Pencil Quotes

366 Pencil quotes by 301 unique authors

After a while he played with the pencil and the paper again and was delighted when he discovered how to make a mark with the… — Douglas Adams
I belong to this notebook and this pencil. — Ernest Hemingway
There's an easy method for finding someone when you hear them scream. First get a clean sheet of paper and a sharp pencil. Then sketch… — Daniel Handler
I am a little pencil in God's hands. He does the thinking. He does the writing. He does everything and sometimes it is really hard… — Mother Teresa
the other guineahen died of a broken heart and we came to New York. I used to sit at a table,drawing wings with a pencil… — E E Cummings
Nothing, she now knew, could be defined in exclusion, and every bug, pencil, and grass blade was a dictionary in itself, requiring the definitions of… — Anthony Marra
In this room I have picked which gun was unloaded out of ten options. And then they pulled the trigger on me. I have picked… — Kiersten White
[Jason] faltered when he looked at Leo, who was mimicking taking notes with an air pencil. “Go on, Professor Grace!” he said, wide-eyed. “I wanna… — Rick Riordan
Well, the way I play, I try not to be a 'repeater pencil', ya dig? Originality's the thing. You can have tone and technique and… — Lester Young
All that Hubert needs over there is a gal to answer the phone and a pencil with an eraser on it. — Lyndon B. Johnson
I have a tendency, more than most other physicists, to try to figure out everything all at once, before I publish. And even to try… — Edward Witten
If I want to put on a pair of Converse with a pencil stuck through them, I will. — Willow Smith
Writing long hand is the last refuge. One needs the time it takes to put pencil to paper and let it run along the ruled… — Antonio Damasio
On my desk, I always have a lemon or a lime drying. I love the fragrance. Also, a Staedtler eraser, a brush for the eraser… — Maira Kalman
I wear anything I feel like. If I want to put on a pair of Converse with a pencil stuck through them, I will. — Willow Smith
You can only generate ideas when you put pencil to paper, brush to canvas... when you actually do something physical. — Twyla Tharp
I often read nonfiction with a pencil in hand. I love the feel, the smell, the design, the weight of a book, but I also… — Drew Gilpin Faust
Increasingly, editing means going to lunch. It means editing with a credit card, not with a pencil. — Robert Gottlieb
Some of my biggest complaints about acting in television were that I was always wearing a tight dress or pencil skirt, and I was always… — Trieste Kelly Dunn
When I was coming out of college, storytelling was very much something you did with pencil and paper, so the technological platform versatility, I think,… — Nancy Gibbs
With pencil, you can always erase. — Sue Monk Kidd
Imagine writing a poem with a sweating, worried-looking boy handing you a different pencil at the end of every word. My golf, you may say,… — John Updike
I put some red stuff on my mouth and cheeks so I look healthy - any old red lip pencil and a lip colour from… — Jane Birkin
When you write down your ideas you automatically focus your full attention on them. Few if any of us can write one thought and think… — Michael LeBoeuf
College atheletes used to get a degree in bringing your pencil. — Ruby Wax

Who Wrote These Pencil Quotes

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