Pencils Quotes - Page 3

• Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away.

  Earl Nightingale

  Night, Ideas, Paper

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• Our greatest responsibility is not to be pencils of the past.

  Rod Serling

  Responsibility, Past

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• Why are pencils equipped with erasers if not to correct mistakes?

  Nellie L. McClung

  Mistake, Ifs, Erasers

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• I've got to feel the pencil and see the words at the end of the pencil.

  William Faulkner

  Ends, Feels

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• Where joy in an old pencil is not absurd.

  May Sarton

  Joy, Absurd

  May Sarton (2014). “Collected Poems: 1930–1993”, p.98, Open Road Media

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• I may not be the strongest guy or the most well armed, but you can put me in a room with a pencil and a piece of paper and I can kill anybody.

  John Milius

  Guy, Pieces, Paper

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• There is a difference if we see something with a pencil in our hand or without one.

  Paul Valery

  Writing, Differences, Hands

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• It's not how big your pencil is; it's how you write your name.

  Dave Mustaine

  Writing, Names, Bigs

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• Don’t misuse the pencil and don’t torment the paper.

  Uri Shulevitz

  Paper, Misuse, Torment

  Uri Shulevitz (1997). “Writing with Pictures: How to Write and Illustrate Children's Books”

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• One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.

  Balthus

  Eye, Drawing, Sketching

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• I don't think I ever owned twenty pencils at one time. Wearing down seven number-two pencils is a good day's work.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Good Day, Thinking, Two

  Source: www.mhpbooks.com

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• Just get out your magic pencil and erase the cloudy skies, and just draw a picture of me saying, I apologize.

  Bill Anderson

  Art, Media, Sky

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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

  Art, Lying, Long

  Tremendous Trifles (1909) "On Lying in Bed"

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• It also signals to me, when I pick up a pencil, that this is a rough draft. This is not going anywhere, and no one's going to see it. You have permission to make all the mistakes you want. It signals freedom to me, and it signals mistakes.

  Lily King

  Mistake, Rough Drafts, Want

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The pencil-stroke is like cutting into the heart.

  Gunter Brus

  Heart, Cutting, Strokes

  "Nervous Stillness on the Horizon". Book editing by Monika Faber, 2005.

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• Made with Pencils is grounded in the creativity of a few, propelled by the financial support of many, and most importantly, it's empowering generations to come. A simple idea, a heartfelt desire, and a world of possibility. A pencil, a promise, and a dream.

  Adam Braun

  Dream, Creativity, Simple

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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

  Silly, Writing, Stuff

  A. A. Milne (2012). “Winnie-the-Pooh”, p.118, Egmont UK

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• There's no need to sharpen my pencils anymore. They're sharp enough. Even the dull ones will make a mark.

  Ze Frank

  Needs, Dull, Enough

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• It's amazing how many people even today use a computer to do something you can do with a pencil and paper in less time.

  Richard P. Feynman

  People, Simplicity, Use

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• Don’t you love New York in the fall? It makes me wanna buy school supplies. I would send you a bouquet of newly sharpened pencils if I knew your name and address. On the other hand, this not knowing has its charms.

  Tom Hanks

  New York, Fall, School

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• An animator is an actor with a pencil.

  Chuck Jones

  Actors, Animator

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• Well, I come down in the morning and I take up a pencil and
  I try to THINK.

  Hans Bethe

  Morning, Thinking, Trying

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• Well, the way I play, I try not to be a 'repeater pencil', ya dig? Originality's the thing. You can have tone and technique and a lot of other things but without originality you ain't really nowhere. Gotta be original.

  Lester Young

  Music, Play, Trying

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• Don't you love New York in the fall? It makes me want to buy school supplies. I would send you a bouquet of newly sharpened pencils if I knew your name and address.

  Nora Ephron

  New York, Fall, School

  FaceBook post by Nora Ephron from Oct 25, 2012

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• The pencil sharpener is about as far as I have ever got in operating a complicated piece of machinery with any success.

  Robert Benchley

  Technology, Pieces, Complicated

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