Short Pencil Quotes

#1. Some of our children are our justifications and some are but our regrets.

Kahlil Gibran

#2. In the future, as in the past, the great ideas [of mathematics] must be simplifying ideas, the creator must always be one who clarifies, for himself, and for others, the most complicated issues of formulas and concepts.

Andre Weil

#3. Free from ivory-tower
the pencil twirls
across the footpath

Santosh Kalwar

#4. Genocide, after all, is an exercise in community building.

Philip Gourevitch

#5. Sticklers never read a book without a pencil at hand, to correct the typographical errors. In short, we are unattractive know-all obsessives who get things out of proportion and are in continual peril of being disowned by our exasperated families.

Lynne Truss

#6. She was a thin woman in a mustard-yellow suit, with a yellowish complexion, short-cropped rusty red hair, and a stiff posture. She reminded Reynie of a giant walking pencil.

Trenton Lee Stewart

#7. For thee, sweet month; the groves green liveries wear.
If not the first, the fairest of the year;
For thee the Graces lead the dancing hours,
And Nature's ready pencil paints the flowers.
When thy short reign is past, the feverish sun
The sultry tropic fears, and moves more slowly on.

John Dryden

#8. In the annals of innovation, new ideas are only part of the equation. Execution is just as important.

Walter Isaacson

#9. Clap along if you feel like that's what you wanna do.

Pharrell Williams

#10. I don't know what makes you so dumb but it really works.

Russell Lynes