Quotes About Erasers

#1. Stories have a way of changing faces. They are unruly things, undisciplined, given to delinquency and the throwing of erasers. This is why we must close them up into thick, solid books, so they cannot get out and cause trouble.

Catherynne M Valente

#2. Scientists require apparatus, but mathists splendidly require only writing tools and erasers. Better, philosophers do not even need erasers

Gregory Benford

#3. The pen feels unnatural in my hand. It's so much weightier than pencil. Permanent. There are no erasers, in life. - Alexis Riggs

Cynthia Hand

#4. I have rewritten - often several times - every word I have ever published. My pencils outlast their erasers.

Vladimir Nabokov

#5. Why are pencils equipped with erasers if not to correct mistakes?

Nellie L. McClung

#6. Mistakes? That's why they put erasers on pencils.

Rick Barnett

#7. They [Erasers] were bad fliers," Angel chimed in, "And in their minds, they weren't all kill the mutants, like they usually are. They were like, remember to flap!

James Patterson

#8. The breezes taste Of apple peel. The air is full Of smells to feel- Ripe fruit, old footballs, Burning brush, New books, erasers, Chalk, and such. The bee, his hive, Well-honeyed hum, And Mother cuts Chrysanthemums. Like plates washed clean With suds, the days Are polished with A morning haze.

John Updike

#9. Work, work, work, but what mark do we leave, what point do we make? People who are too beholden to work become like erasers: as things move forward, they leave in their wake no trace of themselves.

Yann Martel

#10. My degree was in sculpture. I always think that drawing is a sculptural process. I always feel like I'm carving the image out rather than painting the image. I'm carving it out with erasers and tools like that. I've always had this fondness for sculpture.

Robert Longo

#11. The soles of his shoes are worn the way the edges of erasers become rounded with use. As though he walks around correcting his mistakes.

Nadeem Aslam

#12. Many writers were picked on as children. Why? Because they were weird from the get-go. They were often to be found at the back of the class smelling erasers, or talking to caterpillars, or walking down the street with an encyclopedia balanced on their head.

Heather O'Neill

#13. We went back to the weird Institute building. At night there was a lot more activity. Erasers coming in non-stop. Nice cars, nice clothes, nice smug faces (that I wanted to smash!).
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James Patterson

#14. I call TVs 'erasers' because they have not only wiped away the entire human experience to date, but whatever it was they were wetting their pants about only fifteen minutes earlier.

Kurt Vonnegut

#15. Yeah," said Iggy. "But what now?
Let's do something fun."
I guess being on the run from
bloodthirsty Erasers and insane
scientists wasn't enough fun for him.
Kids today are so spoiled.

James Patterson

#16. Erasers are your friends on the road to success.

Tony Horton

#17. In Los Angeles you get the sense sometimes that there's a mysterious patrol at night: when the streets are empty and everyone's asleep, they go erasing the past. It's like a bad Ray Bradbury story - 'The Memory Erasers'.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#18. Erasers remind us there is no faultless human.

Javad Alizadeh

#19. No one is perfect ... that's why pencils have erasers.

Wolfgang Riebe

#20. Flying monkeys?" the Gasman called out a guess. "Like in the Wizard of Oz?"
It dawned on me then. "No," I said tersely "Worse. Flying Erasers.

James Patterson

#21. University President: Why is it that you physicists always require so much expensive equipment? Now the Department of Mathematics requires nothing but money for paper, pencils, and erasers ... and the Department of Philosophy is better still. It doesn't even ask for erasers.

Isaac Asimov

#22. A fool is someone whose pencil wears out before its eraser does.

Marilyn Vos Savant

#23. There is something really mysterious about lions. They could rip you apart if they wanted to, but at the same time they look so cuddly. Can you imagine what humans look like to animals? They must think we're so weird.

Lee Ryan

#24. The thing at the moment is Adele. She is a little too fat, but she has a beautiful face and a divine voice.

Karl Lagerfeld

#25. Religion: 'My identity is built on being a good person.' Gospel: 'My identity is not built on my record or my performance but on Christ's.'

Timothy Keller

#26. Kindness is always fashionable.

Amelia Barr

#27. I love animals and plants and sometimes even people.

Drew Chadwick

#28. I'm sorry," I muttered. "My subconscious is apparently obsessed with you.

Shelly Crane

#29. I once heard a preacher who sorely tempted me to go to church no more.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#30. I love you more than I can say, than I can even think and what you give me takes my breath away, but breathing is overrated when I can kiss you.

Aleksandr Voinov

#31. Soap Actors are fun and interesting. They all have something special that you want to be around.

Austin Peck

#32. You can't live life without an eraser.

Tom Peters

#33. Rock and roll and swing never quite mixed. Rock and roll came in and just blew everything out of the water. Big bands were dead.

Brian Setzer

#34. green with little golden spots.

John Steinbeck

#35. As you grow and mature, you will want and will earn more freedom to live your lives your way and to make your own choices. This you should do.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#36. My heart is a colored pencil but my brain is an eraser

George Watsky