Pencils Quotes - Page 16

• [My advice to a beginning photographer is] sit down with a pencil and paper and think about what your life is about. What you are about. Don't even take a camera into your hands before you figure that out.

  Tina Barney

  Thinking, Hands, Advice

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• Before I knew the camera, I knew about images. It's all about trying to make light with a pencil or with a crayon. It really helped me in the beginning, because I understood how light and shadow were working on an image.

  Malick Sidibe

  Light, Trying, Shadow

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• I write all of my novels and stories, as you have seen, in a great surge of delightful passion. Only recently, glancing at the novel, I realized that Montag is named after a paper manufacturing company. And Faber, of course, is a maker of pencils! What a sly thing my subconscious was, to name them thus. And not tell me!

  Ray Bradbury

  Passion, Writing, Names

  Ray Bradbury (2011). “Fahrenheit 451: A Novel”, p.205, Simon and Schuster

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• Education, actual learning - it is hard work. It's very personal. Your parents don't teach you anything. Your teachers don't teach you anything. The government doesn't teach you anything. You read it. You don't understand it; you read it again. You break a pencil and read it again.

  Dean Kamen

  Teacher, Hard Work, Government

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• When I first started listening to music intently as a teenager, I was always sitting there with a biro or a pencil, drawing. That's how I absorbed it all.

  Robyn Hitchcock

  Teenager, Drawing, Listening

  Interview with Christopher Bahn, www.avclub.com. November 13, 2007.

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• I believe I saw a woodcock. He had a long bill like putting a fire hydrant into a pencil sharpener, then pasting it onto a bird and letting the bird fly away in front of me with this thing on its face for no other purpose than to amaze me.

  Richard Brautigan

  Believe, Fire, Long

  Richard Brautigan (1989). “Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America, The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster, and In Watermelon Sugar”, p.65, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It became a habit of mine never to leave the house without a pencil in my pocket.

  Paul Auster

  House, Pockets, Habit

  Paul Auster (2011). “Collected Prose”, p.437, Faber & Faber

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• Just because a lot of people know something nominal doesn't make it important. A lot of people know what a pencil sharpener is, but that doesn't make it the most important invention of the 20th century.

  Ben Affleck

  People, Important, Invention

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• If, in making a portrait, you hope to grasp the interior silence of a willing victim, it's very difficult, but you must somehow position the camera between his shirt and his skin. Whereas with pencil drawing, it is up to the artist to have an interior silence.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Artist, Drawing, Silence

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• I didn't want to be a sideman. My own style was coming out and I was into my own writing. I wrote a whole album, I arranged it all with pencil and paper. I did eventually do a lot of work with my father, but that was different. I was living at home; I wasn't a starving musician. I wasn't spoiled, but I wasn't going to have some producer come in and tell me what to play.

  Shuggie Otis

  Father, Home, Writing

  "1970s R&B Man Shuggie Otis Is Ready for His 'Sneak Back'". Interview with Jacob Blickenstaff, www.motherjones.com. January 21, 2013.

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• I must admit that outside the university, it is difficult to be a pure mathematician. No one in my family understands what I do. My neighbors wonder why I spend all my time in my study scribbling with pencil on a yellow pad of paper instead of going outside to mow the lawn.

  Isadore Singer

  Yellow, Paper, Pads

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• The writer doesn't need economic freedom. All he needs is a pencil and some paper.

  William Faulkner

  Needs, Paper, Economic

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• The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take. He becomes fussy about filing, keen on seeing that pencils are sharpened, eager to ensure that the windows are open (or shut) and apt to use two or three different-colored inks.

  C. Northcote Parkinson

  Opportunity, Men, Two

  Parkinson's Law ch. 10 (1957)

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• I have known a handful of producers who actually were equal or superior to the writers with whom they worked. These producers were a new kind of nonwriting writer hatched by the movies - as Australia produced wingless birds. They wrote without pencils or even words. Using a sort of mime-like talent, they could make up things like writers.

  Ben Hecht

  Australia, Bird, Kind

  "Elegy for Wonderland" by Ben Hecht, Esquire Magazine, March 1959.

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• When I sit down at the typewriter, I write. Someone once asked me if I had a fixed routine before I start, like setting up exercises, sharpening pencils, or having a drink of orange juice. I said, "No, the only thing I do before I start writing is to make sure that I'm close enough to the typewriter to reach the keys."

  Isaac Asimov

  Writing, Exercise, Typewriters

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've been writing, but I haven't been writing. In my mind I've been saying I want to write, but I haven't actually physically picked up a pencil and started writing.

  Serena Williams

  Writing, Mind, Want

  "Serena Williams dismisses Safina's claim to top ranking". www.theguardian.com. May 4, 2009.

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• Photographers do themselves a disservice by talking too much about the equipment they use. Consequently people don't take them seriously as creators in their own right. When people talk to writers about their work, they ask about their ideas and inspirations. When they talk to photographers, they ask about what cameras or film they use. That's wrong - as wrong as asking a writer what pencil and laptop he uses.

  Peter Turnley

  Inspiration, Talking, Ideas

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• I know you are reporters and I know this is your job, but, you know, take your note pads, take your pencils down, take your grunt-o-meters down, the fashion police, put everything away and just watch the match, you know, from just the fans' perspective. I seriously think that the quality of the match today was great.

  Maria Sharapova

  Fashion, Jobs, Thinking

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• When drawing the sun, try to have on hand colored paper, chalk, felt-tip markers, crayons, pencils, ball point pens. You can draw a sun with any one of them. Also remember that sunset and dawn are the back and front of the same phenomenon: when we are looking at the sunset, the people over there are looking at the dawn.

  Bruno Munari

  Sunset, Drawing, Hands

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• The discovery in 1846 of the planet Neptune was a dramatic and spectacular achievement of mathematical astronomy. The very existence of this new member of the solar system, and its exact location, were demonstrated with pencil and paper; there was left to observers only the routine task of pointing their telescopes at the spot the mathematicians had marked.

  James R Newman

  Math, Discovery, Achievement

  James R. Newman (2000). “The World of Mathematics”, p.820, Рипол Классик

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• When the last dime is gone, I'll sit on the curb outside with a pencil and a ten cent notebook and start the whole thing over again.

  Preston Sturges

  Notebook, Dimes, Gone

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A pencil in my hand, its secret life / is charcoal, the wood already burnt, / a sacrifice.

  Marianne Boruch

  Sacrifice, Hands, Secret

  Marianne Boruch (2016). “Cadaver, Speak”, p.13, Copper Canyon Press

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• I like the process of pencil and paper as opposed to a machine. I think the writing is better when it's done in handwriting.

  Nelson DeMille

  Writing, Thinking, Machines

  Interview with Kate Ayers, www.bookreporter.com. February 8, 2002.

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• You're not going to be on top of mountain all by yourself with a #2 pencil What we need to learn is how to learn.

  Joichi Ito

  Mountain, Needs

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• I don't believe in making pencil sketches and then painting landscape in your studio. You must be right under the sky.

  William Merritt Chase

  Believe, Sky, Landscape

  D. Scott Atkinson, Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr., William Merritt Chase (1987). “William Merritt Chase: Summers at Shinnecock 1891-1902”, Universe Publishing(NY)

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