Top 100 Pencil Quotes
#1. On my desk, I always have a lemon or a lime drying. I love the fragrance. Also, a Staedtler eraser, a brush for the eraser and a pencil sharpener.
Maira Kalman
#2. I was really relieved not to have to drag something in front of the camera; I could use a pencil and paper. A regular pencil and typing paper. That appealed to me.
William Wegman
#3. My fashion icons are Audrey Hepburn, Grace Kelly and Ava Gardner. Their classic looks and clean lines should be the cornerstones of your wardrobe - white cotton shirts, black Capri pants, pencil skirts and ballerina skirts.
Marie Helvin
#4. I'll have mine [The Book-Lovers' Anthology] till the day I die - and die happy in the knowledge that I'm leaving it behind for someone else to love. I shall sprinkle pale pencil marks through it pointing out the best passages to some book-lover yet unborn.
Helene Hanff
#5. I am not as these are, the poet saithIn youth's pride, and the painter, among menAt bay, where never pencil comes nor pem
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
#6. I often read nonfiction with a pencil in hand. I love the feel, the smell, the design, the weight of a book, but I also enjoy the convenience of my Kindle - for travel and for procuring a book in seconds.
Drew Gilpin Faust
#7. The sound of his pencil scratching against paper is as methodical and precise as the ticking of the clock in the corner.
Erin Morgenstern
#8. My memory is certainly in my hands. I can remember things only if I have a pencil and I can write with it and I can play with it ... I think your hand concentrates for you. I don't know why it should be so.
Rebecca West
#9. The computer is really like a pencil, you know. It used to be. The pencil can do anything you want to, but you have to do it, and the same is with the computer.
Massimo Vignelli
#10. Isn't it amazing what a pencil can have inside?
Quino
#11. Many composers use software to write music - programs like Finale or Sibelius. There are also recording programs. I should say I'm still very old-fashioned, I still use pencil and paper. But almost every composer I know does it the 'new way.'
Eric Whitacre
#12. If you're wearing smoky eye makeup, a little beige or gold pencil on the inner eye corners will open up the area, but you only want to do it if the shadow is really dark. Otherwise, light pencil makes your eyes look too far apart, like a fish.
Gisele Bundchen
#13. He chuckled, shaking his head. "Man, you hunters. I break a pencil and there's hell to pay."
"I can see how that's deeply unfair, Chip. Especially if that pencil should try to kill you with it teeth and claws, or launch its brood of a thousand deadly paper clips against you.
Scott Westerfeld
#14. Be glad that I haven't take out the pen, the rubber and the pencil once taken... all will die.
Deyth Banger
#15. I've got to feel the pencil and see the words at the end of the pencil,
William Faulkner
#16. I sit in the dark and wait for a little flame to appear at the end of my pencil.
Billy Collins
#17. Then I knew: this wasn't just a passion I felt for my model. My feelings about him had nothing to do with how his looks inspired me; he was far more than a muse. With every stroke of pencil and crayon, I had drawn Will into my heart.
I was in love with him.
Sharon Biggs Waller
#18. 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
#19. I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool.
John Steinbeck
#20. Nothing helped until the day she took a tablet and pencil into the basement and moved the event out of her and onto paper, where it was reshaped into a kind of simple equation: loss equaled the need to love again, more.
Elizabeth Berg
#21. Writing long hand is the last refuge. One needs the time it takes to put pencil to paper and let it run along the ruled line.
Antonio Damasio
#22. No one can ever take my job away from me. I can always draw as long as I have a piece of paper and a pencil or paints.
John Newman
#23. It's not how big your pencil is; it's how you write your name.
Dave Mustaine
#24. In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.
Vincent Van Gogh
#25. I don't want to be penciled in anywhere, pencil can be erased.
Jodi Ellen Malpas
#26. We pencil-sketch our previous life so we can contrast it to the technicolor of the moment.
David Levithan
#27. She writes only in pencil, as if the words might need to be revoked--borrowed words, for the most part, plucked out of other mouths...
Dawn Tripp
#28. The advantage is that mathematics is a field in which one's blunders tend to show very clearly and can be corrected or erased with a stroke of the pencil.
Norbert Wiener
#29. You remember how you were taught to write. Your mother put a pencil in your hand, took your hand in hers, and began to move it. Since you did not know at all what she meant to do, you left your hand completely free in hers. This is like the power of God in our lives.
Anthony Of Sourozh
#30. ....and on occasion I like to write in pencil, because I need to know that I can erase the words, even if I never do.
Bruce Black
#31. Most people don't realize the many steps that a pop-up goes through. There are a variety of "Dummies" (the sketch phase of the book). Then finally the pencil "dummy", then the finished art which is like painting pieces of a jig saw puzzle.
