Best Pencil Quotations

366 Pencil quotes by 301 unique authors

The mathematician who pursues his studies without clear views of this matter, must often have the uncomfortable feeling that his paper and pencil surpass him… — Ernst Mach
If you know how to use a pencil to draw, you could draw anything. Now apply that to everything in life. — Unknown Author
Keep a note pad and pencil on your bedside table. Million-dollar ideas sometimes strike at 3 A.M. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead In fact maybe there is… — Robert Breault
I drew a picture on the back of a calendar in pencil. In those days they used to give out free calendars, I had no… — Joe Shuster
The song was there before me, before I came along. I just sorta came down and just sorta took it down with a pencil, but… — Bob Dylan
We need to sharpen our focus & live to the point just like a pencil. — Robin S
If somebody writes a great poem, people don't run around applauding the pencil, saying 'Oh, what a great pencil'...I'm a pencil in God's hands. — Keith Green
It's like my whole world is coming undone, but when I write, my pencil is a needle and thread, and I'm stitching the scraps back… — Julia Alvarez
I love to draw-pencil, ink pen-I love art. When I go on tour and visit museums in Holland, Germany or England-you know those huge paintings?-I'm… — Michael Jackson
I know artists whose medium is life itself, and who express the inexpressible without brush, pencil, chisel or guitar. They neither paint nor dance. Their… — Frederick Franck
About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it… — Edsger Dijkstra
The one thing a writer has to have is a pencil and some paper. That's enough, so long as she knows that she and she… — Ursula K. Le Guin
I am nothing; I am but an instrument, a tiny pencil in the hands of the Lord with which He writes what he likes. However… — Mother Teresa
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 for my pencil… — Ludwig Wittgenstein
The person who wins the Nobel Prize is not the person who read the most journal articles and took the most notes on them. It's… — Noam Chomsky
Life without God is like an unsharpened pencil - it has no point. — Billy Graham
There is a difference if we see something with a pencil in our hand or without one. — Paul Valery
It's easier to make changes with a pencil than a wrecking bar. — Frank Lloyd Wright
Computers don't create computer animation any more than a pencil creates pencil animation. What creates computer animation is the artist. — John Lasseter
A lot of songs you write are just for exercise - just pencil sharpeners. — Harlan Howard
What keeps me writing is that I can only know through writing. My major sense organ is apparently a pencil. — Kay Ryan
They always pencil in my boobs. I was only angry when they were really droopy... For King Arthur, for a poster, they gave me these… — Keira Knightley
I was a mod when I was a kid. I'd be in Italian pencil-leg trousers with those bowling shoes you wear outside and a Fred… — Stephen Moyer
I am only a little pencil in the hand of our Lord. He may cut or sharpen the pencil. He may write or draw whatever… — Mother Teresa

Who Wrote These Pencil Quotes

301 authors contributed a total of 366 Pencil Quotes, led by these top contributors: