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• Even originally well-defined pencils of cathode rays from the Sun cannot reach the Earth. For Birkeland's theories to be correct, the existance of such cathode rays is clearly presupposed to be necessary...and this assumption is untenable.

  Arthur Schuster

  Rays, Earth, Sun

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• Corporate documents, like football game plans, are not easily drafted in a stadium, with thousands of very interested fans participating, each with their own red pencil, trying to reach a consensus on every word.

  Jon Postel

  Football, Games, Trying

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• In the animation world, people who understand pencils and paper usually aren't computer people, and the computer people usually aren't the artistic people, so they always stand on opposite sides of the line.

  Don Bluth

  Artist, Opposites, People

  Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. June 14, 2000.

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• 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 a pencil was a violent act.

  Aaron Spelling

  Violent Acts, Silence, Television

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• For some people, history is simply what your wife looks good standing in front of. It’s what’s cast in bronze, or framed in sepia tones, or acted out with wax dummies and period furniture. It takes place in glass bubbles filled with water and chunks of plastic snow; it’s stamped on souvenir pencils and summarized in reprint newspapers. History nowadays is recorded in memorabilia. If you can’t purchase a shopping bag that alludes to something, people won’t believe it ever happened.

  Elizabeth McCracken

  Believe, Shopping, Glasses

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• 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 put down in my great discouragement and I'll get back to drawing, and from then on, it seems to me, everything has changed for me.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Drawing, Return, Energy

  Vincent van Gogh (2009). “Saint-Rémy-de-Provence - Auvers-sur-Oise, 1889-1890, [772-902]”

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• A lot of songs you write are just for exercise - just pencil sharpeners.

  Harlan Howard

  Song, Writing, Exercise

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• God is at the tip of our scalpels, our screwdrivers, our computer terminals, our dust rags, our vacuum cleaners, our pencils and pens. He is with us in our wheelchairs, or on our hospital beds, when all we can do is sit or lie flat. When we envision Him and His purpose in what we do, then we begin to grow aware of His presence in the middle of it. We are able to engage in our inward conversation with Him as we work, naturally, without strain. He becomes our partner, our collaborator.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  God, Lying, Dust

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• I am only a little pencil in the hand of our Lord. He may cut or sharpen the pencil. He may write or draw whatever and whenever he wants. If the writing or drawing is good, we do not honor the pencil or the material that is used, but rather the one who used it.

  Mother Teresa

  Writing, Cutting, Hands

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• I always have a pad of paper and a pencil within reach, to catch on the wing this turn of phrase which strikes me as felicitous, that idea which I hope to be able to examine more closely in the light of day.

  Roger Martin

  Light, Wings, Ideas

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• She longed for cutlasses, pistols, and brandy; she had to make do with coffee, and pencils, and verbs.

  Philip Pullman

  Life, Coffee, Verbs

  Philip Pullman (2008). “The Tin Princess”, Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I'm doing philosophy like an old woman, first I'm looking for my pencil, then I'm looking for my glasses, then I'm looking for my pencil again.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophy, Glasses, Firsts

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• It seemed cruelly unfair to me, even then, how fast your life can change before you have an opportunity to rethink your choices. We should get second chances on the big stuff. We should come equipped with erasers attached to the tops of our heads. Like pencils. We should be able to flip over and scribble away mistakes, at least once or twice during the duration of our existence, especially in matters of life and death.

  Tiffanie DeBartolo

  Mistake, Opportunity, Second Chance

  Tiffanie DeBartolo (2002). “God Shaped Hole: A Novel”, p.101, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• 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. That does him good, and makes him smile and show his teeth, the way he is doing in the picture. This one has just been striking out a smart thing, and now he is sitting there with his thumbs in his vest-holes, gloating. They are full of envy and malice, editors are.

  Mark Twain

  Smart, Editors, Envy

  Mark Twain (2014). “What Is Man? (Annotated Edition)”, p.138, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The only damn thing I ever learned in all my years in art school was a piece is never done, it is just finished. You have to trust your inner voice, your instincts, when they tell you pencils down. And you roll up your sleeves and you start over again.

  Brian Michael Bendis

  Art, School, Years

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• 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 to create any great masterpieces like Rembrandt or Gauguin. I thought comics was a common form of art, and strictly American in my estimation, because America was the home of the common man - and show me the common man that can't do a comic. So comics is an American form of art that anyone can do with a pencil and paper.

  Jack Kirby

  Art, Home, Men

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• What release to write so that one forgets oneself, forgets one's companion, forgets where one is or what one is going to do next to be drenched in sleep or in the sea. Pencils and pads and curling blue sheets alive with letters heap up on the desk.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Writing, Sleep, Blue

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• I was a mod when I was a kid. I'd be in Italian pencil-leg trousers with those bowling shoes you wear outside and a Fred Perry polo shirt with a V-neck sweater. It was like an Essex uniform - a very specific look.

  Stephen Moyer

  Kids, Italian, Sweaters

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• They always pencil in my boobs. I was only angry when they were really droopy. For King Arthur, for a poster, they gave me these really strange droopy tits. I thought, well if you’re going to make me fantasy breasts, at least make perky breasts.

  Keira Knightley

  Kings, Strange, Fantasy

  "Topless Keira Knightley: I'm Not Anorexic" by Evann Gastaldo, www.newser.com. November 13, 2012.

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• The person who wins the Nobel Prize is not the person who read the most journal articles and took the most notes on them. It's the person who knew what to look for. And cultivating that capacity to seek what's significant, always willing to question whether you're on the right track - that's what education is going to be about, whether it's using computers and the Internet, or pencil and paper, or books.

  Noam Chomsky

  Book, Winning, Track

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• Computers don't create computer animation any more than a pencil creates pencil animation. What creates computer animation is the artist.

  John Lasseter

  Artist, Computer, Animation

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• We are all pencils in the hand of God.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Mother, Spiritual

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• I was a Harry Potter nerd. Pencils were wands. I was going to Hogwarts. The whole thing. You don't understand what a nerd I am. I mean, if they remade them, I'd still go. Like, I've seen all of [the originals], and that's always going to be Harry. That's always going to be Ron and Hermione. But if they did it again, I absolutely would go, because I want to see it all again.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Mean, Nerd, Potters

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