Tomie DePaola
#32. 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
#33. 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
#35. Yeah. I guess I'm a color-inside-the-lines girl. Worse, really - I'd rather shade inside the lines with a nice, light 4H pencil. Something dark like a 5B or 6B? That's me going nuts. He laughed, stretching out his long legs
Jenn Bennett
#36. You want poetry, first you have to muck in with humanity, you have to fight with paper and pencil for weeks and weeks until your heart bleeds: verses aren't channelled into your head by angels or muses or sprites of nature.
Stephen Fry
#37. Faith is the pencil of the soul that pictures heavenly things. Thomas Burbridge
Jack Canfield
#38. What is in the pencil is greater than what is around it. The talents in you are greater than the environment surrounding you. Your potentials will change your environment.
Israelmore Ayivor
#39. If you're going to write about love, write it in pencil.
Han Yujoo
#40. My technique, starting with a quick outline in pencil, is designed to record first impressions, with no time for second thoughts.
John Newbery
#41. Eva is guarded in a schoolroom down on Earth, chewing her pencil, dreaming of being with me, I know it, me, looking down from amongst exfoliation apostles, dreaming of being with her.
David Mitchell
#42. The pencil-stroke is like cutting into the heart.
Gunter Brus
#43. Well, I come down in the morning and I take up a pencil and
I try to THINK.
Hans Bethe
#44. I should recommend ... keeping ... a small memorandum-book in the breast-pocket, with its well-cut sheathed pencil, ready for notes on passing opportunities, but never being without this.
John Ruskin
#45. The intellectual is, quite simply, a human being who has a pencil in his or her hand when reading a book.
George Steiner
#46. Americans tend to overanalyze. Like during the space race, NASA spent fifty thousand dollars developing a zero-gravity pen that didn't skip. Know what the Russians did? Pencil. Think about
Tim Dorsey
#47. But that's just the way it was surviving in America's public schools. Every day was a struggle. Every day was psychological warfare, and if you didn't stay sharp, the system would grind you into human pencil shavings.
Jonathan LaPoma
#48. People still think of me as a cartoonist, but the only thing I lift a pen or pencil for these days is to sign a contract, a check, or an autograph.
Walt Disney
#49. 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
#50. As soon as you take out a pencil and paper with the Indians, you're one thing to them - an anthropologist - and what they tell to anthropologists is always distorted.
Ruth Beebe Hill
#51. Ever since high school I've been writing in a spiral notebook, in pencil. Everything looks too polished on a computer when you start writing, and I can't really see it. I feel like the words are much more naked in pencil, on a notebook.
Lily King
#52. Anything that's popular gets made into a diet. Acai is no more of a diet than the eraser on your No. 2 pencil.
Chris Kilham
#53. You don't need to wear Spanx if you buy my clothes. The dress, the trousers, the pencil skirt - they should do the work.
L'Wren Scott
#54. I'm born with a pencil in my hand. I did lots of sketching.
Karl Lagerfeld
#55. The best design tool is a long eraser with a pencil at one end.
Marty Neumeier
#56. Ms. Whitlock stands in front of her desk in her patented white button-down shirt, gray pencil skirt and dark-rimmed glasses.
Katie McGarry
#58. We need to sharpen our focus & live to the point just like a pencil.
Robin S
#59. There's something brave and touching about game girls of all ages keeping themselves smart in hard times - one thinks of those wonderful women during World War II drawing stocking seams in eyebrow pencil up the back of legs stained with gravy browning because nylons were so hard to get hold of.
Julie Burchill
#61. 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
#62. A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine.
Alan Turing
#63. I think when you're knee-deep in coming up with editorial plans, the desire to sit down and pencil something is pretty strong.
Jim Lee
#64. To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you're overdoing it. - Josh Jenkins
Anonymous
#65. I have five, six, seven things I do before those lines are in my brain. I say them like I'm a robot; I sing them. I put a pencil in my mouth, and I say them. I cook. I play with a cushion and say them - so they really are inside of me.
Juan Pablo Di Pace
#66. Granny said. Only fellow my age I know still got lead in his pencil.
Paul Levine
#67. You can write a letter with a typewriter, a pencil, or a crayon. What you have to say is the important thing.
Paul Strisik
#68. It was never what he had done,but always what he could do. And he had chosen to make his living with something else instead of a pen or a pencil
Ernest Hemingway,
#69. What can a pencil do for all of us? Amazing things. It can write transcendent poetry, uplifting music, or life-changing equations; it can sketch the future, give life to untold beauty, and communicate the full-force of our love and aspirations.
