Pencils Quotes - Page 6

• I have always been a pencil.

  Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

  Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Riva Castleman, Wolfgang Wittrock, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) (1985). “Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec: images of the 1890's”

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• Wearing down seven number two pencils is a good day's work.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Good Day, Two

  Ernest Hemingway (2015). “Ernest Hemingway: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations”, p.11, Melville House

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I sit in the dark and wait for a little flame to appear at the end of my pencil.

  Billy Collins

  Writing, Dark, Flames

  4 Copy quote

• It's like my whole world is coming undone, but when I write, my pencil is a needle and thread, and I'm stitching the scraps back together.

  Julia Alvarez

  Writing, Together, World

  Julia Alvarez (2007). “Before We Were Free”, p.44, Laurel Leaf

  124 Copy quote

  Show source

• If somebody writes a great poem, people don't run around applauding the pencil, saying 'Oh, what a great pencil'...I'm a pencil in God's hands.

  Keith Green

  Running, Writing, Hands

  39 Copy quote

• The one thing a writer has to have is a pencil and some paper. That's enough, so long as she knows that she and she alone is in charge of that pencil, and responsible, she and she alone, for what it writes on that paper.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Writing, Long, Paper

  Ursula K. Le Guin (1997). “Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places”, p.236, Grove Press

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The song was there before me, before I came along. I just sorta came down and just sorta took it down with a pencil, but it was there before I came around.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Down And

  12 Copy quote

• 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

  Men, Pads, Honest

  11 Copy quote

• It would be amazing to tell my grandchildren, like, 'Yeah, I was paid to sharpen 1,000 pencils.'

  David Rees

  Grandchildren, Would Be, Yeah

  Source: therumpus.net

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Around the mighty master came
  The marvels which his pencil wrought,
  Those miracles of power whose fame
  Is wide as human thought.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Art, Miracle, Fame

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.131

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I use a special tool. I make it myself; very sharp steel point and a handle like a pencil. For me it is a pencil. Maybe I have a special talent, a feeling you might say that lets me control it, to express my ideas as though I were sketching black on white.

  Ugo Mochi

  Ideas, White, Feelings

  7 Copy quote

• I am a little pencil in God's hands. He does the thinking. He does the writing. He does everything and sometimes it is really hard because it is a broken pencil and He has to sharpen it a little more.

  Mother Teresa

  Writing, Thinking, Hands

  10 Copy quote

• I don't want boys to use their pencils for improper writing.

  John Burns

  Writing, Boys, Use

  4 Copy quote

• A theoretical physicist can spend his entire lifetime missing the intellectual challenge of experimental work, experiencing none of the thrills and dangers - the overhead crane with its ten-ton load, the flashing skull and crossbones and danger, radioactivity signs. A theorist's only real hazard is stabbing himself with a pencil while attacking a bug that crawls out of his calculations.

  Leon M. Lederman

  Real, Science, Skulls

  Leon M. Lederman, Dick Teresi (1993). “The God Particle: If the Universe is the Answer, what is the Question?”, p.15, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• The best-run churches and organizations are masters of the midcourse correction. They plan in pencil.

  Larry Osborne

  Running, Organization, Church

  Larry Osborne (2010). “Sticky Teams: Keeping Your Leadership Team and Staff on the Same Page”, p.83, Harper Collins

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• Blaming guns for killing people is like blaming pencils for bad spelling

  Larry the Cable Guy

  Gun, People, Blame

  87 Copy quote

• I love to draw-pencil, ink pen-I love art. When I go on tour and visit museums in Holland, Germany or England-you know those huge paintings?-I'm just amazed. You don't think a painter could do something like that. I can look at a piece of sculpture or a painting and totally lose myself in it.

  Michael Jackson

  Art, Thinking, Museums

  FaceBook post by Michael Jackson from Jul 11, 2013

  53 Copy quote

  Show source

• Art class was like a religious ceremony to me. I would wash my hands carefully before touching paper or pencils. The instruments of work were sacred objects to me.

  Joan Miro

  Religious, Art, Hands

  12 Copy quote

• Everyone has pencils in their house, no matter how hip and contemporary they are.

  David Rees

  House, Matter, Hips

  Source: therumpus.net

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• We pencil-sketch our previous life so we can contrast it to the technicolor of the moment.

  David Levithan

  Moments, Previous Life, Contrast

  David Levithan (2009). “Boy Meets Boy”, p.69, Knopf Books for Young Readers

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Flying has always been to me this wonderful metaphor. In order to fly you have to trust what you can't see. Up on the mountain ridges where very few people have been I have thought back to what every flyer knows. That there is this special world in which we dwell that's not marked by boundaries, it's not a map. We're not hedged about with walls and desks. So often in an office the very worst thing that can happen is you could drop your pencil. Out there's a reminder that are a lot worse things, and a lot greater rewards.

  Richard Bach

  Wall, Order, Office

  9 Copy quote

• The light works," he said, indicating the window, "the gravity works," he said, dropping a pencil on the floor. "Anything else we have to take our chances with.

  Douglas Adams

  Light, Chance, Window

  Douglas Adams (2014). “Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency”, p.127, Simon and Schuster

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Once you use a toothbrush to clean a pencil sharpener, you should no longer use it to clean your teeth.

  David Rees

  Teeth, Use, Clean

  David Rees (2012). “How to Sharpen Pencils: A Practical & Theoretical Treatise on the Artisanal Craft of Pencil Sharpening for Writers, Artists, Contractors, Flange Turners, Anglesmiths, & Civil Servants”, p.29, Melville House

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• My technique, starting with a quick outline in pencil, is designed to record first impressions, with no time for second thoughts.

  John Newbery

  First Impression, Technique, Records

  8 Copy quote

• Shut up," I hissed. Ticked that he was taller than me, I stepped up onto a nearby coffee table. "I'm not in a cage anymore," I said, keeping enough presence of mind not to poke him in the chest with a finger. His face went startled, then cloric. "The only thing between your head and my foot becoming real close and personal right now is my questionable professionalism. And if you ever threaten me again, I'll slam you halfway across the room before you can say number-two pencil. Got it, you tall freak of nature?

  Kim Harrison

  Real, Coffee, Presence Of Mind

  6 Copy quote