Just get out your magic pencil and erase the cloudy skies, and just draw a picture of me saying, I apologize. — Bill Anderson Copy Share Image
A fool is someone whose pencil wears out before its eraser does. — Marilyn vos Savant Copy Share Image
Accept a miracle, instead of wit See two dull lines, with Stanhope's pencil writ. — Edward Young Copy Share Image
Well, I come down in the morning and I take up a pencil and I try to THINK. — Hans Bethe 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
Great ideas are fish in a stream. Your pen/pencil is a spear. If you don't spear them, they'll swim on by. Be… — James Scott Copy Share Image
The one thing a writer has to have is a pencil and some paper. That's enough, so long as she knows that… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I'm doing philosophy like an old woman, first I'm looking for my pencil, then I'm looking for my glasses, then I'm looking… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
[My advice to a beginning photographer is] sit down with a pencil and paper and think about what your life is about.… — Tina Barney 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
“The No. 2 pencils had been handed out. The timer had been started. But we had not even registered that the test… — Atul Gawande 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 suppose I'll be remembered as dull. Timid. No one ever knew me. People came. They went. I was kind, I think.… — Julie Anne Peters Copy Share Image
I keep two sentimental mementos on my desk to remind me of two favorite men. There is an inkwell that my Uncle… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
From the mingled strength of shade and light A new creation rises to my sight, Such heav'nly figures from his pencil flow,… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Art is the child of Nature; yes, Her darling child, in whom we trace The features of the mother's face, Her aspect… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
I didn't use anybody's story. I used the context and the structure of the situation. People were so, so desperate to tell… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The person who wins the Nobel Prize is not the person who read the most journal articles and took the most notes… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In traveling, a companion, in life, compassion,'" she repeats, making sure of it. If she had paper and pencil, it wouldn't surprise… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
There were days, rainy gray days, when the streets of Brooklyn were worthy of a photograph, every window the lens of a… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Painting seems to be to the eye what dancing is to the limbs. When that has educated the frame to self-possession, to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
An actor uses his body as a tool and an instrument. In the same way a musician plays an instrument, the actor… — Rob Minkoff Copy Share Image
Far away, where the swallows take refuge in winter, lived a king who had eleven sons and one daughter, Elise. The eleven… — Hans Christian Andersen Copy Share Image
[Bernard Leach] was an incredible draftsman, and at the end of breakfast time, for instance, he would push his plate back, and… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
When I was in architecture school, rather than giving us drafting boards and t-squares and lead pencils and stuff they gave us… — Joseph Kosinski Copy Share Image
Oh! why was I born with a different face? why was I not born like the rest of my race? when I… — William Blake Copy Share Image
Infrareds on little people standing with some big heads, I was Captain Kirk, walkin' with a black t-shirt. LAPD, the nurse asked… — Kool Keith Copy Share Image
I got a statistic for you right now. Grab your pencil, Doug. There are five billion trees in the world. I looked… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image