Adam Braun
#70. I had a dream about you. It happened during the day. You used a pencil to erase the ink I wrote over the chalkboard since the professor told me 7 + 4 didn't equal 10. You were really cool about it; in fact, you handed me a bucket of ice. Apparently I needed to chill out.
Melody Sohayegh
#71. What is the difference between a mathematician and a philosopher?
A mathematician uses a pencil, paper, and a wastebasket.
The philosopher needs only the pencil and paper.
Matthew Rave
#72. It is the greatest folly of which a man can be capable to sit down with a slate and pencil to plan out a new social world.
William Graham Sumner
#73. For one that comes with a pencil to sketch or sing, a thousand come with an axe or rifle. What a coarse and imperfect use Indiansand hunters make of nature! No wonder that their race is so soon exterminated.
Henry David Thoreau
#75. Christ on crackers, she'd barely gotten over finding out about the others: if she had to start believing aliens were real, too, she was finished. she'd stab herself in the heart with a blue pencil just see if she didn't.
-Corinne D'Alessandro
Christine Warren
#76. If you know how to use a pencil to draw, you could draw anything. Now apply that to everything in life.
Justin R. Durban
#77. Some people may be famous for creating a pencil sharpener. I'm famous for my tits.
Katie Price
#78. The eyebrow pencil and false eyelashes were essential; my mother didn't feel dressed without them.
Lorna Luft
#79. 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
#80. The natural fragrance of her body was a spicy, angry smell like that of fresh pencil shavings.
Michael Chabon
#81. I was extremely shy. And I simply didn't know how to go about it. It seemed a lot easier to write than to make films. All I needed was a pencil and a piece of paper, whereas filmmaking was something I had no access to.
Paul Auster
#82. Are you staring at me because you've seen my doppelganger roaming the halls, playing kind of the cafeteria? Or because you need to borrow a pencil and you're too shy to ask?
Alyson Noel
#83. 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
#84. The Difference between Writers and Editors.
Writers are creative using one end of a pencil.
Editors are more adept using the opposite end.
Roy A. Higgins
#85. America has had to deal with eccentric dictators in the past: Idi Amin, Muammar Qaddafi, Ming the Merciless ... but now the security of the world is threatened by Kim Jong-il, a nerdy, pompadoured, platform shoe-wearer who looks like something you'd put on the end of your child's pencil.
Jon Stewart
#86. I had placed my stick on the table, as I do every evening. It had been specially made to suit my height, to enable me to walk without too much difficulty. As I was standing up, a customer called to me: 'Monsieur, don't forget your pencil.' It was very unkind, but most funny.
Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec
#87. A lot of songs you write are just for exercise - just pencil sharpeners.
Harlan Howard
#88. I've always written by hand. Mostly with a fountain pen, but sometimes with a pencil - especially for corrections.
Paul Auster
#89. Until film is just as easily accessible as a pen or pencil, then it's not completely an art form. In painting you can just pick up a piece of chalk, a stick or whatever. In sculpture you can get a rock. Writing you just need a pencil and paper.
Forest Whitaker
#90. It looked like a broken finger, a right hand turn sign, an Allen wrench, a drunk pencil, a worm with a broken neck, a damn garden hoe. It was not a penis.
Meghan Quinn
#91. Next time I ran into a terrorist I was going to put a death squeeze on his balls, stab him in the eye with a pencil, and then kill him.
Laurel Ulen Curtis
#92. Homework, I have discovered, involves a sharp pencil and thick books and long sighs.
Katherine Applegate
#93. We need to sharpen our focus & live to the point just like a pencil.
Robin S. Sharma
#94. Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready.
Eugenio Montale
#95. You know what it's like to wake up in the middle of the night with a vivid dream? And you know that if you don't have a pencil and pad by the bed, it will be completely gone by the next morning. Sometimes it's important to wake up and stop dreaming. When a really great dream shows up, grab it.
Larry Page
#96. Within these margins I find my serenity - with a blank page and a pencil, I am set free.
Jordyn McKenzie
#97. One is never alone with a book nearby, don't you agree? Every page reminds us of a day that has passed and makes us relive the emotions that filled it. Happy hours underlined in red pencil, dark ones in black ...
Arturo Perez-Reverte
#98. I really do love being outdoors - I mean, you'd never think it in my high heels and pencil skirt! But I really do miss the smell of hay and farms, and I like milking a cow.
Christina Hendricks
#99. I'm all about high-waisted pants and skirts, pencil skirts, and sheer, long-sleeves in the summer.
Kat Graham
#100. What?!" Auburn says into the phone. "What kind of secret phrase is 'pencil dick'?
Colleen Hoover
