Best Pencils Sayings
351 Pencils quotes by 293 unique authors
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Somebody was using the pencil.
— Dorothy Parker
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There's still plenty of lead in this pencil, but I only write to one person now.
— Rod Stewart
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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
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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
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I've got to feel the pencil and see the words at the end of the pencil,
— William Faulkner
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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
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Here's how the people live here, in big house-shaped boxes to keep off 'rain' and 'snow,' holes cut in the sides so they can see…
— Richard Bach
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To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you're overdoing it.
— Unknown Author
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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
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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
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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
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The best design tool is a long eraser with a pencil at one end.
— Marty Neumeier
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College athletes used to get a degree in bringing your pencil.
— Ruby Wax
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I had never walked on the street alone when I was growing up in Calcutta, up to age 20. I had never handled money. You…
— Bharati Mukherjee
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There's no agony like [getting started]. You sit in a room, biting pencils, looking at a typewriter, walking about, or casting yourself down on a…
— Agatha Christie
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A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine.
— Alan Turing
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The War on Drugs employs millions - politicians, bureaucrats, policemen, and now the military - that probably couldnt find a place for their dubious talents…
— L. Neil Smith
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You ought to be able to explain why you’re taking the job you’re taking, why you’re making the investment you’re making, or whatever it may…
— Warren Buffett
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Trying to be a professional dancer, paying my rent by posing nude for art classes, staring at people staring at me naked. Daring them to…
— Madonna Ciccone
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This writing business. Pencils and what-not. Over-rated, if you ask me. Silly stuff. Nothing in it.
— A A Milne
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Graffiti is linear and it's done with a pencil, and it's like writing on walls. But in my paintings it's more lyrical.
— Cy Twombly
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The anthropologist must relinquish his comfortable position in the long chair on the veranda of the missionary compound, Government station, or planter's bungalow, where, armed…
— Bronislaw Malinowski
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An honest man with an open Bible and a pad and pencil is sure to find out what is wrong with him very quickly.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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The pencil and computer are, if left to their own devices, equally dumb and only as good as the person driving them.
— Norman Foster
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A formal manipulator in mathematics often experiences the discomforting feeling that his pencil surpasses him in intelligence.
— Howard Whitley Eves
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