Pencil Quotes

366 Pencil quotes by 301 unique authors

Life without you is like a broken pencil, there's no point. — Unknown Author
You know what it's like to wake up in the middle of the night with a vivid dream? And you know that if you don't… — Larry Page
The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly. — Bernard Malamud
Writing is not hard. Just get paper and pencil, sit down, and write as it occurs to you. The writing is easy-it's the occurring that's… — Stephen Leacock
I think best with a pencil in my hand. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer. — Carl Sandburg
I love paper. A nice thick pile of it and a pencil, and I'm content. — Cecil Balmond
Flying has always been to me this wonderful metaphor. In order to fly you have to trust what you can't see. Up on the mountain… — Richard Bach
I sit in the dark and wait for a little flame to appear at the end of my pencil. — Billy Collins
Don’t misuse the pencil and don’t torment the paper. — Uri Shulevitz
Your body is like a piece of dynamite. You can tap it with a pencil all day, but you'll never make it explode. You hit… — Jason Statham
I had always drawn, every day as long as I had held a pencil, and just assumed everyone else had too…Art had saved me and… — Noel Fielding
Songwriters can’t explain. You get an idea and you don’t know where it’s come from. And if you’re lucky, you have a pencil or pen… — Pete Seeger
Once you use a toothbrush to clean a pencil sharpener, you should no longer use it to clean your teeth. — David Rees
Every life has dark tracts and long stretches of somber tint, and no representation is true to fact which dips its pencil only in light,… — Alexander MacLaren
Somebody was using the pencil. — Dorothy Parker
There's still plenty of lead in this pencil, but I only write to one person now. — Rod Stewart
Would that we could at once paint with the eyes! In the long way from the eye through the arm to the pencil, how much… — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Ever since I was very young, as far back as I can remember, I have loved making pictures. I knew even as a child that,… — Eric Carle
I've got to feel the pencil and see the words at the end of the pencil, — William Faulkner
When I was young I had an elderly friend who used often to ask me to stay with him in the country. He was a… — W. Somerset Maugham
To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you're overdoing it. — Unknown Author
News reports can overwhelm us. We can be appalled, we can sympathise. But what is hard to grasp is the sense that, at this moment,… — Ralph Fiennes
Mathematics is much more than computation with pencil and a paper and getting answers to routine exercises. In fact, it can easily be argued that… — John A. Van de Walle
Architects should be educated, skillful with the pencil, instructed in geometry, know much history, have followed the philosophers with attention, understand music, have some knowledge… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

Who Wrote These Pencil Quotes

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