proof of that assertion with… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
My journey began with a single pencil. While traveling through India in 2006, I asked a boy begging on the streets, 'If… — Adam Braun Copy Share Image
In middle school, I had this one teacher who would kick me out all the time. He just didn't like me. I… — Arnaz Battle Copy Share Image
After a while he played with the pencil and the paper again and was delighted when he discovered how to make a… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Man, or at least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As to my own little practice, it seems to be… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
I can draw pencil lines to show something is moving, but if I'm writing, I struggle with how to write it. The… — Brian Selznick Copy Share Image
Most people don't realize the many steps that a pop-up goes through. There are a variety of "Dummies" (the sketch phase of… — Tomie dePaola Copy Share Image
A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine. — Alan Turing Copy Share Image
A formal manipulator in mathematics often experiences the discomforting feeling that his pencil surpasses him in intelligence. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Before I knew the camera, I knew about images. It's all about trying to make light with a pencil or with a… — Malick Sidibe Copy Share Image
Healthcare is growing now at about 10 per cent per annum in the U.S. top line, versus 3 per cent for the… — James Chanos Copy Share Image
You should always have a pencil skirt. I think knees are the ugliest part of anybody's anatomy, so I'd look for ones… — Annabel Tollman Copy Share Image
I always have a pad of paper and a pencil within reach, to catch on the wing this turn of phrase which… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nothing in the world is like this- a bright white page with pale blue lines. The smell of a newly sharpened pencil… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
I actually write a lot, but mostly just daily gibberish. I am a documentation addict: "I just peed. I walked down the… — Brian Chippendale Copy Share Image
'Lizzie McGuire' was my big thing when I was younger. I did buy some pencils and back-to-school stuff of hers because she… — Jordin Sparks Copy Share Image
It's amazing how many people even today use a computer to do something you can do with a pencil and paper in… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
For one that comes with a pencil to sketch or sing, a thousand come with an axe or rifle. What a coarse… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is difficult to describe in short the enthusiasm and devotion provoked by and given to my research. We lived almost in… — Immanuel Velikovsky Copy Share Image
The advantage is that mathematics is a field in which one's blunders tend to show very clearly and can be corrected or… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
My art career actually began under the kitchen table. My mother wanted to get me out of her hair while she cooked,… — Alton Tobey Copy Share Image
I started sharpening pencils at the census and how that was a difficult time in my life because my marriage was ending… — David Rees Copy Share Image
My memory is certainly in my hands. I can remember things only if I have a pencil and I can write with… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
I have a Vision of the Future, chum. The workers flats in fields of soya beans tower up like silver pencils, score… — John Betjeman Copy Share Image
I don't claim anything of the work. It is his work. I am like a little pencil in his hand. That is… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
I was always doing paintings. I actually started painting with oil paints when I was four years old. Not crayons, not pencils… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
I have a penchant for fresh notebooks and mechanical pencils. It seems every time I go to the store, I buy a… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
I often read nonfiction with a pencil in hand. I love the feel, the smell, the design, the weight of a book,… — Drew Gilpin Faust Copy Share Image
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