Pencil Quotes

366 Pencil quotes by 301 unique authors

I taught myself how to draw, and I soon found out it was what I really wanted to do. I didn't think I was going… — Jack Kirby
Another editor. That thing behind his ear is his pencil. Whenever he finds a bright thing in your manuscript he strikes it out with that.… — Mark Twain
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 in television, breaking… — Aaron Spelling
I felt my energy return and that I said to myself, in any event I'll recover from it, I'll pick up my pencil that I… — Vincent Van Gogh
No one can write their real religious life with pen or pencil. It is written only in actions, and its seal is our character, not… — Wilfred Grenfell
Anything that's popular gets made into a diet. Acai is no more of a diet than the eraser on your No. 2 pencil. — Chris Kilham
What can a pencil do for all of us? Amazing things. It can write transcendent poetry, uplifting music, or life-changing equations; it can sketch the… — Adam Braun
The advantage is that mathematics is a field in which one's blunders tend to show very clearly and can be corrected or erased with a… — Norbert Wiener
I do not enjoy writing at all. If I can turn my back on an idea, out there in the dark, if I can avoid… — Richard Bach
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 ready. — James Scott
I don't like drawing characters facing right. If I tried to do that at a book signing, I'd have to pencil it first. — Stephan Pastis
Pencil in your plans but write your visions in ink — Andy Stanley
My heart is a colored pencil but my brain is an eraser — George Watsky
People always think of technology as something having silicon in it. But a pencil is technology. Any language is technology. Technology is a tool we… — Mae Jemison
Where joy in an old pencil is not absurd. — May Sarton
A theoretical physicist can spend his entire lifetime missing the intellectual challenge of experimental work, experiencing none of the thrills and dangers - the overhead… — Leon M. Lederman
Style a classic pencil skirt with on-trend prints to end the week in style. — Lubov Azria
Even monarchs have need of authors, and fear their pens more than ugly women the painter's pencil. — Baltasar Gracian
At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a… — Winston Churchill
It’s my luck that every time I feel I completely comprehend God’s plan, I don’t have a pencil with me. — Robert Breault
I can almost always write music; at any hour of the twenty-four, if I put pencil to paper, music comes. — John Philip Sousa
You know that fiction, prose rather, is possibly the roughest trade of all in writing. You do not have the reference, the old important reference.… — Ernest Hemingway
The intellectual is, quite simply, a human being who has a pencil in his or her hand when reading a book. — George Steiner
The pencil sharpener is about as far as I have ever got in operating a complicated piece of machinery with any success. — Robert Benchley
One day when I was studying with Schoenberg, he pointed out the eraser on his pencil and said, 'This end is more important than the… — John Cage

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