Pencils Quotes
351 quotes by 300 authors
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The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
— Francis Bacon
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One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.
— Balthus
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I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose…
— Samuel Beckett
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A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does…
— Theodor Adorno
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If you're wearing smoky eye makeup, a little beige or gold pencil on the inner eye corners will open up the area, but you only…
— Gisele Bundchen
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There's something brave and touching about game girls of all ages keeping themselves smart in hard times - one thinks of those wonderful women during…
— Julie Burchill
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I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
— Truman Capote
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Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
— Jean Cocteau
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I don't claim anything of the work. It is his work. I am like a little pencil in his hand. That is all. He does…
— Mother Teresa
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#3 pencils and quadrille pads.(when asked what CAD tools he used to design the Cray I supercomputer )
— Seymour Cray
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It was a pleasant cafe, warm and clean and friendly, and I hung up my old water-proof on the coat rack to dry and put…
— Ernest Hemingway
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Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame;…
— William Blake
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The best wood in most amateurs' bags is the pencil.
— Chi Chi Rodriguez
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The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead.
— Robert Breault
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An uncomfortable feeling is not an enemy. It's a gift that says, "Get honest; inquire." We reach out for alcohol, or television, or credit cards,…
— Byron Katie
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I want to be as though new-born, knowing nothing, absolutely nothing... then I want to do something modest; to work out by myself a tiny,…
— Paul Klee
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Mathematics is the cheapest science. Unlike physics or chemistry, it does not require any expensive equipment. All one needs for mathematics is a pencil and…
— George Polya
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For those who feel it, nothing makes the soul so religious and pure as the endeavor to create something perfect; for God is perfection, and…
— Michelangelo
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Most of the reefs [around Christmas Island] are dead, most of the corals are dead, overgrown by algae, and most of the fish are smaller…
— Enric Sala
Who Wrote These Pencils Quotes
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